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  • March 17, 2015 at 4:08 pm #2157401
    deathy
    Participant

    Grats, B!ll!e, great to hear!

    March 17, 2015 at 7:11 pm #2157481
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    Thank you deathy!

    March 17, 2015 at 8:36 pm #2157531
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    We are always happy to hear news like that!

    March 18, 2015 at 9:07 am #2157951
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Awesome!
    Welcome to our fold 🙂

    March 19, 2015 at 2:47 am #2158581
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    Welcome Billie (im not even try to attempt typing with the exclamation mark forgive me )

    PS I was wonderin what was the reason you looked down on DJ ?

    March 19, 2015 at 9:14 pm #2159311
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    Hi Rizki

    I think i was building more of dark energy when I started to feel that rock music was dying out in early 2000’s
    and when EDM really start to take off (i don’t even recall when that was)
    I just wanted to blame something/someone for decline&death of rock music.
    Which is really childish and immature reason at all…I just ended up blaming it on DJ’s without knowing what they were doing.

    It’s really stupid Rizki, I admit it now DJ world is so much more than what i have thought and there’s so much passion and fun. because it deals with all kind of music, not just EDM in the end.

    It’s also really contradictory on my part, because i “enjoyed” clubbing. I basically spent hours and hours clubbing and loved the scene, so how could i looked down upon something I already “enjoyed”. I think it was pure jealousy that “my type” of music was dying out and something else was gravitating the momentum. I guess I didn’t want to jump the bandwagon at that point, I didn’t want to become general population, I wanted to be different yet I’m still clubbing just like everyone.
    This probably makes me sound like a total jerk, and I probably had my head shoved up my behind.

    What’s more important than the past now is
    I have tons of respect for DJs and new music genre and I admit my fallible immature logic of my past.
    I still have tons of stuff that I want/have to learn, and I am eager to learn more.
    This site has been my go to website for self studying and it has helped me a lot. I just wanted to say and show my gratitude here because you guys are the ones that really deserves respects.

    So forgive my past-ego-filled-foolish-arrogance. that part of me is dead for sure.
    This year has been a new revelation, more of a new awakening for me in regards of music.

    March 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm #2159321
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    i just realized you are wearing a clone trooper helmet.
    you just made me respect you even more, I happened to own vader/storm trooper helmet as well.
    kudos!

    March 20, 2015 at 2:01 am #2159331
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    LOL appreciated there brotha,
    It was during a DJ Battle, I slapped the intro from https://soundcloud.com/ookaymusic/ookay-star-wars-free-download,
    and start wear the helmet

    Any pics from your helmet collection? be cool to see them !

    I just realized you from New Jersey, so your past behavior its not that childish at all its pretty much common behavior among the US, especially the southern, they just hated EDM, this was during the 90’ish and early 2000ish era
    Not sure whats the behavior attitude toward EDM now, I heard its getting better, but I doubt on the southern part, they just slow and backward to adapted lol

    Most of folks with the background love of rock and roll music, prolly have no trouble crossing to EDM scene, they mostly likely dig early Trance stuff, and some industrial EDM fused music, thats why Fat Of The Land gained a popularity remarkably down yonder

    But its really good to read your experiences, its a joyful feeling for me that you finally come to your senses (LOL) to enjoy EDM to the fullest

    Much respect back at you Sir! & God speed on your journey !
    We be here to help you along the way !

    March 20, 2015 at 4:15 pm #2159711
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    Thank you Rizki, it’s awesome to know you have battled with helmet on field. One of these days I hope to achieve that.

    Here are some photos from NYC comic con 2012, me and my wife and our friend. (we ended up posing for stranger’s photo requests for straight 3-4 hours)
    @nyc comic con 2012

    @ nyc comic con 2012B

    So this is my 2nd week as a DJ @ local bar which is literally next to my apt.
    Just to share little more (my apologies from rambling and perhaps TMI) but I want to be part of this community in any way I can so here’s little bit more about me (I’m so not me-me-me person, it’s rather for pure perspective purpose)

    The bar crowd is predominantly Koreans, whether Korean-American or recently residing in US (or FOB, Fresh off the Boat)
    Anyways I’ve been going to this bar for awhile now before I started DJying, but IMO this spot is best in the area due to its hip-atmosphere and i really dig the vibe there.
    The area where we live in, it’s very similar to K-town in LA or K-town area in NYC (near 32nd st). So majority of public this area is Koreans. So the bar’s usual weekday playlist (not by me) is deep house mix and occasional K-pop/K-hip hop/etc.

    When I do my thing,
    I start off with deep house->nu disco/techno->hip hop->trap->back to electro house and just blast the night away (hoping to make people want to go clubbing after 1am)
    Sometimes occasionally mix in Indie-K-hip hop or new K-Pop tracks just to “please” the vibe.

