If anyone fancies barging in and taking over my day job for a few hours, my DM’s are open.
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Same here. There’s trips to Zurich, New York, Honolulu and Seattle in the next 3 months for you as well if we’re competing, Howler.
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Would be lovely to see you in Seattle, Marc. Hit me & @deepconcentration up.
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Lol! 
Has mainstream music kind of “stopped” or is it so fragmented that there just arent universally known popular songs anymore?
Im away on hols in Majorca on an all inclusive with the family. First time we’ve done it and a few pros aside, cant say i recommend it. Its something of an endurance test, not in any small part due to the heat which is insane at times and i cant see how this is a sustainable model.
Anyway, when i was a kid abroad you’d be out and about and hear the big songs of the day at the beach, funfairs or wherever. Was out last night and aside from the tribute bands banging out the 70s and 80s standards, all I heard was Robin S, Dr Alban, fucking Hanson, Culture Beat, MJ, Madonna etc
Its weird right?
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You think its bad when you’re a tourist? Imagine being the other side of the fence. I spent a lot of time the last couple of years in the Costas, working with Tribute Acts and they are the real victims here. No ones going to stuff a couple of Euros in a pint pot to listen to you do Chappell Roan or Kaytranada or Saja Boys/Andrew Choi/ Neckwav (i have no idea but they are 6 and 7 in todays UK top 10). All theyve got is Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart and Sinatra. Maybe a bit of Ronan/ Boyzone if the Irish are in. And this audience is literally dying. And with it the great tradition of the Tribute Act.
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Ha oh shit we’ve just literally booked a week in Majorca. Last minute cheap n cheerful all inclusive kinda thing. Tbh we dont intend to leave the hotel pool area much but I’m expecting a mucho bad music and Brexit ham sunbed warfare type deal anyway.
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I’ll let you know. We can go for dinner and you guys can pick who on my staff you want to be for when I expense it.
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We’re in Cala Millor which is nice enough i guess. Hotel is pretty much all German but heard a fair amount of English voices in town. On the upside theres no sunbed shortage at ours and people arent getting too daft with putting towels out.
Its very much as you’d expect really - these places dont change much!
it is pretty awful but a direct descendent of eurodisco, for better or worse. It came about when hardcore got too junglistic or too (hard) techno for a certain part of the demographics and they went back to that mid 90s euro/UK house and toughened it up (idk what you call it). A lot of that house sounds very cheap now.
Just a harder version of this sort of thing. Skeletons in the closet?
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I would actually rather that than some fluffy organic tropical house/burning man lee burrage (?) record with the 4x4 and wooshing pads tbh. Once couldn’t go to bloody sleep after a new years binge because they were playing that kind of pseudo-deep house at the afters, and I was crying out for some gabba or at least hard acid to rejuvenate me. Nothing worse than not being able to sleep because some 4x4 ‘progressive’ shite that even sasha forgot to take the 50P HMV sticker off is chugging away at 124 bpm and doing absolutely nothing.
Most people don’t have the 70s jazz/rare groove crates to soundtrack dining or chilling out.
Once got my mate to play this at the bar he was working at for a laugh. and scared the other bunters 
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Love how this was signed to Papa Sven’s fairly credible label. 1992, when there were no limits!
Zakia is good. Afrodeutsch is also good but she’s on a friday evening. Can’t recommend Ruby Savage on NTS enough.
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Ruby is the absolute best. Lovely person as well.
People in management who don’t grow people. We just had someone quit and they’re leaving because they felt they weren’t being given any opportunities for growth by their supervisor. The supervisor in question just called me in a panic because of how important that person is to their operation seeing if I could call them and ask them to withdraw their resignation. If they’re that important then don’t let them stagnate. Give them ownership. It’s not difficult. Also, passing your poor management onto someone else so they can fix it is pretty rum as well.
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What do we think of this then. I mean DJing over the Cloud was always coming, but is this pushing us more and more into streaming ultimately meaning that artists will get paid even less?
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I have never understood hierarchical micro managers who don’t allow people to have ownership of their work or fully involve them in what they are working on.
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…and who don’t allow people to have opportunities or try to grow them.
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Interesting one.
I’m of the generation that still wants to own my music. If not a physical copy, I want to own a file.
Played at a party recently and another DJ was streaming from Tidal. It sounded glitchy. So you’d definitely need bullet proof WiFi if you were going to stream.
If we assume every DJ could stream any tune they wanted I think that actually makes the art of selecting/programming harder. It’s certainly not a given that easier access to more music in the moment makes for a better set.
Ultimately I think you’ll see streaming being the go to for commercial DJs but for the underground it will accelerate the movement towards exclusivity: playing stuff no one else can just stream. Whether that’s vinyl or exclusive productions or edits.
This might create a better (albeit small) market for underground artists to still supply the music for the best DJs and parties.
But yes, once most people access music through streams it will continue to drive commercial music towards being created by AI or generating tiny fees per stream, only benefiting the big players.
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Punter requests are going to become even more obnoxious. You won’t be able to say you don’t have it.
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100 per cent the near future. I can’t imagine in a short few years why USBs would be much of a thing for most DJs, most will be playing off either their own cloud or streaming services. Everyone will have access to almost everything for a subscription probably. All in all, potentially more bad news for artists.