Arthur Kokanov
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Arthur Kokanov
ParticipantWould you guys say then that song mixing / live remixing is mostly for the DJ’s Ego or say street rep? Because even my gf says that she hates when DJ’s switch out songs too fast. Although I think that to keep a good flow basic mixing is needed.
ParticipantIf it was mixing vs music selection, i’d go with the music selection. To me mixing is importaint to create a good flow of music, like water. If the mix lasts to long it will sound crowded with overlapping sounds from both songs, if the mix is too short it wont generate enough blend on the transition and thus leave what i call “Dead Beat” which to me is boring. Dropping in song after song sounds too choppy to me. Must be like water…
ParticipantThanks for the replies!
Extralucky13,
haha yea getting the chick prego is def out of the question! That was my original life plan before i got into this, . I wanted to go around the world and grow as a person. The only issue with that now is that I have the NS6 it just seems like alot to carry around esp with a laptop and booth speakers. I would have to replace my gear, but with this type of journey would be a small price to pay.
ParticipantMissed the monday update so here it is on tueday ;D
Tuesday – Life Choices
My ear is healing well, I don’t have complications (atm). I have tested it with my GF that yes I can hear out of it. There was a small chance that I would lose my hearing in that ear completely. Thursday I will find out how its healing. (I have this deep plug in it right now that constantly closed with a cotton ball so I cant see it myself (nor am I allowed to take it out).
Now onto the rest of the update. I really could use some advice and I have no idea when or where or from who I will get an answer. I am at a cross roads with three doors each leading me to a different outcome. All three are open. First thing I must mention is that I absolutly hate my job, I dont hate anything or anyone 99.9% of the time, but I absolutly hate my job. My reasons are as follows; I work 8am – 8pm on avarage mon – fri + working from phone sometimes until 10pm or so. Then sat morning from 9am – 2pm from home. Only reason im doing this is to help out my mother a bit and be able to afford DJ gear (which now i have most of). Pay is decent. I’m 23.
Choices are as follows: Safest to most risk
1. Drop work, and go to collage/Uni while developing my DJ skills. The great thing about the type of housing I live in is if im in school then I don’t pay rent. Which will cut the rent in half. The thing is though, is that I dont know what to go into, the only reason I never went into Uni or College. I don’t want to waste the money I’ve put away. I am not even sure if I would do well into a Uni/Col setting. This is also a large time commitment (If i were to become something it probably be a teacher, which in Canada is 5 years of school.)
2. Wait until next spring then drop everything and everyone and use the saved money to do what I originally wanted which was to backpack across the world. Being a Canadian citizen is also a big bonus since I can work for a year in almost any country with a work/holiday visa before i turn 30. When and if I come back, to take a student loan and do Uni/college. By then i’d have an idea of what i want for sure. Although I’m leaning toward a highschool teacher. (thats my ultimate fallback if everything fails)
3. Drop my current work, find a job with less pay (like a student job) and more free time and focus my entire being to DJing. But not be able to put away as much money as I am now.
I’m a big believer of “you create your own success” in life and that as a person it’s all in my power to do so. I also say and truly with all my being belive that each person should strive towards what they want, towards their passion and their dream. Fuck everything else. You only live once. Type of thing. Right now I have two. DJ’ing and Travel. I would love to do both and that is definately something I will strive for, but sometimes choices need to be made.
Everyone need to make difficult choices in life and I hope everyone’s wisdom will help me with mine…
ParticipantMissed the monday update so here it is on tueday ;D
Tuesday – Life Choices
My ear is healing well, I don’t have complications (atm). I have tested it with my GF that yes I can hear out of it. There was a small chance that I would lose my hearing in that ear completely. Thursday I will find out how its healing. (I have this deep plug in it right now that constantly closed with a cotton ball so I cant see it myself (nor am I allowed to take it out).
