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Had a long rap session with an valued peer. The kind of catch-up you have when one of your peoples passes away. Discussed the generational changes in DJing. By both of our experience, a huge difference is that we grew up with dancing as a primary context for socializing.
Our standard for spinning is how you create a musical narrative for a room full of dancers. It seems a generational shift happened where dancing dropped or altogether disappeared in social importance, so DJing concepts shifted accordingly.
When I check in on younger DJs and their events, I often find a troubling lack of basics like phrasing and pacing. But outside of those shortcomings, am I struggling to follow their narrative because there isn& #39;t one, or because it& #39;s not tuned to a dancer& #39;s frequency?
Song sequencing that& #39;s totally odd to me may make sense to folks who have no experience with social dancing as a formative experience and have been raised with fractured yet constant media consumption. Younger DJs play for digital native audiences with fractured attention spans.
These sets often sound like a streaming algorithm set to & #39;random& #39;. But if that& #39;s how audiences are consuming their music as well... 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏽‍♂️" title="Man shrugging (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Man shrugging (medium skin tone)">And at the party, the link between an individual, their body, the music, and people around them doesn& #39;t seem to be there. Everyone alone together.
The moments that bind are not kinetic, but shared affirmations. We& #39;re all shouting these lyrics together. Of course I can relate to that experience too, but does this generation relate to a mix of songs that get into your *body* and synchronizes its movements to other humans?
Eh, if this thread isn& #39;t ignored someone will call me washed and they& #39;ll be right. Just shouting into the void like everyone else because #cornteen. Lemme go make some music instead. Shoutout to @jazzrefreshed. We have to get on the horn more often.
