Bach,Tchaikovsky,Beethovn,Mozart , THE DJ'S OF YESTERDAY!

Ladies and gentlemen of YouTube, I put it to you that Bach, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, all of those fantastic people from years ago were DJs. Yes, your first thought is, I'm nuts. Fair enough, because yes, they didn't have electricity, or maybe some of them didn't, I'm not exactly sure about that. Probably most of them actually, in fact... More than likely, all of them. They definitely didn't have turntables, CD players or MP3. But what they did have, they had music. They had the notes, they had the knowledge, they had instruments. Therefore, what they could do in their symphonies, they could take people on a journey. When they wrote their symphonies, they actually had in mind, I'm sure, to take people on some sort of journey.

A trombone, have a trombone and just let it ride. They wanted an entire orchestra to take people into highs, lows, just mellow them out and then go bang! And then just drift away into some sort of almost dream world and that's what they did. Now then, why were they DJs? Why do I think they were DJs? Well, let's face it, what do modern day DJs do ladies and gentlemen? What do they do? They take you on a journey. A good DJ, when he gets up into that DJ box, stands there with his records and he knows he has two hours. He doesn't think, oh crikey, two hours, what am I going to play? He looks and he thinks, I'm going to take this crowd on a trip, on a journey. I'm going to give them a symphony of my records. I'm going to start them off mellow. I'm going to take them to a peak, bring them back down again.

Chill them out, and then just chill them until they just want more and more and more. And then I'm going to build them higher, higher, higher, and higher and higher. And eventually, bang! Some DJs do that, finish like that. Others just like to chill out. That is basically how DJs compose a mix. That's what it's all about. People from years ago, they composed. DJs will actually compose vinyl. Thank you very much for listening. Bye bye.

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