Event Tech Report: Streaming Music. Does This Work for a DJ?
Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Radio, Google Music - the musical cloud is getting more crowded every day. But how does this affect our industry? Can we just put together our Spotify list and pump it into the loudspeakers? We checked in with DJ Lee Dyson. Lee Dyson: "There is certainly no shortage of options these days for finding new music. Pandora first created the Music Genome Project but like all great inventions some other companies have expanded and even enhanced the idea. Call me a romantic but I do think we are so flooded with options now that something gets a bit lost. As someone who grew up on cassettes and records (and eventually CDs) I remember the feeling of walking out of a store after hours of browsing with a bag full of goodies that I own. I’d spend time reading the liner notes and listening to the album or CD from start to finish in correct song order as the artist intended for me to hear it. As a DJ I’d spend hours and hours in dingy record st...