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MemberThanks Chuck. I’m really just shooting for a solid amount of noticable bass that folks packed in the back of the room will feel. Doesn’t have to be gut-wrentching, but we do push pretty hard with the big-room anthems and 60 people jumping.
Looked at the 15′ Thumps, but really liked the clarity of the highs and mids in the upper-tier EONs. You think the 515’s (in the link in my first post) will do the job sans sub?
December 7, 2011 at 10:04 pm in reply to: DJ NAMES: How did you choose yours? Ever wish you'd chosen a different one? #11037MemberWent to a ton of raves in high school and college and always went hard on the floor, but also wore a ton of Brooks Brothers and southern stuff, and dudes would always look at me like I was crazy. Basically, it was a ton of dudes in street wear and one dude in a pastel polo shirt and fishing shorts raging hard to electro.
Anyway, fast forward to a show in college, and this dude keeps looking at me like I’m out of my mind all night even though I was going hard as a mfer to the jams. (or maybe because of that.) Once the show was done, everybody went outside and he came up and said “Nigga, who the f- are you?” After about twenty minutes, he then said “Man, you one cool cat.” We laughed and that’s where I got Cool Cats.
Wasn’t until my junior year that I realized the Ed Banger crew goes by Cool Cats too, which kind of shut down the internet, but most folks don’t follow French House, so it’s never been a problem.
MemberThat’s too hard, but this week it’s:
-Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
-Florence + The Machine
-Diplo
-Youth Lagoon
-Zeds DeadMemberNs6 has tighter jogs, is larger, has booth-out, is an analog mixer (best thing ever), warm and punchy sound and even though you can map it to Traktor, is pretty much exclusively designed for ITCH. It also lacks essential Traktor-focused controls, and is thus inferior when you’re using it for that purpose. However ITCH is better with the warpable grids, tuned into the NS6 like none other and you get the Serato customer service, which is the best service I have ever seen from a DJ company. Not to mention Whitelabel, which is just badass.
S4 is a little smaller, exclusively designed for Traktor, has a sampler section, a huge community centered on mapping and experience with it over at DJTT, and fits Traktor like a glove. Also the jogs on the S4 aren’t that much smaller and the scratching is pretty accurate. Porter Robinson drops it hard with the S4, however it does lack XLR, booth, hard to see in clubs because of the lighting and it’s plastic-y.
With that said, both are fun to play with and like they said above, it all depends your software choice. I like Traktor for what it does, I just hate wasting hours screwing the map up only to revert back to the factory settings. With Serato, you just plug and go.
MemberOften when I know I want to switch to Dubstep or something else halfway through, or even randomly, I’ll take certain key songs – let’s say the song is Party Rock – and I’ll start by mixing into a house version of that track. Then I’ll cue up the drop on a Dubstep version (having listened to the two beforehand to know whether they’ll even blend together) and then on the second house drop, I’ll cut to the dub drop and start mixing Dubstep from there.
To get yourself out of dub, look at Hessler’s #2.
November 29, 2011 at 10:00 pm in reply to: So where in the world are you? (Apart from the US/Canada and Europe) #10651MemberWashington D.C. Lots of good electro/dub clubs here – even a strict reagge club too. Balty has sick venues as well – especially for the b-more/moombah crowd.
MemberAm App hoodie in a bunch of different colors, crisp white v-neck, darkest jeans I can find without being black and a pair of inov-8 230s in blue. Girlfriend goes nuts for the messy hair/hoodie look, and she’s really the only one I want happy.
Member@Dayvue – If you mean the popular charts, yes. If you mean the songs, no. I read about 40 music blogs a day, and all the blog has to do is post the song for it to show up on Hype. You just follow said blog on Hype and in your feed, all of that blog’s music is available to skim through. This is an easier way to dig a little deeper without having to visit every blog multiple times a day.
I’d still rather read STG, Vacay Wave or Earmilk, but for the tiny blogs that generally have garbage writing and post solid tracks, it saves a bunch of time.
November 29, 2011 at 5:43 pm in reply to: Professional Dj's playing prerecorded mixes. Opinion? #10637Membermr_john, post: 10533 wrote: If they can’t handle mixing live every show, then I think they’re in the wrong business. DJ’s have more musical freedom than any other musician. You think the foo fighters don’t get tired of playing the same songs at every show? As a DJ, and especially as an international star DJ, you can spin something totally random in on a whim. If you’re bored by your set, that’s your own fault.
So I totally get where you’re coming from. I freaking love Dada Life and if I heard Happy Violence or that Cotton Eyed Joe mashup, I would absolutely lose it – however, guys like Skrillex really aren’t DJs and he pretty much just pre-mixes or lines
it up in Abelton and smokes cigarettes while fist pumping. That’s because he’s a producer, and DJ Set is code for “hey, come hear my tunes live over a $10,000 sound system.” I don’t think he or a lot of other producers set out to be “djs”, it’s just what EDM fans expect live – so that’s the term they use.What you and I do with tracks live – blending, mixing, pitch riding etc. – gets called DJing as well. It really IS DJing, but a bro with neon sunglasses who just wants to hear Levels or a Benassi remix of Cinema doesn’t give a flip about the difference. Hence Angello screwing off while he should be mixing. 🙁
MemberU31, post: 10407 wrote: And why the devil not? I do, &almost everyone i know does.
There are very few i know who will not plan a set for a night and wing it.. But that said the few who do wing it have played some blinding setsYep. There’s a fine line between being prepared and planning, and being so anal that you’ve got no room to make tweaks if a song is bombing. The former is just good form – the latter is just a bad idea.
MemberI wouldn’t worry about it. Almost every big DJ that’s affiliated with a label has stickers – Diplo, A-Trak, Datsik, Aoki, most of the Mad Decent crew, all the Cool Cats crew (especially Busy P – dude has too many stickers). You’re there to bring the vibe, and if a sticker helps you get into “Yeah – let’s set this place off right now” mood then put it on.
MemberUh, I’ll say what Dayvue said in fewer words.
Hype Machine.
Hello every remix by every relevant artist you’ll ever need.
MemberWas a music director at a college radio station, heard Justice for the first time and said “oh, dammmmnn!” Was indie up until that point, and went completely into EDM. Changed my major, changed my short term plans and ended up in Milan interviewing the Bloody Beetroots and Crookers for a music mag – right about the time blog-house was peaking. Tommy from the Beetroots asked if I wanted to DJ, I didn’t know how and they said they’d show me/gave me tickets to a show. I felt like an idiot, and pretty much from that day forward I’ve been either learning to DJ or actually DJing.
Do you know how f—ing sick that would have been to DJ with the Bloody Beetroots pre-Church of Noise? That pretty much defines the electro-house dream. 🙁 Next time, I will be able to say “Uh, yes please.”
MemberSenate Office during the week, Patagonia on the weekends. Probably the only person on the Hill that listens to Laidback Luke, Diplo and Adventure Club Dubstep at my desk.
Like Fizzle, DJing and EDM keep me sane. 🙂
MemberAlways on two zip drives. Small, portable, can withstand a washer/dyer cycle and if it can’t fit on an 8 gig zipdrive, that means I’ve got too much music. Plus you can use them with CDJs if you’re in a spot.
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