and thus woudn't fit the "classical -> jazz -> electronic" scheme.


>Your exchange with inpulse mentions performance, and I would
>ask whether you think the DJ represents a correlating
>revolution in performance? Is it holding electronic music to
>a unnatural standard to expect that it should develop to be
>performed in a manner more consistent with that of previous
>era?



classical and jazz performance have the ability to reproduce a composition in its entirety live. not so for DJing - or at least as it's widely done.

sure, DJing can replicate the improvisational aspect of jazz, in particular one or more players/DJs playing off each others' "solos," on its own terms.

otherwise, i think DJing is something wholly new unto itself, and doesn't deserve the comparison to previous musics. it kind of belittles it's value.