This is because you play for a bunch of drugged out robots who need to be spoon-fed beats to releive themselves from the terrible pressure of having to talk to each other and think about the sounds the musicians are making.
You should play for toe-gazing head nodding pointy-headed intellectuals sipping dark beer and discussing what kind of cartridge the DJ's using and whether or not DJ Spooky is more like Descartes or like Aristotle.
Nah, just kidding. There are just different kinds of gigs. Beat mixing is important for some crowds and some gigs, but it's not a necessary element of DJ-ing.
And, like I said before, this goes for AMP as well. It's for watching, not dancing. Unless you have the TV on at home and pumped up real loud and you are in your living room with some freinds flippin out and dancing around, I don't see why people expect it to be beat-matched. They have to color match and pattern-match and theme-match. They even producer-match. A video is not just a beat, and a video show is not a rave.
-CF
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From: Mark Bowen [SMTP:mb@gettins.bche.uic.edu]
I don't know what kind of dance events you go to/spin at, but where I'm
from if there's a non-beatmatched mix and the tunes are real loud it sounds
like a trainwreck and people leave the floor.
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