Prestigious international DJing competition holders, DMC, today announced the addition of a “Pre-Recorded Set” category for next year’s competition.
According to a DMC spokesperson, Anthony Queen, the pre-recorded section is designed to measure a DJ’s “on-stage presence, persona and antics” as opposed to actual DJing skill or talent.
“A lot of people think that there’s no talent involved in press play DJing,” claimed Mr. Queen. “But that’s just simply not true and we hope with the pre-recorded section we can set out to prove that.”
Defending pre-recorded DJs, Mr. Queen said, “There’s a lot of thought and effort gone into pressing play. The potential for disaster, and also for innovation is immense. What if you accidentally hit stop or forget to use your finger?”
“There’s a lot of variation involved, most DJs go for the simple index finger button press, but some have been known to be wildly innovative by using the thumb, or even the elbow.”
Mr. Queen claimed that it’s not “just variations of pressing play” that will be being judged by a panel of experts, rumoured to consist of Steve Aoki and Simon Cowell, but that performers will be judged on a variety of attributes such as how many items of clothing bought in H&M they are wearing, what hand gestures they utilise or how fashionable their facial hair is.
“They’ll also be judging the performers stage presence, how they work the stage by utilising every bit of floor space for jumping around like an excited competition winner, what kind of light show they might use. Things like that,” explained Mr. Queen. “You might think those things aren’t difficult to master, but you’d be wrong. The DJ might slip, the CD could skip or you could become bored by your own existence halfway through the charade.”
“These are the very real challenges that a pre-recorded DJ must contend with,” he added.
“This is where the real DJing talent is,” concluded Mr. Queen. “I mean, the regular championship is just a bunch of extremely talented people who painstakingly perfect their craft over years and years of hard work, sacrifice, passion and dedication.”
“But none of that lives up to the difficulty of being a posing peacock whose job it is to adorn some musical equipment while providing something for dancing and hollering cretins to look at.”
