Originally Posted by
EYENSEE
in the case of the 'digital dubplate', this is my understanding of it.
dubplates are like an exclusive copy of a producers song that NO ONE has yet.... as Moomin stated, usually its given to friends or big name DJ's of the producer or label to rinse out to the general public... from what I've been told its also to gauge how the crowd would react to this new track.... usually if the track is really kick-ass, you get people going..
"daaaamn, where can i get that track?! this DJ is awesome!....I haven't heard any other DJs play this song..."
so usually when you have a good dubplate, you WILL get recognized as a DJ that has all the exclusive tracks before it comes out.
As for digital dubplates, I'm told this is where big name DJ(s) who have officially received a dubplate and permission from the producer himself/herself to play out and/or put in a mix,
...then someone comes along and rips these mixtapes and physically builds the track by cutting, pasting and looping sections from the mixes to create their own 'exclusive' copy of the track.
like, you'd get the intro from mixtape 1, and the body from mixtape 2 - cut those to loops together to partially build the track.
I guess people, mostly the 'elitetists' of the music genre frown upon this cuz its basically stealing the most 'hottest' track out right now and using it to big up your own name, which only a few select DJs should only have.
There's probably nothing you could do to stop this from happening, but as tempting as it is to do it.... to get flamed by people and possibly potential fans for you as a DJ, might not even be worth it ??.
...if I'm wrong someone correct me... this is my understanding of it..
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