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David Guetta

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Is it just me….watching IOW festival and he’s just a DJ playing old songs with a Dance beat…what’s it all about 


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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17485
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    If you have to ask it's not for you...
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  • spark240spark240 Frets: 2073
    edited September 2021
    If you have to ask it's not for you...
    It’s not for TV….what’s the obsession with waving one hand in the air,..


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  • Two DJs are talking… one asks “Hey, fancy going to the cinema tonight?”

    The other replies “Hmm, I dunno. Who’s the projectionist?”
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  • DominicDominic Frets: 16014
    I've never really understood the whole DJ thing from Guetta to Avici etc etc although many of them are ex-musicians like Norman Cook etc..........quite a few are failed or older musicians who have a good music understanding and are able to create overdubs,segways and remixes / samples and turn them into interesting dance tunes.You also get the DJ /producer types like Marc Ronson who are very talented ( although I'm not sure that his sister Samantha has anything to contribute )
    It's certainly not something that translates to TV coverage or restaurants - ( for some reason all large fashionable restaurants in big cities now have a DJ booth and live DJ to make your expensive eating experience as noisy and uncomfortable as possible which my children tell me is because I'm old and boring )
     I've done a lot of the Ibiza thing way back in the past and met many of them at Cafe del Mar private pre-sets ,cafe Mambo etc
    Most of them seem to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of music going back to Frank Sinatra.
    A few years ago I was ridiculed by some young colleagues because I wasn't familiar with the esteemed work of  "DJ Bobo" ,apparently a famous German DJ ............I think I can live with that !
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  • Get some pills in ya and you'll get it.
    My trading feedback can be seen here - http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/58242/
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  • rze99rze99 Frets: 2261
    My son (20) tells me he is important. Well bangin’, he says. 

    He is right of course. I tell him. 


    Yeah. 
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  • Had to pick my son up this morning from the coach station as he’d been working there. Guetta was one of the few things he saw. Did he enjoy it? ‘Great light show.’
    So, maybe just something about the spectacle of it.  
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • KilgoreKilgore Frets: 8599
    He's good but he's no Tony Blackburn. 
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  • mikeyrob73mikeyrob73 Frets: 4663
    edited September 2021
    there is a real art to DJing 
    i bought my first set of decks in 1989, and still love to spin a few tunes. 

    Guetta doesnt really have it well known to just press play 
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  • CHRISB50CHRISB50 Frets: 4290
    Like a lot of things with music, it’s a taste thing. 

    There is a skill to it, like playing an instrument. I’ve DJ’d as long as I’ve played guitar. It’s not easy to do well. 

    I personally don’t like Mr Guetta as an artist or the music he plays. But I can appreciate what he’s up to. 

    I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

    But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to

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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12315
    Ok first up I confess I don’t understand the skill of DJ’ing and I’m sure it’s harder than it looks but these guys strike me as the Jay Blades of the music world. Someone who stands at the front and looks knowledgeable but doesn’t actually do much. 
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    I think it's interesting that a lot of them are quite old but still regarded as hip and cool by the youth.  But no, I don't really understand the godlike status of DJs either.
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  • The skill of DJing, as others have said, is more than simply pressing play - from a technical point of view, it's finding the right point at which to bring a new tune in, getting the speed to match, EQing to get rid of any unwanted flanging, phasing etc that is being caused, and lining things up so that song two kicks in at the right time, and song one drops out at the same time. From a more ethereal perspective, it's reading the audience, working out whether to drop the energy and give them a bit of a break, increase the energy to make them lose their shit, maintain the energy before either dropping or increasing it, and picking the right songs to do that.

    In my (very sparse) experience of playing to a crowd, I had a bit of the latter, but never really got good enough at the former to get anywhere, I just did a few house parties and a couple of charity parties. But a really good DJ, working a crowd for four or more hours, is definitely more than just pressing play.

    The whole concept of taking that, and making it a thing to put on TV or a festival stage, doesn't work in the same way, though - the songs played are generally remixed and programmed to have some natural ebb and flow to them, rather than the DJ creating the change in energy in response to the audience. Generally, that often is just turning up, pressing play, and waving your hands in the air (or at most picking a new song, loading it into the software and pressing "beatmix").
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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11791
    edited September 2021
    Don't they all just set it up in Ableton, and press a few buttons to make it look "Live"?
    (With the other hand up in the air)
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  • robertyroberty Frets: 10893
    If the light show is programmed then the set is probably mixed ahead of time too
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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30273
    Didn't DJs kill live music?
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  • DefaultMDefaultM Frets: 7271
    Isn't this guy the Man United goalkeeper?
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  • DominicDominic Frets: 16014
    Sassafras said:
    Didn't DJs kill live music?
    No .......Video killed the Radio Star ..........in my mind and in my car
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  • TeleMasterTeleMaster Frets: 10103
    edited September 2021
    I'm sure David Guetta can work a turntable but he's like the Nickleback of the DJ world. Safe, commercialised, safe, sterile. 

    DJ Shadow, DJ Yoda, Scratch Perverts, Coldcut, DJ Food, Cut Chemist are excellent DJ's. I absolutely love turntablists. Proper students of the decks have a knowledge of break beats, funk, soul, early hip hop like no other. 

    https://youtu.be/m4-iYnZtJcI
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  • vizviz Frets: 10647
    Herman the Tosser is one of my favourites. 
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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