Yes we may live in different places, however I have DJed around the world including up scale places in the US, Spain and Britain but also in “low tech” places like the Phillipines, China (yes Club wise its low tech) and Haiti.
All you need to do is educate people and managers, be professional about it and show them that any controller is better than timecode. If any manager wants me to DJ with timecode I charge 50% extra, because plainly put: It sucks and I do not want to limit my creative freedom.
This way I have converted several managers to think differently, even some that have 8000 bucks Nexus 2 CDJs in their booths and said I am an idiot before, thanked my for the education after my set blew the roof off and the DJ before me playing on the Nexus crap emptied the dancefloor every 2nd track.
If you just bend to their will, you will never make it in the DJ industry, you either follow the rules of success or you become frustrated sooner or later.
These rules are very simple:
– Trust yourself and that your way works, do not bend
– Break the rules (not the law) break the rules of DJing how they want you to
– Don’t be afraid to fail – every time you fail you push forward if you follow the above
– Ignore the naysayers the managers that tell you, you cannot do it that way
– Work like hell, if you want to succeed you need to work your butt off, if you do not somebody else will
– Give something back (like I try to do here)
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