Celebrity DJs ... who can't DJ?!

-- pher (praf...), Yesterday 5:59 PM. (pher)

someone already corrected the holiday versus radio mix uh... mix-up. but the Muzik mix was mixed by Tim Sweeney, not James. James did the Colette No5 mix however.

sorry but that's just stupid.

minimal techno is great but you can't just follow up track after track without it really becoming stale. you don't have to play r'nb or disco for it to not become a bore.
check this out Mathew Dear's Fabric although it's full of very solid minimal techno, he doesn't appear to really make it move. except maybe Ame - Rej.

having said that, i've give my left nut to see him come down to New Zealand and play

i agree, Sexor is arse

i totally see what you're saying though. i think (while not staying strictly minimal) this mix does what you're talking about.

but now we're just talking about what goes into a good mix/ set, which is probably another thread.

i guess i was just saying that if you're not crazy about minimal techno, do something else when matthew dear comes to town, that's all.

i still think this thread is mis-titled and should be called something like "Well Known DJ's Who Let Me Down."

I think Dan is on the money in defining what a Celebrity Dj is, and while i dont live in NYC so i cant attest to what a night there sounds like, that MisShapes night looks like a main culprit... this article is pretty hilarious, but helpful too. beware: it uses terms like "In the Electroclash era..."

also, i like the idea of letting the kids have their party. better to have all the douchebags congregate in one area and stay out of the general population for the night.

That would be the Roachford vocal version from the CD single, right? More dodgy production than dodgy mixing...

Just piling on the hate completely fairly here...

As for Tiga I have to totally disagree, I find him actually one of the best populist djs out there today, I've never seen him play and had him not make the place completely explode. His sequencing is completely top-notch - he's one of those djs that can spot similarities between tracks that you never expect but once you hear it you can never hear one without expecting the other to follow...

I've never seen Boy George DJ, what's that like?

That's one way of looking at it. Another is "He doesn't play by the rules."

Truly, Carlos D is a world weary heartbreaker who doesn't play by the rules.

"Martin Gore, for one, learned to beatmatch and spends hours preparing his sets. "I work out everything to a fine point," he says. "I make a whole list of extensive notes."

I wonder what these notes might say......... not just notes... but extensive ones...

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0607,romano,72183,22.html

Less pertinent, less interesting:

http://www.laweekly.com/diggin-your-scene/12683/rawk-your-body/

-- Mark (r-...)

DUDE U R TOTALLY CRUSHING ON HIM

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to be fair my understanding is that he built din mak as a record label without any financial assistance from his father

it was all thanx to JESUS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKVBESZ_kBg

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/fashion/djs-who-spin-the-family-name.html

“A lot of people think D.J.’ing is easy, and a lot of people think D.J.’s are cool,” said Rob Principe, a founder of Scratch DJ Academy, a decade-old D.J. school with campuses in Los Angeles, New York and Miami. “So I can see how it would be appealing to pursue it as a profession if you don’t have to worry about income, like these kids.”

Being a D.J. also lets them set their own path to fame. “These children might be trying to avoid Frank Sinatra Jr. syndrome, that is, becoming a second-rate imitation of their parents,” said Dr. John Altman, a psychiatrist in Los Angeles who treats many children of celebrities. D.J.’ing, he added, “puts you in a powerful and protected position for that moment.”

In July, he performed at American Eagle Outfitters’ store in Times Square, playing an eclectic mix that included Whitney Houston, Gotye and Coldplay, according to an article in People magazine devoted to his store appearance.

jesus this whole article