Great DJ's who dont produce & Great producers who cant DJ?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 7:32PM 
So I'm starting to notice a trend for the past couple of years. Seems the DJ's that are getting booked alot around the country these days are actualy mainly producers. So I ask the question, WHy is that? Is it because in this day of blogs and internet nonesense theres no money to be made from producing electronic music? Clearly with most media being digital and not wax, not as many DJ's have to buy the single to be able to play it. But what happens when it back fires? I mean lets face it, someone whos main gole is to produce is not going to be as good of a DJ as say, someone whos main goal is to DJ. Chew on that for a bit. Ive seen many acts who are amazing producers, but half assed DJ's at best. In some cases just down right bad. Then you have the DJ who plays his own tracks but they are just plain bad. It goes both ways. So i ask the question, are the days of just being a DJ over? And who should get booked more? The DJ or the Producer?
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Reader Comments (1)
What seems to be the case also is I see handfuls of DJs getting their hands on software and then they are "releasing" crap tracks as well, so you have come to an era where anyone can be a record producer that maybe shouldn't. I think blogs are awesome and have created some great talent both DJ and production-wise but I have also seen far too many embarrassing remixes and tracks out there that have led to a sort of quality control issue on both fronts.
DJs make tracks to help promote themselves to get gigs, producers get DJ gigs to help promote their tracks. I think there are many that do both well, I myself do not spin any of my own records for the sole reason I would spend the entire time critiquing it and it always breaks my concentration. There is an art to Djing, many have just not found their way to that point yet, and maybe never will.