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    Cue up the next song with volume on that deck full on. Quiting DJ'ing 20 years ago was probably my biggest DJ fail.
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    I was playing the House room of quite big Drum and Bass night....

    Most of the people in the club were pretty shady types just standing round bopping their head.

    This was about 12 years ago and I was using vinyl. After doing a nice long drawn out mix, carefully tweaking the bass etc, i pulled the record that was playing straight off.

    there's no getting away from that one cause you can hear the record scratch sound and i had a stupid confused expression accross my face.

    Had people booing hard... managed to turn it round but i was pretty shamed.
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    Putting on a vinyl record with an atmospheric intro, thinking it was 45 rpm, and failing to check. Beat drops and super-cartoon hi-speed chaos ensues. Totally blow the mood and what can I do but hit the 33 switch as fast as I can. Fail.
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    was mixing this outdoor patio party, and I accidentally kicked the power source for my dj gear and all the backyard patio lights...everyone was like wtf? It took every bit of my concentration to get everything working again, being drunk didn't help, and everyone around was drunk too. I would have to say the worst part of that experience was having the 100 chicks at the party all come up at once and ask "why isn't the music playing?".....
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    I was in the middle of closing up my set when my girlfriend came over to makeout with me, I was wasted and all about it...all of a sudden music stops....her elbow hit my laptop shut, password protected , with 10 minutes left and the room at peak hype...ugh

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    Lovin your work people, all these are genius (or not as the case maybe), just lets you know that your all still, as daft punk put it, Human after all!!!

    I was just telling my DJ mate about the thread and he told me that once he was playing in a particularly rough club one night back down south where I used to live, was in the middle of changing records chatting girls up across the booth and without looking caught the sleeve of his jacket on the arm of the deck and ripped the thing right off!!! He told the owner who got very shirty and forcibly ejected him from the club with no pay. Worst bit was a) he was just about to finish and b) he was doing quite well with the girls!!!

    That'll learn you for not looking what your doing flirting!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zac Kyoti View Post
    Putting on a vinyl record with an atmospheric intro, thinking it was 45 rpm, and failing to check. Beat drops and super-cartoon hi-speed chaos ensues. Totally blow the mood and what can I do but hit the 33 switch as fast as I can. Fail.
    LOL'ed at "super-cartoon hi-speed chaos" ensues

    Yup, done that too, that's a classic vinyl dj fail innit

    I've done it the otherway too, put it on 33 when should be 45, but super slow reggae mix is not quite as bad...
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    Just two weekends ago I was playing with a friend at a 90's themed party, and as I'm about to load the next track, I notice how it won't allow me because the deck is playing and I have "only load into stopped deck" enabled. Drunk as I was, I was convinced that the deck I wanted to load into was the one I had just mixed out of, so I stop it, and load the new track... silence Wrong deck, moron!
    Later that night, my buddy confused the key fader we have mapped on our fx controller for the dry/wet fader That sounded a bit odd.
    We were pretty drunk.

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    Think i have done most of the above at one occasion or another, my worst as someone else already mentioned was hanging up my headphones back in 95 until 2009!

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    I see now you should not drink and mix, pick one and stick to it...LOL

    See attached and you'll understand:

    http://www.break.com/epic-fails/dj-f...urntables.html

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