DJ GRE

I manage a gym – must say it’s a very interesting line of work.

Illinoize, post: 1318 wrote: That’s legit. They can’t argue with a wild crowd and crazy drops. I agree that purchasing CDJs just to look the part makes no sense, though I considered getting the DDJ T1 at one point to help familiarize myself with the CDJ style. But I realized the learning curve can’t be THAT bad. If I ever get lucky enough to land a residency where the big wigs look down on controllers, I’m sure I’d have no issues switching to CDJs for club gigs.

Yeah, I think one of the 10 commandments is learn to use CDJs and/or Vinyl which I already do anyway at least the basics – Back in the Philippines I had DJ friends and I used to stand in for them from time to time both on Vinyl and CDJs so I understand how they work – not a fan of CDJs though… they seem crazy expensive for the lesser of both worlds – thats just my opinion though.

Hello Emma, that is a truly inspirational story – great to have you here!

Illinoize, post: 955 wrote: Is that your gig setup as well? And if it is, are the owners/promoters generally receptive of your controllers?

Yeah, that’s my entire set up for gigs and for home – Like I said, it does everything I need it to and I don’t really want to buy some turntables and/or cdjs just so promoters/owners will think highly of me. Plus I kinda love the ability to move and jump up and down with my controllers! I have shown up at gigs though where the promoter asked if these were toys and touched them cause he thought they weren’t actually doing anything! But for the most part nobody minds – once I get started and the music starts going and the crowd starts moving they stop caring.

DJ Distraction, post: 866 wrote: Hello. I’m from Cebu, Philippines. Top 40 / Commercial rules here…but there’s a great portion of clubers that are into house music.

Yeah, when I lived in Manila, I remember it being largely hip / hop and commercial music – with the occasional techno nights or house nights here and there – this was when E was getting pretty huge with the kids, so I don’t know if it persevered past that or not.

Mindfloat, post: 741 wrote: is it really the essence of blending a mix that you cant hear any transitions? sometimes its cool,sometimes its really boring..depends on the situation,but personally i think sometimes its even cooler to get rougher transitions,so that the people recognize “ah,a new beat coming in” if you want perfect seamless transitions all you have to do is using ableton for djing..

Yeah I love when I’m getting the crowd pumped up and a break is building to let it just echo freeze away at the very end as they get antsy for a drop and just have a different tracks drop cued up and just SLAM it on the 1. Not “mixing” per se but loads of fun.

But regarding your ableton comment: I’ve seen djs using ableton on the fly in clip view that make mistakes, whos transitions arent perfect, but ableton is pretty good dj software once you get the hang of it and I think that it is just hugely misunderstood. Not a fan of it for my style of djing but I still think it’s not as “skill-less” as some people think it is.

Nice – From the Philippines myself… but I’m from Baguio…. How’s the DJ scene in the PI? I remember when I was back there living in Manila, it was a lot of hip hop and occasionally some house/techno music.

Agreed! awesome loop roll? I wanna say, Whatever it was that build up was pretty cool. Help! – that track you dropped at the end, what’s it called again, I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it I know it’s somewhere in my collection!