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Hahah - i was reading it and i was thinking "was he listening to me". I had just gotten the SkeeLo video and hadn't played it in hella long. But i def didn't play motownphilly or humpty dance. its hard to take chances with OFFICIAL videos. But you can ghetto rig any song that has some flavor.

He does raise good points but also, he can't have that HiGH of expectations going into a local bar.

i guess you gotta listen to advise like this froma guy who has a track about eating cereal in the morning on his album LOL

LOL steve dub

I think it's a little unfair to put another DJ on public blast like that without knowing the conditions.

well he didn't name names or places - and yea, i do think it's unfair to single out one guy when it's pretty much the entire industry that needs work right now from top to bottom.

That being said tho, shit like this needs to be heard and people are going to listen a lot more to someone like z-trip...

I think I would want to know conditions. Local bar. yeah, maybe the dj has to play it safe. To me, I didn't know I wish was a power recurrent, it doesn't seem over played to me. I suspect had he had to pay big bucks like people pay when they see him, he'd be right to have higher expectations...around here, if you walk into a local bar, you'd be surprised if you could hear half way decent mixing...most djs in these bars are treated no better then a jukebox and usually paid the same

btw- i am more critical of bigger name djs then someone just trying to learn. I hear people do the opposite. Bash the local club or bar dj just trying to get it all straight. Oh that wedding dj sucked, etc, he couldn't mix. You get what you pay for.

i think in a round-about way that's partially why he's so pissed. The current dumbing down of the scene in general. Likely it was a bunch of pent-up frustration about the scene being focused on this poor dude behind the decks.

Wasn't he talking about Skeelo's set?

no, he was talking about the dj dropping skeelo

Ahhh.LOL.

im the guy in town that likes to play crazy shit that makes people go "shit... i had not heard that EVER at a club!". I'll give u a perfect example. I dropped a song witch the Price is right use for back ground. I'ts called "Cue 86". people thought that was the coolest thing ever. I have made a name for myself in my town by doing this!

I AGREE 1000% with z-trip

First off, Z-Trip is one of my fav DJs out there, and I consider him to be probably THE best skilled DJ out there due to his versatility. Having said that....

I was pretty disappointed in reading that. A few points that were already made here and on Twitter:

1. He's playing videos. Anyone who has done videos will tell you its not as easy as dropping some obscure song. Videos are hard to come by, and even harder to make on your own.

2. Not everyone is Z-Trip, and can't get away with having their set full of songs that have never been popular to an average crowd at a club (21-30 year olds). As much as I love DJing, this is a business for 99.9% of working club DJs and some of them rely on this income to feed their families.

3. I'd rather hear all the songs he bitched about over anything being played on the radio. Any day. Any place. Any time.

4. I wish he would've gone up and introduced himself to the DJ. Not to brag about himself or anything, but to find out more about the guy and may be giving him a few pointers instead of putting him on blast.

5. I'm gonna play all 3 of those songs tonight at my gig where I normally play at least an hour worth of songs nobody besides me has every heard of...LOL.

lol...i played a ragein commercialremix into the sesame street theme, then beat juggled the counts countdown, all video mixed.....crowd didnt appreciate it


Von, Von Fired DJ

he said he wasnt complaining about the songs but the order in which they were played, well some soungs sound good in order and your average crowd isnt traveling the country listening to every dj there is to hear, i know hes got a point but him sayin it in that situatiion is like micheal jordan going to a 4-10 rec league game and twittering how he wants his 2 dollar entrance fee back becaust eh little fuckers cant dunk and miss layups

I don't think you guys are actually reading the statements. Of course he's not saying play a full set of obscure songs and get yourself fired.

He's talking about not only sticking with only the tried and true.

And yes, as a touring, headlining DJ that regularly plays all over the world to anywhere from 200 - 50,000 people, he's going to have a bit of a skewed perspective of it but doesn't mean DJs could be a little more original or creative in their sets.

