In connection with a soon-to-be-published article, I’m curious as to if there’s interest in our community to have an semi-official internet radio station. We’d need an incredible volunteer to run it and vet/train/schedule DJs, and we’d of course need a bunch of DJs who would be willing to contribute!
What can we do to make this the way coolest internet radio station ever?
DJs with experience on internet radio, we’re looking to you for advice as well : )
That’s one hell of a nice idea.
I guess some of us struggle to find a nice radio to play on (at least I do), and this DJTT webradio would be nice because thanks to the forum “fame”, i’d be a bit more “alive” than our personal mixlr/mixcloud
And I guess if this things spreads as I expect it to, i’d bring new members to the community.
It’s a win-win, go ahead.
I’d love to have a 1h schedule per month or so, for some brostep/dubstep/drumstep/moombahcore.
I’m definitely interested. I wouldn’t mind trying to run the thing either. It depends on what would be needed out of it. But hell I got tons of time since I work at home lol.
I guess what I would imagine it would be a podcast style thing, that people can tune into live or download the podcast.
Additionally if we wanted to drop samples of advertisement for DJTT in we would need to do some work in ableton, or ask the mixing DJ to do that.
Even a host would be huge overall. To announce the artist, where they are from where to find them and then talk about whats new with DJTT. i.e "You are tuning in with Guiltysounds hosting the DJTT weekly podcast. Todays show consist of Chicago house from DJ Donkey punch from Washington state for an hour long, we’ve got some tracks from xyz. You can find DJ donkey punch on his website www.sngns.com. While you are in the mix stop by DJTT website and check out our limited edition midifighter pros that were just released. These midi fighters sport a fresh looking white color and work with our very own mad zachs ableton templates.
Then every so often during track you do a “You are tuned in to Round table sessions with DJTT”.
The only question I would have is do you need a license, like an entertainment license to cover what tracks you play? That way it would protect you against people saying you are playing tracks that are illegitimate?
It would have to limited to a genre a week or a day or every other day or something 24 hrs broadcasting is crazy… Too much to scan over for a person to approve mixes.
I think that is where trust comes in… with some paper work. My favorite internet radio station started out as about 12 guys, with the filler time being a deep play list on shuffle. 12 years later or so it is nearly always live mix with a few repeats of last weeks mix of a popular set. I think with time it will fill out to near live 24 hours a day, especially given balancing time differences of the multi-national community.
Be nice if it kind of stayed true to the nature of the site with a hour show based on tutorials, whether that be interviews with a guest mix from someone in the industry, or something that is different than your normal internet radio station. I would definitely tune in for that kind of content.
I’d be interested in helping out once I get my improved internet connection sometime at the beginning of next year! Right now, no chance in hell with the crap DSL I have.
The stations i’m involved with (chromanova, schizoid, tenzi, sato) all have scheduled shows but also broadcast 24/7 with a bank of prerecorded mixes. If DJTT starts something up maybe using the official soundcloud group as a source for mixes and then we can add shows as time goes on or something. exciting times!
