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Posted by ultimate7 on Oct-26-2008 15:02:

DJ Tools/Intros

Hey all, just wondering where you all buy dj tools from. I've been looking on beatport, but I'm pretty unimpressed by their offerings. I really need a tool for an intro to my mix, and I want it to be simply dark/melodic buildup without vocals/beats. Any suggestions?

Posted by Fledz on Oct-26-2008 15:05:

Make it yourself from scratch?

Posted by Trance-M on Oct-26-2008 15:37:

Re: DJ Tools/Intros

quote:
Originally posted by ultimate7
Hey all, just wondering where you all buy dj tools from. I've been looking on beatport, but I'm pretty unimpressed by their offerings. I really need a tool for an intro to my mix, and I want it to be simply dark/melodic buildup without vocals/beats. Any suggestions?

Since you are from Belgium I would suggest to use one of the intro's of those CD compilations like Zillion. I can remember most of these had fantastic intro's and outro's.
Probably you can remember the Grandmix Intro's by Ben Liebrand, which started many year with that robot voice.

Making intro's IMO would take much time, certainly to make them sound professional.

Posted by elFreak on Oct-26-2008 15:49:

netlabels and google are your friend.

they are often free too

Posted by shaw on Oct-27-2008 14:37:

fight club or matrix samples + whatever boards of canada track comes up first on random mode.

no one has done it before.

Posted by Acton on Oct-27-2008 15:21:

quote:
Originally posted by inconspicuous
+ whatever boards of canada track comes up first on random mode.

lol. I'll have to give that a try when I get home from work.

Posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs on Oct-27-2008 19:41:

quote:
Originally posted by inconspicuous
matrix samples

no one has done it before.

oh fuck I just did that

Posted by nchs09 on Oct-27-2008 19:57:

I have always enjoyed starting with an acapella... i dunno why.

Posted by Teezdalien on Oct-27-2008 20:48:

quote:
Originally posted by elFreak
netlabels and google are your friend.

they are often free too

Yes. I've found a lot of great free tunes from netlabels that are suitable for intros. Also a lot of good glitchy, experimental, ambient and dancefloor friendly techno.

Posted by Trance-M on Oct-27-2008 21:27:

I always liked those Battlestar Galactica robot voice Ben Liebrand, the Mastermixer used for his Grandmixes.

Maybe nice to heard it:

Ben Liebrand Grandmix 2001:

Grandmix 1983:

Another one:

Ben Liebrand King of Minimixes?

(of topic) A really weird mix of him:

Ben Liebrand-Prodigy vs Faithless

Like this one

Faithless & The Prodigy - Insomnia Vs. Funky Shit

Ben Liebrand probably was one of the first DJ's who was into Beatmixing, already in the early 80's.
Made grandmixes starting in 1983 till now !!
Ben Liebrand was Armin van Buuren's idol and got tips from him in 1993.

One of his biggest hits was this one Who didn't love ALF?

ALF - Stuck On Earth (1987!!!)

Also some of you might remember this one:

ISCO - Funkytown (1997)

It's not on Youtube yet, so I maybe should dig up the maxi-single.