World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five

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1. Paul Oakenfold. Oakey is a class act without whom we might not have electronic dance music culture as we know it. He's one of the few who went to Ibiza in the mid-1980s, and the rest is history. And anyone who ever downed a tab of E and then saw the light has this guy to thank. Still, the image of the DJ as a Spinal Tapian, hair-care-product-hording rock star? Oakenfold created that icon. It is he. Superstar DJ? No, superdouche DJ.

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ianbadsanta
ianbadsanta

Seriously????!! Kaskade?? You need to pull the aircraft carrier out of your ass, eat some rolls, and fuck offf- damn

jason_splat
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Deadmau5 is a rising star in this category!

Hannahlikesart
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Kaskade is not a douchebag. You are a douchebag. Express your opinion all you want, but maybe you should open your mind a little more and do some research. All of these DJs are successful and nice people that love their fans. I really hope you do yourself a favor and buy a ticket to a music festival before you get another totally biased and BS article published with the word "douchebag" in the title.

virgo4816
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dennis, clearly you know nothing about this music scene, there are WAY bigger douchebags than these guys, all you have to do is look at SHM and bam! three right there, or as many of the comments show, you clearly forgot deadmau5, who pisses on the scene 24/7. but i can tell that many of your readers including you dont know much about dj's, all i see is people remarking about "real" music and people needing drugs to listen to this kind of music. close minded much? i dont even know how kaskade got thrown in there, he is one of the nicest djs at the top of this new fiasco known as "edm" or, as most of us who know what were talking about call it, "electronic pop music". come back when you know what youre talking about.

losangelesdj
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Sometimes I think you'd HAVE to be on drugs to listen to some of that "nothing but a repetitive drumbeat", faceless, soulless music. But then who are the REAL douches... the DJs that make it or the melodically challenged masses that pay to listen to it?

PS any DJ who wears a giant Mickey Mouse head to perform has got the be in the Top 5!

http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj

EDMequalsRobotSex
EDMequalsRobotSex

All DJ's are douchebags.  How else to explain such shitty taste in music and such baseless claims to having talent?

DemetriustheSilver
DemetriustheSilver

You are giving homosex haters a pass by calling any Mormon a "nice guy"! We know that's not true! They would murder us dead in the street if it were legal because of our homosex! TAKE DOWN THIS NIGGERLY ARTICLE THAT BESETS YOU!

PeteTheKiller
PeteTheKiller

@DemetriustheSilver It's "NIGGARDLY" and it means frugal.

LA.edm.man
LA.edm.man

Dennis Rommero is a douchebag, and knows little about music, and has no class for writing this insulting article.

Oo7oo7x
Oo7oo7x

LA Weakly really sux.

KT
KT

I know, right?  Dennis is not known for a concern with accuracy. He has intentionally lied in print.

Thecole777
Thecole777

You say "we strive for accuracy" then say Kaskade is a douche because girls love him and he wears tight t-shirts?

RoCo
RoCo

with most of the you say how they are douches because of how un-douchey they are... doesnt makes sense... perhaps Mau5 for dissing the entire festival scene or avicii for complaining if his set clash with any (half decent) Dj that automatically steals his crowds. 

Gonefordays
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You forgot deadmau5!! He's definantly a douche..

EDM
EDM

This is the dumbest article I have ever read, Dennis Romero you are a fucking retard.

Jacob Arnett
Jacob Arnett

Most of the posters here think "techno" is an all-encompassing term for anything 'dancey'

yourmom
yourmom like.author.displayName 1 Like

you forgot deadmau5, skrillex, david guetta and steve angelo

yourdad
yourdad like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

But they're not even DJ's.

Eddie
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Most of the people on these comments are pretentious douchers who think they're so much better than everyone else cause they only listen to the bands that are in small print on festival lineups, when we all know its a fucking act. You know who was mainstream as fuck? The Beatles. Every type of music serves a purpose. Its sad that people shut out music just because of who likes it, who gives a shit?! Be you're own person and don't fall for the hipster paradox. Fuck Hipsters, you're whats wrong with the world. Listen to the classics, listen to the up and comers, listen to the cheesy, funny, pop sounds, they were all meant to invoke different emotion! DJ's themselves are criticizing the fans of being overzealous pricks when it comes to criticizing the mainstream. its one thing to get tired of an overplayed track, but label a whole artist as crap just cause people know him/her/them? Thats idiotic. And lets face it, most of you liked Skrillex last summer, so don't front.

Jacob Arnett
Jacob Arnett

Tiesto was awesome...from 1998-2006 then he started going mainstream and changed his sound to what seemed to be popular

Randy1909
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So because somebody is popular, gets women, or because of how they look they are a douche? Wow, whoever wrote this article is a massive douche themselves. The whole time I was reading this article I knew some shallow, sad, person was writing it.

EDMBaby
EDMBaby like.author.displayName 1 Like

Seriously, you just named 3 DJ's that I have loved for ages. I think you're just a hater. Worst. Article. Ever.

