Does using a controller not make you a dj?

[dj matt blaze]

While I truly appreciate the convenience of controllers and I use them and have fun.....but the whole thing of dropping a sample and having to spin back the record. I truly enjoy that MUCH more than just pressing a button over and over.

I think the idea counting bars, baby scratching a track and dropping it on the one, then matching the beats is that if you know how to do that you can play on ANY piece of gear and that becomes a lost art when some one just grabs a controller and presses a few buttons and calls themselves a DJ.

I think if you truly understand what you are doing as a DJ then you can get on any piece of gear and make it work. I think if you are just hitting a button because hitting the button is what makes the 2 songs sound good together then you are a moron.

That's phrase matching though. Beatmatching is getting the 2 tracks to the same tempo.

Phrase matching is part of beatmatching IMO because you can match the tempo and it could be a train wreck. Same tempo doesn't mean its beatmatched. Beatmatching is making sure that the downbeat of both tracks match. I can match the downbeat of track A and the 3 beat of track B and be perfectly synced in tempo and beats but its still going to sound off because the wrong beats are matched.