> > You just have to look at the crowd attendance at, say, a Q-Bert gig in the > UK against one in the US. The US spawned a genre of music, hip-hop, where > skills on the decks are hugely important to the DJ, and that culture lives > on quite strongly there. In the UK, you have to admit, the majority of > people rate DJs more on their track selection / PR profile than their deck > skills - there's not a lot of pressure on people like Norman Cook or Paul > Oakenfold to show off dazzling new deck tricks.
this last bit tickles me for some reason :) > But there are indeed groups of people in both the US and the UK who like to > see good mixing - it's just that in the UK they're largely confined to the > hip-hop scene, and that's why there aren't any British techno DJs who mix > like Claude Young, yeah i've seen claude clear dancefloors with blinding skills on more than one occasion...shame > or booty DJs who mix like DJ Godfather. i've never seen a booty dj in the uk, how do uk booty djs mix? > It's not > necessarily a good or a bad thing but I do think that raw deck skills get > you further in the US than in the UK (unless you're a hip-hop DJ). i think techno is the only other genre that may be an exception robin... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
