EDM star David Guetta creates some controversy with “old-school” DJ claim

French DJ and musician David Guetta. Scott Gries / Invision / AP
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EDM superstar David Guetta has been causing mirth among the DJ community with his claim that DJing using USB sticks qualifies as “old-school”.

In an interview with Beatport, the regular UAE visitor explained how disaster nearly struck his recent Coachella gig when his computer crashed before he had finished uploading his preprogrammed set.

The latter-day Kool Herc explained: “Something crazy happened to me on the [first weekend],” says Guetta. “I’m using Rekordbox and Pioneer to play, and before I saved my playlist to my SD card, my computer crashed. So I just had to put all my music in a random order on USB sticks at the last minute, doing it really old school, scrolling to look for the records I wanted to play next.”

The bizarre statement has led to predictable derision on social media. Many expressed disbelief that the article wasn't actually from a satire website like The Onion, while drum and bass legend Aphrodite noted on Facebook: "David ... Some of us have never used a playlist, and never will ..."

Fellow EDMers Splitskreem, meanwhile, simply asked: “Is this some sort of sad joke?”

We strongly suspect not.

cnewbould@thenational.ae