lol! 
When a DJ gets payed for playing his is at work and if he’s only playing pre-mixed sets he’s not really needed at the gig. All factories replace the human workers that are not needed by a robot. Maybe all Famous DJ’s should start using masks like Deadmau5 then they could just put anyone on stage waring their mask. But how many pop bands have played playback during their world tours. These big name DJ are actually one man pop bands so why not play back. I don’t care if they do play back if I’d go to sensation white I would go for the lights show and not to listen to DJ tricks same with a show with Guetta or SHM would only be a + if they did mix live.
p.s.
Good music is good and a selection of good music is also good even if pre recorded
Were you too drunk to f#*k?
Love that song.
It annoys me when Djs like Tiesto can go from being responsible for work like this…
…to the commercial drivel and utter sh**e he plays now, purely for the money. Americans are not helping either with this constant reference to ‘EDM!’. We know they were slow to catch on to the dance music scene, which left the European scene relatively free from the commercial crap (ok, it existed but not as pronounced). Now that USA has caught on, the whole scene is being hijacked with generic, commercial, non descript pish!
Rant over!
Silly photojojo, true oldschool DJ’s don’t have pagers! 
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I agree dont be a paris hilton
I want to add something: its crowds fault too
they paying money to see just a dj set thats so austere this days
In my oppinion its important to have a good selection of music but its ALOT better to have a good performance dont just be the DJ if people are paying to see your show dont just DJ play some instrument use ableton racks
scratch a bit get a sample deck do something new innovate
do anyone of you guys have ever go to pacha in NY?
its full of jersey shore kind of guys in drugs just dancing like monkeys and they always have these big DJs coming
and those people doesnt even know hos playing they only there to drink take moly and have sex fucking apes
Im gessing the dudes that play there like david guetta wolfgang gartner afrojack and chuckie wont do shit in those DJ sets
No. Ritchie Kaczor at Studio 54:
…the man who literally could turn a song into a # 1 Billboard hit. Which he did with the song that has been voted as THE anthem of Disco - Gloria Gaynor’s “I will survive”. Polydor was releasing a song with Mrs. Gaynor called “Substitute”, that was the A-side track and on the flip they had put “I will survive”. Richie got a promo copy of the 12" single and he just loved the B-side and started playing it at Studio 54, soon the word spread and all the other New York DJ’s started playing it.
Nicky Siano said; “He discovered that record. He made a hit out of it.”…
My apologies for going slightly off topic.
So because he liked a track someone else wrote and decided to play it a lot… He deserves credit? And presumably more credit than someone who does a lot of pre-production for their sets?
I think they meant, spinning in different beds…
-Btw who wouldn’t like to be Afrojack and take Paris for a spin, and use the ‘family’ boats and jets… seriously. He’ll just pre record a set and get his chick a few gigs. I rather be working on my mappings than keep worrying if she takes the decks or not.
Nope, and that estimation is the disconnect of what DJing is really about that gets most of the old guys heated.
It’s about breaking new music. Not getting the credit for the music. It’s about delivering to the crowd what should be making people music stars. Not about being the star. It’s about being known and trusted as the person you expect to turn you on to new and exciting, groundbreaking, unknown tracks. Not providing 100% of the same thing that everyone already knows.
The point was that a club DJ took an unknown “B” Side song and turned it into a club anthem.
…Leonard Balk who back then worked for Impact Publications remembers; “Ritchie used to report to our paper every week the hottest records and who was seen at Studio 54. One afternoon Ritchie called me and asked me if I had the Gloria Gaynor record ‘Substitute’. I told him I did and he asked me to play the flip side, I told him I would and he said - ‘No, do it now! I will hold on.’ After listening to it I brought the record to Joe Loris and played it for him. I started calling programmers across the country and Joe started writing it up in IMPACT, which was very respected at the time. The record company was giving Joe a hard time because the push was on ‘Substitute’, Joe persisted and the rest is history. It all really started with Ritchie.”…
Agreed.
Again, if everyone’s playing the beatport top 10, what makes one DJ different from another? How well they hammer the IG mapping that a million other people have? Try again.
+1
And id like to add I dont even think its just about breaking new music on a big scale and making ‘stars’.
I take pride in introducing my friends to tracks/artists/dj’s they would never know about.
That should be at the heart of good DJ IMO, the thrill of introducing music to ppl that they didnt know about or maybe even think they’d like wether thats in a 1000+ capacity club or mix cd’s for friends etc
Sobi is the man, I couldn’t agree with him more. When did turn from being a tastemaker and introducing people to new sounds and experiences, to being about catering to the crowd and having to play requests and being threatened if you don’t?
When the scene became overrun with Sex & the City types who had no business going to a House party in the first place.
Hey… there’s nothing wrong with requests or playing the big tunes, but everything in life is balance. When an entire set (or worse, a whole night) is over run with already charted music, you’ve done nothing more than played a radio station over some very loud speakers. Thankyou for becoming an extension of Clear Channel communications
(sidenote - for our friends in other countries, Clear Channel is a company that mostly took over the radio industry, and killed the format which ALSO used to be known for breaking new and interesting music. Now our radio waves are dominated by dull redundant pop on almost all stations, and the same 20 songs are beat over the listeners heads)
Amen
Sums it up perfectly. The problem is not the DJ’s as much as it’s the punters. They don’t know good music when they hear it - they need to be TOLD what good music is (or what is considered good music this week).
I still to this day don’t know half of the tracks that Carl Cox played the first time I saw him - but I know they were some of the most amazing tunes ever written.
I remember turning to total strangers and asking what the hell that track was - fucked if any of us knew, but we liked it.
You can see punters now turning and looking at each other when they don’t recognise a song, raising an eyebrow, and dismissing the song without even considering if it’s moving them or not. Just because they haven’t heard this weeks big DJ play it.
Blame the punters. The good ones are outnumbered 10 to 1 by sheep.
absolutely agree with this. They’ve become totally used to cheesey commercial ‘big room tunes’ and kin ‘clubland’ compilations that they think that’s what dance music is all about