DJ Squared

The few that I have I purchased through yourremix.com (which I think is closed down) but you can still get them at their sister site http://www.yourdjdrops.com. The voice is very generic (although they do put your name in the drops) and so are the drops…for more money you can have them do custom drops as well where you write what you want them to say. They are good to have around for marking you mixes (better than pissing on them that’s for sure) and occasionally playing live for opening a show.

The difference between hearing the same sets from a DJ and a band is that unless the DJ is a producer people want the DJ take them on a journey using prerecorded music where as with a touring band, they want the band to play the songs they know and love. So if I were to follow a DJ from show to show, I would expect to hear different tunes that fit each venue and crowd where as if I were to follow a touring band, I would expect them to play the similar sets every night and maybe throw in a couple extra songs here and there.

As far as trimming back tracks, I don’t like to get rid of songs. I may move them out of my current playlist, but I almost never get rid of songs once I have them. You never know when you will need them. You may say hey I would love to drop a huge throwback track in my set or even doing a throwback night playing classics. Or as a producer you may want to go listen to older tracks for inspiration or samples. To me it makes no sense to completely delete music. I would suggest if you don’t want to carry it with you to get an external drive and store them there and just limit how many songs you may take to a specific gig. Personally, I bring almost all my music to my gigs, but I have several playlist that limit what songs that I have easy access to, but if I need a classic song or something I haven’t played in a very long time I still have it. Perfect example…a few months ago I was doing a club night and I actually played the Macerena (don’t flame me)…I haven’t played that song in probably 4 or 5 years…but it was what the club needed that night and it went over huge. If I had totally deleted that song because I haven’t played it in a few years..I would have missed that moment.

Jem, post: 3136 wrote: Graham Park always said that he only added records to his record boxes if they were better than (and therefore could replace) ones already in there. Like you say, one in : one out.

The problem is what song maybe better for one crowd may not be better for another. I don’t get this need for musical competition. I could point to lots of older songs that are better than whats currently in my current playlist… If we were to go by that line of thinking then we would all have nothing but old classic bangers in our collection but that is not the case.

I covered up my number because that is my personal number and I didn’t want the entire world to have my personal cell phone number. All of my other contact info is on there and anybody online that wanted to get a hold of me can. I don’t mind it being on the card itself because when I give someone a card, I have some inkling of who they are and make a choice to give them my number.

I have two cards…one for Djing and one for promoting. They are glossy card stock…except the back of the promotions card. Got them done at nextdayflyers.com

For me, I’m trying to decide between a pair of DN-SC2000 or a DN-MC6000. I already have Traktor Scratch Pro and existing mixer. So adding just the SC2000s will work and then maybe adding a small 4 ch mixer like the Vestax….but the simplicity of the MC6000 is too alluring.