Hee Won Jung

longmover, post: 22342, member: 1361 wrote: yes it is a fad and a shit one as well.

also see drum and bass.

DnB a fad? are u freakin kidding me….DnB was freaking MASSIVE back in the 90s…it was the goto rave music along side Hard/Psy trance….thats all you ever heard back then…Big dark warehouse…pulsing beats and no DJ to be found on a giant stage with a bazzilion lights and fireworks. Just some geeky guy in the corner of the warehouse banging out track after track. And no one knew what a single song was…they just lived for the music and the music carried them on a journey in their mind.
THAT my friend was the good times….all this Show Boat garbage DJing where its considered “okay” to do pre set mixes and jump up and down with their arms in the air, chat with people and generally do things that have nothing to do with the music. Its utter garbage.

Back to the Dubstep thing…North American Dubstep aka Brostep is a fad…and its already on its way out…The original idea to any style of music will always have a true following…Its pretty much the same with any musical Genre…Rappers like 2pac, Biggy, Snoop Dogg, Dre will always have a following 10-20-50 years from now, but artists like Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Chris Brown…no one will ever remember because they didnt do what they did for the love of what they did…they do it for the money…and it really shows in the music. Its the same with any musical Genre. The ones that do what they do for the passion will last…the dick riders and show boaters will eventually die off to be forever forgotten.

wow 50 tracks?

I usually add about 5 tracks a week per genre at most. Usually im always only into 1 or 2 genres at a time and keep it to that. I used to buy/download so many tracks but then i found myself getting into this problem. I buy 20-30 songs and i loved them all…but 2 weeks later i dont ever play them out and went back to playing the songs that i cherish the most.

As one other poster mentioned…its Quality over Quantity.

One little trick that i have been doing is…add all of them to my cart…and let them sit there for a week and then go back to them…i usually find within that weeks worth of time i will weed out 95% of the tracks i had and just buy those 2 or 3 gems.

Ive had the same issue and have devloped a proper work around for this:
If you are using a windows based laptop Itunes is a little buggy.

First off i suggest if you are going to use the smart playlists in itunes…use the grouping field to create your smart playlists. the reason for this is that Traktor does not use the grouping field BUT traktor will still show the playlists created in itunes, through the grouping field.

2ndly itunes does not “erase” the comments made in traktor…its just that itunes doesnt update them properly. Always do all your comments and editing within itunes or Mediamonkey or something like that.

Once you have done any type of changes in itunes or any 3rd party program, you will need to do consistancy checks on your playlists to show all the updates.

Itunes is still really buggy for id3 tagging and such so it is much better to do all your editing and such with a program like Mediamonkey then use itunes to create your smart playlists then import into traktor as a playlist.

It adds a few more steps but then you wont ever run into issues of itunes “erasing” things.

Harmonic mixing is more dependant on where abouts you are going to mix the 2 songs.
If you are mixing into a straight drum beat of course harmonic mixing will not apply as there are no “key” to a basic drum beat.
The 2 main sounds you really need to watch for, for harmonic mixing is Vocals and Synth/Bass lines. As these are the 2 dominate sounds/noises that are actually in key.
Mixing in Key is more useful for doing mashups and such where you have 2 songs mixing togeather for an extended period of time.
With most music these days there are lots of different keys that songs shift from, and programs like mixed in key will only display the dominate key of the entire song.

Ears over Key note…and MIK isnt perfect either…id says its about 70% accurate.

so u show up to your shows with just a laptop and a preset list of songs in order and just use VDJ automix?

Daryl Northrop, post: 21539, member: 2350 wrote: I firmly believe that a DJ’s duty is 50% entertain 50% educate by exposing people to new music, and new ways of hearing music mixed together.

+100 for this. I firmly believe this. IMO Anyone can play music that everyone wants to hear. Its playing music that no one has heard and making them rock out that really gets me pumped when i play.

anothing option is if you are connecting your board with rca cables is this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOSA-9-9-ft-Dual-RCA-Daisy-Chain-Stereo-Patch-Cable-CRA-203PB-NEW-/390424820477?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5ae721fafd

then you just get a Digital to rca cable for your iphone and you are good to go