Posted on 09/10/2015 8:45:12 AM PDT by rktman
Late last month, Forbes published its list of the world’s top-earning D.J.s. Calvin Harris, 31, who less than a decade ago was stocking groceries in a Scottish supermarket, came in first place, earning $66 million over a 12-month period beginning in June last year through club fees, endorsement deals and music royalties
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Oooh I’m going to push some buttons....I’m a musician.
One of the few times I’ve agreed with Morrissey is when he sang “Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ.”
HP computers had a TV commercial a few years ago where a DJ on it was deaf. If you can be deaf and be a DJ, it must not be very hard to do. I’m aware that Beethoven was also deaf, but he wrote all of the music to all of his compositions. He didn’t press a few buttons.
Paris Hilton is a DJ.....’nuff said.
That’s probably almost exactly what lute, lyre and pan pipe players said when the piano was invented.
Guess which has a much larger place in commonly performed music these days...
Seriously, you are comparing playing the piano to pushing some buttons?
Been listening to EDM (or Trance) since the 90’s after the death of alternative and the rise of pop. I’ve always enjoyed it as a distant relative of classical music with its epic themes and crescendos. Not to mention it’s lack of lyrics which I view as a positive. No longer do I have to suffer through some idiotic musician’s feeble attempt to wax poetic.
These people are not “performing” music. They’re not musicians.
” idiotic musician’s feeble attempt to wax poetic.” And political. LOL! Minstral, strike up the band.
I DJ’d in the 80’s. Made as much as $200 a night. Had to lug 100lbs of records, 200 lbs of equipment, set it up, tear it down. A 3 hour party took me 6. I DJ’d in clubs for $50 p/n.
I’ll admit that’s part of the reason more and more I listen to music in other languages.
Difference is today DJs are considered “Rock Stars”.
LOL! Indeed. Definitely a benefit. For me Trance is a more visceral form of music. Rather than analyzing it to death I can imprint whatever I want onto it.
This variant of DJing isn’t just spinning CDs, they actually do live sound mixing of tracks they’ve previously created, often from scratch, on computers or synthesizers, often with contracted vocalists. When they do it live, they often are running banks of preprogrammed synths - and if they have a live vocalist, they’re timing it to sync up with their performance, running audio effects and monitoring that vocalist’s sound levels as well. They’re not just pressing play on a CD player containing some other band’s product.
Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5ZpztE5i0
DJ in this context really means combined synth guy and sound engineer plus some other positions thrown in.
I’ll admit that’s part of the reason more and more I listen to music in other languages.
That works too. I listen to Rammstein for that exact reason. I know they’re leftists but not like I can understand what they’re saying :-)
For someone not ‘performing music’ they seem to be expending a lot of effort and working frantically. See my last post above for a link.
Heh heh. “We’re all living in Amerika....Amerika....ist wunderbar!”
Another Armin fan I see. Good choice :-)
Relatively speaking, compared to the lute and lyre?
Yes.
And I say that as a piano player.
Go look at the video I linked a couple posts up. Tell me he’s just pushing a couple buttons and sitting back on his ass.
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