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What made you start dj'ing?

What made you start dj'ing? What was your motivation?

For me I have always been a huge fan of the music, go to see allot of dj's play. About a year and a half ago I went to go see Markus Schulz play. He played an amazing set, afterwards I got to talk to him for 10 minutes and he said he saw me singing along and I seemed to know where all the breakdowns and such were. He told me I should start dj'ing. That was enough for me!

Now im curious to why all of you have started dj'ing

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Originally posted by AndyJL What made you start dj'ing? What was your motivation? For me I have always been a huge fan of the music, go to see allot of dj's play. About a year and a half ago I went to go see Markus Schulz play. He played an amazing set, afterwards I got to talk to him for 10 minutes and he said he saw me singing along and I seemed to know where all the breakdowns and such were. He told me I should start dj'ing. That was enough for me! Now im curious to why all of you have started dj'ing

Best alt in ages.

p.s I DJ for the coke and hookers, is there any other reason?

I grew up having one of my fathers best friend's older son as a bit of a kid I looked up to. I used to go out to a roller rink owned by my father's friend, and about 2 times or so a year they would have these events where Jay spun all these awesome late 70's through early 90's electro, hip hop, and dance records. Stuff along the lines of Afrika Bambaata, Newcleuz, Dr. Dre and the World Class Wrecking Cru, Egyptian Lover, Debbie Deb, Freeestyle, Lisa Lisa, and the L.A. Dream Team.

This were big, nasty, brooding records and I loved seeing kids break dance to them. I would wind up going to the rink all the time just to hear that handful of good Electro they'd play in between all the pop music on a loud system. This was all probably between the ages of 8 and 11.

In the early 90's and at the age where I was just heading into puberty it was very awkward for me to begin my fascination with club music. I started to listen to stuff from CeCe Peniston, Robin S. "Show me Love" was one of my favorite tunes of all time - but it was a secret passion because very if any of my friends shared my enjoyment of it.

The final phase began for me in 1997, "Homework" was released and I was sold - "Da Funk" was just such a mega tune for me, to this day it's still the ring tone on my phone. I started saving my pennies immediately after I found myself listening to "Homework", "The Saint Soundtrack", and old big beat and electro records. At this point I don't think I'd ever even heard a house or trance "set" - but by the time I finally got a setup I had been smitten by the '99 era sound of the EM world tour, and for the next three years proceeded to play a combination of really bad and really good prog/trance.

Phew - that was a bit of a narrative there. Sorry for the long post - had been a while since I thought of a lot of that.

hookers and blow

It was an accident.

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Originally posted by Palladium hookers and blow

+11111

my pure love for the music is started it, but i just wanted to make my own mixes - cant listen to single tracks anymore...i gotta mix it!

I wanted to be cooler than my friends.

Early 80s Electro Funk. A lot of the groups mentioned by RJT and about a million more.

Influenced by a lot of earlier DJs like Red Alert, Jazzy Jay, Kool DJ Herc, Francis Grasso, Grandmaster Flash, Funkmaster Wizard Whizz, Grandmaster D-ST, DJ Cheese, Chad Jackson, CJ Mackintosh etc, Tack Head, Davy DMX, Both Dr. Dres (World Class Wreckin Cru and Original Concept) and so on.

Found myself as a DJ long before it became a status symbol in the UK.

I suppose the major reason was a love of music, especially electronic music.

What we have today is so far removed from the origins of how I started. Long before I had decks I was trying to edit mixes by using double tape decks and using the pause button to great effect. Got my first mixer in 1985 the rest is history.

Cheers
Nem

My sister always listened to these mixed tapes from DJs she knew. It was Freestyle, like Collage, Shannon, Stevie B. I just thought it was kinda cool so wanted to try it.

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Originally posted by DJ Z my pure love for the music is started it, but i just wanted to make my own mixes - cant listen to single tracks anymore...i gotta mix it!

x2

Every where I went before I started DJing I had my big mdr-v700's on my head. I DJ now, and I still wear the headphones where ever I go

my big cousin was an influence on me, i've always collected vinyl records. even before i had a turntable to play them on i had about 300-400 records.

i spent so much money on records that i couldnt save for turntables haha.

I like to share my experiences through music

passion for the music, and the feeling that you get when you get a crowd moving.

now i cant go to a party and enjoy it unless im behind the booth.
:-\

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Originally posted by RJT In the early 90's and at the age where I was just heading into puberty it was very awkward for me to begin my fascination with club music. I started to listen to stuff from CeCe Peniston, Robin S. "Show me Love" was one of my favorite tunes of all time - but it was a secret passion because very if any of my friends shared my enjoyment of it. The final phase began for me in 1997, "Homework" was released and I was sold - "Da Funk" was just such a mega tune for me, to this day it's still the ring tone on my phone. I started saving my pennies immediately after I found myself listening to "Homework", "The Saint Soundtrack", and old big beat and electro records. At this point I don't think I'd ever even heard a house or trance "set" - but by the time I finally got a setup I had been smitten by the '99 era sound of the EM world tour, and for the next three years proceeded to play a combination of really bad and really good prog/trance.

