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By Vincent M Mallozzi – NYTimes

“I’m getting a lot of calls from people who are saying, ‘I just got my severance package, and this is something I have wanted to do my whole life,’ ” said Kelly Webb, dubspot’s director of operations. “In the midst of this economic crisis, some people have simply decided to go out and do what really makes them happy.” [Read More]

6 Responses to “NEWS: LAID OFF? – BECOME A DJ!”

GREAT. now it will be just that much harder to get a gig for people who have put their whole lives into this music, but don’t have a marketed image. you guys should be ashamed of yourselves for glorifying this sort of nonsense.

It’s hard to see how simply linking to a relevant article equals ‘glorifying’ nonsense. But more importantly, I don’t share your view that fewer (and less informed) DJ’s is a good thing.

More DJ’s equal more competition and competition is good if it forces even 1 DJ to work a little bit harder, to find new tracks, or to develop new techniques.

There might be a few freshman DJ’s that get in over their head after “graduating” but that isn’t much of a departure from the way things are now.

Most new DJ’s will have fun entertaining themselves in their bedrooms for a few years. Only a few will develop into “professional” DJ’s – and if they do, they clearly have something that works.

And while it’s true that the majority of DJ’s making a living off their craft these days have to play it very safe in front of a crowd, that’ll change over time. The more new people we have bringing new ideas to the dancefloor, the faster our industry will innovate.

Good luck to anyone considering DJing as a career – it ain’t easy! But if you can make the decision to follow your dream, you’re off to a good start! Let us know how it goes…

i agree with admin. the first response reads very fearfully. if you’ve really put your hard work and time and energy into being good at what you do, newbies fresh out of dubspot shouldn’t really be seen as a problem.

this article is a joke, ive worked half my life to get where i am. every record, equip, ect… i worked my as* off for… it shouldnt have taken you X-amount of years to realize your dream, or you shoulda grown a pair of B*lls and went after it then. people make me laugh, remember that kid in high school whos parents bought them anything they wanted ( most of it collected dust in the corner)… joke !!! glad to know when my fam said i was wasting my time(then 17 yrs ol) i didnt listen to them, it takes more then money and the (i always wanted to try that) attitude

More DJ’s equal more competition and competition is good if it forces even 1 DJ to work a little bit harder, to find new tracks, or to develop new techniques.

There might be a few freshman DJ’s that get in over their head after “graduating” but that isn’t much of a departure from the way things are now.

Most new DJ’s will have fun entertaining themselves in their bedrooms for a few years. Only a few will develop into “professional” DJ’s – and if they do, they clearly have something that works.
ok a few things with this…
1 you only need your self for competition,
2 with technology now you have to work extremely hard to find *new or *hard to get tracks. its not like back when I had to record shop n dig threw bins for hours every week to find 10 tracks, with limewire ect… it takes seconds and more available to the public. now you pretty much gotta know the producer
3 as far as freshmen DJs, in early 2000 there was a Serge of freshman DJs abt the same time as cdjs became industry standards, the cd DJ came by swarms, now kids could easily download many tracks burn em to cds n bam record library. Now basically you have a kid with now skills for programming, mixing, the basics but he was in a fraternity and could bring out a lot of heads, he is now main fl DJ at the hottest NYC clubs… the scene is watered down enough, if you are gonna make a career out of this, do it for you, whole heartedly and righteous

talking about how your parent’s didn’t buy you shit when you were 17 doesn’t somehow make you a “real” DJ… getting paid to play music does…

people do things for different reasons, referring to your own reasons as “righteous” makes you sound.. well.. “self-righteous.”

if these newbies are competing for your job.. then i guess you’ll have to be better then them.. no need to sweat, if you’ve been doing this “half your life” sounds like you got nothing to worry about.

when the world changes, you either change with it, or get left behind… it’s like a film maker complaining about youtube..

Something to say?