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Trust the DJ

Submitted by Anamnesis on October 8, 2007, 8:56am.

If I am preaching to the choir, forgive me, I just feel it must be explained. There are millions of deejays playing thousands of styles of music in millions of unique ways. Serious deejays spend countless hours pouring through music and drooling over gear in the pursuit of crafting a unique sound and style. Some deejays like to be continuously fed new music by the global community of electronic music producers, some like to focus their sets on a specific genre, or an era of a genre, or a sort of historical evolution of a particular sound found in many genres, or the evolution of a new genre, and some like to have the song that whoever walks up or calls in wants to hear. REALIZE that this last one is different, not worse, not better, just different. This particular style is so because that type of deejay needs you to tell him or her what you want them to play. I know this may be confusing, or you may think that it is difficult to tell which type of deejay you are dealing with. Therefore I have created a short list of possible situations with probable mindsets of deejays:


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