Ok so im 18 and a little while back I decided to pick up DJing, and though of maybe picking up turntablism to seperate my self from the average joe schmo. If im to pursue this as a career i need to stand out with so much competition- I thought of getting a midi fighter to pull off something like this a couple times in a set:
What else would separate me from others? I wanna be real good and have that wow factor so i can turn this into a career- getting paid for what you would do for free- any help appreciated!
Really dude, I wanna say that you will never earn any money from it unless you ‘LOVE DOING IT’… stop thinking about getting paid and start loving what you do.
If you “wanna be real good” then practice. If you wanna “have that wow factor” then practice. You will not get anywhere unless you practice and improve. Forget the gimmicks & the equipment. You are 18 and you have just started. You are not in any position to be thinking about fame. You need to learn about the music before you learn about the technology or figure out how to be famous.
No-one can tell you what will make you stand out, no-one. If there was a formula everyone would do it.
Everything in that video is horrible, sorry for my honest opinion, but if that is your idea of “spicing things up”, it is my idea of shitting things up lol.
all that he is doing in that vid is using a midi fighter, their are tons of devices out there that accomplish what he is doing… i recommend you do some research on the world of djing, and yes you need to love what you do inorder to actually be successful at it. especially with all the competition, your love for the music and the sounds that you make are what wil set you apart
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You’re 18 now, so you hardly have any experience with clubbing. Go out and listen to what the DJ does and more importantly, how the public reacts. Noone will care if you use turntables and do “cool tricks” if you’re not making them dance.
The ONLY application for that terrible style is youtube videos.
Nobody will ever want you to do anything like this live for any reason, even “a couple times a set”.
Just learn to actually DJ. You “spice things up” by actually being good.
This isn’t true. Bass Kleph gets paid insane amounts of money for doing just that, although with his stuff he’s using more samples and whatnot than remixing tracks. A good example would be the CMD DC-1 video on that same guy’s channel… lemme get a link.
To be honest dude, at 18, you’re doing a nice routine. People here mostly don’t like it because they hate Gangnam style. I think that in most top40 clubs they would like an one hour set with a couple of routines mixed through some popular songs. Keep practicing and carry on mate!
That video was actually produced independently by a forum member here Probably one of my favorite routines ever, and kinda reminds me of Angelo’s Reloop stuff.
It seams to me that most of the members on here are not Club DJ and seam to hate anything that is populare be it DJ’s or top40 songs. Remember Club are for the crowed and not you, festivals and special events are about you. If you have a special style and dos not fit a club say no. Think of it as getting a Death Metal band playing at a country bar.
Some parts of the video were actualy quite cool but any and DJ in a club that uses beatmatcher/slicer more then once in a song would get a pubtch in da face from me.
The mix without much less FX I would enjoy at a club being a bit drunk, the songs are overused so they would have killed my mood if I were soper.
And you still young keep practising and enjoy music.
You’ll find that a large number of us ARE club DJs, but in genre-specific venues. I can tell you that - especially in House clubs - stuff like that DOES go down very well, but it obviously on what your base tracks are and how you use them. You’re right that using beatmasher and slicer out of tempo, especially in vocal-heavy tracks, doesn’t work particularly well in a club, but if you’re playing mostly instrumental house then you can use those techniques to build crescendos and add flavour to your mix.
Also, there’s the live performance element I mentioned previously. In certain venues, being able to get up on stage (or in some other easily visible position) with a Maschine, Midifighter, MPC or Orbit makes the difference between people paying £2 for general entry or £8 for a ticket.
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