There was a time people looked to the DJ to introduce them to the tunes rather than only expecting the DJ to play what was on the radio only...

I agree to an extent, but I donno why he even cares...leave the bitter soundin bickering to the DJ's who spend all day online complaining, or to the bedroom DJ's that swear they should be at the club and try to find ANYTHING they can to tear down other DJ's.

Some DJ's do play it too safe, and it can get hella boring and repetitive. Some DJ's are smart enough to know when to play it safe, and when they can take risks. When I am feelin myself and know that the crowd is with me, I might take hella risks that won't even be seen as "risks" at that point because I know what will work. But with those crowds where they ONLY wanna hear certain songs, or where the promoter/owner is almost forcing your playlist, it's like fuckit....I just can't do me tonight.

yep...

Soo, its just not the same with video. Artists and labels don't make videos for songs that had 25 downloads on itunes or beatports. And you can't find a video for that 1984 B-side gem that's in your huge vinyl library. It would take someone 3-4 hours minimum to make a video for a 2-minute song. How many average DJs (video or not) out there are going to be able to do it.

I'm not defending the guy for not being original, but I'm disappointed that Z-trip put someone on blast like that...with or without names.

^^^^^ And the above point would have impressed me the most.

It's always easy to lie in the weeds and be a critic. Maybe it would have been humbling for both if Z-Trip would have dropped some knowledge and chatted with the young DJ.

That's like Bill Russell blogging after the Finals about "Centers" in the NBA and how they are all lacking fundamentals, leadership, & focus.

In my Bill Russell voice:

"I aint naming names Mr. Steven, but watching a certain Center play up close in the finals was very sad. He couldn't pass out of the Double Team, he couldn't read where the double team was coming from, he has no moves while facing the basket, he was limited to 3 dunks the entire series, he brings the ball down too low to gather himself...therefore getting stripped by Guards, he missed free throws in the clutch, and his self proclaimed dominance was non-existent against the Lakers"

That would of been great if he'd gone up and said hi, the Dj might of upped his game, I've been at clubs thinkin the Dj is terrible wishing i was behind the decks....but as Djs we have a higher standard (especially Z-Trip) and the people dancing are oblivious, they just dance........If i know there's a well know Dj in the house it makes me play better lol.

Part of me agrees and part of me is like who cares. Some venues have set expectations or even rules as to what they want out of the DJ. Maybe this is one of them. Maybe the DJ was told to play familiar songs for the crowd, don't stray to the unknown, whatever. Maybe the DJ knows his crowd and what they will or will not tolerate. A lot of us can try to armchair quarterback all these scenarios but guess what, if you were in the same situation you could probably just as easily fail by "Keeping It Real" to the DJ Code and trying to break new music. Let's also factor in the variable that a lot of the music that DJs pick as probable hits never go anywhere. Just because we think it's off the hook everyone else has to love it? Lastly, it's only music at a bar. It's not dismantling a bomb where peoples live depend on it. If at the end of the night people left and had a good time then you did your job.

MY opinion on the subject. (please take with many many grains of salt.)

As a club/ bar/ lounge dj it is our job to
1. make people have a good time (by letting them hear what they want)
2. keep them there as long as possible
3. essentially play whats on the radio, classics that befit the situation in a bar classic rock like bon jovi or lik respect etc. <here is where original concept of mashups/ redrums came>

As a mixtape/ radio dj job is to
1. break new music
2. take the chances z trip is talking about.

U see the way i look at it it all falls back to radio and the djs station music directors need to correct the situation.

2.

where the f*ck did the extra 2 come from?

it's always better looking down from the top

yeah hes right but maybe the guy played really interesting shit on the warm-up set - thats what i do. it also depends on the crowd. some places i dj at, if i played two or three songs in a row the people didnt immediately recognize it would clear the whole floor. everyone would walk off.

