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D-Jam, post: 34046, member: 3 wrote: Well…I’m sure all those headliners were fully paid regardless. I don’t think Farina or Shadow ended up not getting compensated. I’m sure their agents have it in the contract in case, let’s say, a power outage hit the club.

In this case, they pulled the headliner willingly, but they still have to pay for his time. I also don’t see things changing where promoters will decide to sign contracts that remove their right to remove a DJ.

I have to put my promoter hat on here. If I have a club with 10 booths and a moderate-sized dance floor, I have to think numbers. Remember all I wrote about in the guide to throwing/promoting events. You have to treat it like a business. If my 10 booths are full of high rollers who will EACH spend $4000-$12,000 in the night versus a full dance floor that might only bring a total of $6000…I’m sorry, the high rollers will win the fight every time.

Even the barstaff will agree because those high-rollers will give them hundreds in tips compared to the dollars from the crowd. This is why you saw so many clubs shrink or remove their dance floors and put in more booths. They honestly want the best revenue stream…not to please music nerds.

In all honesty, and I said it earlier, I wish then these glam spots would come to reality and stop believing they can be both high-rolling glam/fashion hot spot…and musically innovative spot. We all can see now this won’t happen. The high rollers are more than likely out to lay their barbie dolls, and the barbie dolls only care about showing off that they are in a booth with a sugar daddy.

So now I’m sure some of you DJs will get angry how it seems good music is being pushed out for money. This is when and why you all have to take it on yourselves to build a scene. This is when I’ll see some guys come together to throw events, or take over promoting a night They might throw raves, or do a night where they tell the high-rollers they won’t pull the headliner…and thus risk the revenue loss. They might go look for a venue that has no booth service.

In any case, we can complain…but the real answer is all the complainers who want change will have to go out and build a scene. You could evolve into some 3000-person space that’s packed. No booths, no bottles. Just people dancing to a beat. High rollers will show up and lament how there’s no VIP section, but the masses of people will be your strength.

I don’t like it, but you’re 100% right and if it was my club I’d do the exact same thing. Lately we had a boom in bottle service here in Toronto that frustrated many fans. However lately we have seen a divide where there are clearly top 40 clubs for barbies and bottles and the other clubs for the music fans. Seems like it’s working but even the ‘underground’ bigger clubs that open still have tables with service which I think is alright but they’re keeping them low key and more out of the way. Only time will tell if it works.

I wonder when djs will start signing contracts that say they cant’ be kicked off the decks for their alotted time. I’d never heard of djs being kicked off before unless they were making a piss poor performance. The world only cares about money, for shame.

FYI the mix of mine you listened to has tech house songs with no beat breakdowns and techno with a climax. I could be using the wrong terms for these as well.

When it comes to tech I like to keep the tempo going. I’ll have the new track fully kick in just as the old one is beginning its outro. This way it’s buildup, peak, buildup, peak and it can keep going. I like to do that for a bit then I’ll throw in either a track with a long beatless breakdown or a longer track and let it play most of the way through and giving the next song a longer intro. I don’t play live much so I’m not sure how that would work on a crowd, but it really works on my mixes so I gues I’m doing something right.

Used to be a huge gamer in the PS1 and PS2 days and trailed off with the new generation of consols. I have to say the ultimate gaming platform will always be a computer. There are so many more games that aren’t designed for the masses (Call of Duty ect…) and are still MASSIVE fun without having to shell out $70 for recycled poop.

That’s what I got for my 1st controller.

I promise you it’s just going to make you work harder. It’s a great piece.