how important is dj skillz when you play live
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supergreg style
Supergreg is creepy. What's up with that manic look on his face? He's got some crazy routines, though:
http://www.talonse.com/supergreg.swf
are you serious? listening to trainwrecks, song after song, gets old quick and kills dancefloors. plus girls aren't impressed with wackness.
there is a middle ground - some dudes blend between songs that are similar enough to keep the dancefloor going, but not exactly BPM'd or whatever.
The most boring shit is a safe ass DJ who has everything BPMd plays nothing new has standard cuts and wellpracticed blends. The most exciting shit is a dude with deep crates who has a basic knowledge of mixing and blending, but it doesn't have to be perfect. Cutting can be cool but that's like the icing on the cake. I go to hear music, not technique.
JP, you just made a DJ who is trying to improve his skills very happy.
supergreg style
Supergreg is creepy. What's up with that manic look on his face? He's got some crazy routines, though:
http://www.talonse.com/supergreg.swf He's got the Al B. Sure unabrow stizzy on lock.
Yo, I have to whole-heartedly agree with you. I ain't the illest on the turntables..far from it, but I appreciate the art of it! I don't know where you are from, but I have djed many a places and let me tell you..you have to feel that crowd number#1 and be easy and comfortable. Skills and selection go hand to hand in my book. What most of you guys are talking about is selectors versus a dj. The diff. is a selector many times has a dope selection to pick from while a dj has the skills. Combine those two together and you have a REAL DJ!!! I mean anyone can display their super rare gems. Or anyone can play all the ill party joints from michael jackson, but it is how you mix and blend them that makes the crowd really get open. It's crazy to have the crowd not wanna leave the club(like what happened to kon and i in hamburg last year) cause they cannot get enough of you working them into a frenzy. Basically, djing is the art of moving butts!! Not the art of displaying who has the illest records. Save that shit for the mo parties..
peace,
amir
peace,
amir
supergreg style
Supergreg is creepy. What's up with that manic look on his face? He's got some crazy routines, though:
http://www.talonse.com/supergreg.swf He's got the Al B. Sure unabrow stizzy on lock.
didnt put 2 and 2 together...is that Ali G before he was Ali G?
supergreg style
Supergreg is creepy. What's up with that manic look on his face? He's got some crazy routines, though:
http://www.talonse.com/supergreg.swf He's got the Al B. Sure unabrow stizzy on lock.
didnt put 2 and 2 together...is that Ali G before he was Ali G?
Late 80s r'n'b singer with the unabrow stizzy.
as long as their is alcohol readily available, there is no dead air, the volumes and tempos are kept in the same ballpark, and you play kick ass vinyl records at 33 or 45(shit, if you can rock kick ass 78s, do it!)..then saul good.
as davidwingate said in an earlier post; i believe a great deejay can combine their rarer, more eccentric pieces of music with their more accesible party music to both enlighten and move a crowd.
i can still enjoy a dj that simply selects his/her music - in fact a fellow dj partner of mine does just that - but have always prefered to be challenged by a melding of both skill and selection.
the primary mechanics of deejaying require more skill than some realize. for instance, some deejays have no clue how to equalize from song to song. i have heard only a handful, maybe 3 or 4 who display this skill (ie: realizing the inherent differnces in vintage vinyl recordings and adapting to them)
in truth, most deejays could care less about this, let alone the pitch, structure and
full body of a piece of music.
it never fails that the most highly recognized deejays in the world, gain there success on the back of their ability to mix perfectly quantized, similarily eq'ued/mastered music. a clone of a clone of a clone.
this more than anything else, pisses me off to no end!
i would love to see how some of these superstar deejays would transition from say joni mitchell to koop...i can only imagine the calamity!
your favorite deejay snob
general eclectic
i can still enjoy a dj that simply selects his/her music - in fact a fellow dj partner of mine does just that - but have always prefered to be challenged by a melding of both skill and selection.
the primary mechanics of deejaying require more skill than some realize. for instance, some deejays have no clue how to equalize from song to song. i have heard only a handful, maybe 3 or 4 who display this skill (ie: realizing the inherent differnces in vintage vinyl recordings and adapting to them)
in truth, most deejays could care less about this, let alone the pitch, structure and
full body of a piece of music.
it never fails that the most highly recognized deejays in the world, gain there success on the back of their ability to mix perfectly quantized, similarily eq'ued/mastered music. a clone of a clone of a clone.
this more than anything else, pisses me off to no end!
i would love to see how some of these superstar deejays would transition from say joni mitchell to koop...i can only imagine the calamity!
your favorite deejay snob
general eclectic
i just meant that most deejays have difficulty using the basic bass/midrange/treble eq's on a mixer. like seguing from old records to new records, a good deejay would know how to manipulate these controls so that during the transition(be it beat match, simple cross fade, whatever), the two records coalesce in harmony w/ one another.
the other stuff about pitch and structure was referring to most deejays lacking of the basic knowledge of popular music song structure and arrangement that would greatly aid in being able to pull off a creative mix of music.
and yes, if a deejay's aim is to make people dance, and they themselves have no clue what makes them dance, then they are at a great misfortune. i would not like to be in their shoes!
oh yeah ms. bassie, we know you move w/ the music...that is your trademark when behind the decks!
the other stuff about pitch and structure was referring to most deejays lacking of the basic knowledge of popular music song structure and arrangement that would greatly aid in being able to pull off a creative mix of music.
and yes, if a deejay's aim is to make people dance, and they themselves have no clue what makes them dance, then they are at a great misfortune. i would not like to be in their shoes!
oh yeah ms. bassie, we know you move w/ the music...that is your trademark when behind the decks!
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