Who started claiming that club DJ’s were artists? I’m not talking about techno/house/electronica musicians who spend countless time making it ‘right’ in the studio and recording their own samples, I’m talking about DJ McScratcherson mixing Ludacris with Jay-Z at a bar and calling it his own. This song then makes its way onto the airwaves with a local radio DJ (insert late-night-radio club DJ from Toronto here) attached to it. I know this is no new argument and that it has all been said before, and that ‘I just don’t understand the club scene’ – sure; but how do you hold a match to even the most amateur of musicians who step onto a stage and sing and play in the most organic of fashion? There’s something about putting on headphones and matching beat patterns through two turn-tables and calling it your own that really drives me up the wall. How can one with years of practice and appreciation for the art of composition possibly except digital mixing n’ matching as a contribution to music? Dear DJs who release remixed top 40 song albums, how would you cope in a power outage? You bore me.
