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Old 12-31-2006, 05:48 PM  
extreme
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Originally Posted by Jace View Post
another thing that bugs me about it all, people actually think they are seeing him play live...when in fact he is 90% of the time playing cd's and records, and when he isn't doing that, he is hitting PLAY on his laptop to play a pre-recorded dj set that he lays samples over top of
While I agree that it's a fraud of sorts. There is lots of work behind that pre-recorded collection.
He knows it'll work and so does those who hire him. Everyone wins, the audience will like it even if they pay way too much.

But then that's true for most of the other top DJs also, except you don't have to pay insanely much for those.
The hard part is becoming a celebrity DJ in the first place.

Taking someone elses work and remixing it seems to be giving the one doing the remixing way too much credit though...
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