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Originally Posted by
BIP Roberts 
Phil, or others - can you fill me in on what you mean when you say booking "top talent" DJs?
Do you mean, actual top tier DJs doing DJ things? Or, do you mean new-wave dudes who use Serato, scream gibberish, and play hip pop?
B/C, as far as I know - you don't have to drop major coin to see truly talented DJs, if we're talking about the same thing when we say that word.
HA! Talent is an industry term I guess.
I wasn't even really talking Hip Hop. All the bigger global DJs seem to be playing LIV when they do Miami. deadmau5, Kaskade, Avicii, Alesso, Calvin Harris etc.
Oddly enough, even though I'm involved in this genre for work, it's not really my thing. But there is definitely a passionate audience for these guys, so if you dig these guys, and they're playing LIV, then I can understand paying a bit of a premium to get in. Besides that, it's just a club with a lot of extra *******.
To answer your question though, when I used the word talent, it was not really in reference to the DJ's actual ability to DJ. No disrespect to the guys I mentioned, but they really make their names as producers (guys who actually make records) than they do for their ability to blend, scratch etc. IMO. But they do tend to know how to work a crowd. It's all relative/subjective I suppose.
Edited by illphillip - 11/29/12 at 1:57pm