DJ here has been doing some of the worst transitions I've heard in a set, to the point that it has become fully comical. Just straight mixing 90bpm disco into 120bpm house, zero beat or key matching, in some cases three false starts on a track or leaving the second deck fader on 1/4 volume while picking tunes and scrolling through.
@[email protected] When I was sixteen my drum teacher pulled me in at the last moment for a concert because an orchestra member was ill. I had one job: whack a huge bass drum about six times.
One of those times I whacked it a full beat late, in a moment of complete silence from the rest of the orchestra.
My drum teacher afterwards said "don't worry, the audience will have assumed it was on purpose. Apart from the musicians in the audience - they'll be having a good laugh."
I wonder if you're hitting a similar situation or whether they're just, er, not very good...