PATHETIC!

If you ask me, input from clubbers on what the djs should play isn't usually a good idea. I'm not talking about a private party--where one should play requests. Many club djs frown on taking requests, since there is an old-fashioned and wonderful notion that the dj has been hired because of his/her knowledge of great music and how to work a crowd. So trust them. And most requests are from the clueless who don't want to hear an expert's underground masterpieces--they feel the dj isn't playing commercial enough cuz there isn't enough Britney or Rihanna in their sets. Let the dj who is hired for his/her experience and taste educate the crowd--not have the crowd try to educate the expert. I'm curious to hear what some of my dj friends have to say about this new development.

There is a demonstration video which makes me wish that these wristbands be also worn as necklaces--VERY TIGHT NECKLACES! At a time when djs are booked on their ability to appease clients who buy bottle service and when legendary producers like Dennis Ferrer are being taken off the decks for not playing commercial enough, this seems like another step in the wrong direction to me.

FACTMAG:

THIS WRISTBAND TELLS DJS IF THE CROWD ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME, AND IS A STUPID, STUPID IDEA

Wearable device farms bio-data from ravers.

In the creaky old days of analogue parties and IRL chirpsing, DJs had just one method of determining whether their selections were fizzing, flailing or outright flatlining. Dancing, it was called, and before the the livestream cams froze us in their glare, everyone used to do it.


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