AI automates the physicality and thinking involved in DJing to give lazy people a seat at the table. This is quasi-DJing, far from authentic, and the tech industry will keep flooding our culture with gadgets, claiming that technology will boost creativity. But it doesn’t—technology is just assisting you in sucking more than you already do.

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What actually makes a good DJ? Certainly their musical knowledge, their mixing skills and – where needed – their hosting skills too, as well as the ability to build a set with a strong sense of dramaturgy. But in the end, a successful night stands or falls on whether the DJ responds to the audience and leads them. “Read the crowd!” is the golden rule!

As a DJ becomes more popular, or is even perceived as an artist, I can impose my style – and therefore my set – on the audience more readily and without too many compromises, but still not dictate it blindly. Because even at major festivals there is a risk of failing to connect if the pre-produced DJ set simply does not strike a chord with the audience. A flat atmosphere in the crowd shows itself less in people leaving the site and more in bored faces and fixed stares at mobile phones.

It is much more difficult for a DJ to play an open-format set in an unfamiliar setting with a manageable number of guests. This is where professional experience and intuition are needed in order to fill the dancefloor and read the audience