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24 in a month.

i like this age...right where i wanna be. but once i hit late 20s then i will wish i was in the mid20s again probably.

oh, but honestly, 34 ain't old at all. at the end of the day, it's just a number anyway.

Im 14, started 2 years ago using just software then about 6 months ago i got technics. im 15 in two weeks though. wohoo for M15+ movies. hahaha

23 here

i'm 19

i'm 22...

21... started spinning last jan... really enjoying it!

20, spinning for 3 years now.

faarrkk...

wat a reality shock... i thought i was way young...

i feel so far behind now... and i'm only gonna DJ seriously when i graduate... and i'll be 23 then

then EVERYONE WILL BE BETTER THAN ME!!!!


EVERYONE!!!



errrr..... I'm 19.

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Originally posted by Abhay faarrkk... wat a reality shock... i thought i was way young... i feel so far behind now... and i'm only gonna DJ seriously when i graduate... and i'll be 23 then then EVERYONE WILL BE BETTER THAN ME!!!! EVERYONE!!! errrr..... I'm 19.

I rry don't understand why you dj.

18 in a couple of weeks and have been playin for 5 years

been clubbin & goin to festival/big events since the age of 13 too

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Originally posted by dinoXpress I rry don't understand why you dj.

uhh...

because i enjoy it.

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Originally posted by Abhay uhh... because i enjoy it.

Then why are you worried about everyone else and how good they are?

Of course your response to this will be "i was just kidding"

But i think deep down you aren't.

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Originally posted by dinoXpress Then why are you worried about everyone else and how good they are? Of course your response to this will be "i was just kidding" But i think deep down you aren't.

does it really matter what his reasons are for doin it?
as long as he fuckin enjoys it!

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Originally posted by wee_rooney does it really matter what his reasons are for doin it? as long as he fuckin enjoys it!

True.. i just like seeing when djs are just doing their thing not worryign about everyone else.. those are the djs who in my opinion are coming up with the best stuff.

Btw love your sig, always have, its classic.

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Originally posted by dinoXpress True.. i just like seeing when djs are just doing their thing not worryign about everyone else.. those are the djs who in my opinion are coming up with the best stuff. Btw love your sig, always have, its classic.

thanks

i know what you mean, but i think some people are just natural worriers! always lookin to see what other people are doin. as long as they enjoy don it though then they should just stick at it.

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Originally posted by DannyO 23 myself, Nem if it makes you feel better, I know some DJs that will put you to shame age wise . Why is it you want to know DJs age?, it seems to me after seeing some of your posts, that you seem to think your getting too old for this or something, honestly, age shouldn't matter when DJing, there might not be many old DJs on TA, but there are alot of older DJs that spin regularly out in the world, I guess it starts hittin you as you get older and more mature, but still spinning to the 18-25 year old crowd (prolly) would make you feel old, but thats just the way things are, anyway, I'm interested in hearing your responce to this post. By the way, 34 isn't old.

+1

And honestly Nem, without a lot of your helpful posts in here, the Booth would be a lot less quality than it is... You're certainly not at all old, and if anything, your age is an asset, at least IMO. Your ability to share your experience with us has really helped me learn a lot since I started posting here...

And there's definitely a pretty well respected house/trance DJ here in Wisco who still plays out quite a bit, and is easily in his mid to late 40's... I forget his name, but Myra (lucid) has said he's still out there and still sick as hell...

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Originally posted by wee_rooney thanks i know what you mean, but i think some people are just natural worriers! always lookin to see what other people are doin. as long as they enjoy don it though then they should just stick at it.

True.

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Originally posted by DJ RJT +1 And honestly Nem, without a lot of your helpful posts in here, the Booth would be a lot less quality than it is... You're certainly not at all old, and if anything, your age is an asset, at least IMO. Your ability to share your experience with us has really helped me learn a lot since I started posting here... And there's definitely a pretty well respected house/trance DJ here in Wisco who still plays out quite a bit, and is easily in his mid to late 40's... I forget his name, but Myra (lucid) has said he's still out there and still sick as hell...

Mike Carlson is probably damn near 50 and he has a residency at the Cardinal in Madison, WI. He plays out quite a bit in that area. He's a very cool guy, also owns one of the record stores in Madison.

