I quite like a bit of trance now and again, and I'm sure some of you remember my old 'DJ Worship' rant thread, but I was just watching some Tiesto and wondered what it is that they actually do up there at these huge festival gigs ?
The implication seems to be that they are creating the music live (which of course they aren't). I wonder how many of the audience believe that the DJ is creating it ? But.... what are they actually doing ? I'm presuming they are not playing recordings of music they have written and played themselves, but that of other artists (that go uncredited it appears), and the DJ is just creating a mashup of other people's material, live.
But - it makes no sense to do it all live - it would make far more sense to do all the mixing beforehand and create a final track to just play at the venue. If this is the case, aside from pressing 'Play', what exactly are the DJs doing up there, besides dancing ? Is the routine with the headphones and constant dial twiddling just a facade ?
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DJ 2: Depends. Who is the projectionist?
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
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Lead the crowd and give them a focal point. The atmosphere is better that way rather than having an iPod on shuffle hooked up to a PA.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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The world does need DJs, but the worship they get seems bizarre to me, unless they actually create tracks themselves