I’ll cut to the chase: I am not an EDM DJ. I know next to nothing about that scene, or that music. I am aware that what used to be called house music, or even simply electronic music, has now been subdivided into dozens, maybe hundreds, of categories, but I can’t tell progressive house from […]
For many years I’ve been teaching people how to DJ, and there is only one topic that I’ve never found a way to explicitly teach. I use diagrams, sound bites, hands-on demonstration, and verbal explanation to convey every topic or technique that a DJ needs to know, save one: I’ve never been able to come […]
A name that is not often mentioned when discussing the birth of modern DJ’ing is Walter Gibbons, though he made two important contributions to the world of DJ’ing: the 12″ single, and looping breaks live with two copies of a record. Gibbons’ re-edit of Double Exposure’s disco hit “Ten Percent” was the first 12″ single […]
An unheralded advantage to pulling tracks from a properly managed record pool is having access to quantized versions of classic dance tracks. If you mix only modern electronic or hip hop music, just about everything you play likely comes already quantized. It was made on a computer, and even if the producer opted to swing […]
Its been a little while since the last round-up of DJ Tech News, so lets take a look at the most interesting tidbits of tech news! Rekordbox Professional Plan – Unlimited Cloud Storage! This one is a doozy – I’ve long been an advocate of storing your whole music library in the cloud, as I […]
One day I will be able to write a blog post without commenting on what a strange time it has been for DJs. But today is not that day! Depending on where you are reading this from, you’ve most likely had some form of lockdown for at least some of this year, or at the […]
One of the most significant dates in the DJ calendar (along with the 12th of October, or the 10th of December, depending on how you do your calendar for 1210…) is the 8th of August – 8/08 Why is that? Because one of the foundational instruments of modern music is the Roland TR-808 drum machine, […]
Today we have the tremendous pleasure of speaking with DJ Irie – and he has a hell of a career to tell us about. Lets jump right in! Can you tell our readers a little bit about yourself, and what you do Born in the U.S. Virgin Islands and raised in Miami, Florida. Music […]
One thing that you learn as you grow up within the DJ industry is that there are a lot more facets to the trade than you realised as an outsider. And a lot of the best DJs have fingers in more than one of these pies, for all sorts of different reasons. Today, we are […]
Something that I am extremely passsionate about is one of the more unglamourous aspects of being a DJ. But it is also one of the most important. Backing up your data. Primarily, this means your music library. But it extends beyond that. Your file system, the way you arrange your crates, your invoices, artwork, photos from […]
