What do you consider is "Mixing"

Hee Won Jung, post: 18864, member: 948 wrote: The reason why i think its basic to just let a song play out is…if i wanted to hear that song i can play that song at home or just have a playlist of songs and not even DJ. In my view, i think its about letting people hear what they want…but making it different, adding drums, synths effectively to create additional aptmosphere. Mind you this has to be done correctly or else it can sound like garbage…having it so your songs are in harmony, in phase etc.

I will often use a very popular song at the time and just give them little hints of it here and there like 32 beats of the hook vocals or whatever…then 2 or 3 songs down the line Drop it in…or ill do the opposite and play that banging tune…and bring the vocal hook back in 2 or 3 songs down the line.

Its just about doing something different and creating energy…With todays day and age…EVERYONE has the same music if they spin the same genre…and everyone can hear that song being played. Espicially with controllers these days a lot of the time consuming work has been done for you with phase meters(traktor) and beat ticks(serato).

It is interesting that you say that. When mixing its all about keeping people happy. After all you don’t DJ to hear what you want to hear. It’s all about what they want to hear. I have been to clubs, bars, ect and heard a DJ mix a song with their own flare and sound completely different. To us it sounds great but when I looked out to the dance floor no one was dancing. That was because the song was so changed that they did not recognize it. then I have head a DJ just play through a song and people are on the floor loving it because they know what they are hearing. It kills me to say this but when I am Doing a set depending on the music I am playing I will mix accordingly. I have gone and played the song through with a “basic” mix but the crowd loves it. There is nothing I hate more then hearing a DJ just play an entire song after entire song. I do agree that it is a little boring, but it can be annoying to the crowd when they hear a song they love and the DJ cuts it short to the next song.

As bad as that sounds, most DJ’s do make us look like glorified jukeboxes

Do yourself a favour. Google the “No True Scotsman” logical fallacy. It’s what you’re doing here.

DJing is playing recorded music for other people’s entertainment. That’s all it is. It’s all it’s ever been. The “you’re not a real DJ because: you don’t play vinyl / don’t play in clubs / don’t produce your own music (I’ve seen this said. srs)” is rubbish, please stop doing it.

You can add all sorts of other requirements to yourself – so you’re free to think you’re not a real DJ because of some mystical thing that you don’t have. It’s not OK to put that on other people.

See also: Digital DJ hate.

Depends on the song and the crowd reaction. If i’m killing a dancefloor with Use Somebody (Armin van Buuren Rework) or some other song with a highly intense mid-late track like hell i’m going to kill it while that’s pumping even if it takes it almost to the end.

I definitely agree about giving a taster of a track some 6-7 minutes before you actually drop it though, that’s a great trick.

Hee Won Jung, post: 18884, member: 948 wrote: ummmm…this has nothing to do with playing on what medium or in what venue or producing your own music…
And im not putting any requirements on anyone…this is just a discussion based on observation, and i wanted other peoples opinion on it.

Please stick to the topic at hand.

I am sticking to the topic at hand. You’re saying “I don’t think he’s a real DJ, because he doesn’t mix like me”. I’m pointing out that this is analogous to the people who say “I don’t think he’s a real DJ, because he uses a MIDI controller”. It’s garbage when they do it, and it’s garbage here.
As a personal preference, I don’t like “30 tunes in an hour” mixes. That doesn’t mean you’re not a DJ because you mix that way – it means just that I have a different preference.

It probably also means that we play different styles of music – I’m guessing you play a lot of remixes of commercially successful tunes where “mix in, Verse, Bridge, Chorus, mix out” works?

DJ’s _are_ glorified jukeboxes. Get over it.