    But I think i’m starting to struggle,
    Tonight will be my 3rd night playing in 2 weeks, my first night last week (Friday) was a blast,
    2nd night was slow night so i couldn’t really help the vibe as much as i wanted to…
    Just played little bit last night to do sound check and experiment with new acquired tracks.
    The owner says he loves my choice of songs and playlist and keeps emphasizing about reading the crowd and being lounge bar DJ is all about catering to the audience/what they are drinking/not going too crazy. (which i understand & agree wholeheartedly)
    So i’m purposely holding back the “crazy sounds”, and thinking that patrons probably won’t give a crap about me and my songs unless it’s pure garbage (which i don’t mind what they think of me and my music). All I want to do is entertain them ultimately and help the vibe for whatever they are drinking for.
    I’m struggling because I’m perhaps too eager to please people…and I feel like I’m lacking skills and definitely insecure.
    With that said here’s the breakdown of my gear

    DDJ-SB (i didn’t want to invest heavy from the start)
    Serato DJ (with Flip which i dont think i can even use & effects expansion pack)
    Macbook pro 13′ 2013

    I suck at scratching so i don’t even try live,
    my usual thing is mix in song where there are drops, breaks or getting too repetitive and boring (of course in key or relative keys),
    sometimes i play 2 tracks at once
    effects and eqs

    but other than that, i have not been able to add any new tricks yet.

    i don’t know what’s next stage for me…please help~~
    (wow that was really long, which is more than what i intended to write, sorry)

    March 20, 2015 at 4:53 pm #2159761
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Hey Billie, I think we need to educate Rizki a bit on the fact that NJ is not quite in the south of the USA (or rather on the Canada side of things, which puts it rather far north), but that’s another matter.

    As for being stuck. I failed to discover if you already did the How To Digital DJ Fast course. It’s a great place to start and get a good ground layer for what you can do and practice and prevents you from figuring stuff out yourself and -worse- spend a lot of time practicing the wrong things or the right things wrong (wow, deep if I say so myself).

    For the rest, the only way to get crowd-reading skills is, well … , in front of a crowd. And, painful as it might be, you learn more from the bad nights than from the good nights. And mistakes teach you better than successes. So, keep slugging it out, keep trying to please people (not to the point that you are no longer enjoying yourself, but short of that point anything goes in my humble opinion) and keep noticing what happens.

    Work dilligently on your collection, only put it the best of the best tracks (treat them like they cost a million a piece), make sure you have them fully prepped for your performance and your palet will become better and better as will the pictures you’ll be able to paint.

    Keep on spinning my man!

    And go Flyers! LOL (last time I was in NJ we went to a Flyers game, hence 😀 )

    March 20, 2015 at 6:06 pm #2159801
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    Thank you Vintage
    I will check that out

    thing about NJ is very weird.
    I’m originally from south NJ closer to Philly
    that area is heavy-Philly sports scene, Eagles/Phillies/Flyers/76ers

    where i am now, i’m in north NJ 10mins from NYC(literally a bridge apart)
    where we are more NY-oriented like Giants/Rangers/YANKEES or JETS/ISLANDERS/METS
    weird eh?

    Thank you for the encouragement. I will keep on spinnin’ and learn from bad nights/mistakes.
    Will be back to update after tonight~

    March 23, 2015 at 3:12 am #2160721
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    I never say the NJ in the south part of the US, maybe i should put BTW before the “southern” part or in another hand the “southern” lol =p

    And the pics ow snap “Impressive”, you mix match the helmet with the suit ish awesome along with the black nike gloves

    And dont worry about the scratching part much, the way you can mixing in the K-pop into your deep house->nu disco/techno->hip hop->trap->back to electro house routines, its “Impressive” too, you in the right road my friend
    Slow night is unavoidable if you a regular DJ, just keep doing what youve been hired too and why they hired you route and keep improving it

    March 23, 2015 at 8:04 pm #2161361
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    Thanks Rizki

    so last friday was all-day snow weather for us here in NJ/NY area.
    Another slow night, even had a bar fight happening (can’t kids control themselves these days? geez)
    apparently i had a following, commented on my 1st gig week prior, she said she loved my playlist. cool i guess,
    ended up servicing up to a fan with “requested song”.
    is it just me? i actually like doing “requested song” just to show appreciation to patrons who actually enjoys the music.

    few younger co-workers from my day time job showed up showed support, they showed much appreciation with trap selections i had.
    felt good, just was feeling little greedy to have more customers that night…

    I feel like i need to dig more deep house and nu-disco/techno section as this seems to be most appropriate background music @ 90% times. I just don’t want to end up sounding like a soundcloud deep house mix session though.

    i’m currently in experiment stage where i’m mixing 2 songs at once (mixing w eq and effects w volume control) to make it sound a like nice one track, also working on smoother transitions.

    March 24, 2015 at 10:26 am #2161851
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Thanks for the update. Keep it going!

    March 26, 2015 at 3:27 pm #2163311
    B!LL!E
    Participant

    so my step in terms of additional gear is getting new studio monitors.
    i would like to keep my budget rather economically so best $ value for quality, you know the drill.
    can someone recommend me some possible studio monitors that i should be looking into investing??

    also, somewhere along the line of producing, i don’t know which path (in terms of software) i should aim for?
    my top choices are Logic pro vs Ableton…
    i’m somewhat familiar with Logic when i used to do rockband music recording with my bands and my personal solo project, we used Logic Pro, but i didn’t do it myself most the time…so in the end I need to teach myself.
    so what are you guys using in terms of software when producing?

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