Are DJs are the only relevant artists left?
They're the tastemakers, the soundscape sculptors, the boundary pushers, and the critical thinkers. No one else comes close.
Kode9 is literally DUDE NICK LAND LMAO: the producer
You're joking right. DJ's don't do shit but put together a playlist and make it seem like they're doing shit on stage.
If anything, I would give those titles to the actual producers.
I've been working at a record store for years and I'm very involved in my local music scene, and I can't name a single DJ, so no.
They're glorified playlist
Anything interesting is either shunned by most of the community because
>muh convenience of a USB drive in the CDJ
and
>muh beatmatch skill
NI has tried so much shit in their DJing that flopped hard because most of the fuckheads using it only want to play a song one after another.
They might throw in a loop on occasion but they won't touch the remix deck or their stem files.
Fuck em.