Two months after having to vote who would win the Budweiser Producer/DJ Of The Year Award, giving one talented and very lucky peep the chance to strut his musical stuff, the winner has been announced: Jono Fernandez!
Two months after having to vote who would win the Budweiser People’s Choice Award, giving one talented and very lucky act the chance to strut their musical stuff, the winner has been announced: Thankyou City!
Other than 17 year old sticker artists and people who slurp ‘Go-gurt’ out of used enema bags, is there anyone as perennially cool as a DJ? These guys have somehow managed to monetise a job that used to be done for free by drunken uncles at weddings, turning an artform that started as a unique mode of expression for African-Americans in the urban jungle into a tool for meeting barely legals at schoolies and embarking on wild ‘finerbangathons’ that us non-DJs can only dream about.
After having numerous DJs plug their music to the folks at Budweiser to try and become the biggest thing in DJing since David Guetta, now’s your chance to decide who’s the best of the best. We all had to vote for Kevin Rudd or Tony Abbott earlier this year, so why not vote for something you actually care about? The future of party music is at stake here!
Clubs and bars offer its patrons an array of gratifying and fun opportunities. There’s DJs, dance floors, bars, big speakers and what club reviewers like to call ambiance. They are all complimented with a cheeky drink or ten, but not necessarily in the outside area.
What is a night out without a sexy DJ with an intense, electrified beat? It would be pretty boring, I thought about the difference between a DJ and a sound system that has a playlist and just plays the top 40 music over and over. It becomes pretty lame.
Break ups are absolute hell and are even worse when you see your ex at the nightclub your friends took you to in order to get your mind off them to begin with. (Note: you probably shouldn’t go to nightclubs you and your ex frequented anymore just in case).
The battle between music trends is one which isn’t new to bars and nightclubs, and whether it be a live band or doofing DJ who tickles your fancy- it seems everyone has an opinion when it comes to nightlife music. So if we settle the subjectivity and instead set a scoreboard, which form truly wins?
The intoxicated belief that your song request will change the world, and the frustration that comes with the DJ’s refusal to turn that vinyl your way, is perhaps the largest dilemma within the nightlife scene. It’s time to take control of the deck and get that embarrasing-track-which-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time played once and for all.