Dance Music: Where are things at?

Someone who has caught my eye is Anfisa Letyago (I may have spelt that wrong) lately. Her sets seem totally different to the norm from the bits I’ve seen on Instagram. Techno, Trance and into Psy-Trance at the end. Psy-trance isn’t really my thing but it’s good to see someone willing to drop it into a set that I wouldn’t think it would be in - maybe other dj’s are also doing this and I just haven’t caught on to it. I was hoping she was going to be playing in Ibiza at the end of September but sadly not.
 
Turns out EDM DJs who have crossed over to house / tech house / whatever are bellends.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571474458220834816

Waze from Waze & Odyssey was due to DJ after ‘Gordo SZN’ who is EDM Dj ‘Carnage’ - he refused to finish his set and played all night as ‘we know everyone is here to see me any way’ - the last DJ of the night had driven down from Liverpool with a bit of a following to make her main room debut at MoS as well. Both got paid but still….
 
Springal said:
Turns out EDM DJs who have crossed over to house / tech house / whatever are bellends.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1571474458220834816

Waze from Waze & Odyssey was due to DJ after ‘Gordo SZN’ who is EDM Dj ‘Carnage’ - he refused to finish his set and played all night as ‘we know everyone is here to see me any way’ - the last DJ of the night had driven down from Liverpool with a bit of a following to make her main room debut at MoS as well. Both got paid but still….
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What a massive cnut
 
Tourist said:
any kids reading this, getting into DJing for first time - some home truths here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572179170171682816
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I had professional DJ lessons about 5 years ago and I naively thought not many other people in my City were into it, I didn't realise the competition to even get a mid week stint in a bar.

For me it was only ever a hobby so after a few stints on barely any pay in bars I gave up and just stuck to playing about in my house. It's seriously hard work if you want anything bigger, and can see how social media showing packed stages with big production is making new DJs get ahead of themselves.
 
It’s quite interesting now - the art of DJing is kind of dead. Most DJs that break through do so on the basis of producing and a track / edit / remix they’ve done. No one seems to have much of a history anymore or done the hard yards to get there.

I’ve be reading Carl Coxs autobiography recently and you realise how different the journey was back then compared to now. He was breaking genres not afraid to go against the grain (he has a story about being on a rave , listening to Fabio realising he was now bored of hardcore , so played Jungle at that gig for the first time when everyone said not to and went down well. ) Now it’s all to safe because it’s based on numbers.

Also no one admits a bad night, social media pictures etc are taken in a way to make something look busy. You can often tell the quiet gigs because DJs hammer there advertising leading up to a night and then nothing on the night.

All ties in to the YouTube / Spotify instant gratification society we have now. I used to DJ a bit early 2000s up to about 2015 , mix of warm ups are some house nights or commercial high street type gigs and there was definitely a more open mindedness to music generally early on, by 2015 you’d basically get abuse for not playing whatever was top 40 that week. DJs are afraid to be to risky for the wrath of social media.
 
Springal said:
It’s quite interesting now - the art of DJing is kind of dead. Most DJs that break through do so on the basis of producing and a track / edit / remix they’ve done. No one seems to have much of a history anymore or done the hard yards to get there.

I’ve be reading Carl Coxs autobiography recently and you realise how different the journey was back then compared to now. He was breaking genres not afraid to go against the grain (he has a story about being on a rave , listening to Fabio realising he was now bored of hardcore , so played Jungle at that gig for the first time when everyone said not to and went down well. ) Now it’s all to safe because it’s based on numbers.

Also no one admits a bad night, social media pictures etc are taken in a way to make something look busy. You can often tell the quiet gigs because DJs hammer there advertising leading up to a night and then nothing on the night.

All ties in to the YouTube / Spotify instant gratification society we have now. I used to DJ a bit early 2000s up to about 2015 , mix of warm ups are some house nights or commercial high street type gigs and there was definitely a more open mindedness to music generally early on, by 2015 you’d basically get abuse for not playing whatever was top 40 that week. DJs are afraid to be to risky for the wrath of social media.
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Another reason I gave up my short spell of bar DJing! The public staggering up demanding requests non-stop and literally only wanting Drake remixes and Tom bloody Zanetti, and of course if you upset the crowd the Bar owner/manager would be on your case.
 
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