Dizzle

Even the international headline producer/djs play tracks they know will make people dance. I play mostly bass heavy EDM genres (Dubstep, Trap, Moombahton, D&B etc) with many of the tracks found at random on soundcloud and the like. So I only play songs that I love, but making me and other people dance are my first consideration. Picking a theme or feel for the set is important, promoters will pick you over another dj to play the time slot based on your ability to pick only an hour or two’s worth of music that helps to tell the theme or convey the feeling they are promoting that night AND makes people dance.

There are lots of different kinds of Djs, even that ambient noise stuff has it’s place. Think about even a small gathering of friends is taken up a notch by adding some music. But, for me nothing beats the feeling of putting on that new track that you think is hot and dancing along with the whole crowd! Wether it’s 30 folks in a dingy remote bar with a tiny dancefloor and decent PA or a room full of hundreds of people with speakers to the ceiling the name of the game is telling your story while ensuring that the other people there with you remain included in your enjoyment.

Trap is kind of a mix of dubstep tempos and hip hop style. As for proper dubstep + hip hop, look into grime, the genre is basically UK dudes rapping over dubstep tracks. One act I really like are Foreign Beggars. If you have the know how, definitely look into making your own remixes/mashups. I had a cool Bounty Killer v Flux Pavillion’s Bass Cannon mashup on soundcloud for almost a year but I recently received notice that the reggae vocals are copyrighted. Check out my culture one mix on Soundcloud.com/Dizzle or Mixcloud.com/DizzleTheDj for a short mix with a bunch of hip hop+dubstep stuff

yea you want to have the vital information easily accessible with a central theme to the fonts. Here’s a couple examples of ones I’ve had made. If it’s your friend, you should ask him to edit it for you, maybe drop the logos to the bottom of the page, especially as the Diet guy’s logo has a white background to it

Nerfherder, post: 37816, member: 1892 wrote: Hey all,

I currently work in a club and am using it as my way to get my foot in the door and start spinning some tracks. I’ve recently managed to have a bit of a go on some CDJ’s with one of the local dj’s at a couple of events/when I’m on my break at work and have finally convinced the manager to let me have a go. However, he wants to sit me down with one of the prominent dj’s and see what I can do for 15 mins or so. Now, this isn’t a lot of time to play a huge set, but I was thinking dropping a bunch of mashups and do as much as I can in the time. Can anyone give me a hand with some ideas of what to play and how to go about it? They’ll let me do it on my own gear (laptop and controller) so I won’t be on the cd’s, which I’m still unfamiliar with. Do I try and do a minimix type thing and play like 50 songs in the time?

Any help would be great!

Cheers,

Pete.

It’s only 15min so 10 or so tracks are enough. Make sure they fit your dj style and really try to show that you understand the finer points of djing, show that you can complete smooth mixes with good EQ work. Show that you understand the phrasing of the various genres that you play by bringing the songs in and out at appropriate times. Definitely resist the urge to play a million-n-one songs as on a regular club night that will just confuse the crowd

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It’s just a tumblr template with a custom domain name. All the images are hosted on tumblr or linked from my other social media accounts. So it costs me something like $25 for 3 years of Domain ownership from GoDaddy.com

Yea I’m pretty sure 99.9% of contemporary dubstep is quantized. (the beat is regulated by the computer) Just because the Bass drum isn’t playing quarter notes doesn’t mean that the beat is irregular. Just practice counting the beats. Or try putting a track into a DAW like ableton or audacity and use the metronome to play at the same tempo as your song. If you practice counting along to the song you will find that most dubstep follows a standard composition with builds, drops and breaks in about the same position.

I wouldn’t recommend trying to drop tracks in on any count but the 1 at first, that’s definitely a more advanced technique that I think you will find even more difficult than dropping in your new track on the 1 count.

The learn to digital dj fast course would help greatly with this… you should check it out if you haven’t already…

give them 15min of your sound. Don’t worry so much about playing the billboard hits the whole time, mix a little commercial in with the tracks you love that make people dance. If they are judging on creativity, don’t aim to play what everyone else will be playing (contemporary commercial bangers). Dig deep into your crate, pull out your favs that have had the best results.
Anyone can download the billboard top 10 and play it for 15min….don’t be that guy haha