A lot of Top 40 music is way better than a lot of crud i hear on Beatport etc.
Bashing Top 40 and Top 40 DJs (and lumping them into one) is as stupid as hating on controllers. Its pathetic and its childish.
When i say Top40 im referring to High Street clubs that cater for a mass audience that can include pop/R&B/indie/Dubstep/Hiphop/Dance all in one night. That what my Top40 gigs are.
I do 5 hours and its all mixed. Either beatmatched or cut up and scratched but never just played like an iTunes playlist. Thats total misnomer of a Top 40 DJ.
It takes a lot more skill for a DJ to play 5 hours and to keep 300 people on a dancefloor all night in a 400 capacity club playing a varied, genre hopping set than it does to keep a like-minded crowd who came to hear one genre played when the DJ only play 2 hours then another plays 2 hours or less.
2 hours is piece of piss.
Yeah there are a lot of Top 40 DJs ruining it for the rest by using shit software and playing the same tired "Summer Of 69, Bon Jovi" set every week in some crappy club. But, where do you people think the majority of people are going on a daily/weekly basis. They arent going to super-cool underground clubs. They are going the High Street and thus the standard is/has got a lot better.
Throw me in a club and tell me to do 2 hours of electro or dubstep or whatever and ill piss it. I get a lot of music i dont ever play and it only takes a few hours to get the music together to do a set like that. I know cus ive done it recently.
Throw someone to the lions in a top40 club and most will get eaten alive by the demand of the people that go there.
Anyone who thinks DJing at a decent Top40 club is easy is a moron.
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