Finding and getting music
for all you Dj’s, where do you find new music to play for sets and mixed. also, how can you tell a song will be good to mix with. im new to mixing and can never tell what would go well together and im kind of lost.
I find and download new stuff from DJcity (record pool). As far as knowing what is good to mix, just experimenting. Also if you use a program for mixing in key, that can help determine what works well together.
You can find music anywhere on the web: beatport, itunes, bandcamp, soundcloud, etc.
As far as knowing what works you need to practice, practice, practice and use your ears. Watch some YouTube tutorials or check out sites like dubspot. Also spend a lot of time listening to music and other djs sets that sound good to you and try to understand what they are doing.
how can you tell what key something is in on traktor?
as said you need a program like Mixed in Key, Rapid Evolution, etc etc. Some are pay some are free. i know RE had a free beta i used for awhile that was decent. didnt write it into camelot like MIK does.
read into this.
everything else is just practice. throw a track on, play it and while listening cue another track and listen and see how they mix. BPM matching helps when new as well. mixing in deck B intro while deck A is on a braekdown is a easy way to start learning to mix as well.
I say start building a collection of tunes you like, learning to dig is kind of the fun of djing, the constant discovery. Sometimes I will find a producer from internet radio and start checking out stuff they made and if the site has similar artists or other people bought dig thru those too, with in an hour my ADD has taken it to a whole new level of lost on a tangent and I’m finding stuff I never would have by not keep listening to tunes.
who’s your favorite DJ? What sites do get your tunes from?
Please stop telling people that. It’s not true.
He should be all about finding music he likes first, not what key the track is in.
Also most songs on beatport.com already have the key tags written in so you dont need to run RE3 on them.
But If I were you I would learn to mix by following you’re ears instead of looking at the key. This is because sometimes the key changes in some genres of tracks like electro-house but it depends on the genre really.
please don´t advise something like this. nobody needs it. it could come handy but it´s best for a beginner to let their ears handle that issue…
I’ve been happily living without any Mixed in Key or Rapid Evolution. Actually I tested Mixed in Key and it’s faster to find the key using a keyboard in the studio the few times I needed key information. But you could happily DJ without those tools. Those with good ears could even key in the right keys without any cheat sheets.
You certainly don’t NEED a program to key your tracks. That said I run everything I buy through MIK. I also ignore that key quite often because I want to play a song that happens to be 2A after song that’s 9B. They key is to develop at least a little knowledge about your music library, phrasing and mixing techniques.
Yeah the key is nice info to have.. but doesn’t mean it should be used religiously, or at all. Especially for a beginner its going to limit their creativity before they even know how to be creative. Best thing to do is use your ears, they don’t lie
it seems like most people on here are taking what moehawk said out of context. he didn’t say anyone needs keying software to dj. go back and read the first 5 posts:
dfinch recommended looking into keying software. op asked how can you see what key something in traktor is, and moehawk answered his question without using quotes. so there was a given in the front of his response that basically read like this.
this is pretty much true if you disregard the small amount of people who key their music by ear alone.
I think RE can do camelot now, not sure, I stopped caring about key.
You can tell every track’s key by ear? I can’t 
He said in order to know what KEY something is in, you need a program. Which i suppose is technically not true if you have good ears but he definitely wasn’t suggesting you need it to mix 
If your on beatport, search for your favorite producers and labels and add them to your follow list. If you then use the my beatport menu on the left it will show you any new releases they make available. I also listen to alot of podcasts and mixes that I get alot of inspiration from.
wasn’t there a thread posted about finding music like 2 days ago?
yup