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Originally Posted by TennisLovaLova
...for this gig they were paid 5.000$ by Pacha Marrakech.
Which is close to nothing in the dj world.
He also added that they came because they never been to Africa before.
They came to discover something new.
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You'd be wrong. 5k is actually more the norm than the exception - in fact many play for much less if they can string three nights in a row regionally.
Old associates of mine still do regular international gigs and they rebook a few guys annually or more regularly - with much bigger global profiles than Kenny Glasgow - and they don't get paid much more than that per gig. The clubs may pay more but that factors in flights, hotel, etc which can bump the price by 50% over what the artist gets paid.
As for Deamau5 doing the private jet thing - his days of doing that will soon be over. He's been pinged a number of times for dissing the way DJs play their sets only to have some high profile DJs spreading the word around the trap that he actually pre-records his DJing sets. Once a DJ gets to that level their bookings become resigned to massive one-off parties and so the clock ticks faster than for guys who can play (and rock) local clubs and gigs of all sizes which drive the scenes everywhere.