In a period where dance music seems not to find the right way to recover selling and worth, there is another trouble hitting record companies and markets: the over-production!
Demo, mash-up, cover, promo, test, anyone, with a simple musical program is able to produce something: call it as you like, but the matter is that with all this material we don't solve the market problems!
I understand that djs feel the magic to create music that people may dance, but there are some rules to respect!!
Once musicians did the music and djs play for the crowd! Now djs produce music to get the chance to gig around to play for ? Well, I guess that is the time to bring the positions back, if we want to keep on this 'fantastic' part of the industry!
I could feel fine that djs (that should know how to make people dance) must edit or create the right remixe for the dancefloor, but songs or tracks or musical creation have structures and rules, that are not only 'to put a groove or a voice found in some free library and then cut and paste a prepare something good to play for clubs and discotheques'! To produce music is something more!
Starting from this, djs should be the VERY IMPORTANT PERSON that gives sense at the night, playing the right music to fire up the crowd! Not someone who 'brings lists' to the club! For this the job should be a 'public relation stuff'!
But, as the world go round in a 'mysterious' way, I won't blame anyway who feel the mood to produce records: just don't be upset if your track remains only a demo!
It's a question of music!