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| Nemesis44 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
Nem whats your age if you dont mind me asking?
Its funny how nomatter if you started djing 20 years ago or today there is a good chance you will want the exact same decks. |
I'm 34 (creeping up to 35).
My inspirations at the time were people like Red Alert, Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Dr Dre (Yes he has been around that long), Supreme Majestic, Chad Jackson, Chris Mackintosh and so on.
Very different from what I do today but the desire to be a DJ is as strong as it's ever been. Can't really say that I have ever wanted to be anything else.
Cheers
Nem |
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| trancecadet |
First dj's I heard were 00 flemming and oakenfold on radio one. I was so amazed that it became a mission of mine to eventually buy a set of techs and to get out there and start mixing in a club.
Some people say its the wrong attitude to desperately want to play out and that I should just mix because I love the music but having your own style and enjoying the music is one thing but playing out to a crowd who feel just as passionate as you do while going mental has got to be one of the best feelings in the world :D |
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| shades_of_gray |
Been Mixing for 5 years,
got into trance properly in 1997 |
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| Zild |
| I'm quickly coming up on two years. Here's to two more years. :clown: |
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| Stu Cox |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancecadet
How many people can say they wanted techs from the age of 12? :D |
Hehe I can, got my first decks then myself - and then I had a pair at 14 or 15 ;)
Mixing for about 7, playing out for 5 or so. |
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| Inertia |
early february 2004 was the first time i touched vinyl. some weeks before my bday (my 16th bday, that is), at a friends house. ended up having him spin at my party. good ol' Stanton STR8-80s and SK-6 mixer. dont forget the crappy Stanton headphones... learned my on those. later, in a poll of equipment my friends made, we had gotten a Stanton RMS-3 mixer and some techs. Pioneer HDJ-1000s as well. we'd mix every wednesday, a few hours each, which then spilled over to wednesdays and thursdays, and finally tuesday-thursday. drinking and spinning and chilling out during the week was the best...
had been listening since i was 11-12, trance, and by the time i came in contact with gear i was a prog-head. how things change in a few months... later that year i moved into tech house, then took a liking to electro and techno. ended up into minimal/tech/electrp thing by fall of 2004. hehe... currently have a Pioneer CDJ-200 setup, with a DJM600 and one Tech12 at home. dont own all of the equipment, as it is polled again, but i get to keep it as my house is the most noise-friendly. |
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| s3nate |
| I have been mixing since september 2005. So far I got beatmatching, phrasematching and almost good volume control... next step, harmonic mixing :D |
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| schafer |
| I've only been mixing for a few weeks. Ever since 8th grade i've been interested in electronic music. Im currently 18 years old and a senior in high school. I had a bunch of old crap sitting around so I sold it all on ebay and bought my gear (Vestax VMC-004, 1200 MK5's, Alesis Monitor one's, and hopefully CDJ 1000's soon). I have grown up in somewhat of a rural town (outside of sacramento, CA) so the people here are such radioheads. I've always considered my taste in music unique from the people around me. I really wish I could expose them all to this wonderful type of music. Everyone here wouldnt even consider listening to the music we all listen to. Im willing to bet deep down inside them all the music would get them going inside, but they would never admit to it.. they're too "hard" to listen to this stuff. I can't wait to move to college and experience more diversity and get better at mixing/djing so I can dive into this great scene and meet people alike. Im stoked. -Steve |
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| Spirit5 |
| I started when I was 16 on MixMeister making simple mixes of downloaded stuff (illegally yeah). I stopped doing that and mixed on TTs (Numark TTX) for two years, and then yeah I sold those and stopped collecting vinyl and now on CDJs. I only learned to mix properly two years ago, because for the longest time I was confused on how to properly mix, I was usually mixing into the tracks not on the first beat but say after the build up during the high energy parts, and it sounded okay, but after practicing more after learning properly I discovered It sounded better! still have a ways to go but better at mixing now then when I was 16 or 18 for sure. So 5 years total (if you want to count mixing with MixMeister) and almost 3 years with proper equipment, and 2 years of mixing properly. Once I get beatmatching down perfectly i'll tackle harmonic mixing, although I have experimented a little bit.... |
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| zizack |
| started playing in my bedroom about 3.5 years ago, started playing out 1.5 years ago, started throwing my own parties about half a year ago. |
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| schafer |
| quote: | Originally posted by s3nate
I have been mixing since september 2005. So far I got beatmatching, phrasematching and almost good volume control... next step, harmonic mixing :D |
don't mind me asking.. what is phrasematching? does this have to do with vocals? sorry im new to all of this |
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| dinoXpress |
| quote: | Originally posted by schafer
don't mind me asking.. what is phrasematching? does this have to do with vocals? sorry im new to all of this |
use the search my young padawan... :) |
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