Things you just don't get

Piobaire said:

Today I do not get why I cannot find a job as a professional drinker. I think I would be very good at it and would settle on a quite reasonable compensation package.

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Claghorn said:

I also recently had a similar conversation with a friend who goes to clubs whenever some international DJ he likes plays. He doesn't dance, but he says different DJ's have different set lists and good ones are very responsive to crowds, making it more of a two way interaction than with other types of live music.

The only time I really notice DJing is when it's a bad DJ that mishandles a drop or something.

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otc said:

I've been to a few shows like this, and it can go both ways. It also depends how far it tilts between a DJ-set (where they are really just mixing tracks) and more of an electronic music show where they may be mixing in other stuff, but the focus is on the music they are making rather than the music they are mixing together. For the pure DJ-sets, its really just a party. Not much different then going to a club except you know that the music is going to be good (by your tastes since you picked the dj) and that the other patrons are probably more there to have fun and dance to music they like than to buy some flashy bottle service, get wasted, and try to score....The DJ works the crowd, plays with building and releasing tension, but for the most part does not make new music.
Electronic music shows are a bit different. Those guys are actually musicians. People may raise their noses in snobbery and try to argue, but they will find themselves on the wrong side of history...just because their instruments are turntables, keyboards, laptops, and sample/effects control boards doesn't mean these guys aren't musicians (and a suprising amount of them have a good understanding of music theory and are classically trained in more traditional instruments).

Avicii was a *************. Maybe he isn't always like this (and obviously, he actually made the music at some point) but he got on stage, climbed up into his big fancy set piece, and then hit play. I honestly couldn't tell if it was a live DJ or not. Might as well have just phoned it in. Some people were clearly super excited by just the fact that some dude was sitting up there and pressing play on the songs they heard on the radio, but I felt like I paid a large opportunity cost to be there instead of doing absolutely anything else.

Other times though, they have truly been musicians. Their songs may be constructed of digitized samples and prerecorded strings of notes, but they are actively controlling and triggering them. Justice put on a tremendous show. It was still just 2 dudes on a fancy set piece, but they were up there doing a live show. The music didn't sound like the album recording--themes would come and go, songs that the audience was eating up would get extra time and embellishment like a live band adding a long solo and an extra chorus or two. Never had the opportunity to see daft punk, but I'm sure their shows are like this.

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HRoi said:

I bet you had them rocking out to that Tears for Fears...

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lasbar said:

HRoi said:

I bet you had them rocking out to that Tears for Fears...

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Or Haircut 100 and A flock of Seagulls..

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Fang66 said:

Haircut 100 and A flock of Seagull in the same post as Tears for Fears, are you maaaaaaadddddd!!! Why don't you throw in Human League while you're at it?

"Anyone here like the human League"?[VIDEO][/VIDEO]

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acidboy said:

I may be a ******* old fart but I grew up during the time mixing and house parties involved a couple of Technics SL1200 MK2's, a Crown mixer, boxes and boxes of records and endless hours trying out different mixes, adjusting the pitch, knowing when to crossover and all that. yeezus I'm old!

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Neo_Version 7 said:

I'm fortunate to grow up in a time where the definition of a DJ's remix is speeding up a Top 40 song.

Speaking of which, I don't have an official summer song yet. Nothing stands out this year.

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