BlainSA out of 104 (ish) releases in the last two years I’ve purchased 20 individual tracks. That’s not taking into account some of those releases were Quattro albums with 30 odd tracks on them each. Wouldn’t really class that (in my eyes) as prolific.

      ScottBailey I don’t think it’s been a very good label for a long time - that’s all I was getting at. The odd good tune here and there with a lot of meh around it.

          A lot more shite than good that’s for sure. Just seems like a back scratching label too nowadays. Even more than previously.

          Cankles-McJeggings

          To my mind, I would kind of expect him to use Bedrock’s current releases on Transitions, but he does it so frequently and with music that is consistently sub par that it really grates. I think the bigger problem with Transitions is that he combines it with consciously playing filler tunes that are clearly D grade tunes, keeping the better tunes for his live shows. All for reasons I understand from a business mindset, but all of it really just demonstrates that it is just about the money and he is going through the motions. Over the years, the business mindset that him and other DJs at that level has consistently stripped away the elements that made it interesting and exciting.

              Yeh true. You look at his tracklists for transitions and compare it to his live sets and there’s hardly ever anything.
              Where as if you listen to the early kiss fm mixes he and sasha did it’s all out guns blazing, best tunes in the box.

                Dan

                Yeah true. He was obviously planning it for a few weeks as he was testing the live stream.

                  whatever

                  A couple of years back I had a meeting with a very famous DJ. He told me that he had moved out of London because he was sick of flying around the world every weekend just to pay off his credit cards, so sold his place in London and got a place in the country. I could understand him moving out of London as he has a wife and kids, what surprised me was that he had credit cards and racked up debts on them, WTF was he spending money on? But one thing is for sure many of them now just treat it like a job and are just keeping a career going to pay mortgages, school fees and luxuries etc

                      Cankles-McJeggings Swing and a miss, Derm.

                      My heart sinks when I see a tracklisting just filled with a DJ’s own productions. Pointless endeavour. Negates one of the main facets of being a DJ.

                          SM001 Obviously you’ve never been a Todd Terry fan.

                            SM001
                            Not really. If they’ve got a decent discography then why shouldn’t they play their own music.

                                Dry-Tinder

                                Never been a touring DJ of course, but It doesn’t surprise me, I guess. Maybe it is more to do with lack of skills in managing money? I suspect the lifestyle also promotes a sense that you can blow money because there’s always another gig and you then enslave yourself to that cycle. See also the “DJs begging’ thread for examples of DJs that don’t think about what happens when you get older and need savings and a pension to fall back on.

                                  SM001 What about when a DJ plays tracks all by one producer?

                                    BlainSA yeah I agree, loads of tunes that don’t go anywhere really

                                      ScottBailey since I found out from a very reliable source that from a production point of view at least, Auntie John is actually mostly Nick Muir in disguise it has ‘coloured’ my opinion of him slightly too 🙂

                                          Dubman It depends on how expansive their discography is in terms of styles/genres and how far back it goes. I’m not saying DJ’s shouldn’t play their own tracks at all but a mix with just their own tracks on it is self indulgent.

                                              Dubman I kinda agree with this, surely if you are a DJ producer then as long as you have the necessary skills, everyone should really be their own favourite DJ. It’s a controversial opinion I guess but at least as a DJ, if you have integrity rather than a need to be liked, you will play the tracks that you like rather than the ones you think everyone wants to hear. Maybe it’s naivety on my part but isn’t this what primarily separates business from art?