BUT if your crowd is cool you should play some interesting stuff. maybe the crowd was cooler than the DJ. in that case the dj is in the wrong.

also skeelo and rob base isnt the most obvious shit. no one plays skeelo in ny. hes playing old school. if it hadve been like britney, lady gaga, billie jean, journey, that wouldve been different.

What's funny is all you guys screaming "but it's so hard to play it safe" "I need to know the conditions" "that's easy for him to say"

baaaahhh baaaahhh. Follow the herd

I think he's just voicing frustration with the scene in general.. Spoon feeding sucks.. Some dj's thrive on catering to the crowd's every want and desire, and feel it is their duty to provide them with every last iTunes hit, regardless of how shitty, with the sense of duty not unlike that of an over-zealous mall cop. They really believe they are doing their job, and that's fine. It's not the least bit creative, but it's fine. People of the 'catering to the crowd' school of thought won't understand the dj's who consider what they do an "art" and vice versa. Different minded people. I completely understand Z-Trip's frustration, considering how long he's been at it.

I can only really speak for the scene in NY, but people here expect to hear crap they know all night. Just the way it is. Also, there are so many mixed clubs where every nationality wants to hear "their" music. You basically have to take your entire library and throw it in a blender to keep everyone happy. Doing that creatively is an art in itself.

Is it just me, or are there not any genre-specific clubs anymore, it seems all all clubs have this same situation. If clubs were more genre-specific(and yes iknow there are exceptions) we'd be able to break more music, and drop those obscure tracks b/c the crowd would appreciate it

there are still genre-specific nights, but I doubt there are too many clubs left that will cater to a specific genre anymore - I just don't think there's a market for a lot of these clubs. The most you might see are clubs that cater specifically to electronic music (there's still a handful here in my city) but those are also few and far between. I do find that there are a couple of clubs in every city that steadfastly refuse to cater to the top40 mainstream scene and remain underground. Wish there were more tho...

There are def. some genre specific clubs in NYC. Latin Quarter is one off the top of my head, where I personally wish I could refer all my reggaeton requests.. There are venues that just play house, though few and far between. The old schoolers will remember places like Filter 14 and it's many clones (basically dive bars with ridiculous sound systems).. Cielo is really the only one I hit with any frequency, and it's rare at that. As far as what would be deemed "urban" -- that's hard to say, one of my fondest memories of a real urban scene moment was stumbling into a little dive in SoHo in '99 or so and watching the crowd react to ODB's "Got Your Money.." -- I'd never heard the track before, and never seen a crowd react like that.. I just remember feeling the floor shake and hearing everyone sing along. Ah.. bottle service.. top 40.. The Hills... lil wayne... what else can we blame for everything sucking so hard?

the goose^

blame it on the au-au-au-au-au-auto-tune...

I knew electronic/house clubs would be brought up....

but what about genre-specific nights?

In NY? Sure.. With a promoter you can throw a freakin calypso night if you wanted to..

i know that, but it seems to me that, in the past, there were more genre-specifc parties @ better venues for my liking, and it wasn't necessarily genre-specific, just better quality in the music and the crowd

I know what you mean man, and I left the majority of that stuff in the past.. I just stopped looking. I think there's a definite correlation between the quality of music being released (the last 3 - 4 years have been insufferably sucky in my humble opinion) and the parties that are going on. NY has become Disneyland... as if Times Square just jizzed itself all over Manhattan.. dunno about the scene in the outer boroughs.

I remember back in the days I would hear every type of genre in one night at LQ. Is it not like that anymore? I haven't been there in ages.

