I hate showboating, but the people who do it play to a bigger crowd than I do

[The_Laughing_Man]

It seems that if you make lots of bodily movements during a set people assume you're actually doing something, otherwise they get suspicious.

This is it in essence.
Well done.
It`s all about the illusion of activity.
If the whole DJ as god hype never came about, DJ`s would be able to do their jobs, and play records and not have to bother with the pretense and all the other crap. Unfortunately X-Factor pop marketing took DJing to a point where the DJ became the star and not the music and it trickled down into the underground eventually, and then expectations of performance crept in.

Now you have turntable monkeys having to jump through hoops and balance a ball on their nose like a performing zoo animal, just to make sure they still get their fish.
It`s why I abandoned Dirty Bass. I didn`t like how the more commercial side of techno had changed.

Techno isn`t underground any more, it`s already been through it`s commercial peak. Now it`s just unpopular.
I still love it more than any other music though.