What inspired you to become a DJ?
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 
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.
Iām fairly new and Iām 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.
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.
hell, i had the same thing to start out, local consumer electronic store sportin highclass dj products, little did i know
How awsomes that? A first grade teacher spinning for teh children awwwwwsome 
I have always liked club scene and started attending dnb and jungle raves in 98-99ā¦ Then started to attend depending the DJā¦ Goldie, Bad Company, Dara, Keoki, London Elektricityā¦ 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 DJās with laptops and I was like āwhy are these people checking their email on stage?ā Then I learned about Traktor and itās features and pretty much got interested again.
And the free drinks, groupies, VIP lists and respect dont hurt either.
Two words: Richie Hawtin
Also 2 words: money and fame
Also two words: shake and bake
Allways been in to EDM since i was likeā¦ errr 9?? weird age to start liking itā¦ anywaysā¦Started producing in FL when i was 14, bought reason and Logic studio when i was 16 along with a korg Microkontrolā¦ Entered a Local Dance radio stations āmaking Musicā competition and came in the top 20ā¦ since my name was among some of the well known DJās of my townā¦ I decided to give mixing a crack and bought some TTās, audio 8, TSP and some timecode vynilsā¦
Now im rockin clubsā¦ dropping in a few of my own tracks every now and then and im quite happy with the results 
shitty Djs in my smallish hometwon and then seeing/hearing the awesome Djs in Zurich
want to be in the booth for once, started a few months ago and still working on thatā¦
didnt go to clubs till i was like 19? was more of a metal guyy but switched to EDM around that ageā¦
I grew up hanging around my uncle when I was a kid. He was huge into Depeche Mode in the early to mid 80s. I mean heās still a huge DM fan, but I grew up listening to it all the time. As I got older I also started listening to Nine Inch Nails we made me appreciate sampling and production in a way I couldnāt comprehend without instruments. Trent Reznor did it for me, even though he isnāt a DJ or barely has anything to do with EDM. I later started to discover EDM in the mid to late 90s. Tiestoās Magik series back then was pretty amazing along with going to Twilo and such here in NYC. Once I started to really appreciate EDM and realize how amazing it was to create a ājourneyā then I realized that I wanted to try it myself.
Ultimately Depeche Modeās ānew waveā and Reznorās ability to produce quality sounds with samples along with realizing that EDM was some what driven off that for me. DM is one of the most if not the single most popular remixed groups/producers/bands in EDM.
Because I clearly needed to spend more of my life awake at night surrounded by drunk people than I already have.
Traktor 3, plain and simpleā¦
i was into the dance scene for years, was into producing almost as long and fiddled around with djing for shits n giggles at friends houses on their equipment occasionallyā¦ but until Traktor 3 came out i really didnāt even consider getting into the djing thing - the software really inspired me to dive headfirst into the craftā¦ itās funny these days i find more enjoyment out of mixing in traktor than i do producing and going to parties haha, itās a total reverse of who i was before traktor 3 came out.
I just fell into it. There wasnāt any one thing that inspired me, really. Iāve always been into music, and I started out producing, not DJingā¦ Somehow, along the way, I started messing with other artistsā music and eventually this led to DJing. I still do my own tracks a little too, but honestly, Iām a much better DJ than I was a producer.
Well my favourite band, Radiohead, got me into more electronic sounding music with albums like Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief about 7 years ago. From there I explored indie electronica thanks to my sister having some interest in the stuff (she has great musical taste and has introduced me to many a good band, artist, etc.).
Around three years after that I found Drum & Bass with Pendulumās Hold Your Colour and fell in love with the genre. Less than a year later I discovered Dubstep of the likes of Burial, Skream, Benga, Distance, Rusko, and Caspa. While listening to all of these tracks I would occasionally think āHmm this track might go well with this other trackā, wanting to make mixes of my favourite tracks, not just as a playlist but blended to create something more. Finally, about 16 months ago I took the plunge and bought a VCI 100 and started mixing.
went to a rave. knew one of the djs. asked if they needed help moving shit. invited to promoters after party. was like a real life episode of entourage. hung with drug dealers and dancers. went home and started researching. saw a live set from Justice at I LOVE TECHNO, they had a beat drop near the end of their set that sold me on it. LOVE IT!
Seeing big name DJs do what they do and making it sound good did it for me. Sort of annoying 'cus all I do now when Iām out is watch what theyāre doing as apposed to dancing/enjoying the music. But when I get home I feel inspired!
I had loved the dance music since '88 and particularly the acid house scene. Iād longed to be at warehouse parties listening to Baby Ford, Urban Acid and (because I was really young) D-Mob feat Gary Haismen. I was still at school and lived in small town Scotland, so it was something I felt really cut off from.
I left school and got a job and with one of my first real pay packets I bought a āJourneys by Djāsā CD. It was done by Danny Rampling and I thought āHow the fuck does he do this?ā Listening back now itās pretty basic stuff, but at the time it blew my small town mind.
the movie JUICE! even tho i cant really skratch a lick.. i went thru a phase