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EDM parody. Have you seen it?

If you haven’t seen this Saturday Night Live parody video of the whole EDM superstar DJ thing, watch it now – it’s very funny. (Also, frankly, the fact that the bass ends up killing people is a bit of a deeper satire on the whole club/drug lifestyle. Be safe out there, kids.) However, it’s the main theme – the idea that superstar EDM DJs are a classic case of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, that what they’re doing is actually something anyone could do – that I want to talk about today. Because I know not all DJs can brush off these attacks on our culture as easily as I can.

In this world where software makes achieving the basics of DJing easier than ever, where the music is cheap and accessible where once it was scarce and expensive, and where fame is apparently all about marketing, it is of course extremely easy for the casual observer to conclude that there is no skill any more in DJing. 

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18th May 2014 Adrian K

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