shr3dder

Where the hell can you still smoke inside?

I miss the convenience of having a smoke while I play, but don’t miss the smell, I’ve also found I smoke a helluva lot less not exactly being able to run away from the decks for 5-10 minutes (I’ve tried it, it’s hard)

Shit like your laptop and headphones aren’t really going to be out long enough to take any real damage, the decks and mixer cop it so bad from being there every night, every weekend for a long time.

It seems pretty spot on to me…
Of course the older guys are top, and guys like Sasha, Digweed, PVD and co. have been earning huge $ in Europe/Australia/Asia for 15+ years.

Plus they were around when the commercial mix CD market was huge and piracy wasn’t everywhere. Makes a huge difference, look at the amount of labels that have died in the last decade, even the big ‘uns.

Well technically all indie means is independently released, which rules out a lot of peoples examples, but its been a while since the term has been used in a literal sense.

I think everyone’s perception of stuff like this is kinda down to the individual.

Plump DJs for example, maybe be underground to some, and pushing commercial to others.
The same goes for Daft Punk, Deadmau5 et al.

I have mates that never listen to commercial radio/video shows etc who would call 90% of big name house artists (SHM, Hardwell, anything that is on the Beatport top 10-20) commercial, others mates would argue they ain’t.

That said, nothing on the Beatport Top 100 should ever be considered underground. 😛

Do 128k mp3s even exist these days outside of piracy and people doing their own rips?

Horrible stuff, I wouldn’t playing anything below 320k myself, but 192 would probably be ok on lesser systems, still Re-rip your tunes to 320k.

Qbert, post: 17351, member: 1762 wrote: Hey Everyone –

I’m brand new to this website and to DJing. I decided recently that I wanted to learn how to be a DJ so I ordered myself the Numark Mixtrack Pro online. However, the company made an error and shipped the Numark NS7FX, which I came to know is a much more upscale (and expensive) controller.

That’s a pretty epic screw up. You are a lucky lucky guy.

That sort of shit happens dude, learn from it and do things a bit different next time.

I’m not sure if you did this, but from personal experience playing to more commercial crowds I find
dropping or raising the BPM dramatically between songs can absolutely destroy the vibe, you gotta do it gradually.

That said, sometimes people just ain’t interested in dancing, it happens don’t stress.

2SHAE!, post: 19544, member: 1459 wrote: If your the only DJ playing that night and your starting early, theres no need to play a banger right off the bat. Typically the venue wont be crowded at the very beginning and you want to save all your best current songs for the peak of your set. But then again, it all depends on your crowd, as well as the venue itself. Make sure to save the perfect last song, as this will be the tune people remember the night for, if they stay until the end.

While thats true some of the time, I have a residency at a place where it starts as a restaurant then becomes a club. They have an MC for 15 minutes to welcome everyone then I start. I ALWAYS start with a banger and it makes everyone jump out of their seats and dance. Then after 30 minutes a band comes on. I stop and again when I restart another banger straight after the band. Always works a treat.

That said though the venue is quite unique. I think you need to assess the situation, sometimes people need some convincing to get off their arse. Other times a slow build is better.