Reply to Nobody wants to work at it anymore?

What's with the insane number of

"I want to be a DJ. Tell me what tunes and gear I should get."

or

"I want to produce music like deadmau5/swedish house mafia/guetta/rusko, what synth/samples should I use?"

threads recently?

Nobody knows how to use google? Nobody listens to tunes and figures out things for themselves? Sound On Sound, Electronic Musician, loads of other blogs and mags online at your googling finger tips. With the massive amounts of youtube/social media these guys produce it's dead easy to trainspot their gear and plugins.

And invariably the OP is just going to end up getting crystalised-form-of-cocaine versions of the software anyways.

I'm all for helping ppl out and sharing knowledge but I believe there's a base level you should sort out for yourself. Post here if you're trying to get a weird mapping in Traktor or trying to figure out how to get ableton's automation to not suck bollocks and freak out once you get more than 30 tracks running.

What's next?

"I want to be a DJ - can someone mix me a few killer sets I can slip into a CDJ and knob twiddle for a few hours."

"I want to produce music - can someone make me a torrent with a DAW, soft synths, plugins, samples and 10-15 session files with killer beats and hooks in them?"

Srlsy?!