I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts on this.
I'm on a bunch of different music/DJ boards, and it seems like the attitude is that if you use controllers/software and you want any credit, you have to go WAY above and beyond what people can normally accomplish with vinyl/CDS and even with timecode setups. I get the feeling that if I'm gonna use controllers, I have to be doing groundbreaking shit on the decks just to be called a "DJ".
I'm basically fully digital. When I play out I have my controllers hooked up to my laptop, and I route two stereo channels of audio out through an Audio4 into whatever mixer I'm playing on. I do dabble with looping and occaisonally will do some cue point drumming, but most of the time I mix just like anyone on CDs/Vinyl would do - I beatmatch my tracks, and then mix them in on the mixer. Pretty straightforward stuff right?
Well, even though I do the same things as every other DJ out there, I feel like I don't get the credit I deserve strictly because of the platform I use. Regardless of the fact that I beatmatch in the same fashion as all the vinyl purists and mix on a normal mixer, I'm more of a gimmick than an actual DJs.
Does anyone else feel this way? Maybe I'm over-interpretting things but it seems like unless I'm pulling off techniques that would put Zabiela to shame, I'll never be recognized as a real "DJ".
Thoughts?
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