I play nothing but tribal(after 2am) house(early) and top remixes(prime time) at my sat night gig. The thing is that the whole night is high tempo! nothing less than 123 bmp. No Hip Hop(just dance remixes)!. in this night i could play some new dance records that will only work on this night!! all out dance crowd that expects to dance till about 4am. I can brake records left and right given the type of the crowd. It also helps that its fucking slammed with people that go there because its one of the very few places in town that plays no Hip Hop! That crowd only comes out to this place and only on sat night!! by far, the most fun i have all week long is playing at this spot from 2am to 4pm. People are already open minded, they are drunk, and who knows what other shit they are on!! so with about 800 people all dancing to some dark tribal house, the place dark as fuck!!! it makes for a great experience for a dj to play whatever he/she wants and people are going to eat it up!!!!

The rest of my week i play top 40 and hip hop which is still cool and pays the bills but no comparison to my sat nights!!!

My ex gf bartended there for years and said it was always salsa, meringue, etc etc etc (I don't personally have a problem with latin tunes btw, I just don't want to spin them, the same way I don't expect someone of latin descent to have an affinity for Billy Joel. I will however confess that I absolutely loathe reggaeton)

everytime you see ztrip
request rob base & skeelo
LOL

At his level, I'm guessing Z-trip doesn't take many requests...

RT:

tho i see where z-trip is coming from, he needs to realize not everyone is a famous dj like him and has creative freedom, in fact, people come to hear his creative freedom.

but back down on planet earf, most normal dj's are stuck playin' what they gotta play, which is mostly music everybody knows, to keep from clearing dancefloors, and losing your job.

i try to break new songs (i do it mostly earlier in the night), but it's tough to do it and not lose people. people only want to hear stuff they know (old and new). i typically have to wait until a song hits our local radio b4 i can really start playing it around here.

so the moral of my story is, i couldn't care less if z-trip, or any dj was up in the club, hating on me on his twitter... kinda lame to just be sitting there doing that really. if you don't like it, just leave. until i get on where everyone comes to a spot to hear me and what i like strictly, i gotta play whatever i gotta play to get my paper at the end of the night, period.

Ever notice how easy it is to tell someone what they should be doing?

My favorite is when people tell me what I should be doing with my money... invest it here... there... whatever...

If you want to start a musical revolution with your realness... do it on your own dime...

Do it in someone elses bar/club... clear the floor or get the patrons to start complaining and see what happens. I am assuming that the person PAYING your ass explained what music they expect and layed out your boundries.

Your gonna complain about a random DJ playing a random bar? What do you expect? Do you think a bar is place you go to seek new groundbreaking sounds? Get over yourself...

Now if I went to a bar/club/party where music is expected to be pushed to the limit... then maybe I could see where he is coming from.

As an experiment what I would have liked to see is Z-Trip go into the booth and unannounced play an hour set of his kind of music without the crowd knowing theres a world famous DJ in there spinning. If this is the average top 40 type local dive bar i can almost garentee the dancefloor would have been cleared a line formed at the door to reqest\bitch and several local sluts running to the owner bar manager to turn in petitions to have the DJ fired

best post

id like to thank the academey for this award, my mom, dad, and all the crowds of close minded musical sheep who dont hesitate to let me know how much they dont appreciate what im playing....THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

DPR250R & Dj-M.Bezzle have the best posts countering Mr Trip.

BUT in all fairness.... I'm not so sure Z Trip got to where he's currently at by playing Rihanna, Britney and T.I. So he kinda has a little room to pop some bulls**t from time to time if he wants. I think he's a great tablist (never seen him at a club gig). =P

But I'm with you guys....

I bet your right...

Trying to build a name for yourself at someone elses place through pushing your music and style on random bar patrons is risky IMO. Risky if you depend on your DJ gig as steady income. If your are trying to piss off potential employers and patrons... go for it.. and make sure you send me a flyer!!!

If a manager gives you the freedom to develop your own night... you better at least try to start a new scene!!!

It's been my experience that they really only care about $ though and usually give you a short leash...

I would say he would rock the shit out the joint.

You people are idiots.

the man is like a 25-year veteran behind the decks. you think he got to where he was by not being able to read a crowd and adjusting?

it's not like playing top 40 to a bunch of sheep is difficult.

Calm down dj_soo.

