>Its just i'm sick of the fact that hardly any dj's are willing to play
music
>that everyone doesn't know. I always try to push new music and play
>absolutely rockin tunes that other people won't know and most of the time
>all i get from people is 'have you ever dj'ed before?'
I run into this all the time djing college radio. I play a mixture of acid
jazz, idm, ambient, drum and bass, trip hop, techno, Detroit inspired
stuff... and I get calls saying, "what's this?! play some house! or
techno!". I think a good DJ will do a little of both: playing old favorites
and also checking out the new music. There's always so much new music that
you could devote your show to entirely playing recent releases, but I think
trying to seamlessly explore the new while paying tribute to older music
(the classics) is a good balance. Too much music seems to disappear after a
year... I don't want to see electronic music share the transient
characteristics of pop/top 40 music, which prepackaged, corporate spoon-fed
fad-driven, MTV playin' mediocrity never endures a year's time. So I like
to "dig through the vaults" during every show.
The good part is that as a college radio dj, I don't have to care so much
if everyone is receiving the music well (you can't please everybody so
don't even try), whereas a club dj feels a lot of pressure to play to the
crowd's taste even to the sacrificing of innovation... call it economic
reality clashing with individual style and creativity. Thankfully this
country is slowing starting to be more openminded towards new sounds and
styles, but it's a slow process. The music industry in this country has for
years been too incestuous, with far too few radio stations pushing the
common held envelope. However, my optimism is fueled by the greater number
of electronic records and CDs that used to be only available as imports,
but now are domestically released.
Steve Brown
Cumberland, RI
Dj, WSMU 91.1 FM, North Dartmouth, MA
UMass-Dartmouth
>Its just i'm sick of the fact that hardly any dj's are willing to play
music
>that everyone doesn't know. I always try to push new music and play
>absolutely rockin tunes that other people won't know and most of the time
>all i get from people is 'have you ever dj'ed before?'
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