D-Jam

This was the first tune someone showed me that he deemed “dubstep”. I’m sure some will argue now on that, but if I saw more stuff like this, I’d be a dubstep DJ.

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I’ll keep my eyes on it, but I’m reluctant to join. I keep imagining this will be mostly full of DJs and not much more.

Plus with the differences between a free and paid account, I can imagine how many DJs will try to put in there anything “free” they can, like Mixcloud players or zippyshare links.

In the end, if they get the “normal people” to join up and participate, then it’ll be a winner. If it’s just DJs, then you’re better off with Facebook.

I play whatever sounds good to me. I know that sounds like a cheap answer, but I’ll never overlook a good tune if it’s not in a “normal” genre I usually play. So I’ll also say what I mainly play:

• House (Deep/soulful, jackin’, old school, any energetic tech house, some electro)
• Trance (Uplifting, some psy and some hard)
• Techno (Usually some kind of hard techno that compliments the trance)
• Breaks (When I play electro house I usually like to play some breaks with it to mix things up)
• Rave/Hardcore (Generally love to pull out my old school stuff from 1992-1993)

I think a lot of the software is designed in vectors, so it might scale up. Frankly, I wonder if our eyes will notice. I remember everyone all excited about 3D in movies and HD screens…but I go and in 30 min my eyes stop noticing the difference. Even if it doesn’t look good, I’m sure updates will come out shortly to address it.

My only concern about the Retina Display thing is on mobile. I see many speak of how much bigger I’ll have to make images and sites as a web designer…but I still see our infrastructure is in the past. So that 1000-pixel image might look good on an iPhone or iPad screen, but will take forever to download on a 3G system that more has the speed of a dial-up.

I dunno…I wish Apple and the rest pushing these new screens would also push for infrastructure improvements so we can fully utilize data. It’s why I don’t trust the idea of cloud DJing. It’s hard enough to get a solid reliable data stream through cell or wi-fi as it is.

This is why some think I come off as negative in some of my articles. I simply don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up that they’ll easily blow up into the big leagues. I want them to understand how much work, dedication, and diversity is involved to become a big name.

I’ll never say it’s impossible, but I’d rather not see disgruntled 30something or 40something DJs who were in the biz for 10-20 years and feel “cheated” because they never got a “big break” or that things are not all just about music selection and talent.

Better to show someone reality and then let them adjust and adapt to how they play the game. 🙂

I’m torn now on that. The DJ in me would want a good spot with great music and a “the DJ runs the show” policy so trixies begging for crap are rejected. Unfortunately, without bigger names to draw out a crowd or some great gimmick, it would fail.

The Promoter in me would simply sell out. Mainstream music, hot looking fake people, fancy spot that milks money out of people, invite or pay celebrities to come out, strict door policy, hire actual models to be gogo dancers, and even find a means to get coke dealers inside as well as hot underage slutty girls and other “forbidden fruits”. Basically I’d make the party DJs and music lovers would hate with a passion but average people and mainstream clubbers would say is the best night on Earth.

I’d make a ton of money, then pull out and leave it.

Start here for personal promotion and growth:

http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/03/how-to-succeed-at-djing-part-1-what-type-of-dj-do-you-want-to-be/

Here for event planning and promotion:

http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/09/how-to-promote-events-throw-your-own-parties-part-1/

To me, this explosion is no different than the many times it’s happened in the past.

1. Disco in the late 70s
2. House in 1990-1991
3. Euro in 1994
4. Big Beat in the late 90s
5. Trance from 1999-2002
6. Euro again in 2001-2003
7. Electro-House

Usual story over and over. I agree agree with the comment Guetta made in that for the longest time, too many DJs and scenesters wanted to keep EDM to themselves…thus it turned off most normal people.

I’m sure by next summer we’ll see stories of fests not happening that happened this year, and some new non-dance music taking over the clubs…with DJs complaining how America doesn’t seem to ever like “good dance music”.

We might even see Skrillex’s or Guetta’s 15 min of fame dry up.