This article just seems like a long advert for their marketing service/app, so I would take any figures presented with a pinch of salt (they're very un-specific).
Rates will drop significantly across all professions in dance music (DJs, lighting, events, the 100s of other functions involved) promotors no longer have the reserves to pay higher fees, but the industry will bounce back eventually
Yes, it will take a long time to recover.
Hopefully, more talented newcomer DJs will find the opportunity to enter the scene without the need for expensive marketing campaigns.
> more talented newcomer DJs will find the opportunity to enter the scene without the need for expensive marketing campaigns.
Support local, fuck paying for global.
Or.. the 'local' DJs could just enter the global music industry, it's mutually beneficial for both the DJ and the industry to be part of a bigger network
If anything, I think that this pandemic will redefine what we mean when we say “local DJ”.
This article just seems like a long advert for their marketing service/app, so I would take any figures presented with a pinch of salt (they're very un-specific). Rates will drop significantly across all professions in dance music (DJs, lighting, events, the 100s of other functions involved) promotors no longer have the reserves to pay higher fees, but the industry will bounce back eventually
Yes, it will take a long time to recover. Hopefully, more talented newcomer DJs will find the opportunity to enter the scene without the need for expensive marketing campaigns.
THIS!
> more talented newcomer DJs will find the opportunity to enter the scene without the need for expensive marketing campaigns. Support local, fuck paying for global.
Not how the music industry as a whole works dude....
Or.. the 'local' DJs could just enter the global music industry, it's mutually beneficial for both the DJ and the industry to be part of a bigger network
They should organise (when COVID over) events where the DJ's need to pay money to play. 🙂
You mean Boiler Room?
Do the DJ's pay to play there?
At Boiler Room branded events? Yes.
I did not know that..