Arthur Kokanov

Thank you! This helps out alot. I’ve mostly been playing around with house music for practice but il take the time to study these in my spare time.

I consider my first week a success. Actually, it was a very eventful week and here is the overview to lauch myself into my second. Oh and this new Dj passion of mine, got me laid, as a bonus.

This post it kinda long so here is the short point form version

– Practiced every day for about an hour each.
– Researched as much as I could.
– Met with people who can help me set up a design.
– Got laid
– Put out my first mix. See it here:
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and here:
http://soundcloud.com/you/tracks

After listening to that mix a few times I started hearing alot of mistakes… but that is part of the process right? I hope you guys enjoy and any feedback would be great!

Long version

Last sat and sunday I was home sick and picked up my NS6 while with a High fever. I almost passed out a couple of times in the store so I am glad that my friend was there to help me carry the controller home. Monday I started to feel better so each day after work (12 hour work days) I would come back home and set up my mixer in my tiny room on my bed (which is tall so works out perfectly) and practise mixing for a couple of hours using only headphones, at around 11:30pm I would eat and then sleep. During the day while at work I spent most of my free time to promote my page, research, set up accounts for social sites, and got in touch with all the people I know who are into digital design to ask for help setting up a business cards for myself.

On saturday I met up with a friend who will help me with the design aspect of all of this. He is a long time buddy of mine who is in third year for graphic design. I set up a two week project for him to do. Basically its to find out as much as he can about getting business cards and 2-3″ round stickers printed. First week to get some samples in and by the end of the second to have the final design set up and be ordered. I also asked him to set up a few designs for promotional stickers and what not. At the end of it all he’ll get some money out of it. He was shy about being paid, but I thought it would only be fair for his time. I came back home to start working on my mix for the sunday upload and ended up inviting this random girl who I met on newyears. She hung out and watched me the first time I played at my friends gig, you can say I was the intro and outro for him that night (Thanks alot buddy!). She watched me set up the music that I wanted in my mix but I didint end up creating it -if.you.know.what.I.mean- In the evening I met up with another friend of mine who introduced me to this lesbian girl who has a passion for graphics so I will meet up with her next weekend and see if we can work something out.

Sunday morning I re-listened to all the music I selected from the other day. After about four hours of work, and 4 or 5 versions, I made something that I was willing to post up on sound cloud and youtube. My Dj adventure has begun.

Here are my goals for week two.

– Practise at least an hour a day.
– Get The Dance Music Manual
– Get famillier with Serato Itch (I only know the basics of it)
– * Finalize my business card design.
– Finalize my sticker design.
– Find a website provider.
– Start picking songs for next mix, coming in two weeks.
– Get either Reason or Ableton live.
– Start digging for music. I used to have alot until at one point I decided that I am addicted and cut myself off, deleting my entire library of about 40-50 gigs. It’s been about a year since then. I am basically starting from scratch. This time around I will focus on getting music legitimately. Any websites that you would recommend would be highly appreciated.

I played around with Reason a long time ago so i am somewhat famillier but I hear Ableton live is better what do you guys think?

Recorded 90 minutes last night cant wait to listen to it. I do want to break it apart into sections though since that would be a bit easier. I have an idea on how to do this but I was wondering if you guys have tips on how to break apart long tracks.