Are big name DJ's insulting to you?

[DayVeeJay]

Do you get insulted when some huge DJ like Paul Van Dyke hands you a dvd containing a 60 second loop to play for the entire night? While Paul's was well produced, 90% of the big name DJ's have horrible visual DVD's.

[SteveG]

It's certainly not an insult, they've at times not seen the VJ's work and are ensuring at least some of the content going on screen will be in the style of their branding. I've accompanied PVD several times and his DVD was certaily a lot longer than 60 sec, in fact he probably had several 20-30 mixes. He and his management/engineer have no objection to you mixing with this content as long as they are happy with yours and it fits in with their style. This goes with all the DJ I've worked with, none have ever stipulated that their disc was the only content to be played. I've come accross 2 DJ's who's discs were I'd say without being big headed have been below the standard of my own content, but at the end of the day you've got to remember that those DJ's have recieved content to the value that they have been prepared to pay....some recieving for free no doubt. I enjoy getting discs from DJ's at times, it forces you to go in other directions that perhaps you wouldn't try.

[deepvisual]

can we have a quick show of hands for how many people have seen goldie put on a CD and then pretend to mix records?

I did. Marcus garvey centre - around 6 years ago.

[vjaca]

But what about big name dj who brings own vj along...

[Tony_Blend]

Originally Posted by deepvisual

can we have a quick show of hands for how many people have seen goldie put on a CD and then pretend to mix records?

I did. Marcus garvey centre - around 6 years ago.

I did , November 2007!

[deepvisual]

going back to the thread, I remember some addict giving me two dvds of utter rubbish, one of which was PAL 16:9 the other NTSC 4:3 and then repeat 4 lines of marketing speak along the lines of " these images are essential to the core identity of the ( .....insert DJ name here) brand and must be played etc etc" before lapsing back into a trance.
I think he was famous, but then all DJs are aren't they?

[SteveG]

Originally Posted by deepvisual

I think he was famous

Obviously not

[john01]

Originally Posted by deepvisual

can we have a quick show of hands for how many people have seen goldie put on a CD and then pretend to mix records?

I did. Marcus garvey centre - around 6 years ago.

At least he showed up, he didn't show for gigs in Japan twice.

[eddi]

when a dj comes up to me with a dvd and asks me to play it, my answer is:

'sure, that would be fun. btw, i brought some cd's with me, could you play those in your set?'

[ShaKinDa]

i like you balls eddi,

although i just called him a physco in another thread lets not forget goldie is one of the godfathers of jungle, helped make dnb and is forever a legend...