Noel Gallagher and Deadmau5 reckon anyone can do it. But surely a good disc jockey is more than a human iPod?
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In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all
You can be sure that, if something exists, Noel Gallagher has an opinion on it. There’s been how jazz is “rubbish”, the infamous “I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong” and even a tirade against anybody who has ever had anything to do with a book: “Book sellers, book readers, book writers, book owners – fuck all of them.” So when he claimed in 2011 that “dance music sounds like a walk in the park now. Any fucker can do it”, it felt like more of the “Old Man Yells at Cloud” type of opinion we were used to, with Gallagher joining the “real music” made with “real instruments” brigade by pompously dismissing DJs because they happen to program a drum beat instead of strum a guitar.
