Future of Djing
Just somewhere were you can post your opinions and ideas of where you think djing is heading. Whether its the type of music genre or the gear we use.
Do you think everything will be using touch screen controllers and CD-J’s will be a thing of the past? Will live performance and sampling become more popular?
Just interested to hear what people have to say! 
Controllers will probably take over in the long run. But as I said before, you don’t see many controllers in Copenhagen. Many people here play strictly vinyl.
Another day, another “future of DJing” thread.
Cue makar1 and octoscout preaching about how CDJs will never be replaced, and me, Stewe and Karlos pushing the controllerist agenda.
/thread
Can I push controllers too? I want to be in a clique!
I think that whilst the gear will change, the principles at it’s core will stay the same.
2 TT’s/CDJ/Decks of some sort and mixer. And an effects unit unless the mixer’s ones are utilised.
I think that whilst we can chuck as much gear at the DJ’ing game as we want and some cool stuff arises, the basic layout and the way DJ’s work play their tracks back will remain pretty constant. Mind you i’d guess theres been more of a shakeup to what DJ’ing is all about in the past 5 years than ever before.
I checked through your previous posts and was ALMOST ready to let you in, but then I noticed you posted a thread asking which Pioneer mixer to buy 
Tut tut.
That one is actually currently up in the air.. I saw a really well done DB:2 video and I think I’m in love..
EDIT: Well done as in it showed the features in detail.
Computers will take over and render the DJs useless… eventually
Computers can’t read a crowd or present a specific view of a genre as a DJ can.
As for computers just playing music, and mixing it, the technology is already there. It’s called “radio” 
Yet 
(Sorry I am bored and semi trolling / semi serious, the extent to which technology will develop in theory can be enough so that it can express feelings and emotion, and also read that of other. But yes, that is a fair bit into the future, probably not as far as we might hope though.)
That would have far more reaching implications than just DJ’ing
IMO- DJ’ing will not progress till the community, as a whole, lets it grow… That means for any and everyone who uses, or is a DJ, needs stop seeing boundaries, and start seeing opportunities, to learn something and teach anything.
For a community that is flooded with - crap DJ’s, crap music, crap gear, and guys who have crap attitude and egos, who argue (more then share) of what they “know”- DJ’ing is a self-secluded, redundant laden-orgy, of an egotistical Ménage à trois; split between musical preference, gear preference, and masochism.
DJ’s are so reluctant to look outside of their own box, that the producer has taken their glory. DJ’ing on a grander stage is now being performed by producers/DJ’s. The DJ (that is not a producer) has much less of a choice while “playing” other peoples music. I believe it’s true that “The industry is changing, and all the old timers will be left behind”… but that pertains to the standard that you have for yourself as a DJ and NOT the hardware platform you choose to play on. The change that needs to be debated about, is the standard of the DJ, not the equipment.
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The paradigms that lie between the music, community, and lifestyle, that surround “EDM” is so coincidental (maybe even predictable), that it is almost comical. If there is any time that I’ve seen, “life imitating art”, its been in “EDM” (at least here in the states).
TL;DR - IMO (from the outside looking in), DJ’ing is never going to evolve any further then what your own taste is. Innocence is bliss. DJ’ing is as dead as you see it.
Sincerely,
Bedroom DJ, with RGAS and a addiction to music and this forum
I beg to differ. You can set up a scanner which measures the amount of movement on the dancefloor linked to the song playing. The song playing can be analyzed and different songs that fit the criteria could be selected. Once the computer notices the movement is steadily declining or increasing, it could differ the pace of the music.
Will take a pretty sick algorithm, but it if someone were to invest some bucks it would def be possible 
That is not the same thing. A computer also has no “stage presence”.
Neither do most DJ’s/Producers. “jesus pose” or “arms in the air” is not stage presence
It’s a body to worship.
The future of DJ’ing to YOU ends when you get older and no longer have an interest in going to clubs. It happens.