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Importance in DJ'ing (pg. 3)
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| nefardec |
that particular (june 4th) one unfortunately is not :( but you can stream other mixes here. the most recent is from a month ago.
juan atkins will be playing with fk on july 2nd which should be crazed too gonna be BIG FUN |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
that particular (june 4th) one unfortunately is not :( |
You write a whole paragraph hyping it up to the max and making me drool all over my keyboard and it's not even available? Not cool man, not cool. :( |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
You write a whole paragraph hyping it up to the max and making me drool all over my keyboard and it's not even available? Not cool man, not cool. :( |
hahah yeah!
it's cool, though.. I'll be checking that site, anyways. |
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| ZeJayMan |
| Francois K is the ing bomb. He's mixed more records than you've had hot dinners and it shows. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | | ou write a whole paragraph hyping it up to the max and making me drool all over my keyboard and it's not even available? Not cool man, not cool. |
haha i am just as disappointed as you!
this brings me to another belief i have:
deejaying is like making love to a lot of people at once
and the longer you go without peaking while still building and building momentum the better it will be. it also applies that you must give the crowd what they want sometimes to receive good feedback from what you want. i think the dj always eneds to be one with the party and nothing separate. this is what kills me with the star-jays whom everyone faces and pumps fists at. i love a party where people are dancing like mad and into each other and the music and the deejay is floating in everyone's consciousness like the sound itself |
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| Ministerio |
I'm just focused on really improving my record/music collection.
Im at the point now where I will only pick something if I can imagine myself dancing to it (I mean going crazy) on the dance floor. I'd like to somewhat emulate Carl Cox, in that he doesn't wear out the crowd, but his track selection is energetic all the way through.
The problem comes with my confidence issues, and whether the people will like it or not. Deep down when I think - i think they probably will, because the newer and newer tracks i'm picking out, go hand in hand with the club scene here, and are simply dancfloor bombs. But you never know...and I have a gig coming up. |
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| montana |
| quote: | Originally posted by Freqnasty
Nonsense, fatboy slim has more remixes than the artists mentioned in this thread. Their works in the studio got them more popularity then their dj sets, for example if you have a track then send it to the labels, it gets signed hence your famous.
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yes, their productions got their far than their dj-careers. wasn't eluding at anything else.
| quote: | Originally posted by Freqnasty
Wrong, if you have a great track selection but you can't mix if ur life depended on it, what good is the beasty tracklist?
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most people don't care with the transitions, it's just the scenesters (and these people are mostly just guys, yunno, the trainspotters and the bedroomdjs) who nitpick transitions inside the clubs. the rest will just dance and listen to the good tracks.
and btw i'm not saying that good mixing skills doesn't get you anywhere, my point was that dj's all over the globe, since the beginning who have played records for a mixed crowd knows that you can rely completely on trackselection and not mix at all because that's what they did in the beginning. in jamaica and in the back in the paradise garage with larry levan. he was awful when it came to mixing, even when he had proper motordriven decks, he was terrible. but he had a trackselection that few could top. |
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| Watts |
1. pleasing the crowd
Nothing else is important unless you are a turntablist. |
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| Koldorn |
From a listeners perspective here, track selection is top of the pile by far. Whats done with the tracks is very important too though, least to me. Some transitions can almost appear to be completely new tracks and I love that, even managed to accomplish this myself using only traktor 3 on my desktop while making my own cd of tunes and experimenting.
Goes back to track selection though, as im as amateur as they come and do it for kicks and experimenting/learning very basics. |
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| s3nate |
- Keeping the crowd going
That is all. |
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| mikeconradi |
If you're playing out (club/rave) and you can't mix 2 records together consistently for lets say an hour set you shouldn't be playing out.
Track selection will only take you so far at which point you need to have the technical skills to back it up.
Anyone can play records and mix them poorly. Anyone.
The big 3 of djing are:
Mixing ability - able to beatmatch for more than 16 bars AND able to mix in phase.
Ability to read the crowd - You don't need to going nuts behind the decks but it is imperative to be able to read the vibe in the room
If you do this well number 3 gets that much easier.
Trackselection - know what to drop and when to drop it. ANYONE can play an hour of big anthems. If you want to get recognized for your trackselection you need to be innovative, creative and as unique as the rest of the line-up will allow you to play. If you hear a dj before you play something you were planning on dropping, even if its the biggest record in your bag - don't play it. As someone who has been doing this for the last 9 years I can honestly tell you people in the crowd notice and other DJs notice.
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Mike |
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