Peter Lindqvist
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My comments tend to be the longer ones… hrrm. This time I’ll keep it short..er 🙂 . Instead of a 1000 words to explain, I just made a video of how I think beat matching practice is done the easy way. At the end of the video there’s some explanations and I start with a few words as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7jTTeU8H4 .
Peter LindqvistParticipantHey! You’re brave to take on a job like this if you don’t have/know this music 🙂 , but I’ll help you out. I’m involved in Soul Train Jönköping (Sweden) and I am resident in a club where i play Soul/Funk/Disco several times/month since almost 3 years. I hope you’ve practiced your cut-mixing skills because not much of this music is easy to beat mix 😉 . Add/PM me on Facebook and we take it from there. https://www.facebook.com/dmkonsulten
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April 21, 2016 at 12:56 am in reply to: Is being a dj in ibza really all its crack out to be? #2386861Peter LindqvistParticipantIf you wanna take a year off and have the blast of your life, go south and find yourself a spot. Unless you’re already famous, forget the money, they won’t be there for you. BUT… you’ll get by… and YES the rest will be there unless you’re a social misfit. You Play, you Eat, you Sleep, you F… and you get friends and memories for life. The season starts in April and lasts until October. You play every night, no exceptions, 4-10 hours depending on how many DJs you are sharing the booth with. If you get a resident spot you can spend your days in the sun with friends you meet in the clubs. When the word gets around and you get to know the people, you’ll get a pretty discount in all the shops (there’s one price for the tourists and one for the locals/workers) and you’ll probably have free drinks everywhere once you’re face is recognized in the bars and clubs. Be ware of the alcohol and whatever or you’ll end up a drunk in no time. Everyone is talking about Ibiza, but there’s a lot of places you can go and it will be just as much fun there. When people go abroad to party, they do it everywhere, hard. As a DJ, it’s up to you that everyone you meet have a good time around you. That’s a part of the job, maybe the best. Before you go, make sure you have your insurances paid and a ticket home just in case. Sickness or an accident could ruin your life forever otherwise. I went to Corfu in the early 90’s and spend 7 months playing 6-7 hours every night 20.00-03.00ish. As I started early, I always had some of my British/Scottish/Irish colleagues over for a drink before they went to their clubs, and later I usually spent a few hours at their places and had a couple as well. I think I was the only Swedish DJ on the Island, very few were Greek and hundreds of the other mentioned. 10-15 just in the small village of Moraitika where I worked. I can easily say that this still is the best summer of my life and I recommend anyone to go and do it if possible. If you are at the beginning of your DJ career, you will get all the experience you need to kick-start the rest of your DJ life. Good luck!
Peter LindqvistParticipantHi there. Great first mix. Been doing this DJ-thingy since -85 and I try to think of mixes like yours in different ways, because I don’t want the critics to be wrong because how you made the mix and for what intent. Hope I got that right 🙂 (Swede). If you made this with a controller with sync and auto level enabled, it’s of no use to comment how good your beat matching is and how nice you layered the transitions. That takes some skill and creativity if you do it manually. It’s also important to tell if this is how you’d like to play in front of people, or if this is just what you like to listen to because you, like me, love house music. There is also a difference if your mix is made to listen to, like on radio, or if it’s an attempt to get close to a live situation. For me the main difference is from a technical view, that live mixing tend to get more intense, and the mixing doesn’t involve long overlapping transitions, unless it’s an early warm up. Smooth long transitions is great to show of your understanding of how tracks are build and it’s very nice to listen to. It doesn’t involve effects at all because if you’re skilled, you want the transitions to be as transparent as possible. It’s nice when you after some time, can’t tell when the transitions starts and ends in your own mixes. If I make a set of EDM or Big Room House, call it what you want as long as you know what it is, I usually use about 1 min 45 s of each track which is how I play it live to get that intensity during peak hour. I prefer the long transitions as that is how I once started, but if I didn’t learn new ways to play new music I’d be out of at least some of the jobs I do, and I love to play different genres of dance music. Keeps me on my toes and playing never gets boring that way. Would love to hear you try out some manual gear, doesn’t really matter what kind as long it’s good gear. Booth Pioneer and Denon has some very good equipment you can buy very cheap second hand that will turn something fun in to extremely satisfying fun. Depending on how far back you go, you may have to burn CD’s, at least mp3 cd’s. In Sweden you can get 2 used CDJ-1000 mk3’s for about 3-400£ in very good condition and a DJM-250 for 100£. That setup is very rewarding to play on. It may be a little old school, but when you get that to sound good, you’re ready to conquer the world. I have a 2000Nexus/DJM-800 setup, but when I play a set like yours, I often do it on my older gear, manually mixing by ear. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRWxA7VtX1c . Keep up your good mixing and post another one soon. Cheers!
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