This whole list is dead-on. Should be mandatory reading before you r first house party. Way to learn from your experience!
This whole list is dead-on. Should be mandatory reading before you r first house party. Way to learn from your experience!
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Nicely done it! What's your equipment?
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DJ's share music....but you also get DJ's play to express themselves....
Look at Ean Golden....he is not your average A->B DJ....he mashes styles up and expresses himself!
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I have #'s 1 and 7 on a post-it on my S4 - thanks.
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Nothing against Ean or anyone else, but I personally think that's when the DJ becomes a rockstar. You don't have to mix from A->B, but when you're there to show off your talent, a certain amount of ego is introduced. It then becomes more about the DJ than the music.
$.02
Also, I've decided to take some time to restructure my music library: to start 100 songs per genre, 20 per intensity (1-5 *'s) and some key structure (it's difficult, because keys are sort of random, like when you buy a pack of trading cards, fuck knows what's in it.)
Now that I think of it, DJing is a lot like a trading card game...
I started a spreadsheet to catagorize one of my libraries, it's at 61 songs. Can't figure out how to make charts obey me (or change column sizes, etc), since I've never used a spreadsheet before: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...thkey=CLnbwcUD
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I don't have permission to see the spreadsheet. lame.
I use a wiki to store info on my library + it acts as a massive adventure book playlist. Technology is cool.
Last edited by MrPopinjay; 05-19-2011 at 05:40 PM.
I can see it. Isn't the internet cool? I'm totally in ur spreadsheet + shouting in teh chat.
This can be true of false completely depending on the situation.
Lets take AndyC for exmaple (drum and bass dj), he will start a lot of his sets mixing about 100 tracks in 10 min(ok thats an exaggeration but you get the idea) - i definitely think thats some musicianship there. But then he will break out into traditional mixing.
You could also think of Djing being somewhat of a collage, artists who do collage art are still artists even if they are piecing bits of other artists work into something new.
This is a terribly personal thing though and your perfectly entitled to your opinion thinking that a DJ isn't a musician - there really is no right or wrong answer to this question - just peoples opinions on the topic.
As for your post though, great work This sort of stuff really helps users out and even brings a smile to the faces of some of the guys who have been doing this a while as they reminisce at their days starting out mixing.
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