Greeeeeeat… American Idol for DJ’s?? More nerds with their machines making music. Why don’t they do something good for the music industry and have a reality show for bands?? I’m not talking “boy bands”. I’m talking actual bands (ppl who use their abilities and INSTRUMENTS to make music). Music’s dying……. UGH!

That is absolute bollocks!! Any DJ who wants to make a name for themselves these days also has to have the ability to produce their own music. An electronic music producer has to know musical scales, keys, chord progressions etc, they also have to know how to use their chosen sequencer inside out, they also have to know how to arrange music, they also have to be versed in mixing & mastering as professional engineers cost a considerable amount of money.

I’m not sure what genre of music you are into but I suggest you look a bit further into the type of musicians that you are bashing here before making irrational statements like the one above

Obviously you are biased but believe me the only people who think DJs are talented are DJs themselves.Which is why you see them constantly blowing smoke up each others arses .If they had talent they would be a musician end off.

Your comments are very naive Ee. You need to realise that the skill-set needed to be a good DJ is totally different to those needed to play or write music directly.Yes the technical aspects of DJing – ie mixing one record into the next are fairly easy to master, the skill comes in having a good ear for music and being able to track down the best songs, and knowing how to juxaposition records together and build a set over a number of hours (7,8 or more in the case of many underground DJs), creating tension, highs and lows, and dropping bigger records at the right times.

I listened to JD Twitch’s ‘Beats In Space’ mix from the end of last year a couple of days ago, it was brilliant he played a huge range of different genres dating back from the 60s to present day stuff and managed to pull it all into a mix that flowed beautifully from start to finish. The ability to do that only comes from years of dedication to collecting records and figuring out ways to fit them together.

Theres a HUGE distinction to be made between guys like that and the likes of Guetta and SHM who just bang out big tune after big tune (or just put on a pre-recorded mix CD and pretend to mix the songs together in the case of SHM :-s), one after the other while jumping up and down in front of a stadium full of gurning idiots!