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Cool idea for a thread, maybe even an opportunity to personally get to know someone from the community!

I already got my Ticket for SONAR in Barcelona, can’t wait! Great city, sun, beaches and the biggest EDM festival in Europe!

Maybe I’ll also go to one of the popular German ones like “Sonne Mond Sterne”, but that’s still undecided.

Anyone else for Sonar 2013?

I don’t know man, just yesterday I got some pretty unpopular / “undergroundy” deep house tracks off of itunes.

I can’t tell a difference between beatport 320 and itunes tracks, so I usually go for iTunes as Beatport is more expensive, even with a coupon code.

right now: Dusted – Property Line

Especially combined with the opening segment of “Where the trail ends” (basically The Art of Flight of Mountainbiking).

you can set the first marker wherever you please. however, afaik the Grid is always in effect for the complete song.

Is this a political statement, or a piece of music – what is the intention?

Although I’m in the process of finishing my master’s in Poli Sci, I don’t care much about politics (weird, eh?). Especially when I listen to music. Maybe I’ll make an exception if you’re System of a Down or Rage Against the Machine.

So take my comment only as a statement to the musical contents: I found it a bit dull. No offense.

I don’t know if you have any intentions of getting more into production and I sure as hell don’t wanna kill off your enthusiasm, just saying that given the availability of technology there is so much HIGH QUALITY free music out in this day and age… And most people want to be entertained primarily (when I was at a SoaD or Serj Tankian show 80% of the people there couldn’t care less about their/his political messages – and they’re extraordinary musicians) when listening to music.

But if that kind of stuff is fun for you – more power to you 🙂

You cannot stretch/warp beatgrids in Traktor unfortunately. You can only set a constant grid throughout a track. Yes, I also think that sucks, but fortunately the need only seldomly arises with the genres I spin.

So if a track has varying BPM you can either opt to only grid/play a segment of it, or you are left to keeping it in sync manually.

I don’t mean (and I’m sure none of the other guys did) to patronize you, you’re a grown up and seem very motivated.

Still I’d like to add that you don’t lose ANYTHING by first of all getting a small, cheap all-in-one controller (only for a few weeks to get the basics down). When u burned through it, just sell it off on ebay, craigslist whatever.

See, you think that DJing would be living your dream (and maybe it is, I’m not the one to tell you otherweise) – I’m just gonna say from my OWN experience, that oftentimes things seem different from the outside (even if you think you know everything about it) than when actually DOING them. Motivation BEFORE doing something doesn’t count for much, you need the motivation once you’re doing it.

I thought, even after joining, that I wanted to go down the specops route in the military. But guess what: A couple months in an infantry batallion totally cured me of that belief. How many people have you met that were highly motivated to start lifting weights, get their diet in order, start running… and 4 weeks in that motivation was gone. (But a pair of running shoes is only 10% of the cost of a CDJ … 😉 )

Not saying that it must happen for you, but why not make sure before spending that kinda cash?

Anyways: good luck with your endeavours 🙂