DJs

leggo wrote: »

People, including the OP (and many new-era DJs too, to be fair), don't understand what a DJ is.

A DJ isn't, and shouldn't try to be, selling himself as an original artist. We're middle-men, people who search and listen to music that normal people don't have the time for and present it in an entertaining way to them so that they'll appreciate it as we do. That's it. There's no particular ego to it, any egos involved are more down to the person than the profession.

People who create EDM aren't DJs, they're producers (though an EDM producer will also, likely, be or have been a DJ at some stage). That's why I feel you don't understand what a DJ is, OP, you're hearing the media calling David Guetta a DJ and you're assuming that's what he is. And producers are also musicians, just because they use a laptop doesn't mean that they don't go through the same creative process as any other musician. The laptop and accessories they use around it are just their instruments instead.

In fact, they probably do more work than a regular musician: a guitar player just plays his part of a song then leaves it to the producer to mix down into the overall track. Producing a track solo requires them to create it, perform it, mix it down and master it themselves.

But there'll always be ****ing eejits who get drunk in clubs and think, "I cud do dat!" but are too lazy to actually do it, so just settle for slagging off the DJs without having any clue what they actually do.

Crooked Jack wrote: »

That's why I'm asking. Educate me.
Yer man above said something about a DAW on a midi something or other.
I heard a lot of this waffle in uni but to be honest when it came down to it at a party or club nobody ever seemed to notice any difference between the guy with the laptop who hit play and got pissed and the guy with the huge mix desk who ran about frantically fiddling with sliders and knobs all night.