Interview Write-up

When I interviewed Randal Alexander, or DJ Illegal, I did not know what to expect. It was good to be able to get a look at how he described himself as a DJ and his thoughts of DJs in Nashville. When I asked him about his style he said that it was "a bunch of different genres all thrown in." He uses many different genres of music when he DJs ranging from "top40, to electro house, to hip-hop, to old school hip-hop, to dubstep, to some drum-step." I thought that this was interesting to hear because a lot of DJs will only specialize in one area of music. It is hard to have a vast knowledge of many different types of music and it is hard to be able to incorporate a wide variety of music into a set.
Randal also spoke about DJs and the club scene in Nashville. He states, "club owners are kinda taking the low ball DJs", the ones that will not charge much and do not have much experience. Randal even mentioned, "it gets really political" because the "low ball" DJs will come in and say, "yeah I'll do it for 50 bucks and some beer." I thought this was interesting because it also ties in with his statement about the talent in Nashville being great but that it was "more underground for the most part."



DJ community in Nashville. He said that "there are a lot of people that call themselves DJs" but there is not a large number of DJs who are the real deal.