BigPoe wrote:When playing with a laptop you definitely end up looking at the screen more than you need to (unless you're incredibly disciplined), which means you're not interacting with the crowd/mirror as much.
Conversely, I hate the new "knowing look" you get from DJs nowadays along with the little "fist circles of k-hole triumph."
Pure hilarity. I much prefer the Jeff Mills/Robert Hood approach. They don't have time for doing the monkey dance for the crowd because they are moving through the tracks too fast to care.
DJ's should shut up and get to work. Where is the mystery? Where is the techno? The music these days is all dressed up in personality.
I mean who cares? At the end of the day, we are all suckers for paying money to go listen to some guy play his record collection in public.
I can live with being a sucker like that, but I can't live with this constant pseudo-intellectual dialog about DJing. Its such a ridiculous type of performance in the first place, when compared to live music played on actual instruments.
Turntablists may be a different matter, but putting one record on after another? Did it ever need to become the subject of endless debate?