{"id":20009,"date":"2020-05-05T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/?p=20009"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:00:17","slug":"millionaire-djs-asking-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/en\/millionaire-djs-asking-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Millionaire DJs asking us for charity for their tour managers? No, not exactly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article was originally posted in Italian on Soundwall<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The case blew up yesterday. To detonate everything, a few people: from John Askew to DJs and producers much closer to our world, such as Cassy and Dave Clarke. To sum up: there was a raise of shields against the promotional teaser put in circulation by TNT for its Sofa Sessions operation, in which some very famous (and very rich) people of the scene – see Cox, Troxler, Capriati, etc. – invited everyone to support it. What was it about? A few “important” tour managers saw the consortia – in the end, everybody knows each other in the industry, at certain levels – and, taking advantage of the lockdown phase, for once they decided to take the whim of putting themselves in the foreground as artists.
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The problem arose when they upped their game. They asked their famous employers to contribute with an exclusive mix and be a sort of testimonial for the operation. But what was the operation? Things are a bit foggy here, and it’s primarily the fault of whoever ran TNT and Sofa Sessions. The mixed sessions were available on Bandcamp and they weren’t free; the proceeds went to… went to… it wasn’t clear. To a specific, well-identified entity? If so, the message did not go through. To colleagues in trouble? Well, this was probably the intention (a “corporate” solidarity, in short), as confirmed by the words of Dubfire’s tour manager which you can find here<\/a>; but even in this case, it’s still really unclear and ambiguous.<\/p>\n

So ambiguous that the message which passed was that solidarity should go to the tour managers who started the operation, in other terms the “faces”. All people who work for DJs who earn 10, 20, 50, 100k euros per show, and it’s not clear why they should ask for charity to the world, now that the whole world is in a bit of shit, rather than asking their rich employers.<\/p>\n

The employers, i.e. the famous DJs, blamed ambiguity: probably due to a mixture of overconfidence towards their tour managers (unavoidable, as they entrust them with life – often in a somewhat excessive and childish way) and superficiality, they “pushed” the initiative with quite generic words, which really didn’t make it clear that the proceeds of the operation wouldn’t go to their personal tour managers.<\/p>\n

The result? Look at this.<\/p>\n

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WTF IS GOING ON ???? \ud83d\ude33 SPEECHLESS … please God help them see the light!!! \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe<\/a><\/p>\n

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