Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A Challenge perhaps?

Okay, so this one came across my desk last week, and it seemed interesting enough to talk about...

So I'm in the club last week to show some love to a few friends that were spinning, of which one of the shows was verrry interesting...

One of my good friends DJ Flave (Seattle) was hosting a dj challenge of sorts at one of the clubs.  The event was called DJ Flave vs Seattle and comprised of Flave vs 5 other local djs in a game of keep up.  Basically this was a chance for Flave to show off that he could handle spinning several different genres just as well as any of the other "mainstays" in that genre locally.  In all honesty, it was a basic tag team of Flave w/5 other djs.  Not much of a challenge, but still pretty entertaining to watch.

Well, while I was soaking up the show and trying to steal as many showmanship pointers as I could from Flave, a few of my other dj buds that were in the audience approached me and asked me why I wasn't involved in the show.  My reply was simple-I had no idea until I got to the club that the show was even going on...but it did make me think-what if I was involved...even more so, what if it was me in the challenge position instead of Flave?  What would a Dj Dev-j vs ____ look like?  Could I handle it?  As I continued to watch the show, I really got to thinking-what if I did issue a challenge to the other djs around town?  Who would step up?  Would it really be a challenge, or just another "tag" opp?  The more I think about it the more I wonder about it on a larger scale...what if I could challenge say...Mark Farina or Derrick Carter?

Now this is a question that only becomes important when thinking about my future as a dj.  Do I have what it takes to spin along with and possibly take down the current greats in my field?  Shit, it would at least make a good show.  What do you all think?  Who would you put up against me?

-Mr. DJ

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