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No, but perhaps give your wording a little consideration - your posts on matters like this always seem to come across (to me personally anyway - I apologise if I am misunderstanding) that way,.

You're contradicting yourself. Show me in here where you say that this only applies to you and your business, or even where it mentions about not beatmixing every song:

Rob James, on 08 July 2011 - 04:08 PM, said:

A & M Events, on 08 July 2011 - 03:47 PM, said:

To say that beatmixing isn't important or not necessary for anything other than dance music is exceptionally short sighted.

I think you know my thoughts on this, and I strongly disagree...regardless of whether you're talking about dance music or not.

If beatmixing WAS important, surely all clients would be asking for it & all DJs would be doing it...which couldn't be further from the truth.

That says to me that you think beatmixing is unimportant. To everyone. At every gig. It doesn't quantify at all to say to you or to your business - it is a blanket statement. IMHO it says 'In 30 years none of my customers have asked for it and I've never had any complaints so therefore no-one needs to do it'. It doesn't mention that sometimes you do need to be able to mix.

Another Rob James blanket statement

Rob James, on 08 July 2011 - 04:08 PM, said:

Some clients do actually ask for it, I've seen DJ's sacked for not being able to do it and then of course some people simply don't realise you are doing it. So is it a useful and sometimes important skill to have? Definately.

To say it's not important is simply very short sighted. Maybe it's not important to you but it may be important to other DJs doing other gigs with other music styles and other crowds. I certainly wouldn't get by three of the regular nights I'm doing at the moment without mixing. So you shouldn't write it off for everyone just because it doesn't work for your business.

That said you can't always beatmix and it's important to have a variety of skills at your disposal to move between tracks.