Rolling DJs' Thread

A thread for general discussion about DJing, from weddings to superclubs. Non-DJs welcome too!

Starter question: What are some of your favourite ways to get people dancing? Do you have any good sequencing tricks, e.g. playing somethign particular at the beginning or end of your set, or particular styles of music dropped at a certain point in your set?

I am teaching myself. I can mix but I haven't played out yet tho. I am going to ~watch and learn~ itt.

I am teaching myself. Technics went up before I could get turntables. kind of tempted just to keep buying records cds tapes whatever, rip everything to wav, get a sweet dac and use ableton. is this rong.

my dream would be to own a good sounding pa system i could take with me for smallish places but i know nothing about speakers/pas and, oh yeah, no money.

i've been "wanting to teach myself" for about oh seven years now. all that equipment/actually buying records is expensive!

I am teaching myself with free software!

Yeah im more in that category tbh

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i do own a technics turntable but it's currently sitting in a garage in nj

i bought some records for the first time in a while the other week. next stop: new cartridges, both of mine are fucct.

i keep on looking at the ableton + launchpad bundle on juno - cheap for what you get, shame i haven't really got the cash atm.

starting a recorded mix with a track and finishing with a remix of the track: classic / dud?

there're no roolz dood

i say go for it but try and snazz it up a bit, make tk 1 real clean or reverby and then add fx to the final track so its all scuzzy and faster or something

I am currently dreading the thought of having to leave my set up/records at home should I move overseas for school (unless I can be strategic and get new turntables there and sell my current ones which have some tonearm funniness).

people i wanted to smack the most tonight:

3) my co-dj, who doesn't understand the concepts of beatmatching, keeping a tempo, or playing to the floor. every time i passed off to him, i had girls asking me to go back on w/in 10 minutes. but i had to abide by him cause it was mostly his gear

2) the dude who asked me if he could play mac miller off his phone. fuck off. no.

1) the hostess, who kept trying to scratch and fucking with the crossfader in the middle of me djing and at one point REACHED DOWN AND TURNED OFF MY FUCKING POWER SUPPLY FOR NO REASON

on the plus side, it was a fun party and i think i may have scored a wedding gig

i wanna party to a The Reverend dj set

i mostly ended up playing a bunch of 808-y mainstream rap cause that's what the girls wanted to hear

what does it mean when they say "let the tracks breath?"

who kept trying to scratch and fucking with the crossfader in the middle of me djing

whatttttttt is it that makes people think shit like this is at all acceptable

ppl have some damn gumption

haha she was drunk as hell and her bf (the other dj) lets her do that shit. i was just like gtfo.

[what does it mean when they say "let the tracks breath?"

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, March 25, 2012 6:37 PM Bookmark

presumably playing more of each song instead of quickly moving from one song to another

I have been DJing at the record store I'm working at. At one point today, we had seven people in, eight if you count the other employee. Whoooo!

I djed a wedding this morning. I played "Adorn" and "The Bomb" and "Step In The Name Of Love" and other stuff.

what's "808-y mainstream rap" other than kanye?

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