This is something that's gone back and forth in the back of my mind for the past several months. I come from a musician background, and I'm trying to develope some kind of neat way of performing music from my laptops using controllers and so on. The usual stuff, and because of this I naturally ended up on this site, reading up alot on the whole laptop-performance field through the articles on the blogg. But since a lot of the stuff is mostly directed towards DJs, a lot of articles are pretty unrelevant to me.
I get that a DJs job is to "act as a filter" for music, as in, he goes out and finds the music that is good and fresh, packages the new hot tracks in a way that keeps exciment through out the whole listeningexperience and makes sure people at the party/club have a good time.
But what does a DJ do, really? I mean what is the difference between a good and a bad DJ? Is it the music he plays, in what order he plays it? The transitions he makes between different songs?
The reason I'm asking this is because I've always been curious about DJing, partly due to this site and partly because I feel that me being a person who devotes a huge part of my sparetime searching for new music to listen to just as well could devote some time to present all that music in a nice way for other people to listen to.
Maybe I should just pick up a beginners guide to DJing.
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