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Originally posted by tylerc Mike Carlson is probably damn near 50 and he has a residency at the Cardinal in Madison, WI. He plays out quite a bit in that area. He's a very cool guy, also owns one of the record stores in Madison.

Thanks Tyler

That's for sure who I was talking about...

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Originally posted by DJ RJT And there's definitely a pretty well respected house/trance DJ here in Wisco who still plays out quite a bit, and is easily in his mid to late 40's... I forget his name, but Myra (lucid) has said he's still out there and still sick as hell...

Grandaddy DJ, originally from Chicago, and living in Milwaukee (last i heard anyway, it's been over a year since i've seen him so he may have moved) is a pretty well-established DJ. last time i spoke to him he said he wasn't having much luck getting booked in the midwest but he plays shows in other cities all across the country, and he's got a show on DI.fm as well. i've actually never heard any of his sets but i think he plays trance/psytrance.

i'm not sure of his exact age but my guess would be somewhere in his 40's or 50's.

Thanks DJ RJT.

Hey Danny O,

Nope, not really that worried about age, just wondering if my life has arrived at a point when I'm starting to run out of steam or I'm just in a slump at the moment.

I have worked my nuts off in this business and was lucky enough to say that there was a time I could actually live off it, i.e. the only thing I had to worry about was getting from Home to club at the weekends and that was the only time I needed to work.
Been to interesting places in the world just to play music to people who want to have a good time... how lucky can you get?

So many things have changed since I started 20 years ago it's freakin' unbelievable. CDs (which I like for anyone who wonders), Ableton (Which I dislike), mp3 (which aren't bad) and so on.
Someone said something to me after I had finished working last Saturday along the lines of, "why are English DJs so bad, when I was in Turkey the DJs were using laptops and stuff". This naturally rubbed me up the wrong way but I was polite about the whole thing.

I think the problem I have with Ableton is that it can take any fucking retard and turn him into me without effort (Okay so you can read that anyway you like he he). The problem with Ableton is it's too damn good.

To be honest, I'm on a bit of a downer at the moment as I have been booked 3 times now to go to the US to play but at the last moment it's all gone to shit largely due to circumstances beyond my control, but it does get you down.
Bottom line is no, I don't think I'm too old to DJ, it's not really until you get a few years (like about 10) behind you that you really understand how it all works and I'm still learning.

You are right about the crowd thing though, it doesn't really feel like I'm playing to my peers anymore. I still enjoy it though.

Was mostly curious about the ages of people as sometimes you can see by how people write that it's a younger mind behind it and just wanted to get an idea of the round about age of people on here.
It's actually cool to see so many younger people start on the same journey I did and sometimes shocking to see the information that's handed out from one to another but that's a whole other story.

Anyway, apologies for the long and dreary post just had to vent.
Feel better now so will go and spin for a bit.

Cheers
Nem

Looks like the bell curve is rather evident in this poll.

22

Does this make me the yougest TA dj?

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Originally posted by Nemesis44

Good to hear your not bothered about your age, as for the slump, isn't that what we all have to go threw now and then (although yours is quite abit different from most), I'm sure things will turn around and start going smoothly now, just sounds like a case of bad luck not being able to goto the US.

I hear what your saying about Ableton, I like the program, but I also hate it, as IMO it doesn't take as much skill to do just a basic set, although to use it to its full potential you gotta really learn it, so it bothers me as I spent years learning to DJ, and now some kid can get the program and after abit of playing with it, they can do alot of what I can do, so it has put thoughts into my head like "why bother" and "why try", but as soon as I get onto some decks and start spinning, it becomes as clear as day WHY I am a DJ and why I spin using turntables.

This is just the way things are progressing, its changed a fair amount over the past 20 years, but in another 20, I think it will be completely different from anything we have today, but aslong as I enjoy using the various gear that is available to use, I will continue to spin, I do plan really incorporating Ableton into my sets in the future (when I get the hardware), but I plan to use it as a kinda more versatile CDJ than a replacement for my gear.

As for the twat in turkey saying about crappy Djs, well your always gonna get tossers that don't know what the fuck there talking about.

I been spinning 11 years or so, I don't plan to stop and I still got loads to learn.

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