Dear David Guetta…You Suck.

04 May 2015 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: ,

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(Reprinted from Melkor)

by Scott Melkor

Dear Dave (can I call you Dave?),

How are you? It has been a really long time! I hope that you are doing great.

Anyway, I was writing to let you know that you are the worst and represent everything that is wrong with DJ and EDM culture. I recently had the displeasure of reading your interview with Beatport. Riveting stuff, really. I particularly enjoyed the following excerpt.

“Not everything went smoothly behind-the-scenes, though.. Something crazy happened to me on the [first weekend],” he says. “I’m using Rekordbox and Pioneer to play, and before I saved my playlist to my SD card, my computer crashed. So I just had to put all my music in a random order on USB sticks at the last minute, doing it really old school, scrolling to look for the records I wanted to play next.”

There are so many things wrong with you, and with this paragraph, that I felt compelled to write you this heartfelt letter…

Read more: http://themelkerproject.com/

Forbes’ List: The World’s Highest Paid DJs

04 Aug 2012 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

(Reprinted from Spinner)

Forbes has just released its list of the world’s highest paid DJs and it’s enough to make every lonely singer-songwriter bashing out tunes in their basement want to go have a good cry.

Topping the list was Dutch DJ Tiesto, with estimated annual earnings of $22 million.

Tiesto figures the internet is responsible for his success.

“I think what really changed was social media,” Tiesto told Forbes, explaining what helped make him so big. “Twitter, Facebook really helped a lot.”

The second highest earner was one Sonny John Moore, known to some people as the guy who sung in that From First to Last screamo band for awhile, but is known to way more people as awkward-haircutted DJ Skrillex. He made an estimated $15 million.

Soon-to-be-done-touring act Swedish House Mafia ranked third with $14 million, while anti-button-pusher Deadmau5 was able to push enough buttons to earn $11.5 million, good for sixth place.

Also making the top ten were David Guetta, Steve Aoki, DJ Pauly D, Kaskade, Afrojack and Avicii.

Forbes came to their estimated numbers by tracking recorded music sales, endorsements, merch sales, live shows and television earnings.

Forbes’ top ten highest paid DJs:

#1 Tiesto $22 million
#2 Skrillex $15 million
#3 Swedish House Mafia $14 million
#4 David Guetta $13.5 million
#5 Steve Aoki $12 million
#6 Deadmau5 $11.5 million
#7 DJ Pauly D $11 million
#8 Kaskade $10 million
#9 Afrojack $9 million
#10 Avicii $7 million