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    Phil Morse
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    I think you’re right, but in any period of change there are those with fixed ideas or vested interests who will resist.

    I think some performance angle can definitely get lost in all of this if the digital DJ isn’t careful, and I also think that believing the technology will make you into a musician is dangerous.

    But frankly there were many DJs “back in the day” who stood there like statues beatmatching boring music… flawlessly.

    There will always be those who put in an electric performance and produce something creative, and that goes from iPod DJs up to full-blown electronic onstage acts, with visuals and more.

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    Terry_42
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    I think it will simply expand.
    Like in the day when real turntablism was introduced into DJing. Now we have controllerism.
    However those styles, due to new hardware, do not have to work seperate any more. You can do many things that were reserved for turntablism easily on some controllers with high end (or even motorized) jogs, same for CDJs. You can introduce controllerism workflows into a turntable setup by adding a laptop and a launchpad etc. etc. etc.
    I think all those styles start to blend into each other and this is what get’s the guys that are into really one single thing, hardliners you coud say, crazy. Because sometimes it is easy, the learning curve is different or whatever and sometimes it is simply envy. I know I had to learn beatmatching and turntables that my brother rigged with a pitch control and were not even meant for DJing and it was a pain.
    On the other hand: At the end of the day it is about music and your creativity and if you create something awesome by very simple means or by invoking some mad skills that you needed 20 years to master…. as long as it works for the audience (and you actually have one) you are doing ok. If you then take the next step and go home with a feeling of satisfaction that for the time of your gig it was all about celebrating music with a bunch of people and those people could forget their good or bad lives for a few hours and simply enjoy themselves, then you are a winner, no matter how you do it.

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