Can a gifted deejay add value to music with a perfect segue?

[Taverner]

I say yes - just heard a great example...Yes' "Long Distance Runaround/The Fish" -> Spencer Davis "Gimmie Some Loving"

[MadHound]

1. Yes, they can and do

In fact that used to be something that DJs strived for, good seamless seques. Now however that sadly has gone out the window as commericialality has taken over the playlist, and DJs no longer have the freedom to structure their own show.

Back in the day when I was a DJ, seques were the skeleton you built your show on, to take the mood up-tempo or down, move from one genre to another. Now most stations just slam songs together any which way just to get them on the air. About the only stations who still pay attention to such structure are community stations, college stations, and other little or no profit stations.

[Taverner]

2. Check out Sirius

They have some seriously talented deejays - segues that made songs I hate worth listening to!

[MadHound]

3. That's OK, it's not enough of a bother with me

That I feel the need to get satellite radio. Trying to cut down expenses in my life, don't need to take another one on:shrug: Glad to hear that the art isn't dead after all.

[taterguy]

4. Ben Folds: Not the Same - 13th Floor Elevators: Nobody to Love

From the Ben Folds Live CD. Works well aurally and is spooky lyrically. The Ben Folds song is about a guy who took acid and was never the same, which is kinda sorta what happened to the 13th Floor Elevators lead singer.

The talented DJ that did this was my Rio's Randomizer