Superstar DJs Select USB Sticks

David Guetta ‘beamed with chipper, boyish pride’ about DJing with USB sticks, the Independent reported this week, highlighting the increasing ubiquity of Pioneer’s next generation CDJ 900 and 2000 players.

"Before, I used to come to clubs with vinyls [sic], tonnes of vinyls. My back was hurting [carrying them], it was terrible,” the world’s currently most popular DJ told Craig McClean.

“Then I moved to playing CDs. Now this is what I use at my shows, I have all my music on this – 32 gigabytes”, he added, reportedly waving a USB stick in the writer’s face.

His enthusiasm for USB sticks matched that of German tech-house star Timo Maas who in December told Skrufff he was already a massive fan of Pioneer’s new stick-friendly CDJ2000 players.

“I don't want to play with a laptop, that's against my principles. Firstly the whole setting up procedure in a club is a pain in the ass, and whenever I see other DJs using laptops it just doesn't look right. Many guys don't even wear headphones anymore, they don't do any physical work and just look at the screen. I find this . . . strange,’ said Timo.

“I don't want to use the word 'boring' for laptop DJs because some of them are rocking it, but I'm old school,” he continued, “And I think having to look at a computer screen is taking the DJ’s attention away from where it should be: on the crowd.”

Fading New York house legend Junior Vasquez agreed this week, telling Blackbookmag’s Steven Lewis that though he still burns CDs as back-up’ he considers CDJ2000s ‘the greatest thing’.

“I don’t use a laptop. Times have really changed. The way I do it, I just need to put in the Flash drive (USB stick) with the folders,” said Vasquez. “The thing with computers is that you don’t have enough time to perform and be dramatic in front of the crowd.”

The notoriously bitchy DJ also set the record straight when Lewis asked him if he’d really once refused to play another record at Twilo until the ‘fish’ (females) got off the dance floor.

“I asked him if he actually had said that,” Lewis reported.

 "No," he replied. "I said 'I'm not going to play another record until those fucking fish get off the dance floor!'” (Blackbookmag:http://bit.ly/nHC9dZ 
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