Among those who took offense at the comments was Afrojack, who struck back at Deadmau5 during an interview with Billboard: "You're never just pressing play," Afrojack said. "If you're a guy in a cube with a mask on, you can press play. Deadmau5 also said himself he's not a DJ - don't talk about stuff you don't know about."

In a recent interview with Toro on New York's 92.3 NOW (92.3 NOW is a Radio.com station), Afrojack has again defended the current DJ scene, this time taking on bloggers he believes wouldn't know a fader from an EQ knob on a mixer.

"I, seriously, have never seen anyone play a prerecorded set," Afrojack said. "Most of the comments you see on the internet about prerecorded mixing are usually 12-year-old kids who don't know s*** about DJing. I've been DJing for 11 years� everyone makes edits. Everyone has an edit of an edit of an edit - like a five-minute-long edit with three tracks in there� And then you have big shows with laser lights and all this stuff that's synched. They play [that edit] from a laptop, but it's only that part. After that they go back to DJing. I have yet to see a prerecorded mix DJ that was like, a big (name)."