Having had the opportunity of seeing the No 1 and No 2 DJ’s in the world, playing 48 hours apart, it is quite noticeable that the type of music that is now popular is once again the Trance-style but generally with singing.  Trance songs of a decade or so ago did not typically have vocals, whereas now they do, and even Tiesto has changed to that style.  I think there is quite a lot of pressure on any DJ who is paid $200 000 for a 2 hour show to perform and make the mixing of one record into another seem like it is a whole lot more complicated than it is (beat counting and mixing in not terribly hard – music taste in another subject) and as a result Tiesto, for example, probably does a lot more posing around and gesticulation than he might have done some years ago.  

Calvin Harris plays up a lot less but he is playing largely songs that he has produced and created in collaboration with some of the top female pop artists in the world, like Rihanna, and is perhaps a lot less showy.  In a telling sign he is the DJ that Hakassan has chosen for the New Year’s Eve party and I have to say it is quite removed from the music I used to like, but I probably prefer the music he plays to that of Tiesto.  There is no doubt that both of them however are huge stars and it was only when we left Las Vegas that we saw billboards of a much smaller size for other very famous DJ’s such as Armin van Buuren.  For now Calvin Harris and Tiesto rule the world when it comes to Dj’ing – and Las vegas too.