People are just conversating.

You'd be suprised at how many 'DJs' can screw that up.

It's definitely harder keeping a fickle top40 crowd happy but i'd say it's more challenging playing to that kind of crowd and actually breaking some new music than it is strictly playing what the crowd wants. The hard part is in the balancing act between playing the tried and true and the new shit.

Umm... and if he "adjusted" to start playing the top 40 stuff the "average" people in the "average" crowd want then wouldn't become the exact DJ he/you is/are complaining about?

We are not talking about a crowd of trendsetters like yourself... we are talking about your average Friday night gig.

I will take you calling me an idiot as a compliment :)

a great dj would know how to cater that crowd while still taking chances (and knowing when to take those chances) instead of being too terrified to stray from the top 100 hits from the last 20 years all night long.

I have seen a lot of supposed great DJs and they have all kept it pretty safe in club settings. Those that didn't had no problem emptying out the crowd early.

incidentally, i'm not saying that i'm a "great" dj - but I've seen great ones (not "name" guys) and they can cater to any type of crowd (top40 donkeys included) and can still rock it without playing it safe all night long.

again, there's a difference between playing only underground tracks or only the top40 tracks.

The top guys know how to figure out how to balance between both.

On his next tweet Z-Trip will tell you how much he didnt like the food he ate, and that the chef should have taken more chances.


You guys really put a lot into what these big name DJ's say. Everytime one of these "superstars" says something on their page or anywhere online, theres a 1000 post thread the next day picking apart what the guy said, and why he said it.

Then theres an argument about how he shouldnt have said it, hes a douche, no hes not, yes he is, he sucks as a dj, hes the best dj ever you suck, no you suck, i been spinnin for 30 years you suck more.

Buncha friggin washwomen in here.



lol


(ok back to my shitty job)

Well... by saying "all of you people are idiots" gives the impression that you know something we don't.

We are all just BS'ing.... shooting opinions.

Who knows who is right and wrong??

All I know is Monday Morning Quarterbacks ain't cool....

So... playing the same top 40 tracks but arranging them differently makes you not a sheep DJ?

What is the big deal with this thread? Ok so a "name brand DJ" goes to a small bar and hears a kid doing what more than likely the "name brand DJ" started out doing. Now since the "name brand DJ" is the "shit" he is gonna bash a kid for trying to make a dollar. Yay.... grow up Z you've been in this game for a long time... You're great and greatness comes from time and practice. Let the kid practice and make some gas money. If you hate the mix that bad find another bar....


This is why I do not follow a lot of recognized Dj's on twitter...... I'll stick with the guys that are still out there dealing with bar owners and drunken morons who want to hear apple bottom jeans as if there were such a song.

I'm just of the opinion that it totally sucks that so many djs just plays the same shit night-in -night-out regardless of how they mix it.

Especially when people have tens of thousands of songs at their disposal nowadays...

i'm not saying it's "wrong" I'm just saying I don't like it.

Why did you take what took me 19 paragraphs to say and turn it in to 2 sentences???

In other words... that is exactly how i feel....

How come he doesn't critique AM? Bad for bidnis I presume...

amen.

And believe me I am no one special... if I break anything in the bar I spin at the owner is UP MY ASS.... and it is the only income I have so it's whatever he wants and what he wants sucks. I so wish some asshole would come in and tell me how bad I suck or talk about me behind my back! I would thank them for paying that much attention to what i was doing. I bet there are teachers and professors out there that wish they could hold someone's attention like that!

The best skilled DJ?? I don't think so.


Yup. It's a lot of work, unless you user your own clips.


True.

Well said, Rebelguy.

nik 39 i agree with u on the above two posts, this is extremely infrequent and some what odd... I might go play lotto, or take an AC trip bc this ish doesnt happpen too often lmao

I watched a z trip set on youtube at some venue and let me tell u if he worked any where i worked song selection wise, he would be in trouble...

