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DJ'S ANALOGY BELOW,

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A good DJ loves music; a bad DJ loves money, sex, publicity, and free drugs. A good DJ knows the dancers are team mates; a bad DJ thinks they’re an audience. A good DJ makes eye contact with the crowd to see what they want; a bad DJ never looks up from those seductive spinning labels. A good DJ floats happily across genre categories; a bad DJ plays safe with tracks from as narrow a scene as possible. A good DJ feels out the crowd and improvises a set to fit; a bad DJ plans it at home first, over cocktails. A good DJ works hard to track down obscure imports and classics; a bad DJ works hard to sleep with people running mailing lists.   At its simplest, the job is about bringing musical greatness together. The hard work comes in building a great music collection, in spending unreasonable amounts of time on hunting for records that will make people go crazy. And then comes those overpaid few hours lording over the decks? That’s just when all this hard work gets delivered. The key talent is programming. Play a great record at exactly the right moment, embrace and guide the ride. These are largely people skill skills. Bad DJs live in their own autistic world. They’ll doggedly play their favorite tunes even if no one in the club agrees with their choices. Good DJs can sense other people’s tastes and value them as much as their own. A great DJ can read a dancefloor and pull out a track that exactly fits the place they’ve reached in the night’s story.   Viva la D.J..