Quote Originally Posted by Dustin Zahn
.the likes of Ben Sims, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, etc. get paid EXTREMELY well. The prices some of these techno DJs get paid reaffirms there is still strong enough demand for techno. You will see these kind of DJs on the best festival line-ups regardless of DJ mag. I honestly feel getting on these lists is just another reason to charge more money.
I think it's fair enough for these DJs to ask for the money they do, after all, you're worth what promotors are willing to pay, and if the promotors were not willing to pay what they do then these people would have to charge less, I mean is anyone on here who had made a success of themselves really going to turn round and say you would play for 1000 Euro when you know full well you could take 3000? Especially when you think of the amount of money that the club (and I'm NOT talking about clubs in the UK) is making? Surely it's only fare that you get your share...
I think the importance of this list to the Split DJs has more to do with the fact that they are running a techno night in London, and it's part of the promotional strategy, fair enough, I just thought it was quite a funny connection to make, that the lack of Techno artists in this list was contributing to the death of techno.. I suppose it got us talking about them here, which is promotion in itself...