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becomming a DJ...how to do it??
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How's the best way to do this?? a friend of mine does it for a hobby, but wants to play at clubs, etc! He plays online gigs+gets paid for them, and he's really good. id dance to his music+it sounds better than some of the stuff they play in clubs. It's mostly remixes and not so much his own material!
Any ideas??? He doesnt know where to start+feels everyone will pay no attention as he's an amateur!
thanx
Any ideas??? He doesnt know where to start+feels everyone will pay no attention as he's an amateur!
thanx
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also, might just be my opinion but i thought dance music had died? isnt eveything more harder-edged now? what with the kandy kiddies getting into hardcore and the mainstream lovers getting into drum n bass (due to pendulums influence).
But then this is just my experience...
well if he doesnt drive, how is he going to get home from the clubs that might employ him
Record some mix CD's and send them out to loads of clubs. Although these days the whole world and his wife is a DJ, so try and make them a bit different. Don't just mix a load of obvious bangers and anthems together, try and do something more interesting. Alternatively, start your own night.
Get somebody else to drive obviously. Most of the DJ's I knoe bring 'guests' to drive for them.
isn't drum'n'bass dance music anymore?
a friend of one of my sons did something similar in manchester few years ago.
he picked a back street pub ...tatty and unknown and with a landlord only to willing to try anything to fill the pub ...so it was free.
for a couple of years it became one the busiest unknown back street pubs in town.
even on the none nights it was busier cos...a new audience had found a new place to meet and hang out.
except the people who pay to see him
The trance scene's been huge in recent years, and we can't deny the talents of that scene - Ferry Corsten, DJ Tiesto, Randy Katana, newcomers Dogzilla - there's still some good stuff out there. The general trend has, however, been towards more commercial territory, bordering on hardcore. Genre is not as much of an issue now as it has been. Not many records define themselves as 'trance' nowadays, a sign maybe that the scene is temporarily stagnating. As for house, there's some good new talents in the scene now - the "Swedish house mafia" consisting of Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso and Richard Axwell, for starters. Others include the Freemasons, Steve Mac, Lee Cabrera, Mylo, Jacques Lu Contes, Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel... I could go on here.
Dance music isn't dead, not by a long shot. What has been recognised in recent years is that the scene cannot stay back in the early days of the late 1980s. I also think the retirement of Danny Rampling, a man I have huge respect for, has made people notice that things are changing, some for the worse, but some for the better.
As for your original question, the best things to do are make lots of mixes. Loads and loads of them. Don't get out of practice, in a scene with so many people trying to make it, you'll have to persevere a lot. Make mixes and send them out to people you know. Ask friends what they think of them. Patience pays dividends in this game, so good luck to you.
Long live the Progressive sound.
slammin vinyl = hardcore, not dance.
I was talking about dance as the genre, like fragma, paul okenfold etc
i remember the days when people like wamdue project and ian van dahl were highly regarded in the mainstream whereas these days everything seems more underground. Its like a role reversal, hardcore/drum n bass/gabba becoming more popular and dance/trance going underground.
Personally i prefer the former anyway so i'm not complaining
the macarena?
of course all these things die ...except for the train spotters who keep it going into their old age.
and don't mind looking fucking stupid.
Nah, Slammin Vinyl NYE = hardcore, drum and bass, old skool, techno, trance and hard house.
It's not all encompassing fair enough, but there was a damn mixed crowd there.
Nope not even them - they just like his music, not his plastic gangsta image.