Now it doesnt say that i didnt think he had some dope mixing n creativity i am simply speaking on song selection on the 4 or 5 videos i saw.

Just before the fan boys start crying - I am not saying he is bad or anything close to being bad, but for me he is not the best skilled DJ (even when it comes to variety).

Combination or programming, combining different genres that very few are able to do. Decent turntablism skills. Really good on the mic...only other "big name" DJ who does as well on the mic, IMO, is Premo. Pretty solid producer/remixer too...I'd say that doesn't matter, but he's now using his MPC live in his sets. Kinda like Enferno's LRP, but kind of a different show overall.

And you missed the most important part, Nik.

I was alos saying... *I* don't think so :)

Key word.


There's a big difference between DJs I want to LISTEN to and DJs I want to ROCK OUT to. With Z-Trip, AM, and some of the other big name guys....their stuff is so different than the norm that I'd rather just sit and listen to it to hear what's really going on. If I'm looking to get drunk and party, I'm listening to something by Panic City or Bandoma (among others on here).

lol....hey guys i heard revolutions in town spinning tonight, lets all go down to the front row and stand around and stare at him while hes scratches all night....SCRATCH NERDZZZZZZ

"Seriuosly what the hell happened out there people? Weren't DJ's supposed 2 take chances? We have the power! SO MANY SHEEP, so few superheros"


Hypocrite...yeah your really taking chances with G thang, and Usher Yeah



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Z-Trip is everything a DJ could ever be... you cannot speak ill of him on this forum.

He is allowed to bag on another DJ for doing the same thin he does be cause he is he.

Get it?

Awesome.

I say the guy should stop cursin on the freaking microphone... :D

It's like everytime he's on the mic he's gotta say 'Goddammit' or 'fuck'

Haha...is that not the worst go-go dancer you've ever seen in a club? LOL

no shit dude. every video i see of z-trip he's playing stuff like led zeppeliln, ac/dc, dr.dre, etc....as in NOTHING new or inventive at all. maybe i just haven't seen the right youtube clips??

Come on, the guy has an ACTUAL ring of fire going in the middle of Ring of Fire... how dope is that?

This is my exact feelings too...

Might be the venues he's playing--when he played in Portland I had never heard the majority of music he dropped. Vegas might be forcing him to play more accessibly. Also, could be the bias from what people chose to capture and upload.

/fanboy

I remember my first beer.

this is my z-trip impression on the mic "oh fuckin shit...god damn pussy ....yeah lets, muthfafuckin do this shit the fuck...shit..oh assfucker.....yeah....ugh hu....cock O son of a dick...yeah" Im sorry dude is STILL playin it safe.

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Stop Cursing soo much on the mic and I guess your impression of playing it safe is only when your on the other side tweeting it.... Also whats up with your hand, you can only scratch with one hand? The crowd looks dead

I was gonna say the same thing.

Also, I take this back...after seeing that clip.

This clip that Ruckspin posted - www.facebook.com

The guy is a beast on the decks, one handed scratching ability or not. He started out like we did playing house parties and playing for horrible crowds too, I'm sure. He just took it to the next level by being good enough to get the crowd to go along with him. Can't hate him for that!

Are you sure about that, I know he started out with Bombshelter DJs and got famous releasign albums...i think hes almost always been a performance DJ

You don't just start out playing for big ass crowds doing stuff more creative than any working DJ out there. That video of him playing on a radio show earlier this year, he talks a little about how he got started.

how many residencies has A-trak held?

www.kcrw.com 21:30 in.

Lol, I don't know if I'd throw him under the bus quite like that! But he just comes from a different school of DJ'ing. I wouldn't lump him and Z-Trip into the same category. One is a turntablist, one is a party rocker.

For those that don't know... and think they do...

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That's what's up... Call me a fan boy if it makes you feel better. But he's the truth and if you're hating then maybe some of this is what's lacking in your set...