Larimbrown80
Larimbrown80 like.author.displayName 1 Like

Lol yes u can add skrillex ,and David guetta to this list I'm over it. Glad electronic music has become popular NOW BUT when it becomes pop it loses its sincerity, and these producers who can Mk baggin tracks end up, watering it down adding dye and sugar trying to pass it off like a healthy drink to swallow when its become "kool-aid". The dope thing to me when it came to electro tracks was hearing vocalist unheard of UN known artists who could actually sing. Now no offense to these artists we have to be saturated with least than steller collaborations with Nikki manaj, rhianna when It's bad enough we have to hear these artist period in reg rotation on the radio 5x s each hour.real house electro heads KNO this is the truth and now dubstep is the new trendy thing too. I support the actual DJs who are One- actual DJs because some djs who call themselves DJs can't spin or mix at all. Get a Mac pro laptop and mixmeister pre record your sets whala Ur a dj. but props to the producing element of creating music. But now things are changing I hope for the better and not for the bull$*%!

Nicole Kohen
Nicole Kohen

wow Kaskade is definitely not a douche. He didn't mean to make that Hollywood riot happen...

Dshino
Dshino

Biggest Douche of them all.  DAVID GUETTA.  Stick to producing cause you are NOT a DJ.

Wsealsiv
Wsealsiv

I am the guy in that photo!

Guest
Guest

apparently you are too young to have met Frankie Bones or James Christian.

Fabio Franco
Fabio Franco

Wait where's Gavid Ghetto and the mau5 on this list???!!?! couldve sworn at least guetta was going to to be on it LOL but touchei Oakenfold   ahaha

Fresh2det
Fresh2det

Pete Rodrick and Tech La Di should be #1 on this list

Packetofcrisps
Packetofcrisps

This list is seriously lacking. That mousy fella, any/almost all new dubstep remixers. Daft Punk? Absolutely over rated pants. Lets include all cheezy electro acts actually. Most French DJ

[a] proxy
[a] proxy

Kaskade definitely sealed the deal for me because of the EDC Experience film. He came off as such a douchebag! Plus, he's Mormon...lol.

[a] proxy
[a] proxy

Perfect Top 5 list! We could have easily squeezed in Deadmau5 too...lol.

Gabriel83
Gabriel83

Where's Khaled..... dude has to be the BESSSST example of cornball douchebag - kinda a shame cos his alter ego Beat Novocaine (though  he obviously doesnt realise what novocaine even is and therefor the damn implication of callin yself that ish). Dude has disgraced my good friend Khaled and the name itself with his clownish behaviour....not to mention the fact he pronounces his OWN NAME wrong!!! "Khaled" is pronounced with a soft almost silent 'k' ie cHullad  

Gabriel83
Gabriel83

what I meant to say id "beat Novacane" actually made some decent beats in his time (before churning out those awful ass regurgiated "anthems" with every rapper he could fit in front of a green screen...which he did't produce for example) see Fabolous' GANGSTA

Trashroomstudio
Trashroomstudio

Fuck LA weekly.  This is the first and last time I read your hackass celebrity hoe down fagblog.  Getta real job you honkey niggers.

Overlution
Overlution

See not one Drum n Bass DJ... Well you could and a two like sub focus and capital J to get things rolling

jack
jack

david guetta??? probably the worst person in electronic music. this sub human cu*tflap has managed to cross his shit electro with pop music meaning that more douchebags who like standard awful chart r&b can now be found pretending to like all sorts of electronic music infiltrating clubs worldwide. 

Dingdong
Dingdong

The biggest douche's in the DJ/producer biz are the people who one day are your close "friend" that you help along the way to achieving commercial success and the very next day disappear, don't return calls, emails etc. Its like a little switch that flips the instant someone becomes famous.

Samoossazion
Samoossazion

where the fuck is david guetta daddy of them all douches on earth ? ....

Dave Sk
Dave Sk

DUDE REALLY, I THINK YOU JUST DON'T LIKE TECHNO & DJ'S CAUSE YOUR REASONING IS OFF. SO AGAIN LIKE MOST LOOSER WRITERS IN THE MUSIC SCENE YOUR JUST ANOTHER SCENESTER FULL OF HOT AIR AND ANNOYING THE HECK OUT OF EVERYBODY THAT HAS HALF A BRAIN. I MEAN STEVE AIOKI TRIED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. OAKENFELD IN HIS PRIME WAS A LEADER AND AN AMAZING PRODUCER, SURE HE CHEEZED OUT, BUT I CAN'T CALL HIM A DOUCHE. YOUR A DICK! YOUR GONNA GO DOWN IN MY ARTICLE TOP 5 HIP A-HOLE WRITERS COLUMN.

mike honcho
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not one of the guys on this list play "techno"

mike honcho
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Not one of the guys on this list make "techno".

Dave Sk
Dave Sk

IM WITH ALL OTHERS! MAN AFROJACK IS WHATS MAKING HOUSE AND TECHNO DIFFERENT IF YOU CANT HANG WITH THE BLEEPS THAN GTFO! I THINK YOUR THE DOUCHE!

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