Lol 140 bpm house dj ,our nights usually start at around 120 bpm ,and you should always leave some headroom on the sound for the guests,thats why as promoters its important to have the dj's on in the right order...
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Lol 140 bpm house dj ,our nights usually start at around 120 bpm ,and you should always leave some headroom on the sound for the guests,thats why as promoters its important to have the dj's on in the right order...
Haha, funny as hell!!
I've always wonder about DJ etiquette. Being a newbie to the world of Djing and taking a look at those rules, some of them make sense and some I just don't get:
The Trainspotting one seems totally ridiculous to me. Personally I would want to ask what the headliner is playing so I don't take the tracks they were planning on spinning. However I do think it would suck quite a bit if they managed to take many of the best tracks you are planning on playing. How are you supposed to get a good rep as a DJ if you are constantly being edged out of all the best songs? I guess given the vast quantity of music out there tho i can see this only being a minor problem and happening with only a few tracks.
Furthermore if someone is playing a wicked song and i like the track or vice versa, i see no harm in telling them what it is. If you are the type of guy who is going to hoard tracks for yourself and not tell me what you are planning on spinning, then i say too fucking bad if i play one of the songs you were going to play. No? That being said I can also see the need to keep that certain special track or two in your back pocket as a secret weapon you just don't want anyone else to play. Its a tough call.
i heard this dj, luciano in one of his set, he mixed track A w/ track B. track a was the acapella and track b was the mid/low. then he took that same track b and used it for track c. so track c was the acapella and track b again was the mid/low
so my question is
is it wrong/lame if i took track b and mixed my own track a and c acapella that i spent time looking for that will fit with track b that i got from the dj and do everything similiar to the same style he did. using 2 acapellas and 1 mid/low to make 2 songs with?
only difference is i would have the same mid/low but not the same 2 acapellas.
would that be wrong?
I was debating this a friend the other day, and it's something that is more of the old school DJ thing. When DJ's used to sit around at the record store listening to tunes and cutting custom dubplates.
What it came down to then was people worked hard to find good music. Now that we have the internet, it's something everyone has available to them. But honestly? Some of the rules still apply. If someone found a really nasty track that was underground, they still might not let you know right away.
It's part of the whole sitting down in the basement of a record store and shuffling through stuff until you find a gem. A lot of us, myself included, never had to experience that. But I understand where people come from with that.
I find a lot of newer DJ's a lot more open with what they are playing than old school ones as well, I've talked to a few after events. And some people just don't like playing stuff that is mainstream, and so they like to "hold on" to a song as long as possible.
It's an interesting dynamic that is changing DJing as we speak.
honestly, those are some generic "top 40 dj" set of rules..
if your a party banger in the electronic scene most those rules fly right out the window - besides the obvious like drinks on the table..
for example:
No hype guys in girls in the back - whack. (the electro scene is all about creating connections with tight people just as into the music as you that can hype the crowed to your shit. show the people when to clap to the beat, prepare them for your hard shit, start your name chants (which might sound cheesy but it's only explainable like how surfers describe "ridin in the tube")
no playing your favorite tracks - whack (unless its a top40 club where you hear the same shit over all night either way).
Don't play remixes of tracks by the original artests whos headlining - whack (what artest aren't honored to see/n/hear there shit kill it in the club)
Keep the volume down - damn straight, & people need to educate them selves on digital clipping.
& No drinks around the equipment - shit i really wish this was a well know common courtesy Yet SomeHow every night theres that damn drink right next to my shit!
And to add to that, back in the day the one of the main things that separated DJ's was the track selection and that you were the only one with it.
I read interviews with some of the original guys where they would go to all the record shops in their surrounding area and by all the copies of a track if they didn't want any one to have it or even find out about it.
But now a days that isn't the case. You can't make on DJ skills alone if you wanna go somewhere. You really have to start producing to get recognized and I'd say that's been the biggest difference maker with the new generation of DJs.
@dodge no personal attack but i've seen loads of your posts and am new to dj'ing.maybe a mix would allow you to put your point across without getting up peoples noses.i wouldn't mind hearing a mix that goes from 60bpm to 180bpm as im pretty crap at the moment and think i and others could benefit from hearing what you do.thanx
@cutflow i think its good to learn from other djs.and maybe slightly replicate something you've seen them do until you are comfortable with how they did it.but if you find yourself following luciano more often your not really dj'ing for the right reasons and you'll soon get bored.