that pretty much sums it up for me as well

i was in junior high and listening to punk rock with my friends but had a secret love affair with the 90's dance music scene that really was grabbing my attention

once Daft Punk's "Homework" hit, i was hooked, was hit by the 99 craze and met a dj in college at the same time, he took me under his wing and showed me some stuff, let me use his tables, even while he was away in australia, pretty much the reason i started and eventually became decently good at it

i started out playing house, hard house mainly though, that old uk hard bouncy stuff, went to trance, then prog house and electro, my sets are a good jumble of genres, depends on the night, crowd and my mood

...oh yea, and the groupies and blow, can't forget the groupies and blow

DannyO

If he wouldn't have introduced me to the music (back then I was hyped on Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, PVD, Tiesto... blah blah blah) I wouldn't have started practicing on his turntables, which eventually lead to the purchase of my own gear.. and then I started to listen to other forms of electronic music, and ended up in love with Psytrance.. Which is where I am today, and now starting to get into production.

All thanks to some punk from England.

It was my the mix tapes my uncles owned.
I got to listen to one Euro dance cd and I was hooked.
Ahh.. 1996, lovely memories.

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Originally posted by J:\Digital DannyO If he wouldn't have introduced me to the music (back then I was hyped on Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, PVD, Tiesto... blah blah blah) I wouldn't have started practicing on his turntables, which eventually lead to the purchase of my own gear.. and then I started to listen to other forms of electronic music, and ended up in love with Psytrance.. Which is where I am today, and now starting to get into production. All thanks to some punk from England.

LOL...I still remember back in the day when we worked at COOP and I was starting to get you interested in it, explaining the structure of music out in my car and you being amazed that I could countdown the beats to when things would happen.

As for myself getting hooked, it was not long after moving from the country side to the city (Plymouth) in England, still in my Nirvana stage I remember one weekend when I was bored and checking out the radio stations when all of a sudden I heard something that I never heard before, I never really heard this kind of music before (classic House music) but I was amazed by it, I didn't know what it was or where to find more of it (no internet), I didn't know anyone who knew anything about it but that didn't stop me from searching, eventually I found that this type of music was stored on vinyl and my local HMV carried allot of the great tunes that came out, I then got to know the guy that worked in that department that was also a DJ at a local club and eventually started to go to the clubs that played this music.

I eventually managed to get myself a pair of decks and mixer after learning thats what I needed by swapping my new N64 for it, the setup was some of the shittest you could get, 2 low end worn out beltdrive Soundlab decks and a VERY basic 2 channel mixer that I never knew the make of due to the cosmetics being in such bad condition, but that didn't hold me back from using them everyday for hours on end.

I'll never forget that time of my life as I took on something I knew NOTHING about and wasn't able to find out any info about anything really, was basically told that I needed a couple decks and a mixer and that you had to match the beats, thats all the teaching I got, but I'm glad it happened to me that way, just makes it special to me, and by the time I started to get good at it the club scene in england was starting to take off, and my friends were getting into it as well and wanted to be DJs, then after the release of Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You, things exploded and the next couple years were the best years of my life.

EDIT: Oh yea how could I forget about the Hookers and Blow.

my best friend had two turntables, a cheap battle mixer, mackie monitors a lot of records, and scratch live, and he just let me mess around on his decks whenever i wanted to. he taught me the basics of deejaying and also producing.


I just decided one day that I wanted to DJ, and so I went up to a promoter and asked if I could play a regular party that I had been going to, and as it turned out the old DJ had left, and I came right in and played a 500 person party my first gig, hands in the air, whistles, people rushing on stage, everything.


i thought that's how it always was, and then my next party totally bombed.

As I a kid when I went the to the bowling alley they would play some cool trance/techno like stuff(now they play shitty hip hop and rap now a days)

Also I've always wanted to dj because I would feel powerful and like a god lol.

And of course I love music to death,its my passion,problem is im only 16 so I cant do much at this point

Daft Punk - Da Funk was literally the record that made me want to DJ. Actually, to be specific, the saw-tooth breakdown in Da Funk made me want to DJ.

A DJ killed my dad, so I had to train hard at beatmatchez so I could win back my father's honor in an epic DJ battle with my arch rival.

I started spinning while in highshool in 1998 after seeing Carl Craig spin at an outdoor party in Detroit. I probably looked like an assclown, but I started dancing about 2 tracks in along with a few hundred other cats and couldn't help but get some excited feeling in my chest watching all of it unfold to the awesomeness pouring out of those speakers.

I bought my first setup when I moved to Japan after being invited to a "no Americans allowed" techno/house music club called Hinotama Hall. I was determined to be the first whitey to DJ and/or throw parties there, and was. The Japanese scene was way different than the US, gave me a different outlook on the scene. I spent two years spinning/throwing parties there.

When I came back to the US I quickly realized that the finest fishscale and vagina were my true motivations for spinning, and that the shortage of said motivators in Japan only slowed down my progression toward achieving the ranks of Tiesto and Hansen circa their 1997 debut.

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Originally posted by Alex A DJ killed my dad, so I had to train hard at beatmatchez so I could win back my father's honor in an epic DJ battle with my arch rival.

Hahaha

Avenging your father's death is always the best reason for anything.

has to be love for the music for me. at some point in my life i started buying cds because i loved the music. then all of a sudden i had a shitload of them. then i decided that it might be fun trying to mix the tunes together so i bought my first gear (after saving like mad and spending most of my money on cds).

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