Eliah Holiday

Thanks for the tips. Would older CDJs take 32Gb sticks or is that too large? I suppose I’m looking at a number of sticks, some for complete collection and some to use gig specific. I do want to avoid too much swapping of drives.

Thanks for the feedback. You’re right, I shoulda laid off the effects a bit in retrospect. I need a nun with a ruler to slap my hand when I’m tempted to reach over to the FX unit lol.

Right. Some now veteran Female DJs who fought hard and earned respect did so on their skills not their bodies. Even today though their popularity is dwarfed by the rise of the female DJ who has supermodel looks and is willing to show some skin. Club and event promoters look at the maximum $$$ they can draw and so it seems common practise now to have the novelty of a “hot chick” DJ in the line-up. Why, because men will pay to see that novelty. Same thing where you have male superstar DJs on the decks and half naked females pole dancing on stage as part of the show.

Of course I understand it’s all part of a modern day western culture that has taken superficial values to heights once reserved for deities. Where potentially a DJ’s image, a DJ’s marketability, has become as or more important to said DJ’s success as actual DJing skills. At any rate, from the top levels of the industry where change is most likely to happen it appears no one really cares about this phenomenon.

In a sense it’s a catch-22. People may like Tech-House for example if they herd more of it but they don’t hear it because the clubs and bars don’t want to take a chance that they wont draw a crowd if they don’t go with the mainstream flow of established pop music. It’s an uphill battle for DJs who step outside the mainstream. It seems the best one can do if they want to play less than mainstream dance music is to fight tooth n’claw to get that music herd. It’s like 5x the work comparatively to when I first started DJing and a lot of it is less about music and more about social media and hype building. It’s like you gotta step in front of the music to get behind it.

At any rate. I’m doing my best. I got a gig tonight which will probably cost me more money than I’ll make. I guess it’s a price I’ll pay to not spin commercial dance music.

Thanks for the advice. Also true that the internet and digital media and music distribution has changed things. I just signed up with RADR and was thinking…Perhaps if DJs use whatever tool to broadcast the great music they are playing (so no “white label” or secret weapons) perhaps we can give the music that otherwise gets pushed off to the side some due attention. Maybe convert a few people.