Rolling Stone and EDM DJ's

**jimeppes** · 06-23-2012, 09:38 PM

Huge article about DJ's and EDM with DeadMau5 on the cover in this month's Rolling Stone....

Skip the BS articles about each so called ... ahem.... DJ....

and go right to page 54.

Those of us who actually put effort into a show will appreciate it. Maybe it, but doubt it.... it will embarrass them into putting on a show instead of a studio track and pushing play.

lil put too much into this to let a poser kill it for all of us jimmy

or... lil i dare any of them to come down to PC spring break and go up against me because i will burn down that damn stage to win jimmy

**jimeppes** · 06-24-2012, 12:03 PM

Here is the article....

After "how to fake your fans" circulated on YouTube last year, house music veteran dj sneak could no longer keep his rage under control.

The video shows Steve Angello one of the superstar dj trio Swedish house mafia, leisurely smoking cigarettes and sipping drinks as the sound system pours out what appears to be a prerecorded dance mix to thousands of festival goers. Via Twitter, Sneak assailed Angello as a Milli Vanilli of contemporary dance music. "There's a lot of fake dj's out there" Sneak tells Rolling Stone. "You don't want some clown up there smoking cigarettes, taking pictures, not wearing headphones, not working equipment - sometimes it is not even plugged in. It's Spinal Tap"

For decades, DJ's alternated songs by switching vinyl records on two turntables; they used headphones to hear the incoming tune and manually beat match the tracks. Today software like Traktor and Serato allows DJs to pull songs from iTunes, tinker with beats per minute and record sets in advance.

And as live dance music has grown into a billion dollar business, some are concerned about the growing perception that not all artists are creating a spontaneous mix. "I would compare this to pop music - alot of these acts are Britney Spears", says Gary Richards, veteran DJ and founder of the L.A. based Hard Festivals. " They're not the real deal"

Angello has thoroughly denied Sneak's attack, arguing the 13 minute clip was from an intensely choreographed part of the show set to lights and pyro. "Of course it's mixed live! What do people think we do?

That's ridiculous, says SHM manager Amy Thomson. Adds Tim Smith, Skrillex's manager, "Most DJ's mix on the fly, but there are people out there with prerecorded sets who have very very intricate production. And that can give the consumer a better show"

Still there are plenty of DJ's who love to mix live. "I'm proud of my mistakes" says Erol Alkan, who has remixed tracks for Daft Punk, Hot Chip and others. "I'm human and probably drunk"

And here is the YouTube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEKvo40sz1Q

**hippydog** · 06-24-2012, 05:09 PM

and the comment about it being prerecorded because of the "intense production" is pretty lame..
he has a roadie doing nothing but moving stuff on his table and taking his garage away.. you cant hire someone to shoot off the CO2 at the time? give me a break..

If I can beatmix, run my lightshow (which is preprogrammed) and take request, why do the big dogs need to prerecord?

**jimeppes** · 06-24-2012, 07:07 PM

Yep.... I have seen the mid level of popularity EDM jocks at Spring Break across the street at the super clubs (la vela, spinnaker) and was not impressed.

Girls Talk did put SOME effort into it... he was running a base track with which he would lay other snippets of songs over. And he worked the crowd pretty good. They were all over him on stage and when he went out into the audience. That took balls.

And the guy I saw in Atlantic City at the VDJ booth worked his arse off on the show with video. Very impressed. Son of Gun even tore down and loaded his own equipment in the truck.

My point is.. these guys have the opportunity of a lifetime with big time production crews, crowds that are out of their minds and willing to go anywhere these jocks would take them, creative staff all around them to acomplish any weird idea.... and what they do.

Stand behind a folding table and wave their arms.

There have been track acts all thru the years, but most them at least gave it a little effort when it came to the show.

lil not a one trick pony jimmy

**djtunes** · 06-24-2012, 08:42 PM

Yeah! That's serious BS. It is produced ahead of time and possibly a lot of the mixes would never be possible live.

I get an adrenaline rush sometimes when I string together a sweet mix on he fly.

**classactparty** · 06-25-2012, 10:48 AM

I would be a lot more impressed by DJs who could mix every 8 beats instead of every 32 beats. My biggest problem with live mixes and remixes is predictability and redundancy. At least make the boredom shorter.