F'n elitest crap DJ's

**tekki** · 02-26-2009, 05:10 AM

The only arguement you have to make is this:

The man playing and mixing the music is in service of the public. He must ensure that the audience is experiencing a great set.

If this is achieved with a noseflute or an extreme pingpong bat or a turntable or a controller, who gives a rat's ass?

You could have just reminded him he liked the set before you told him it was done on a controller. So he should not be that bipolar on that.
He should just focus on the set itself.

(This for me is also inline with what my man Steve said!)

**BentoSan** · 02-26-2009, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Tekki

If this is achieved with a noseflute or an extreme pingpong bat or a turntable or a controller, who gives a rat's ass?

The crowd cares actually, djs are entertainers - part of it is a physical performance its not all just about the music

**djxsquizet** · 02-26-2009, 05:51 AM

yea i just would have been like do you were all over my nuts before you found out what i was on, whats the problem. and i mean doesn't he know that a good percentage of edm djs are using software now.

**tekki** · 02-26-2009, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by BentoSan

The crowd cares actually, djs are entertainers - part of it is a physical performance its not all just about the music

That's the point I am trying to make, it's the experience of a nice set.
A nice set can be anything.

**steveboyett** · 02-26-2009, 09:53 AM

"Nothing is good or bad, but knowing makes it so." Shakespeare, HAMLET. The vinyl guy already proved your point: He didn't come back to you and say, "Shit, it's obvious you did this CD on a laptop; it sucks." He liked it until he had knowledge that colored his opinion of it. So in truth he himself is proof that you absolutely can't tell without foreknowledge, and that it's the end result that matters. I've been claiming for years that the Turing test applies to DJing; here's proof.

**steveboyett** · 02-26-2009, 09:54 AM

The other point I like to make to these clowns is that a lot of of the music they play is entirely digital and never existed outside of a computer, but somehow pressing it on vinyl adds magical fairy dust that makes it all okay for them.

**DvlsAdvct** · 02-26-2009, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by steveboyett

The other poitn I like to make to these clowns is that a lot of of the music they play is entirely digital and never existed outside of a computer, but osmehow pressing it on vinyl adds magical fairy dust that makes it all okay for them.

YES YES YES YES! MOTHERFUCKING YES!

Alright, I guess I'll get in on this little rant. I have arguments all the time in my scene with DJs who use CDs. They don't like me spinning their events cause I'm a laptop DJ. I'm not really DJing.

But these "bands" that they praise are so awesome, even though nothing they do exists outside of a computer. I'm not a DJ cause I didn't waste time and money and space burning all the mp3s I downloaded off of servicing, or soulseek, or itunes, or emusic or whatever down to CDs, but the musicians are even though most of them have no clue how to play an instrument.

god, I had to get that off my chest.

I have to disagree with Bento on this, though. I don't think the crowd gives a shit about the performance to a certain degree. They don't care if the DJ is doing a performance art piece while scratching the shit out of the beat unless that's what they went there to see. They care about how much energy the DJ puts out, which can be done in any number of ways. But the medium doesn't matter. As long as the energy is right and the DJ can control them they will only care about dancing. If a noseflute does it, then bring me a noseflute.