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Anyone with an mp3 collection and laptop can be a DJ today
« on: August 23, 2010, 07:01:57 PM »
For real, play an instrument.
Anyone with an mp3 collection and laptop can be a DJ today.  No skill required.
The old school guys who scratched well, like Qbert...is a whole different thing.

Face it, computers...as great as they are, killed music entirely.  From here on out, just a shit stain for this generation.
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Re: DJ's...
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2010, 07:17:39 PM »
I was a trance DJ back in 2002 2003 2004. Had my technics and a real nice setup, cost me over two grand. Records were very pricey, I was paying like 12 bucks a record and an additional 8 for shipping from holland. I disagree with your assertion but I also agree to an extend. I spend MONTHS learning to beatmatch, I think pretty much you have to go through your initiation if you want to call yourself a "dj" and many are too lazy to bother. But whatever, the theme of your post is that ANYONE can dj now and just spin cd's. No, most people don't even bother with actual cd,s, they have mock cd players that actually play mp3's from their laptop. Good or bad?

Most people do not pay money to see a dj anymore, they pay money to see a big name. Your big names are PRODUCERS and THAT is what killed the dj game IMO. I made 200 bucks to play at a small club but for the most part that was as far as I would go without producing a record that made it big. You need a hit, a remix, an original whatever and then start getting booked and make a name for yourself. So now people want to see big names, tiesto deadmau5 and for the most part producers are not dj's! They can certainly do it, but unless you cut your teeth as just a DJ and learn how to spin with energy and excitement, how to build and release and also which songs sound best slow fast etc you will never be a good DJ. Tiesto is an excellent example of how to do it properly, he was spinning in clubs in holland in the mid 90's and got into production. If you listen to his live sets (before he got lazy) he has an ability to generate energy with his mixes. The energy builds and peaks, very very few can do that. Its a lot artform. So yes dj'ing i motly dead but it wa the prefernce for producer spinning records that caused it. You ain't shit if you don't produce a hit no matter how good you can spin.

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Re: DJ's...
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2010, 07:31:19 PM »
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Re: DJ's...
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2010, 08:59:41 PM »
Meh Dj's are a joke. There glorified roadies. They killed rock music, and are the reason music sucks these days.

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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2010, 10:07:43 PM »
true, but some skilled people still beat match and scratch tho.
fuck that, i brought an X-Session Pro and recorded my own mixings. Stick it on an ipod and never pay for a DJ again ;)
BTW, x-session pro sucks, it broke on me in 2 months  >:(
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2010, 05:33:43 AM »
true, but some skilled people still beat match and scratch tho.
fuck that, i brought an X-Session Pro and recorded my own mixings. Stick it on an ipod and never pay for a DJ again ;)
BTW, x-session pro sucks, it broke on me in 2 months  >:(
Some skilled people suck dick don't mean I'm an advocate :-*

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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2010, 06:24:42 AM »
Albeit, Tiesto is one of my favorite DJ's, nothing like old school.

I was taken a back, when I saw Dr. Dre on the new commericial, mixing music on a laptop

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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2010, 06:33:18 AM »
Music went downhill after the baroque-classical period transition around 17 or 18 centuries after baby Jesus was born.


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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2010, 08:59:33 AM »
Well there is no computer program that helps you pick bombs or sick tracks for the right moment, then to make it sound good and use effects...its much more than playing the top 50 in the genre of House/techno that I listen to ..Loco Dice, Luciano, Ricardo Villalabos, Marco Carola....these guys pack clubs in Ibiza and all throughout europe... America is whack in regards to this ....yeah anyone can be a DJ but to be a good one is still unreachable...
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2010, 09:03:49 AM »
Well there is no computer program that helps you pick bombs or sick tracks for the right moment, then to make it sound good and use effects...its much more than playing the top 50 in the genre of House/techno that I listen to ..Loco Dice, Luciano, Ricardo Villalabos, Marco Carola....these guys pack clubs in Ibiza and all throughout europe... America is whack in regards to this ....yeah anyone can be a DJ but to be a good one is still unreachable...
No one denying it takes skill to keep a room entertained, but this still goes back to my "sucking dick" hypothesis.

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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2010, 03:22:54 PM »
Some skilled people suck dick don't mean I'm an advocate :-*
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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2010, 04:20:57 PM »
Music went downhill after the baroque-classical period transition around 17 or 18 centuries after baby Jesus was born.
There is a lot to what you say, the decline became quite steep in the early 1950's with the advent of that peculiar cacophony called rock and roll.

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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2010, 09:27:35 AM »


Most people do not pay money to see a dj anymore, they pay money to see a big name.

i ws more of disco house sorta guy but....i never went to see the big name djs..okie...badboy bill...etc etc..it ws always too crowded and always the wrong crowd....posers...druggi es...

we always liked the underground scene much better....

point being...there r plenty of people in the new generation , like me still around
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Re: Anyone with an mp3 collection and laptop can be a DJ today
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2010, 02:00:27 PM »
90's FTW!!!!
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