and i make fun as a real DJ, one who has been playing hip hop out/in and around the Bay Area for over 10 years...and no, by playing out i don't mean pimping my dad's record collection at my neighborhood dive bar...
okay here's the article by Daniel Taylor (excerpt)...
"The tide is starting to turn, and everywhere you go, people are telling you that your fixed gear bike is pretty fucking stupid. I know it must hurt, but it must feel great to live out your bike messenger fantasy all up and down the streets of San Francisco. I'll tell you something though: Bike messengers aren't realy all that cool in the first place. It's like saying, 'You kow who I think is really cool? Taxicab drivers. So I'm going to go buy a Crown Victoria and paint it yellow with all kinds of totally sweet checkerboard patterns all over it and drive around like a total badass because I'm like a taxicab driver, only more ironic and with more expensive jeans on.' Does that sound dumb? maybe that's cause it is.
You know what else is weak? The idea that some dude who has enough cheddar to buy a couple of turntables, a mixer and a bunch of shitty records suddenly earns the title of DJ. Just because you went to some bar one time and thought it was super tight when some guy played Keak Da Sneak and then TOTALLY PLAYED HALL AND OATES RIGHT AFTER, doesn't mean that you should ruin Tuesday nights at the DoucheFist Lounge, fucking up my game by showing how eclectic the record collection you bought last week at Amoeba is. Used to be people who were DJ Whatever, were either dudes who could scratch or dudes on the radio. I mean, maybe sometimes a person would get an honarary DJ title, like if they were showing up somewhere with a DJ on the bill. The DJ prefix used to be worth its weight in technical prowess, but nowadays it's like going to the doctor and seeing some University of Phoenix shit hanging on the wall. Maybe i'm just old fashioned, but if the flyer says DJ on it, i'm expecting some good shit, not just some dude fucking up the 80's like his name was Gorbachev."
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Truer words have never been said. Sadly, Houston is filled with those DJs. You can never trust people from New Jersey (unless they're named August Kleinzahler). Oh yeah, that's something that could have been added to this text: DJs claiming they were big in NYC when they just played in a small dive bar in Trenton or Hoboken, NJ.
Does Daniel Taylor right regularly somewhere?
Although he doesn't sound rich, and although his is not the most powerful push to experimental anarchy I've ever heard, I still like it.
i think he blogs pretty regularly.
this piece appeared in a free SF paper called Mesh.
but google him and find his blog.
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