Regular DJ at SGDJ Ltd

Introducing Alex Butterworth

Alex Butterworth is a DJ regularly working for SGDJ Ltd

Read on to learn a bit more about Alex Butterworth and find out if they might be the perfect choice for your party or event!

You can reach SGDJ Ltd on 0800 771 0174 07779 657983

Alex Butterworth's Musical Specialities

Here are some of the specialist music genres for Alex Butterworth - this isn't an exhaustive list - just the areas where this DJ has the widest knowledge and experience

	Chart 'Chart' is a catch-all category to mean music that is popular right now and very recently. The kinds of stuff you will hear on BBC Radio 1 and 2, along with commercial stations, and is generally of interest to typical casual listeners / dancers.
	Pop A generalist term covering many disparate styles of music though mainly commercial and accessible and easily danced to. Any DJ claiming to specialise in "pop music" in reality has a very wide repertoire suitable for general-purpose mixed age events
	2000s Hip Hop dominated popular music in the early 2000s with artists such as Eminem, OutKast, Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Jay-Z and many others coming to the fore. Garage music was also popular thanks to the emergence of social media platforms such as MySpace and this style veered into the mainstream when bands such as Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and The Bravery became popular. Pop singers such as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and bands such as Backstreet Boys also dominated the charts. The 2010s saw a big shift in the style of vocals associated with pop music, with lower range artists such as Beyonce, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Rihanna outselling the popular artists of the late 2000s. Again Hip Hop and electronic dance music were dominant thanks to DJs and artists such as David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Clean Bandit, Aviici and Calvin Harris. Adult contemporary music was big in this decade, with artists such as Adele, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Kelly Clarkson and CeeLo Green all incorporating soul, pop rock and folk into their music.
	Modern R&B Modern R&B combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop and electronic music. It typically features drum-machine rhythms, pitch corrected vocals and a smooth vocal arrangement littered with melisma - vocal runs up and down the scale whilst holding a syllable or word.