Adam Michael Goldstein Thinks He's A DJ

I take great offense to what constitutes being a DJ these days.

Apparently, any tool with a turntable or two is a DJ. Just ask DJ AM, the king of the talentless douchebags who make too much out of doing too little. On any given night in LA or South Beach or Manhattan, DJ AM is droppin’ it like it was hot – even though it’s not – for Hollywood and society’s top young scum. He is a celebrity yet has no claim to any discernable prowess, and other than where and who he stands in front of, there’s no difference between him and the guy who did your cousin’s wedding.

Ask any one of these hacks and they’ll tell you about how hard it is to make a song flow smoothly into another, like it was open heart surgery. But occasionally dropping AC/DC in between a pair of tunes from Daft Punk doesn’t make you a DJ. Dropping a backbeat behind a rock song and scratching doesn’t make you a DJ. Playing a bunch of songs because people recognize them does not make you a DJ. Check out this shitty sample of DJ AM:

That was awful. Just fucking awful. I’ve heard better tunes at a high school dance. A continuation high school. For retarded kids.

Cleanse your ears with some real DJing talent -- people who integrate musicality and creativity into what they do:

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist


Amon Tobin


Kid Koala


DJ Q-Bert


So what have we learned? Anything DJ AM can do, they can do better.