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  • in reply to: D.J.Manhattan – Learning Journal #36974
    Arthur Kokanov
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    No worries! I’ve got an idea on how to make the vid blog better as a whole and more interesting so il post one up ASAP 🙂 Just need some time to reshoot it.

    in reply to: Vega Party Nation – Ustream + mixes #36973
    Arthur Kokanov
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    Give me your tips! Tonight streaming live and every wednesday night http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vega-party-nation

    in reply to: D.J.Manhattan – Learning Journal #36887
    Arthur Kokanov
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    Ok so this weeks video blog was a total fail. I got a couple of good shots but over all i am finding it really difficult of editing my own vids lol…

    In other news the saturday nights are really popping now at the bar. My last gig though I definately drank more then i should have so never again. Damn these ppl buying me drinks! good thing my friend drove me home after lol… i wouldent want to take a bus like that. In terms of production I’ve been having a really diffuclt time focusing on making that time. in otherwords its really difficult x.x but no worries i am going to keep at it!

    in reply to: Vega Party Nation – Ustream + mixes #36711
    Arthur Kokanov
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    Live streaming every wednesday 8pm-10pm EST. Starting live stream in 30 minutes tune in here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vega-party-nation

    in reply to: Tomorrowland Travel Packages #36468
    Arthur Kokanov
    Participant

    I know! I wanted to go this year 🙁 but money went low unexpectadly 🙁

    in reply to: Being a DJ ruins music enjoyment? #36467
    Arthur Kokanov
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    I understand where OP is coming from but for me I feel like I can spot a great track from a poor track more easily. Now a days there are only a few songs that I fall in love with but all of them are quality tracks.

    in reply to: DJing on a Live Stream #36388
    Arthur Kokanov
    Participant

    I like doing it. It give practice a reason for me.

    in reply to: Vega Party Nation – Ustream + mixes #36315
    Arthur Kokanov
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    in reply to: Vega Party Nation – Ustream + mixes #36304
    Arthur Kokanov
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    Will be streaming at 8pm – 10pm est. Thats in 3 1/2 hours! Check out the stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vega-party-nation

    in reply to: D.J.Manhattan – Learning Journal #36240
    Arthur Kokanov
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    Bam! I’m back… A day late… ops! I bought the new galaxy s III phone that night after work and was all like “ooooo” and like “aahhhhh” and like “Wwwoooaaaahhh!”

    Year 2 mufakas! And I am rolling hard! and this is what I’ve been up to for the past month…

    I’ve been playing out every saturday at this bar called Crown and Tiger and its been pretty epic. I’ve learned alot and still much to take away from it, but now I want to mainly focus on my own events and building a name for myself in the big city of Toronto Canada out of nothing pretty much. I started doing this by scoring the basement at said bar once a month it belongs to me and whoever I invite to DJ with me. I had my first event at the end of Jan and it was pretty good, not a big turn out with my crowd but the actual bar was packed and ppl started going downstairs then it picked up. I had girls dancing pretty much all night long which is awesome 🙂 especially because it was mainly my choice of music (I played a bit of top40 at the start of the night to get some ppl to dance then switched over to EDM). This is one of 3 areas of focus in year two of DJing… To build a following. So follow me on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Vegapartynation and check out my live mixes here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vega-party-nation <— I stream live every wednesday at 8pm – 10pm EST

    I’ve also been studying my ass of for the past two weeks in ableton! seriously like 3-5 hours of watching tutorials and messing around with the software. I did take a day or two off in between to recover a bit from all the information but let me just say this… The learning curve is well worth it! And I will definately be investing in the Ableton Push as soon as it comes out… I am sorry to say that yes i am using a “non legal” version of ableton right now, but I promise that its temperary until live 9 comes out… I will drop a grand on it 🙂 I think its worth it! You can check out my 2 tunes on soundcloud here! (please dont be too harsh as I only had a week or two with the software with no knowledge of anything production): https://soundcloud.com/arthurvega
    This is my second area of focus this year to produce… By the end of this year i want to have the core basics down solid to create a tune. fine tuning will come with time… I study for this like someone would for an exam… its difficult but I am definately enjoying it alot more than Highschool 🙂

    Thirdly… I have officially posted and started my Youtube channel, here is the first vid: [media=youtube]TgQsCPNvJn8[/media]

    I will be uploading these every two weeks if not more. I have learned that I am camera shy and that simple vid took me a full 2 days of recording… my second one (which is in the works right now) was a bit faster in the terms of hours. I am a perfectionist at heart.
    Third focus for this year is to play more venues, I definately want to Book the biggest club this year which is Guv 🙂 (one of their rooms anyways.)

    final mentions 🙂 I will try to update this once a week again… I know ive been loafting in this but its honestly because I’ve been so busy or caught up in actual music. I will try to make them more constructive and like a breakdown of my week. A song that i’ve had on repeate for the past two weeks has been “I could be the one – by avicii and nicky romano” I fucking love it! Another really good song mention is “Sovereign light cafe – remixed by afrojack” sick tune!

    One last thing I made a shout out on craiglist about finding other DJ’s to work with and the response has been crazy! on my first day i had about 10 local DJ’s and producers who contacted me. I’ve got to know a couple of them and hopefully something works out in the future. I find that ppl are afraid to reach out, but respond well to someone who tried to reach out. Remeber other DJ’s are not the enemy they will help you in your future. unless they are assholes and have a crazy ego… then fuck em. 🙂

    See you all next week. Any feedback would be great! + anyone know how to photoshop or draw that cam help me out a bit :)?

    in reply to: D.J.Manhattan – Learning Journal #36105
    Arthur Kokanov
    Participant

    Get ready first vid blog comming and total update of what i’ve been up to coming this monday 4th!

    in reply to: Quality DJ mixes vs. Jukebox "DJ's" #36087
    Arthur Kokanov
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    I play at this bar and I flow through genres alot and the only time i really even use harmonics is when i mix EDM and only if the songs im playing are not that well known. If i feel its time for a well known banger il throw it in. I get compliments from “djs” all the time… and I don’t do all that much mixing, more or less find a great place to cross fade over. Regular people dont really care, like really, they just wanna have a good time and all this harmonics and really good beatmatching does is helps the flow of energy and makes it easier to have ppl accept that they are in the ocean of your sound, mixed a little bit with theirs.

    in reply to: Vega Party Nation – Ustream + mixes #36009
    Arthur Kokanov
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    Vegapartynation live in 30minutes, tune in here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vega-party-nation

    Every wednesday 8-10pm est

    in reply to: scratching with controllers? #35805
    Arthur Kokanov
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    i tried to scratch with my ns6, it’s pretty decent but just takes time to get used to it.

    in reply to: Mixing with only filter #35754
    Arthur Kokanov
    Participant

    trying this out tonight!

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