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Originally Posted by react
Tiesto is just playing records. He's beat matching separate songs together by switching between a couple of CD players to create a continuous mix, but there's nothing particularly advanced about his style. People worship him on the back of the music he plays (largely his own, in that sense he's a record producer as well as a DJ), his reputation which is largely marketing driven and drugs.
More advanced DJ techniques include using additional CD/record players to include additional layers in the mix as well as advanced performance tools like Ableton running on a laptop.
There's another class of musicians who will play instruments live on stage in combination with playback tools above. The distinction here is that they are playing live rather than a DJ set.
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Thanks for the explanation. That's what I was thinking and I just couldn't figure out why DJs were held in such high regard for what they do.
So Tiesto could go in the studio and create a 90 min tape and then just play it back at a concert while standing in a booth with headphones on and that could be his show.
If he was given a bunch of records right before the show and then had to mix them and add beats and take a song and turn it into a dance mix on the spot I would think that would take a huge amount of talent and would be putting on a show.
Again, I'm not bashing Tiesto I'm just using him as an example to try understand what DJs do.