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| quote: | Originally posted by Gil Shwarts
best thing to do is to start going to this club you wanna spin at every weekend and go to every party this club is participating at.
start talking with the people who work there... make them your friends... after few weeks/months
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excellent excellent advice.. u must get to know the ppl you want to work for if ur a no-namer. as said earlier, in this business, it really DOES matter who you know, there are a million and one bedroom dj's out there who have got the talent to be club-worthy, the problem is they sit around and wonder what they should be doing and how to get into the scene, u guys can take advantage of them wasting their time by you guys going out to the clubs, meet the promoters, try to talk to dj's, try to get to know as many people as you can. sending in demo cd's doesn't always work because people will be more inclined to think of you if they got a face/voice/etc.. to put to the name. chances are, unless u send in some crazy ass shit that no1 has ever mixed before, ur just gonna be thrown into the pile of other demo cd's that are good but not special. most ppl already figured out that if u send a demo, its gotta be good, so imagine being the club manager/promoter/booking agent, and u've got stacks of cd's that are all good, what do u do? u remember the kid that was talkin to you, or the kid that one of ur promoters got to know and recommended.. this will help you take advantage over the dj's that are just mailing their demos. its a lot of fucking work because we ain't spinning mainstream music here, so although electronic music djs are not exactly a dime a dozen, there really just isnt' enough demand to hire us all.. hope this helps a little
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