^I agree on the "layers" argument, especially with the recent digital revolution, it surely is easier for DJs to manipulate House tracks with Ableton than Trance tracks, which makes House music have more "creative potential" than Trance, and thus convert some Trance DJs into House so they have the possibility to showcase their technical talents.
And I know what you're talking about regarding the iPod inference: I too listen to a lot of Trance which doesn't make its way to my DJ case. Some tracks are just listening material and don't really work on a crowd, so I don't bother taking them along with me to a gig, even though they might be on repeat in my car! While other Trance tracks might not be so great to listen too (but good to listen too nonetheless, I never play tracks I dislike) but would be essential elements in a live set of mine given their dancefloor destruction power.
DJing changes you, it broadens your taste and makes you more open minded to new sounds, to testing these sounds out on a crowd to see if they work or not, and to abandon (as a DJ, not as a listener) some tracks you love because, well, they simply don't work in a club, and belong in the car/computer/whatever. I don't know if you played out live yet hasneez, but the more a DJ start getting gigs the more he/she reshapes his/her sound, because you'd grasp a deeper understanding of crowd psychology with experience, and I strongly believe that THIS specific trait of a DJ's learning process is just as important as TASTE.
Damn, looks like we all lost our points and the whole meaning behind this topic...
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