Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
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Charles Sue-Wah-Sing
ParticipantThanks everyone!! And thanks d-jam for the link. It was helpful.
ParticipantI’ve learned to create folders or crates of music in iTunes in sets of 3-10. That way I have room to play with similar songs. I like the mini-playlist idea because once I’m done with 3 of 4 songs in a list I can get a sense if people are happy. If they are I can continue my list or move to another set.
I’ve also built up over time lists I know I can rely on and then add or minus tracks as I go. I also have a list of new or tracks I must play for that night.
I know there are iTune haters a plenty. I can’t say I love it either. But to create and manage sets and have it appear in Traktor is seamless for me now. I do cringe whenever Apple makes an update – just in case they do something to mess up my workflow 🙂
ParticipantThe way I learned was to record all of my practices. I would either replay immediately in my session, download it to my iPod or even burn it to CD (yup!!) so I could listen to it in the car. The more times I heard my mixes the more clearly I could hear what worked or didn’t or help me think of ideas on what tracks I could have used instead…
ParticipantI’m prepping for a club gig. I’m working in tandem with another DJ throughout the night. So I’ve created essentially 3 playlists. One to open, another as a peak set and a closer. This way I can plan how I want the night to progress. I don’t get too tied up with the order of tracks within each list. That gives me enough freedom to move around and feel the crowd. good luck!!
ParticipantLong-time Mac user. So without a question I knew where I was going. So I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro 13″ from the Apple online store and saved a couple of hundred dollars. Never let me down.
Participantdj.andy.warhol, post: 43933, member: 13302 wrote: I don’t know never been keen on iTunes, I just preferably find what I need on my own, don’t like to rely on mainstream sources because of my music preferences but that doesn’t mean I dislike iTunes.
The one thing iTunes does give me is a sense of what people (non-DJs) are listening too. Then I can go and find a good dance remix of that track.
ParticipantDaryl Northrop, post: 42300, member: 2350 wrote: Why are all of you watching the DJ in the first place? 😉
There seems to be a small movement, where I live, back to smaller venues for a more underground vibe. Where the DJ is buried in the back because it’s about the music. I have little appreciation for DJ’s performing at big festivals where the attention is on the DJ and everyone is looking at the stage waiting for something to happen. It’s not like the DJ is going to break out with a guitar solo and light up his decks in a blaze of fire. I love to dance as I play. But I’m doing it cause I’m in a groove not to draw attention to myself.
September 6, 2013 at 8:42 am in reply to: Whats the Smallest amount of people you have DJ-ed for ? #43838ParticipantFor my two kids who do pre-competitive urban dance and love to practice their routines as I jam on the decks 🙂 It doesn’t pay well… but it’s lots of fun!! LOL!!
ParticipantI’ve tested Serato, Traktor and VDJ. I’ve settled onto Traktor. The one thing I’ve learned too with software and controllers is that if a controller comes packaged with a specific software (eg. Serato and DDJ SX) no other software will work as smoothly. I love the DDJ SX design. But I didn’t want to mess with getting Traktor to work with it. I love my Traktor S4. It just feels real tight. Everything works like it’s suppose to. My one beef with Traktor is the beat gridding. Can be a real pain with some older house traks, funk and R&B. I probably didn’t answer your question LOL!!
September 6, 2013 at 8:26 am in reply to: What do DJs think about clubbing as "just something you do in your 20s"? #43836ParticipantThere’s no age limit to dance and have a good time. I’m in my 40s and love to see a good DJ spin. I used to club hard in my 20s. The big difference for me now I don’t do the drink and drugs like before. I like to wake up with my head still together 😉 There’s so much music where I live you can always find a crowd you can dance with and not feel “old”. We have a number of promoters who cater to a more mature professional urban crowd. We have the Top-40 Cougar crowd too. No hate there. They love to have a good time too – which is what it’s all about. Love life and dance man!!!
ParticipantI love iTunes for Top 4 stuff or mainstream music. It’s not the best place for the hard to find tracks and remixes. Though I find with zipDJ interesting and hard to find remixes of popular tracks, instrumentals and acapellas the library doesn’t go as far back as iTunes. Digging in BP is a pain. There’s so much of the same thing. The cool thing about sites like zip – one price, unlimited downloads. I’m still trying it out.
ParticipantA lot of this I imagine is driven by labels. They need to get more mass market audiences to sell tracks, tickets and get air play. Guys like David Guetta for example nailed this EDM-thang. In my humblest opinion, the best house (and I include deep, techno, progressive etc.) is still underground where it’s not called EDM. At least I don’t know anyone of my DJ friends using the term EDM.
ParticipantI understand what Atom is saying. However in the 80’s I wasn’t going to EDM parties. I was going to house parties. There wasn’t EDM DJs but house DJs. I do realize that as house and techno moved out of the underground in the 90’s and so on, large music stores would categorize house music in with other “electronic” genres including acid jazz, down tempo, and chillout. But when I went to my fav dance record stores they knew he differences between house and dub-step. The use of the word EDM in mainstream dialogue is relatively new considering how long house music and all of its sub-genres have been around. I agree with BacktotheFront. EDM is more used now to include Top 40 dance artists in with electro house and it gives House and Techno DJs and producers better exposure on the top 40 scene. Me, it’s house music plain and simple.
ParticipantIt does redefine clubbing a bit. Now that it includes fitness clubs. ha…ha…ha
ParticipantI think so as well. thanks
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