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Respected DJs for different genres? Also, any genre specific tips?

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  • March 20, 2015 at 3:16 pm #2159681
    Glorina Julian
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    Just wanted to add it can be ANY GENRE that you’re into? Not just the ones I listed. Heavy metal, country, trance anything as in curious to hear the nuances of that particular style of music and the tastes of that crowd.

    Thanks in advance!

    March 20, 2015 at 4:56 pm #2159771
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Well, if you want Producers, then a quick look in the genre/subgenre section of BeatPort should give you quite a few clues.

    If you are looking to incorporate more genres into your performance, perhaps what you need as examples are not the best single-genre DJs but the great DJs that play(ed) multiple genres and study how they mix those up and transition between them.

    Just my two cents.

    March 21, 2015 at 11:47 am #2160051
    Glorina Julian
    Participant

    Your two cents are worth a million to me man! Million pesos, haha, jk. Yeah I hear ya.. but using the analogy of fighting, I think a fighter could learn something from both a specialist like Mayweather/Pacquiao (single genre DJ) AND also an MMA guy like Anderson Silva/GSP (multiple genre) so using that same philosophy, I think it’d be interesting to learn the intricacies of both.

    As for multiple genre, do you have any recommendations? Also, isn’t multiple genre also referred to as open format? If not, what’s open format?

    On a related note, DJ Sliink is somebody who I guess is highly regarded in the trap world.

    https://soundcloud.com/djsliinkbbc/dj-sliink-dj-big-o-jersey-clubmix-for-diplo-and-friends-bbc-r1xtra

    And also found this boiler room set from Frankie Knuckles:

    March 21, 2015 at 3:38 pm #2160091
    Alex Moschopoulos
    Participant

    I’d just cruise Reddit, Mixcloud, etc…and listen to sets. You never know who you might like.

    March 21, 2015 at 5:46 pm #2160141
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Yeah, I have heard of open format, that almost sounds like there were once genre-DJs and someone opened that up. The contrary is true I think. There were many DJs playing whatever worked and then there were a lot of DJs that started to play specific genres.

    I can see your point about wanting to learn from both camps. The problem is that multi-genre or open-format DJs aren’t as well-recognized as producers or (a select few) genre-DJs.

    March 24, 2015 at 9:32 am #2161621
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Actually I do not know and do not care who is respectable (but me hehe) and simply dig through mixcloud, spotify, itunes, FG radio,… and if I like something it goes to my wishlist, where I let it sit for 2 weeks and then give it a re-listen.

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