Its the time of year again for the DJ Mag Top 20 VJ vote!!!
Personally, VJing as a "genre" holds very little interest for me.
Too few are pushing things creatively or technically... and really, the reason I go to clubs is for the music, first and foremost.
Its why I pay my money at the door and what gets me grinding and twitching in the front row and buying drinks for friends.
So why VJ?
I see a niche where video and music can come together to be an improvised, live experience, and VJing, at its best, can really boost the ambience of the venue. Our style is off the wall improvised pop-art video collage and live drawing-based, but we are also looking to collaborate with other live performers to truly stretch the potential of the "live experience." We still have a way to go, but in a short couple years have already garnered some strong supporters worldwide, and its been lovely so far.
However, VJs have precious few outlets for promotion.
Unlike visual arts (graphic design, etc.), and unlike DJing and music media, VJs have EXTREMELY little support from media. That DJ Mag is doing this Top 20 every year is a precious, precious thing for us, as creators, and a precious rare motivator.
PLEASE vote. I'm not even saying to vote for us!
Think back to a VJ or VJ group who impressed you in the last year, who did something to set the bar a little higher, or perhaps set the bar too high, and maybe knocked it down on the way over. Why not?
Or maybe the style wasn't that unusual, but everything "just worked?!"
COM.A @ SUPERDELUXE feat. DaDaKingZ:
If you see what we, "DaDaKingZ" are doing, and you like it, then vote for us too!
But vote.
http://www.djmag.com/index.php?op=top20vj
Cheers and love.
ben