ANGRY MONKEY DJs are like lemmings — no really. You might view them as ground-breaking, you might see them as inspirational, but in reality you’re simply being drawn into the myth of the DJ. They’re delusional animals that follow a herd mentality, hurling themselves into fashionable musical oblivion, one after the other. And the latest trend to have swept DJ land is that of deep house and nu-disco. Where once it was a niche form of dance music, they have now become the must-play genres, with every DJ (and many wannabes) casually name-dropping that they’ve been a deep house DJ for, ‘like, at least the last 6 months, yeah’. Amusingly, some DJs have simply added it to their previous playlists, so you now see DJs boast they play hip hop/nu-disco, two genres which are as far removed as peace between Israel and Palestine, while other DJs have simply jumped on the bandwagon embarrassingly late, making them look — appropriately enough — like desperate, scene-chasing wannabes.
Monkey Out...