THE END OF DJING
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DustedDon said:spinning music off a laptop or a controller is boring as shit
^^^This!
For the "DJ" & the audience.
^^^This!
For the "DJ" & the audience.
LaserWolf said:Sounds like successful djs play music that sends people to the bar, not music that fills the dance floor.
This is so odd isn't it.
Back in the 80's a working DJ (playing mainstream clubs) told me about how he would play less popular records every now and then to keep the bar takings up and then bring them back to the dance floor.
Nowadays these articles always talk about bottles service, as someone who has spent the last 25 years spending too much time and money in clubs bottle service i something I have been able to live without, to be honest I'm not 100% sure what it is? They bring bottles to your table? Why would I want to be at a table in a club?
This is so odd isn't it.
Back in the 80's a working DJ (playing mainstream clubs) told me about how he would play less popular records every now and then to keep the bar takings up and then bring them back to the dance floor.
Nowadays these articles always talk about bottles service, as someone who has spent the last 25 years spending too much time and money in clubs bottle service i something I have been able to live without, to be honest I'm not 100% sure what it is? They bring bottles to your table? Why would I want to be at a table in a club?
Sobriety Won said
ustedDon said:spinning music off a laptop or a controller is boring as shit
^^^This!
For the "DJ" & the audience.
It shouldn't really make a different for the audience if the DJ is play good tracks.
ustedDon said:spinning music off a laptop or a controller is boring as shit^^^This!
For the "DJ" & the audience.
It shouldn't really make a different for the audience if the DJ is play good tracks.
francois parker said:Why would I want to be at a table in a club?
I guess it's to "Impress" everyone else at the club who "Can't afford" the bottle service lifestyle. The music and the DJ are just wallpaper these days - clubbing has been reduced to Facebook braggadocio.
Chalk another one up for capitalism!
I guess it's to "Impress" everyone else at the club who "Can't afford" the bottle service lifestyle. The music and the DJ are just wallpaper these days - clubbing has been reduced to Facebook braggadocio.
Chalk another one up for capitalism!
francois parker said:Sobriety Won saidustedDon said:spinning music off a laptop or a controller is boring as shit
^^^This!
For the "DJ" & the audience.
It shouldn't really make a different for the audience if the DJ is play good tracks.
True, but in reality laptop/controller DJ's become "trigger happy" & rely on the easy option as soon as the going gets even slightly tough & that is without exception.
Plus watching somebody checking emails is hardly visually pleasing.
And I quote - http://seratoface.tumblr.com/
ustedDon said:spinning music off a laptop or a controller is boring as shit^^^This!
For the "DJ" & the audience.
It shouldn't really make a different for the audience if the DJ is play good tracks.
True, but in reality laptop/controller DJ's become "trigger happy" & rely on the easy option as soon as the going gets even slightly tough & that is without exception.
Plus watching somebody checking emails is hardly visually pleasing.
And I quote - http://seratoface.tumblr.com/
I dunno... sometiems I feel like the way the dude sounds in this article about it all... Sydney, where I live, is a fickle music crowd.
But then, in the last 3 weeks, A few friends of mine and I have been playing at a refurbished venue that's set up with all this 50s style stuff and the venue has asked us to play exclussively 50s and 60s rhythm and blues, rock, fuzzed out shit and the like. Strictly vinyl set-up. No one's rocking microwave and we're mostly playing 45s, to the appreciation of the retro-ish crowd. I've been playing there three weekends straight and the place hase been packed AND loving it. No bullshit music policy, no having to play any shite - in fact, we were told after the first week that management LOVED what we played and to keep it up. We finished up at 4am last week and this Saturday night is poised to be just as good.
Obviously, this may not last forever, but people do still go out to hear great music.
But then, in the last 3 weeks, A few friends of mine and I have been playing at a refurbished venue that's set up with all this 50s style stuff and the venue has asked us to play exclussively 50s and 60s rhythm and blues, rock, fuzzed out shit and the like. Strictly vinyl set-up. No one's rocking microwave and we're mostly playing 45s, to the appreciation of the retro-ish crowd. I've been playing there three weekends straight and the place hase been packed AND loving it. No bullshit music policy, no having to play any shite - in fact, we were told after the first week that management LOVED what we played and to keep it up. We finished up at 4am last week and this Saturday night is poised to be just as good.
Obviously, this may not last forever, but people do still go out to hear great music.
