I laugh about the damn discussion who is a real dj and who not! I read dj - magazines and so also a lot of dj - equipment and dj's! The market leader in the higher class is PIONEER, but also DENON tries to build fantastic CDJ's and mixers! And the Allen & Heath mixers - wow! But also many dj's work live with Traktor or combinate that with CDJ's! The turntables are standing there as a alibi! Ok, you can still buy vinyls, but they are indeed very pricy! And then you mix with vinyls - oh, how great! Tomorrow you come along with some shellac plates, because they are the real plates - haha! I know that for example SVEN VÄTH mixes often with vinyls or Ricardo Villalobos. Some realeses you get only on vinyl! But why this all???
And with the equipment it is so as when a guitarist come along with a Gibson Les Paul, a Fender Stratocaster or a cheaper guitar from an unknown company! But it can be also very good! And so Mixmeister is also good! Again: you can have FOUR WHITE PIONEER CDJ 2000 and for example the ALLEN & HEATH top mixer and be just the same a sh!tty dj! I say: the knowledge of music is deciting, the joy for it and so the song choice, if you play hardcore, house, trance, dubstep, downtempo or anything else!
And so am I a dj? Yes! I work at eye level with Paul van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox or any dj on this planet! And when they ignore me: it's there fault! When you play wonderful guitar, do you mean one day Keith Richards is standing before your door and says: oh! You are the new Les Paul or the new Paul Staney? No! They ignore you, because they don't know you or because they have more money, because the have millions of fans and so on! So it is with your dj - ing, too! Don't listen to that real - dj - shit!
DJ Mojito, DJMojitoSoest