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    Hi people,

    just wanted to know what made you want to become a dj?

    For me it was sucky djs at my hometown partys and this video


    Might sound cheesy, but AM is the man for me, technically there are better djs but somehow i just feel his sets, too bad that guy died, wouldve wanted to see him live

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJP9GALDULk

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    I was always interested and loved music. I originally wanted to Produce (which I just started doing) and as I was buying my new Laptop I browsed through Apples website and found a cheap Vestax DJay thing that i thought would be fun to play around with. After seeing that I talked to my Dj friends and got really into it. After that I picked up an S4 instead of the Vestax Djay and now here I am!

    By the way that whole thing happened mid october of 2010 lol.

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    I'm fairly new and I'm not a HARDCORE DJ, I just like the music. But what pulled me in was was making beats in FL Studio and wanted to buy a MPC because all the cool kids were doing it . Then I stumbled across midi controllers and eventually across Traktor. Then the price & functionality of a Hercules Mp3 E2 beat out the price & functionality of a Akai LPD8, I was very low budget atm. I kinda fell into messing with the DJ thing. + Ean Golden, his tuts on youtube were very addicting.

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    My first grade teacher was a DJ. He was like my only father growing up. He used to spin for the class. Kinda un-conventional right?

    And I guess also because it was the cool thing to do, growing up in Los Angeles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deviantdigi View Post
    Hercules Mp3 E2
    hell, i had the same thing to start out, local consumer electronic store sportin highclass dj products, little did i know

    Quote Originally Posted by maxonemillionone View Post
    My first grade teacher was a DJ. He was like my only father growing up. He used to spin for the class. Kinda un-conventional right?

    And I guess also because it was the cool thing to do, growing up in Los Angeles.
    How awsomes that? A first grade teacher spinning for teh children awwwwwsome

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    I have always liked club scene and started attending dnb and jungle raves in 98-99... Then started to attend depending the DJ... Goldie, Bad Company, Dara, Keoki, London Elektricity... Always wanted to be a DJ but the price for the equipment and vinyl was just impossible for me.

    Then like maybe in 2005 I saw many DJ's with laptops and I was like "why are these people checking their email on stage?" Then I learned about Traktor and it's features and pretty much got interested again.

    And the free drinks, groupies, VIP lists and respect dont hurt either.
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    Two words: Richie Hawtin

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    Also 2 words: money and fame
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    Also two words: shake and bake
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    Allways been in to EDM since i was like... errr 9?? weird age to start liking it... anyways...Started producing in FL when i was 14, bought reason and Logic studio when i was 16 along with a korg Microkontrol... Entered a Local Dance radio stations "making Music" competition and came in the top 20... since my name was among some of the well known DJ's of my town... I decided to give mixing a crack and bought some TT's, audio 8, TSP and some timecode vynils...

    Now im rockin clubs... dropping in a few of my own tracks every now and then and im quite happy with the results :P

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