Now onto the rest of the update. I really could use some advice and I have no idea when or where or from who I will get an answer. I am at a cross roads with three doors each leading me to a different outcome. All three are open. First thing I must mention is that I absolutly hate my job, I dont hate anything or anyone 99.9% of the time, but I absolutly hate my job. My reasons are as follows; I work 8am – 8pm on avarage mon – fri + working from phone sometimes until 10pm or so. Then sat morning from 9am – 2pm from home. Only reason im doing this is to help out my mother a bit and be able to afford DJ gear (which now i have most of). Pay is decent. I’m 23.
Choices are as follows: Safest to most risk
1. Drop work, and go to collage/Uni while developing my DJ skills. The great thing about the type of housing I live in is if im in school then I don’t pay rent. Which will cut the rent in half. The thing is though, is that I dont know what to go into, the only reason I never went into Uni or College. I don’t want to waste the money I’ve put away. I am not even sure if I would do well into a Uni/Col setting. This is also a large time commitment (If i were to become something it probably be a teacher, which in Canada is 5 years of school.)
2. Wait until next spring then drop everything and everyone and use the saved money to do what I originally wanted which was to backpack across the world. When and if I come back, to take a student loan and do Uni/college. By then i’d have an idea of what i want for sure. Although I’m leaning toward a highschool teacher. (thats my ultimate fallback if everything fails)
3. Drop my current work, find a job with less pay (like a student job) and more free time and focus my entire being to DJing. But not be able to put away as much money as I am now.
Participantcongrats man! sounds like your doing really well!
ParticipantSkipped this monday’s update, for good reason though!
I had my ear surgery yesterday, so basically spent the entire monday in bed recovering from the anastisia (sp?). Just a little bit of backround on the reason I had it. When I was 8 I had an infection in my ear that caused a small hole in the ear drum. Because of that I lost about 60% of my hearing in my right ear. Other side effects are an increase in the amount of infections I get and not being able to swim because that will make it even worse. So I closed it to have a more comfortable life. For now though I wont be able to hear anything for about a month. How I will do my event I dont know but I should be ok by then. I still have one good ear, and a week off work. So I will focus on learning Ableton and production side of things. I will try to do a bit of mixing too.
This weeks goals:
-One hour of mixing.
-One hour of learning ableton.
-One hour of reading the dance music manual.ParticipantIm glad, go out there and have fun! Remeber the only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself.
ParticipantI just wanted to do a quick update today and show off our event page.
http://www.facebook.com/AfterPartyNation#!/events/235709449866985/
Please take a look and any suggestions would be great. I think my friend did an amazing design on the poster! I am so excited for this event so hopefully my crew will start out with a bang!ParticipantADHDJ, post: 20001, member: 1864 wrote: So you’re married?
Lol!
Participantim half deaf in my right ear Actually more than 60% and I do fine. I just learn to use visual cues and use my bad ear as a base counter and my good ear for everything else. Dont sweat it at all and just dive right in.
ParticipantMusic is the dessert of life! Time for another monday update.
This weekend friday to sunday was quite eventful for me. Friday night after work I sat down at this martini bar that i’ve been looking at for quite a while. I found out that they have DJ nights friday – sunday. Funny enough the Technician was playing a venue that night too. I met up with him later that night to see his new pioneer controller S1 I think? The night was going well until the resident DJ of that venue showed up and started telling the Technician which songs to play. I find that full of disrespect to be honest. Tips and advice is fine but standing over someones shoulder on someones night trying to control on whats going on is full of douchery. The thing is though that guy has been around and could potentially open doors and like it or not there will be many people like that in the future. I made friends and got his facebook. I talked to The Technician about it and he is fine with it. As long as he gets gigs and we help eachother out its all good. I’ll do the dirty people work, and he will teach and help me with the technical side of things.
Saturday I picked up my Biz cards. I have to tell you they are pretty sick! But not exactly what I wanted. Lesson learned, and my next cards will be so much better! I will use the ones I have for some mass marketing. In a couple of months I want about 100 followers on my FB page. The rest of the day I spent quality time with GF and The Technician’s girl (who are best friends). Let me tell you… keeping an eye out for your girl while she is drunk is difficult. Keeping an eye on two is no fun at all… Never again.
