Recently there’s been a whole load of ish around this video of Laidback Luke, Lucy Liu and some European guy pretending to be doing stuff behind the booth at some fucking festival for noobs somewhere in USA probably, cuz that’s the noob capital of the world. People are all like “it degrades the craft of djing” and “these guys are fakers” and other butthurt shit like that. From that vantage point, where this video is taken, it certainly seems like dudes are miming djing. Thing is, 99% of people at a festival have a view more like the image above. They can’t see shit of what people are doing up there. The technicality of djing is not the fucking spectacle. People go for the pretty lights and the chicks and bros showing their teats.

No one in the middle of a fucking swarm of 300,000 people is seeing shit. Half of them are prob like “who is on now?”. They don’t fucking know. You could prob put a fucking dummy up there and peeps wouldn’t even give a fuck.

If you’re at a fucking festival like EDC or Ultra or Hard or some other shit looking for a revelatory dj experience you are at the wrong fucking place. These dudes are just gonna play all the fucking tracks they produced (or hired someone to produce) because they have to or else the sorority girl with the crazy eyes beside you is gonna lose her shit because her and her friends have been listening to all these tracks the whole fucking 4 hour drive there.

Djing of progressive house and trance and other big room drivel is inherently boring. There is only so much a dj can do in a mix. You can see them do a heart sign from far away. That’s why they do it. Doing technical shit with nobs on the mixer goes unseen by most people. They might as well be jerking off. You wouldn’t be able to tell if they were anyway. Most djs aren’t fucking scratching and shit. What do you expect from them? Hell, even if they were scratching you still wouldn’t see shit because you would be a mile away from them.

This whole thing about people faking and prerecorded sets is understandable but people are missing the fucking point. The whole giant mega festival experience is based on artifice. If people were there for just the music they wouldn’t have to make a huge ass light show. Most people are there to do mad drugs with a shit ton of other people.

I mean if they really liked electronic music then why are they listening to the most lowest form of accessible drivel?