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10 reasons why your friend shouldnt be a DJ

1: He always starts his sets with 30 minutes when he sits on the edge of the stage asking people what they want to hear and what is hip.

2: He plays all his sets with the flanger effect on full while goofing around with the flanger and jet effect on the efx-500 all
while complaining about the apparent "lack of space in the sound"

3: He lowers the volume and shouts "HELL YEAH!" after all his transitions and/or a MC goes "oh yeah, oh yeah" after the transition

4: Two out of five transitions is completed with a spinback of the vinyl

5: He claims to have taught Zabiela one thing or another and demonstrates this in every set by slamming the fader back and forth
hence "choppin up and rebuilding two tunes into one!"

6: Turns the monitors around because he thinks its utterly stupid of the club managers to not let the audience get the whole sound experience

7: Tries to scratch like Eddie Halliwell as often as he can but due to him insisting to only having 1 gram of weight on the needles it
results in alot of skipping and jumping, altho he thinks that is cool

8: His idea of a long transition is 10 seconds and that is pushing it to the limit

9: Doesnt really mind mixing in a track in the beginning and letting the do-tish-do-tish-do-tish-part of the song play for 2 minutes instead
of mixing in after the intro

10: Always starts his sets with "In the Beginning" by Roger Goode and always ends the set with "Im still Jenny from the block" thinking
he is so badass

Check this list, if you recognize yourself in any of it then sell your tables and start listening to commercial radio and start knitting
instead, then EDM is not for you and certainly not DJing.

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Re: 10 reasons why your friend shouldnt be a DJ

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Originally posted by webbie 1: He always starts his sets with 30 minutes when he sits on the edge of the stage asking people what they want to hear and what is hip. 2: He plays all his sets with the flanger effect on full while goofing around with the flanger and jet effect on the efx-500 all while complaining about the apparent "lack of space in the sound" 3: He lowers the volume and shouts "HELL YEAH!" after all his transitions and/or a MC goes "oh yeah, oh yeah" after the transition 4: Two out of five transitions is completed with a spinback of the vinyl 5: He claims to have taught Zabiela one thing or another and demonstrates this in every set by slamming the fader back and forth hence "choppin up and rebuilding two tunes into one!" 6: Turns the monitors around because he thinks its utterly stupid of the club managers to not let the audience get the whole sound experience 7: Tries to scratch like Eddie Halliwell as often as he can but due to him insisting to only having 1 gram of weight on the needles it results in alot of skipping and jumping, altho he thinks that is cool 8: His idea of a long transition is 10 seconds and that is pushing it to the limit 9: Doesnt really mind mixing in a track in the beginning and letting the do-tish-do-tish-do-tish-part of the song play for 2 minutes instead of mixing in after the intro 10: Always starts his sets with "In the Beginning" by Roger Goode and always ends the set with "Im still Jenny from the block" thinking he is so badass Check this list, if you recognize yourself in any of it then sell your tables and start listening to commercial radio and start knitting instead, then EDM is not for you and certainly not DJing.

OMFG i am in the same situation!

a friend from school is doing the same thing. we r orginising a PARTY with about 400 and im headlining but here he is telling me what to do and he want to do a fucing set, so im going to let him.
i thought it would had been a good idea for him to warm up because he aint use decks (just computer , thinking hes the best fucing DJ)and he plays like ministry stuff and chem bros. so i thought yeah that would be good to get people in the groove for the first hour. then me with an intro and playing for the next 4 hours.
i could have been straight foreward and told him your not doing shite. but the people where i live are into alot of ministry which is good but havent heard to much trance but so far from other partys there lovin it even though they dont know it is trance.

well also sound is so important when it comes to DJ. Well the so called comp DJ wad telling me i only need 4, i told in a way you are MAD!! i said i need to monitiors so i can hear the fucing mix properly so i said i need 6 speakers 4 for the floor and two monitors facing out two the floor behind me.
the next day he tells me ooohhhh sound is every thing, and im like thank god he learnt something.

the set times were for him tellin me was:

me 2hrs
him 1hrs
me 2hrs

i thought it would be good for

him 1hrs (so everyone can get there on time without having to miss the start of my set)
me 4rhs till end

GOD give me strength as i still have alot more issues than this with this guy for our "THE GAS" night Party!!!!

give me advice on bloody self displine for me as i should be telin him what to do. but yo see this guy is pretty high in the food chain at school!!!!!!

