'Superstar' DJ's?

[Col]

What is the crack with giving these dance DJ's like FatBoy Useless a title like 'superstar' when all they are doing is playing someone elses music and being all clever by smearing one song into another at the end/beginning of the track?

Must be the Emperor's new clothes syndrome methinks?

[delboy3]

Morrissey had it right... 'Hang the DJ'

Whilst I can appreciate the mixing skills of the likes of Fatboy Slim, Chad Jackson, etc, once the ego takes over I switch off.

[Col]

As Mozza said 'it says nothing to me about my life' no greater words spoken.  Moz did also defend his lyric by saying that DJ referred to Dinner Jacket although it is tenuous to say the least.

[puttycake]

I guess you've never been clubbing then Col?

Spend an evening watching someone like Judge Jules or Paul Okenfold building the atmosphere of a night, reacting to what the crowd like, and taking the mood up and up with their choice of music, mixed seamlessly, until the whole place is just heaving. Then go to your local club and watch the wanabe trying, and failing to do the same. then you'll know why these guys earn so much, and so m  any people travel to see, and hear them work their magic.

[Dom Tuk]

A big thing is being made of mixing the music seamlessly. Like it is so important that a one second gap between songs will reduce your pleasure of the moment. Also that they mix the beats/rhythm so that one song to the next has the same rhythm...err...they all have the same bloody beat to it. Also the choice of songs....hardly likely to put a sinatra song in a dance set are they.

If you did not know it was the superstar DJ then you would not have paid the gate money and you would not have known any different. Paid to change records....ha ha what a life

[Sooper]

Couldnt agree with you more Puttycake. It is very easy for people to slate something that they neither understand or have never tried to do. Mixing is an artform there is no doubt to that , it is bloody hard to do just in your bedroom let alone in a dark , smokey , noisy place like a club. The Dj's have to try to find the tunes that will work and try to fnd unique / rare songs this can and does take time. They then have to take their tunes and try to build / fit them into their particular sets and build this into some sort of order so they will build the crowd up and down when they choose. Although the Genres of music the Dj may play in his set can be the same eg House , Trance etc the BPM's of the tunes are not and it is pretty ignorant to think that all House records have the same BPM (or speed) yes they may have the same beat but that does not mean the same speed which is why Decks and Cd players that are used have pitch control on them so that the speed of one record can be matched to that of the one that you wish to mix the Record/Cd into.

Also DJ's play many different tunes and some of the more outhere or experimental DJ's can and do drop all sorts of werid and wonderful tunes in their sets depending on how the crowds are reacting and i am sure that Mr Sinatra's tunes will have been used many times.

Sorry to have rattled on but it does irritate me when people assume that it is so easy to pop a tune on and mix in the next one and everyone will dance away merrily. This is not so.

[jaydj]

Its offten the media that hype up the dj's and call them superstars...a lot of dj's are just normal nice people

Of course you always get a few ******** but thats with any thing in life

[Col]

Th ereason for my question is that I regularly go clubbing and I see these no-bodies trying to work amgic with music other people have created and wonder why don't they lay down their own tracks themselves, anyone can be artistic with the benefit of hindsight eh?

[FrizBJ]

Col - I think you'll find that Fatboy Slim (and a whole host of other DJ's) actually DO produce their own music.

And yes, anyone can be an artist.

[Trillipse]

i lost heart in the whole thing when all of my friends at uni suddenly became instant djs once they found out it was cool. they all got airtime and all were lauded as great and cool and all that.

ahem.

********.

[andy6006]

Diddy David Hamilton now thats a superstar, not arf

[StephenG]

In answer to the initial question and subsequent answers. A so called "superstar" DJ is one that can lift a crowd and mix his own music whereas a regular DJ is anyone with a set of decks and a mixer.

Advice for Col: change clubs mate.

[admarlow]

anyway, lots of dj's have their OWN albuns too, ie fat boy slim, van Helden, Layo & Bushwacks, plumb dj's etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!