Sunday was a very productive day for the crew. The Technician stopped by my place to show me the Itch Video software that he got and we talked about future plans. For the next six months I want the three of us to have a weekly gig at a club and have monthly events. I think the goal is large enough to put some pressure on us, and realistic enough to get it done. by next summer I want us to have some sort of spot at The Goverment (Toronto’s largest club with 9 or something rooms). Making goals is tricky. too big and they over shadow the big picture and make you feel small or like that you wouldent be ablet to accomplish them, and making them too small wont make you feel as if you are moving forward or give you a sence of accomplishment. But everyone is different. I love to dream big, but The Technician focuses on smaller realistic dreams. Its good to have a balance between the two. The bussinessman has been hard at work on a poster design. He sent me a couple of samples last night, and they were really great! They should be done by tonight and when we finalize the name of the event the promotion of it will be in full swing.
Other things I have accomplished this week are:
– The pricing for the posters on regular paper will be around 75$ for 100 pieces.
– Practiced mixing (not as much as I wanted so i will have to make up for it).
– I started picking out the top tracks out of the 100 that I have. (the ones with the best energy and beat) I mark them red.Goals for this week:
– Promote Promote Promote!
– Decide if we will print the posters or not.
– Mix Mix and Mix!
– Wake up at 6am each day to have a bit more time picking out music.
– Buy the Digital Dj Tips video tutorials.This is going to be a great week!
ParticipantActually I should of worded that better. I have a few remixes and mashups by other artists and i dont know how i should go about setting them up in a way that i would be able to play them legally in public.
May 1, 2012 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Lets all "Like" each others Facebook Fan Page. Post your links here! #1003858Participanthere is mine http://www.facebook.com/D.J.Manhattan
ParticipantMonday – The hard part has just begun.
I am super excited, I’ve landed my first event gig! June 8th 2012. The past two weeks ive been sitting at work looking everywhere for a place to throw an event and with a bit of luck I got an interview. On thursday I found an ad on craigslist looking for DJ’s or promotors. At first I thought it was just a crew looking for someone to play or promote but when i called the guy up he said that he is looking for ppl to bring a him a crowd on a friday nights. My lightbulb lit up “I can do that, lets meet up on sat to discuss the logistics”. I called up two of my friends one who DJ’s on the regular at weddings and the other who is willing to help out with pretty much anything, then told them to meet me at mine on sat. We had a quick meeting on what kinda idea we can sell to land this chance. This event is a chance, its us putting the foot into the door. With all the general ideas set up we made our way there and i started to feel nervous. When we met the guy everything went really smoothly, he took us quite seriously and it wasent long until we started talking money. Not only is this my first gig, its also my first paid gig. As soon as we walked out of the club and away a good distance I jumped in joy, kissed my girlfriend, and high fived my friend.
I think the reason this worked out well is because i brought a few ppl with me and we looked like a professional crew.Sunday, I started to realize that I can’t do this alone. I need a crew, and right now I have the starting of one. So far I have the Technician, and the Businessman. Right away though I feel there is a tension growing with the tech. He brings up really good points but alot of them are negative. He is not as excited about this as me and the other guy. He lives in the past, the two events he did throw didint go through well at all, one was alright but his crew then didint make money of it, and the other ended in a riot. This worries me. The only thing he is excited about is that we can mix video at the venue “I’ve wanted this for a long time I’ve always wanted to mix my own videos”. I confindent I can handle him for a few events but i need to learn the tech stuff as a back up ASAP just incase he backs out in the future. There is alot of work to be put into this and I am willing to do the leg work.
This weeks goals.
– The bussinessman is setting up the graphics for a poster and the FB page the deadline is this Sat.
– I will set up all the details for the FB page and the wording of it.
– The tech will meet with the manager to go over their stage set up and see everything in detail (we only had a quick look).
– I will get in contact with a graphic designer that I know and see if he can whip something up for sat as well.
– Set up pricing for the posters/flyers.
– most importaint on my part is to keep practicing my mixing and keep cutting out the fat in my music library. The decisions are harder to make each day now. -
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