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Status: Available Now!
Type: News
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014, 12:00 AM
Media: Mixmag
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About the person Afrojack:
Art: Music
Genres: Electronic, House, Electro House, Progressive, Progressive House, Club, Dance, Techno, Tech House, Hip House, Hip Hop, Electro, Electronica, Turntablism, Minimal, Minimal House, Minimal Techno |
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Notable Organizations: Mixmag
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| A lot has been said about big room producers faking DJ sets by pre-recording or just pressing play but Afrojack has come out in defence of the perception.
Deadmau5 caused a storm last year, insisting artists, including himself, are "Just a bunch of producers like me who pretend to be DJs", also writing an article on his Tumblr about "EDM world button pushers".
Back in January, Afrojack called out the Canadian during an interview with Billboard, telling him not to "talk about stuff you don't know about" and he's furthered his stance in a recent talk with New York radio station 92.3 NOW.
"I, seriously, have never seen anyone play a pre-recorded set. Most of the comments you see on the internet about pre-recorded mixing are usually 12 year old kids who don’t know shit about DJing.
"Everyone has an edit of an edit of an edit — like a five-minute long edit with three tracks in there. And then you have big shows with laser lights and all this stuff that’s synced. They play [that edit] from a laptop, but it’s only that part. After that they go back to DJing."
He also went on to say how comments left on the internet do not affect him or won't lead him to changing the way he approaches music.
"On the internet you can be whatever you want to be and people believe what they read automatically. I’m not going to let my life, or my love and passion for this music be dependent on what people are writing on blogs or Facebook comments."
Want to read more on the topic? Check out our feature on whether EDM is killing the art of DJing. |
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