Introduce Yourself - DjTechTools Roll Call!

[shima records]

*stands up*

Hello everyone, my name is John....I am taking each day at a time...I have been music free for 2 hours now, the shakes are getting worse. Can't wait for 5pm!

[DvlsAdvct]

haha

Welcome John. I'd send this over to the DJ Addict thread so everyone sees

[Ed Paris]

Haha this thread is going to be huge.

read the first page and saw hat comment...hehe your right...it is!

[SimondaSilvar]

1. ???, Simon

2. Los Angeles, USA moving to Poland soon

3. Play what the occasion suits. From jazz, funk, and electronca, brazilian beats, disco, rap, house, what ever i find good.

[SimondaSilvar]

xxx, Simon

Los Angeles but moving soon to Poland

i use in my sets everything : Jazz, Classical, Electronica, Hip Hop, House, Dace/Club, Rock,

[Archies'bald]

1. Whats your Dj Name/Real Name (optional) Webby

2. Where you are from (City/Country) Scotland

3. Style of music you enjoy playing. .... anything with a decent 4/4 beat.

I'm 36 years young now and I've been DJing since 1992 when i bought my first set of crappy belt drive decks. I'm now looking to progress(!?) in to digital work as I have to clear my play room for my daughter. I'm even considering selling all my vinyl, decks, mixer and flight cases (etc.) to finance this.

I'll post a pic of my set up when I'm sober.

[rcolbourne]

1. Whats your Dj Name/Real Name (optional) - The Amazing Mr. Pants

2. Where you are from (City/Country) - Toronto/Canada

3. Style of music you enjoy playing - see below

Aside from a couple of random posts here (a programming one for upgrading your firmware, and one about headphones) I've been mostly lurking. Mainly because I've "semi-retired" from DJ'ing.

All in all, I spent a good 11 years DJ'ing in clubs, with a weekend residency for 5 of them (always a packed house I should add). I moved to a new, much larger city to focus on my day job career and essentially stopped DJ'ing out aside from the very occasional party (very liberating I might add, although I've been getting the itch to get back out there lately).

I've become a bit schizophrenic when it comes to the sound I want to play... one minute it's tech-house, the next it's dubstep, the next is really chilled hip-hop... heck even an industrial set isn't a stretch. Sometimes I'll just mix all that stuff together (not that I could ever get away with that at any club that I've ever seen - although I did manage to get a goth club dancing to Soulja Boy - Crank That).

My next project is going to be a very artistic night consisting of a deep house set (or two... it's going to be hard to not play for 4 or 6 hours like I'm used to) from me, a nice melodic guitar/vocal set from a friend, combined with either an art show or a photography show. It's the first step, I'm hoping to make this a more regularly occurring event with the style kind of free-flowing... one month there may be a band, the next might be some kind of dance troupe or a film showing etc. but always with at least 3 forms of art happening. Just something to allow different types of artists to mingle and explore each others art.

[Vaughan]

djVW (Vaughan Wilkinson)
Gothenburg, Sweden (formerly Surfers Paradise, Australia)
Tech, Minimal and Prog House

[Sherlock Ohms]

Teiresias/Sam
Bristol/UK

I mostly play new and old school funk/hip-hop/soul, but can get a bit wonky at times. I also have a bit of a thing for reggae ...

[sarasin]

Hi

I am AD aka DJ Sarasin from Cape Town, South Africa.

I have been DJing for 12 years and I have been spinning Psytrance at the outdoor parties and festivals for about the last 5 years, however I can pretty much mix anything with a beat and some things without.
I have been producing Psytrance for a few years too using Cubase.

I am a resident for Beartrap Productions but I am not a professional DJ. I have a day job.

I have just upgraded my studio and jumped on the Digital bandwagon.
I got the VCI-100 and Traktor Pro running on a MacBook.

I am now moving into the Electro scene playing Fidget, Disco, DubStep , Minimal Tech and anything that really has balls and a phat bottom.
(That sounds odd.....)

Cheers!

Sarasin