Emma Partnow

D-Jam, post: 4891 wrote: I think with club and rave DJing, there are certain “levels” you achieve that more or less decide how much of a say you have.

When you’re a nobody and some bar or club is bringing you out to play music to the crowd, then you’re expected to take requests because you’re the one hired to please the people the owner or promoter brings you.

However, when you achieve a level where YOU are the one bringing the crowd out, then you can dictate things. If 500 people show up to hear you play, and one girl is making a hissy-fit because you won’t change the music for her, anyone will agree the masses call the shots. So if the room wants hip-hop and the one girl wants reggae, then majority rules and she should accept it or leave and go to a reggae venue.

I think too many people, especially girls, simply make requests out of a desire to “feel special”. They really don’t care about anything other than feeling like a big-shot because they can ask the DJ for things and he’ll do it.

As a DJ, if you don’t like requests, then either stay out of most avenues where it’s required, be a bedroom DJ, or build up a following to the point that they’ll side with you before some trixie with a princess complex. It’s like gladiators…whoever has control of the crowd can dictate the rules.

I stand by my Original Response to this Video; although I Accept Everyone has their Own Views;
I Don’t Take Requests and that’s the End Of It as far as I am Concerned;
However; the Reason I am ‘Quoting’ D-Jam is the fact that I noticed that the Male this woman was with who Requested ‘Reggae’ (I wonder if she Actually ‘Knew’ what Reggae Actually Is); jumped in and initially began Defending Her (as if she was ‘Correct’); but also ‘Attempted’ to Incite ‘Other Patrons’ Against Kid Capri;
This I Feel is Totally Wrong; as if she is Unable to Stand Up For Herself; or Accepts the ‘Hulk Attitude’ of her Partner; then this is a Very Sad Affair for her; but also a Very Sad Affair for the ‘Genius In the Booth’ Whomever He or She may be; as an ‘Incident Similar to This’ but Involving 20 Males Confronting Me; Actually in My Booth; it is a Practice that I would like to see Stamped Out to be Truthful;
And though it would be Easy to say ‘This is the World Of DJ’ing; Accept it or Get Out’; this would Actually be quite a Narrow Minded View in my Opinion; I See The World from the ‘Top Down’ Not from the ‘Bottom Up’;
Carl Cox played ‘Tomorrowland’ in Belgium last weekend; and used Basically 5 Loops (and some ’80’s Soul House) throughout the Whole 2 Hour Set; but if You (meaning Anyone) Don’t Like It; Go Somehwere Else;

I have Posted My Thoughts on your SoundCloud Account my Friend 🙂
Hopefully More people will give it a Listen too 😎

U31, post: 4786 wrote: Its a vinylist forum, Emma… but there are a few starting out or actually using DVS on the Sly- and my mate who is on the Ableton course is also on there..

Oh; I didn’t mean anything against the Forum my Friend; it was just Cool that you supplied an Ableton Set Link (which includes the Scratching Template I also have – but haven’t Mastered yet :));
I just find ‘Conflict’ Difficult Sometimes 🙁

Beatmaster Mills, post: 4784 wrote: I guess what would be the most helpful to me is shadowing another DJ for a couple gigs, just to see the whole process top to bottom. I’m sure I can figure it all out my my own, but it would be helpful

Yes; I Completely Understand Mills;
I brought my Nephew into my Studio when he was 12 and began teaching him How to Mix with CDDJ’s;
But I was Talking to him through the Whole Process; and I was ‘Insistent’ that he Took Full Notes;
After Each Transition (a Single Transition I would Perform and then Repeat 6 Times); I would take him through the Whole Process again; but Much More Slowly; and with ‘His’ hands on the Decks;
He may have been a Member Of My Family; but I Felt it Important (because he Asked Me To Teach Him) that he Understood there was a ‘Job To Be Done’; and a ‘Process To Follow’ to get From A to B;

The Only ‘Challenge’ I Envisage of you Watching a DJ in a Booth Live; is that the person won’t be able to ‘Explain’ to you in Detail ‘Why’ he is Manipulating ‘This Switch’; or ‘What’ Effect will Turning ‘This Knob’ make to the Overall Sound;
I only say this because when I watch DJ’s on [EMAIL]B@TV[/EMAIL] (Shameless Promotion – but the Best Site on the Internet apart from DDJT); I see their Hands Flashing All Over The Mixer; and there isn’t ‘Time’ to see ‘What’ he has Done before he is ‘Doing Something Else’

My Nephew has just come back from DJ’ing at the Ibiza Rocks Festival; but he HAD to Get that First; Second; Third; Fourth; Fifth (and On and On) Transition To Perfection (not in One Night Of Course :)); before I would Persuade My Sister to Buy Him First Set-Up; now he is A Very Happy Man (and I Am Sat In My Bedroom :rolleyes:);

How ‘You’; and ‘Any Man/Woman ‘Becomes’ a DJ is when they say;
‘That is a Cool Transition There; But Listen To How Much Better ‘I’ Feel It Sounds When You Do It This Way’ 🙂

Well; as I have been informed I am allowed to use the word ‘Dick’; then I will;
What A Dick Head !

In the Full Article; he later goes on to say;

Would you ever convert to the laptop?
Wherever technology goes, if you’re going to DJ you’ve got to have the skill. I would be doing myself wrong. It’s just like cheating. I may come to a point where I do use a laptop but I’ll be DJing, ‘cause that to me is the art. It’s a skill and there are so many of my heros that have done it before me that I could never disrespect it.

So; to use his Own Words …
He says; “If I Do Use A Laptop I will be DJ’ing because it is an Art; it’s a Skill”
So; Contary to his Overall View of DJ’s who Use Laptops; Somehow he will be Reinventing The Wheel; and be the Only DJ in The World who will be DJ’ing With A Laptop ‘Skillfully’; maybe he Won’t Be Using Any Software ?

What A Dick Head !

Old : Carl Cox Live @ The Second Summer Of Love 1988
New : Carl Cox Live @ Tomorrowland 2011

TheShard, post: 4697 wrote: Get well soon ^_^