Can you get famous by just mixing downloaded tracks?

[Br4M]

Hi everyone,

Pretty much all really famous DJ's in the EDM scene are producing their own tracks, so I was wondering how far - do you think - can someone who just mixes downloaded tracks get really famous?

I can't even get into a club yet (officially), so I don't know how hard it is to get well known. I am 15 years old now, and if I want to make it as a DJ (or at least earn some money with it twice a month,) should I really start producing, or can I just continue developing more mixing skills and get famous by just mixing tracks I get off Beatport?


Mat Zo & Porter Robinson – Easy (Original Mix)
Alesso Vs. Andain – Beautiful Years (Total Sound Mashup)
M-3ox Ft. Heidrun Vs. Matisse & Sadko Vs. The Temper Trap - Beating Of My Sweet Disposition Heart (AX Mashup)
Mika – Make You Happy (Walden Remix)
Soulero & HellBerg – Because We Are (Original Mix)
Arty – When I See You (Alesso Mix)
Dirty South & Michael Brun – The Rift (Original Mix)
Hardwell Ft. Amba Sheperd – Apollo (Original Mix)
The Killers – Miss Atomic Bomb (Maor Levi Remix)
Lana Del Rey – Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Vocal Down Mix)
Porter Robinson Ft. Amba Sheperd – Vandalism (Original Mix)
Divini & Warning – Just A Sound (Knife & Renvo Bigroom Remix)
Mikkas & Amba Sheperd – Finally (Original Mix)

Thanks for reading,
Br4M

[elliot1106]

"You still didn’t answer, do you have advice for the young budding DJ?
I have no advice for the fucking kid that wants to play everyone else’s music and be famous for it."

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[soundinmotiondj]

can someone who just mixes downloaded tracks get really famous?

There are ways to have a successful business providing entertainment and a mobile DJ service. I will caution, that being a mobile DJ is more about playing the songs that your clients want to hear....and less about putting your own music into the world.

The world is full of "starving artists" and "corporate sellouts." Neither extreme is inevitable, and there is money to be made in between those two extremes. Having a small business does require that you actually run a small business....and that is not always an easy thing to do.

There are VERY few individuals who will make it into the 50,000 seat arena....and most of the reason they get into that arena does not have anything to do with their mixing or producing skills.

[Br4M]

I understand Deadmau5 there, but I think DJ'ing is about making the crowd happy, yourself happy, and the owner of the place happy.

[elliot1106]

The OP used the word 'famous' what on earth are you talking about?

[sev]

you can get famous if you pay a load of ghost writers to produce for you, but i don't think there will be many to any "big name dj's" upcoming that don't produce there own music, apart from the scratch dj's and the likes of paris hilton and the guy from jersey shore.