Looks like a great article -- skimmed it, will read in depth later, still unpacking from vacation ... but as it is focused on live events and doesn't appear to mention radio, it's out of my area really and more for you guys who perform in person in public. I will say I really agreed with this sentiment, though:

It does a great disservice to the DJ and our craft if you boil what we do down to technology – or even just to mixing. To say a DJ is only as good as what occurs in the minutes he blends the tracks together is basically saying that we are some kind of flesh jukebox. When you pay to hear a DJ you are buying a ticket to knowledge. Automated mixing’s audio-Switzerland of neutrality between two awful tracks is not what makes me spray sick out of my ears, it’s the two hours of lazily chosen disco-snoring that truly pains. It’s not the L-plate and stabiliser wheels for learner DJs, like sync, that are killing us. Getting angry at the sync button is like throat-punching a Teletubbie for not speaking properly. No, it’s much deeper – and sadly more worrying.

“DJs no longer bother to ‘dig’ for their music, preferring to play the obvious hits”

Tons of good insight, thx for the link!

MmeFLY