New to the forum, was DJ:ing a lot about 10-12 years ago, then daytime job came in and destroyed everything. Now I’m back and want to pick up DJ:ing again, this time electronically (got a vci-100 ,traktor and some other midi playthings)
So to my question, where do you get your influences from? Back in the day it was more what the local record shop had in stock that was played, atleast for me coming from a smaller town. But now we have the mighty internet, and about 1000 blogs per music genre all pumping out their remix of the latest tune.
I find it rather hard to skim through the music that’s available and find the good stuff. Also I find that beatport can be quite overwhelming with their vast catalogue.
So how do you do it? Other DJs, blogs, radio, tv, clubs etc?
Also, on a side note, what would you classify music like justice, boyz noize, goose as? Electro house?
hypemachine seems to be one of the best options to keep an overview of most of the blogs out there.
i use it a lot to find new remixes (that i try to find in an online store if i like them…i try not to go the easy way and just rip them from the blogs) and then there’s the page on hypem that shows the most popular tracks which can be useful as well (i check that page at least once a week).
the only reason i rarely use hypem is because it skims blogs in only a couple of genres it seems. there’s an overwhelming amount of indie rock and electro, but not really anything else. there will be the occasional rap tune but aside from those it’s pretty electro/indie specific. we need more diversity!
My biggest influences have actually all probably come off youtube as far as technique goes closely followed by the large amount of material i read on live performance and product.
As far as music goes i guess that comes from talking to friends with similar tastes than i do and having discussions about different artists.
As far as finding new music on my own goes internet radio, blogs, lastfm - i try not to crawl sites like beatport which are mostly filled full of crap. I find it better to try and filter the crap by using music suggestion services as i can spend hours on sites like beatport that sell mp3’s and not find a whole lot of good stuff. Thats not to say its not there, its just hard to find amongst all the crap.
haha, now that you mentioned ed banger i’m sure you’ll find sth you like on hypem.
like hipnotikk said it’s great for finding new electro tunes…unfortunately i dont know anything like it in the hip hop genre.
i wish i could go to that party, but i have work to do back home
