Laptop DJ – you are soooo boring.

It’s fine… I guess… for them.

I hate the 20 minute setup. It’s lame.

But it’s cool… basically it is just playlisting.. that’s fine. But there are a couple things here that are important to go over:

1) Searching for two years for an album, and the joy of actually getting to play it live, and that first time the needle hits the record and the headphones, monitor and club speakers resonate with a job well done (Seasons and Fusa Riot from Bobby Hughes Experience was one of those… it was just EPIC).

2) The madness that is a good groove ripping records out of their sleeves, looking through everything, and just getting that adrenalin rush of loving all the waxy tracks.

3) Laptops are so boring. SOOO boring. And not just to watch…. (which it is, and it’s so jaw droppingly dull)… but to play. Using a laptop out live is the most boring experience I have ever had in my entire life.

A laptop isn’t why I DJ… I DJ because it’s fun, it’s an experience, and it’s a culture and community. Being a scarf wearing hipster that can afford a glowing apple insignia just highlights that you are a tool.

ZERO offense, but that’s just how it works in this world…

I respect that some DJ’s use it, I respect that some DJ’s will never have back problems, EVER.

I just don’t respect it because it’s hollow, boring, and pretentious when you *AREN’T* a pro DJ using laptops. It’s like bartenders that go to bartending school, and haven’t done any of the real work. Thinking you can take a shortcut doesn’t actually make you a DJ. It just means you are a guy that could afford a laptop.

But I got nothing against new technology… digitizing my 2000 or so CD’s has made them infinitely more accessible than when I was rifling through a wall of CD’s. It’s fairly amazing. But even using a CDJ is more interesting.

I dunno… I am over the argument, I think.

I have my personal belief, my DJ friends have their own personal beliefs…. technology is awesome…

But even the DJ’s that use laptops typically agree most of the laptop using DJ’s are total morons.

I think the bartender analogy is incredibly apt…. there are those that work hard, grind it out, work their way up… and then there are those that think you can take a shortcut.

It’s a matter of perception… and opinion.