the techno divide - perception?

[killarava2day]

i wouldn't say cohen was a one hit wonder. the guys been djing for a long time! in fact he was on the verge of quitting b4 pontabe went massive.

With regards to Cohen and 'Pontape', why was this track so popular? It was pretty heavily licenced and was hugely successful for Intech but I still can't understand as to what was so special about this particular track?

[rhythmtech]

but mark you're at a stage where self promotion is part and parcel of the job. like you said you need a business to do it but i think that entails self promotion.
Even this site is a form of self promo. i'm certainly not knocking you for it, i think its great more people should get it together more (myself included).

so maybe certain djs should be learning to help themselves out more because for some of you guys its your living.

yeah you're exactly right but i honestly dont think of this site as self promotion. the forum was not originally set up for that and i definitely dont think of it like that. i totally see what you're saying though. at the end of the day this site IS pretty strong self promotion for me. so are my record reviews, so is the radio and so is everything i do. but i'm doing all this cause i want to and it all excites me cause it's all music based. what i'm saying is, i just find it very, very hard to do things like send out press releases to magazines each week saying 'i rock' or send a spam out to all our members saying 'vote mark eg in the dj top 100'. do you get me?

so how do you explain the mail you sent me saying "i'm great & everyone else is just average in comparison to my greatness" ;)

i know where your coming from. i guess its more about the TYPE or promo rather than the quantity.