D-Jam, post: 32056, member: 3 wrote: I’ve seen rank amateurs come out and play on vinyl long before any laptops got into the booth.
What changed now? Promoters got sloppy.
They want a quick buck and have no clue how to plan and promote events that they take on the freejays or cheap DJs and thus fail. Not to mention since 2000 the promoters have pushed the scene to be about fashion and not about the music. Even now with the whole mainstream popularity and such of EDM, the scene is still more about VIPs, girls dressed like strippers competing for attention, guys pretending to be wealthy alpha males, and the DJ as simply a jukebox.
I’ve seen guys who learn the basics of beatmatching and they run out to play. They have no clue how to open or even how to play to a crowd. They just want their moment to be in the booth and pretend it’s like the fantasies they make of DJing.
Laptops and sync didn’t change this. It’s when promoters made the DJ less important to the night in many aspects, and they now look at ROI to the point that they’ll fathom the rank amateur if they can put a tight leash around him/her.
Well said, sir. Well said indeed. Honestly, that’s what turned my heart out of the dance scene for a period of time. Why should somebody who can’t afford 100 dollar shirts and shoes be banned from dancing and having a good time?
And yeah, every girl and their mother, especially in the States, wear the same two tight black dresses.
Alphas push you around and take pictures for their FB wall when you’re trying to dance to an artist they’ve never heard of nor care to know about.
It’s a sad state of affairs.
On the flip side, the digital age has allowed those who love the art form but cannot afford to drop 4 grand or so on CDJs/1200s and a mixer the opportunity to express themselves.
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