J-Zed

DJ Medik, post: 36015, member: 8061 wrote: J-Zed, I heard that man! This club “promoter” does almost zero promotion himself (aside from creating the events on Facebook and just re-posting them). Relies on the DJ’s to bring people in, yet does not give us a cut of the door (even on exceptional nights) claiming we should all be working together as a team to keep the club afloat. Of course I’ve always promoted myself, but I hate feeling like that is my primary job when I should be focusing on putting together a bangin set for that night. I’m trying to get a taste of what it’s like to work for a large club who knows how to promote successfully!

Yeah it’s nuts, as if trying to create a set that keeps everyone dancing and drinking isn’t hard enough, now I gotta worrry about bringing people in too? The part that irritates me is I can get 20-30 people to see me at smaller place no problem but not for a 45 minute set! Their problem is they throw in as many djs in as possible because their logic is more = better. However no GOOD and EXPERIENCED DJs are going to take 45min sets in the house world. It’s so frustrating especially if the club has potential.

Seems like this happens very often, there’s a club I sent some e-mails to after they posted they were looking for DJs (that should have been a hint)

Anyways, this club has the worst promotion team ever and all the pictures that end up on FB are taken up agaisnt a wall showing their lack of confidence showing an empty space. This place also once advertised they had 10 DJs lined up for a night 10pm-5am… In addition, DJs are required to do most of the promotion for the club as well. I bet I’d only end up getting $20 to play which is more than the gas and parking to get downtown.

JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE

NietzSKY, post: 35807, member: 4553 wrote: Honestly, you guys should be fine, it seems different enough……..Oh shit is that Netsky’s lawyer at my door? XD j/k

Yeah I wasn’t very serious about it, it was just a joke. Though one of my dreams is one day to get in contact with the man Jay-Z himself and see if he could do some short vocal things I could put into a track. That would be beyond cool.

Jay-Z – On To The Next One (J-Zed Canadian White Boy Remix)

DJ Sneakman, post: 35706, member: 7007 wrote: Oh man i tried to come up with a super unique name lol

I hear ya, I hope Jay-Z never has any issues with me if I ever get big. They’re my damn initials after all.

“Replaceable, replaceable, replaceable… Jazzzzzz” lol

Cool topic, I’ve always wanted to listen to some more jazz, now there’s a huge list of artists to check out.

Just be careful DJ Sneak doesn’t get cheesed about your DJ name, then you might need even more money.

DJ Johnny Fantastic, post: 35389, member: 1322 wrote: I hardly ever use effects in my mixes because if I screw it up, even slightly, you can hear it every single time you listen to that mix. It is there forever but in a club, if it’s slightly off, it’s easy to recover from and is easily forgotten. I always take more risks when playing live then I do when recording mixes.

That’s not to say I won’t try different things out at home even while recording mixes but I am more selective. If I’m working on a 45min+ mix and I screw up 30mins in, then I just wasted 30mins of my time since I will always stop right away and restart.

I gotta disagree with that, I think when it comes to making proper mixes effects can really help. Obviously it increases the chances of mistakes but imo nobody gets ahead by not taking risks, even the small ones.