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dancecult-505	Karpetz, Jonathan	Competitive Remix Practice and Networks of Support in Electronic Dance Music Economies	2014	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9898	463	46	While performance-based competitions such as Battle of the Bands, Star Search and American Idol are not new, the contemporary mode of DJ contests, which include local contests and web-based remix contests, have produced and reflected a new form of work that asks DJs and producers to continually “labour to compete”. If claims about contemporary DJ contests seem vague, I hope that my situation within current DJ networks will develop productive knowledge of the issues at hand to lend voice to those most affected in hopes of an eventual escape from labour precarity.7 Karpetz | Competitive Remix Practice and Networks of Support 25 Contemporary DJ and Producer Labour The engagement of DJs and producers on social media fueled competition platforms has grown out of the many crises creatives in EDM networks have had to confront in their everyday practice.	cache/dancecult-505.pdf	txt/dancecult-505.txt