Then again... just my $0.025 LOL

I found Z-Trips live set to be busy technically but lacking funk in the music selection.

anyone can sit back and pick out whats not perfect.

dj ztrip is the best all around dj in the world.well rounded in every part!

playing it safe means doing what everyone else is doing.not song selection. lol!

he mixes with perfection with different genres.like a live producer on the spot.alot of djs have better skills on the tables but not as clean and versatile.for example u have atrak super dope dj that can scratch,mix and do tricks but he can not fuze the music together as creative as ztrip.dj am was really good at similar stuff as ztrip,but not as clean.regardless all these djs i mentioned are super dope djs with different styles............

Regarding the clips from Rain... I've heard stuff from Z-Trip that's on point and fun and other stuff that's pretty pedestrian.. I mean, Ring of Fire is a 15 minutes till close kinda song, not something I'd play in the middle of the night. I've seen clips by DJ Premier, AM, Jazzy Jeff, etc. at Rain, and they all seem to have the same thing in common... older classics being played, hired dancers looking completely lost, a disconnected crowd.. maybe it's just Vegas, and the fact that everyone there isn't actually from there. We have that problem in New York. You have nights where no one is on the same damn page. It's incredibly difficult to dj for people that are musically closed minded, and only want to hear their thing... I have bitches asking for Miley Cyrus OR some Soca... then the girl behind her wants Ace of Base and Empre State... next some dude walks up and wants to hear R&B during peak hour... It's maddening.. It just makes you not want to dj anymore. I'm only speculating, but I figure it's the same rules that apply in New York apply in Vegas... keep it short because they have absolutely no attention span, play a little bit of everything, and keep it familiar. Fucking facebook generation... no music they can call their own... and there's no pleasing them either..

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Am I the only one who felt this set contradicted his point?
Not that hot IMO.

I'm more of a Jazzy Jeff cat.

Exactly. Don't blame Z-Trip or any of the other heavies for playing it safe. Blame the idiot crowds.

all djs have to play hits sometimes.its about how and when u play them that matters.

i know alot of djs that play the same 100 songs.thats playing it safe!

a dj that does homework before gigs is the most important of performing.( along with skills )

EXACTLY!!! Where is the "revolution" in usher yeah and know dr dre tracks? Play some fucking Morrisey if you wanna make a revolution and mix it up

I have to agree - when Z-Trip was in New Zealand earlier this year he picked our brains about the hot NZ tracks which would excite the crowd. When he played at the Big Day Out the next day he mixed in a dope remix he must've made in his hotel the night before of one of our biggest acts here. I thought that was pretty cool

since when has vegas ever tolerated revolutionary music?

the definition of revolition is going against the norm\whats tolerated....if it was tolerated it wouldnt be revolutionary

norm =/= what's tolerated

it's all a matter of who is doing the tolerating

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Im saying..... Morrissey be making people go wild!

then again, Im the one who almost got shot for playing RAMONES at a HYPHY club. LOL

lmao @audio1

At my spot people go wild with Morrissey.

Im good at managing to piss people off... Nothing like a big fuck you to a rowdy crowd than playing Take On Me by A-Ha. LOL

I'm a Z-trip fan.
Uneasy Listening by him and DJ P was mindblowing to say the very least.
Making blanket statements are empty without knowing the history. you can't watch a youtube video and make a decision.

Z-trip is a beast. Yes he has to play some mainstream shit for his Vegas shows, but watching a youtube video doesn't say shit. Who the fuck drops Lady Saw in Vegas? I've heard a lot of djs in vegas... and Z-trip was the only one. I've also heard him drop TOOL for the love of god.

He might not be technically the best DJ. But his legendary status was made through his DJ skills. Ztrip was playing all of that Rock bullshit when it wasn't popular.

ztrip = original pioneer of what he does and what he does is creative.and the he is the best all around dj.i been saying this for years.

he deserves everything that he wins and everything that he gets.