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Yeah, some good points, Rasko, as usual..
The performance aspect of DJing always came to take somewhat of a backseat when club culture really took off..
That was really one of the defining aspects of it all...Instead of everyone focussed on someone doing 'his' thang on a stage, the 'performance' became the dancefloor, thats where the focus, the energy, the action was. Not gooning around in the latest shirt to try and cop off with some girl/guy or other, but a symphony of the crowd lost in the music individually, then being aware of being a united group of people...a good DJ will bring the crowd back and forward, into and out of itself.
Great DJs dont showboat with the fekking arms in the air in front of a stadium full of people, nor should they just stand there, coked up, with their coat on.
The best of the best have a stage prescence, certainly, but that presence shows itself through the music they play - in an ideal world, a DJ is someone who's identity is best expressed through delivering the right music at the right time - not somebody straining to be the empitome of Hoxton or WBerg chic, beit using a laptop, decks MIDIpenis or whatever.
DJs I include in the 'real' catagory are people like Paul Edge, Eddie Richards, Weatherall, Terry Francis and few selected others.
If the music is right, you really shouldnt even know what the DJ looks like till maybe the end when they might somewhat humbly take some applause.
Fuck those gigs where the 'Music Industry' shiterrati pack 20 deep earnestly leering at the way'SuperstarX' is cueing up the next tired, corporate, gutless, nazi 'trancey-progressive' promo.
Everyone seems to have forgotten what it was that drew people - DJs and clubbers, to the scene in the 1st place -
THE DANCEFLOOR.
That magical place where, united in the beat, the rules of engagement changed, and it changed people.
http://www.djpauledge.com/downlo…
shows that this ethos is alive and well, and about to come out of shadows once again :).