Is anybody still surprised by big names who can't seem to mix two tracks in a decent way? I'm not.
As long as party-organisations continue to book good producers for DJ sets just because they attract a crowd, and as long as producers regard DJ'ing just as a way of making easy money you'll have awful mixing by well-known names. A few years ago Ken Ishii was announced as the great Japanese DJ, not to be missed at Ten Days Of Techno in Ghent. It was a bloody disgrace, the sucker couldn't even put the beats in the right tempo, he was still desperately listening to his headphones (with both ears...) and didn't even hear his first record was finished... Steve Stoll is even worse... What everebody should learn to do is cut the hype about these people and stop yelling and screaming when they are being announced or when they come on stage and just learn who the true DJ's are and who the producers are. I'm sure that half of the DJ's which are announced a big parties can be outclassed by many people here on 313. Big respect to the likes of Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, Laurent Garnier and some others who truly know what DJ'ing is all about, and for most of the others, please put together a decent live show and leave the decks to those who know! RD Signup for your free Virtual Countries E-mail address at http://www.turkey.com