although everyone likes my djing as they know me for being DJ FURBY PLAYING MY DOOFF DOOOF TECHERRRSSS!!!!
but im like fuck off my nick name is only FURBY not dj furby.
My dj name is MATT ZEE.

but i cant wait for this night it is going to be great!!!!!

man i could talk about this for eva!!!

cheers

but i still have to cut some slac for them as they are noobs when it comes to DJING AND EDM

Hmm no. 6 is pretty strange and i have seen a quite a few no. 8's in my area, they act like they are the shizat. Oh man and no. 4's...holly my area is filled with complete jackasses. As if i never knew it...but they are just kids...they will learn...right?

dude what made you bring this thread up!
im sure many can relate too?
r u in the same position?

m8 you are a champ im going to school to hang this up in my LOCKER

THANKS!

#7...eddie halliwell just chirps & such. No hardcore scratching like Micheal Conway

How about adding the one who plays "his own" brand of uber-specific tunes no matter whats happening on the dance floor or what anyone else wants to listen to? And forgets he's playing to a crowd (probebly not only not into say acid house but have no idea wtf it is), not to his technicly minded and musically informed ego.

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Originally posted by mzvirbulis dude what made you bring this thread up! im sure many can relate too? r u in the same position?

Nah, i was doing the laundry and was really bored so i tried to think of something that made me laugh.

Dervish: That would be numer 10.
Remember, he is not a musically informed DJ, he is just... shite.

Its all so true!! Its funny where they have no clue that they mix hip-hop and hard trance together. When that happens its just plain sad. lol

Re: 10 reasons why your friend shouldnt be a DJ

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Originally posted by webbie 7: Tries to scratch like Eddie Halliwell as often as he can but due to him insisting to only having 1 gram of weight on the needles it results in alot of skipping and jumping, altho he thinks that is cool

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Except he scratches the live record - completely cutting the tune up, fucking up the whole flow.

OMFG laughing so hard at that list.

My roomate swears he can be a DJ when I first got my CDJs all he wanted to do was put his cd's (crap like dizee rascal wtf!) and sratch on them and then procede to say I make people like Tiesto look like shit.

HELL YEA MOTHER******S! I VOTE THIS THREAD +1UP!



EDIT: no way! we cant say the f-word?!

Wouldn't it be great if someone just read this thread, said to themselves "Wow, that describes me to a T!" and just stopped spinning records all together?

The Trance Addict DJ Forum: Helping weak DJ's and human jukeboxes give up since 1967! (Edit: Arbitrary Date Choice)

Cheers,

RJT

i turn the monitors around a lot... but only because they're normally TOO FUCKING LOUD for me. i can mix fine with them reversed, since they're loud, and it won't fuck my ears up...

funny shite

awesome list

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Originally posted by webbie Dervish: That would be numer 10. Remember, he is not a musically informed DJ, he is just... shite.

I was more meaning someone who has good technical ability and knowlage... of his very specific genre. And insists on playing the most eilitist stuff and calls everything else shit.

Some one who would say something like "I'm not shit, they are just thick" when basicly not playing to the crowd. I'm meaning if your not playing what the crowd want to hear no matter how good it (to informed people) is your not DJing well(mixing isn't DJing).

Having said that there are boundrys and "Jenny from the block" is far past the line. But supose if you pick your crowds alright and you don't have to play shit to get them going.

(sorry kinda tailed off on one on my own there... )

Re: 10 reasons why your friend shouldnt be a DJ

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Originally posted by webbie 3: He lowers the volume and shouts "HELL YEAH!" after all his transitions and/or a MC goes "oh yeah, oh yeah" after the transition

donald glaude turns the volume down and screams out 'make some fucking noise' and it freakin pwns.


he rocks.

Hell yeah but thats Donald Glaude. He's a sicko on the decks.

Haha that list is too funny

Re: 10 reasons why your friend shouldnt be a DJ

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Originally posted by webbie 10: Always starts his sets with "In the Beginning" by Roger Goode and always ends the set with "Im still Jenny from the block" thinking he is so badass

My personal favourite

Thank you, glad you liked it.

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Originally posted by Nou Thats how we do it in these parts... I gotta see that guy spin again next time he is home.

haha, we stole him and now he plays here every friday night.


yay for vegas.

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Originally posted by A83 #7...eddie halliwell just chirps & such. No hardcore scratching like Micheal Conway

HAHAHHAAH

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