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?

                                      SM001 some DJs do this as standard, I’m thinking of artists like Babicz, Nthng, really often play sets consisting of nothing but their own productions - Is it self indulgent? Not sure I agree - When I’m listening I’m not thinking ‘FFS, Play something else’

                                          ArchimedesQ Maybe now, but the stuff they released together years back was way better than the stuff NM did on his own.

                                              ArchimedesQ Babicz & Nthng are artists first. I wouldn’t consider them DJ’s.

                                                ArchimedesQ 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.

                                                Reminds me of an interview with C Richards where he was being led by the journalist with the question, ’Do you read the crowd when you’re choosing your records?' as was the popular question to DJs at the time so they could say about how they adapt their sets accordingly. He shut that shit down and said, ‘No, I play whatever I want to play.’ lol

                                                    ArchimedesQ I’ve been under the impression that Transitions has been NM for many years. In terms of production NM was quite candid in an interview that he did most of the work, but JD’s contribution would be to critique the track and make suggestions for tweeks here and there.