Six DJs Who Got Kicked Off The Decks
A recent viral video of deep house don Kerri Chandler preaching throughout his set about not playing"comm
Kerri Chandler
Preaching and dropping the F-bomb at Rex Club Paris last Sunday. While he wasn't kicked off, he raised the issue again.
Preaching and dropping the F-bomb at Rex Club Paris last Sunday. While he wasn't kicked off, he raised the issue again.
Tommie Sunshine
Tommie Sunshine is a de facto ambassador for DJ culture, with props from both the serious house heads and the emerging EDM scene. Despite all his cred, and playing "Swedish House Mafia, a Ke$ha remix, the Pitbull track in the new Bud Light commercial, Avicii, some fun bootlegs…" he was still relieved of his mixmaster duties because the clientele at New York's W.i.P wanted more "commercial" music. See his side of the story on VIBE.
Tommie Sunshine is a de facto ambassador for DJ culture, with props from both the serious house heads and the emerging EDM scene. Despite all his cred, and playing "Swedish House Mafia, a Ke$ha remix, the Pitbull track in the new Bud Light commercial, Avicii, some fun bootlegs…" he was still relieved of his mixmaster duties because the clientele at New York's W.i.P wanted more "commercial" music. See his side of the story on VIBE.
Mark Farina
Aside from being one of the most popular platter masters to emerge from Chicago's second wave of house legends, Farina is also one of the chillest dudes to command the decks. This didn't prevent him from getting shuffled off the wheels of steel --- "apparently too much house for this Vegas crowd,” he tweeted. While his jazzy style of deep house may not scream "EDM" he knows how to move a crowd, even those at places like Las Vegas's Marquee if only they opened their ears as wide as their wallets.
Aside from being one of the most popular platter masters to emerge from Chicago's second wave of house legends, Farina is also one of the chillest dudes to command the decks. This didn't prevent him from getting shuffled off the wheels of steel --- "apparently too much house for this Vegas crowd,” he tweeted. While his jazzy style of deep house may not scream "EDM" he knows how to move a crowd, even those at places like Las Vegas's Marquee if only they opened their ears as wide as their wallets.
DJ Shadow
When life gives you lemons, drop a mixtape. Instead of just complaining about getting a boot to the decks at Mansion in Miami in December last year, DJ Shadow turned the aborted set into a downloadable mix and earned an apology from the club in the process. Again, the fault seems to lie with the person who booked some one as "future" as Shadow for a prime time disco slot on a Friday night.
When life gives you lemons, drop a mixtape. Instead of just complaining about getting a boot to the decks at Mansion in Miami in December last year, DJ Shadow turned the aborted set into a downloadable mix and earned an apology from the club in the process. Again, the fault seems to lie with the person who booked some one as "future" as Shadow for a prime time disco slot on a Friday night.
Dennis Ferrer
This was one of the first incidents in recent memory of a House legend getting dissed. Ferrer has been a major player popular with both the underground set and a perennial fixture on the Winter Music Conference scene. His diss, also at Mansion in Miami, was quickly served up as a harbinger of EDM's great divide.
This was one of the first incidents in recent memory of a House legend getting dissed. Ferrer has been a major player popular with both the underground set and a perennial fixture on the Winter Music Conference scene. His diss, also at Mansion in Miami, was quickly served up as a harbinger of EDM's great divide.
Calvin Harris
This one was even more of a head-scratch
This one was even more of a head-scratch
