Re: journey discs/dj skillz

From: milkweed (chetpeng@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 02:43:53 CEST

  • Next message: Mark Turner: "RE: journey discs/dj skillz"

     jeremy,
    i think you've covered it pretty well. if you've "mastered djing" (it
    scares me to say that) you can usually get through different genre's
    and tempo's no prob. you have to have some idea where your going,
    musically, if you're going to pack bags to go dj somewhere. alot of
    times the best set is the newbies your into, some classics you'll
    always be into, some surprises for the crowd, and some random "i don't
    know what i'm gonna do with this but it might be fun to slip in
    somewhere" track.
    you've always got that mix where you go from a thievery corp track into
    the breakdoen frwm foghat's slow ride that works evertime...it may be
    concidered a routine.
    it's hard to say when you dj alot you really know your records and have
    alot of room to improvise.
    some headliners i know have sets for each tour that have been planned
    out track by track. the same order city to city. who's gonna know???
    if your the head of your genre you probably play all the newest dopest
    cdr's and dubplates...with some forgotten classics.
    or if you me you'll play whatever you feel like half entertaining the
    crowd and half entertaining yourself.

    my advice to beginners is practice alot. watch and listen other dj's.
    feel and think about music. aside from practice i'd have to say know
    your records. it's fun to throw a track you bought the day of the
    event until...
    just know your records. don't play anything you don't love. make
    mixes to force yourself to do flawless mixes.
    i'll get off my high horse now.
    brad
    Do DJ's
    > who
    > perform already have a routine they're going to perform, or is it
    > that they
    > are really skilled and can mix anything superbly (from hip hop to
    > ambient
    > etc..). Or is it that only DJ masters can handle such a feat? Anyone
    > have
    > any tips for beginners? I'd love to hear your opinions on both the
    > journey
    > cd's and mixing techniques. Thanks.
    >
    > -Jeremy

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