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August 3rd, 2012 Reviews

Book Review: The Mobile DJ MBA

by Phil Morse

Want to know what software successful mobile DJs use to manage their bookings? How to employ DJs as you expand a mobile DJ business? The right kind of company structure to go for? How to write press releases for free publicity? How to differentiate yourself from other DJ businesses? What a DJ contract looks like?

Most of our readers aren’t aiming at establishing local DJ businesses, but for those who are, this 130-page book from DJ Times columnist and veteran mobile DJ Stacy Zemon could be just what you’re looking for.

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August 6th, 2010 DJ Culture

Book review: The Record Players – DJ Revolutionaries

by Phil Morse

By Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton

If you think DJs started doing special things with records when house blew up in ’87/’88, or maybe when Grandmaster Flash and his contemporaries started cutting up old funk records at block parties as rap took hold ten years previously, get ready for a surprise and a treat.

Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton are no strangers to documenting and exploring the world of the DJ in print. Two Englishmen who actually met on a street corner in New York in the mid-90s, their debut book – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life – was an instant hit, attempting to document the history of DJing in one go. Their next book, How to DJ (Properly), I can recommend highly to anyone with the slightest wish of making a good job of playing records for a living.

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