Why ?
i have just been on the mix section and it seams no one gives alot of feedback on anyones mix’s… maybe the odd comment
WHY?
The harsh truth is most DJs don’t want to listen to other DJs. It probably makes more sense to solicit feedback from those who would normally be the consumers of one’s mixery.
I will let you in on a little secret. None of us actually LIKE EDM. We just like being dJs.
owells that settles that then haha
I find I’m usually to busy digging for tunes for my own mixes to listen to many mixes. I have a few regulars that I listen to, but even those get back logged pretty quick.
Chris I’ve listened to quite a few of your mixes but that’s really it. Occasionally I will check out original productions just to see what the pool of talent is like.
Edit: nobody listened to my mix except Padi when I posted it…
+1
And when I do listen to mixes, it’s usually from a DJ who is REALLY good/plays a completely different style that I do so I can listen for transition techniques, scratching styles, how to mix certain types of music, use acapellas, etc…
I only listen to this: http://db.tt/RC1dnDoH
Was a little afraid to click it… But then I did and was happy
Eureka! Best post I’ve read in a long while around here. I’d say 90% of these guys like spinning at 128 bpm’s for decade’s straight.
Its pretty brilliant. Made by a friend with not much more than a 7 year old pc and a faulty toaster.
I’m just honestly too busy watching cat videos on youtube
Jokes aside, I’m actually the complete opposite of this.
I love EDM but really don’t like the idea of being a “DJ”. Any time somebody mentions a DJ, I’m think “ugh”, yet I love DJing, new gear gets me excited, I make mixes regularly, etc.. Just the title of “DJ” is something that I don’t like, probably because there are way too many frigging DJs right now and it’s kinda sickening to be honest.
Anybody else feel like this as well or is this just me haha
Nah totally, people have this look in their eye when you tell them your a DJ, like your a little boy who still wants to be a rockstar, especially in london where every 2/3 people is a dj/writer/actor/musician/artist but actually they work in a mcdonalds.
^ This.
I hate referring to myself as a DJ because, at the moment, I’m still in the bedroom/occasional house party stage. The difficulty comes when you’re talking to people and they ask you what you like to do outside of work. I’ve taken to using the label as a verb rather than a noun, i.e. “I DJ” rather than “I’m a DJ”.
Obviously not a problem for professional DJs which is where I’ll be someday 
EDIT: In an effort to keep this post relevant to the OP…
Part of the problem is that mixes are LONG. I know we all want to make these epic, sprawling mixes that show off how awesome we are but am I honestly going to sit down and spend half-an-hour, an hour, sometimes more listening to a mix from some random on a forum? My advice; If you want feedback, keep it short. Make it 15-to-20 minutes max. This will give you time to get 3-to-5 tracks in (depending on what genre you mix) and enough opportunity to get a few different transitions in.
This also goes for promoting yourself. Promoters are busy people, they don’t have time to listen to most of the mixes they get let alone something that’s going to take up a big chunk of their time. If you can learn to show them why they should book you rather than next man in as little time as possible you’ll be much better off.
Save the long mixes for when you’ve got a following, when people want to listen to you.
Thanks and if it wasn’t a Christmas set I would listen to it right now. I can’t bring myself do listen to Christmas music in February though.
I think the main problem is the abundance of mixed and unmixed music available. I only have a certain amount of time to spend on listening to music and when I do, I basically have to choose from these options:
- Listen to tracks i bought, to learn them better
- Listen to my own mixes to find spots where i can improve
- Crate digging (Only works at home)
- Listen to other people’s mixes
And that’s only considering the stuff i dj with, but I sometimes enjoy to listen to classic rock on my ipod as well.
So there is little incentive to listen to hour-long mixes by random forum members (I’m one of them), when every other label releases a weekly or monthly podcast by a big name dj on soundcloud where I can be sure that quality will be delivered.
If I’m listening to other mixes, it is mostly because I want to do the person a favor and even then i rarely listen to the whole set, but skip through transitions to give some feedback and probably find tracks i could like.
I know that this sucks for persons looking for feedback - and i’ve been in that position myself - but I can’t think of an easy way to change this.
The poster of the mix should get 5-10 likes for the fb page of whoever gives them a response on the mix. If this happened, I’m pretty sure there would be a substantial increase in the number of responses.
Most of the mixes I’ve tried to listen to on DJTT have sucked. I know there are good DJs here and good mixes in that forum (or, that there are occasionally). But I’m not convinced they ever get listened to because it’s impossible to sort through the garbage.