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ParticipantSelf Taught
My first experience “DJing” was on a Roland MDI500 keyboard with 16 buttons, 8 sliders, crossfader and 8 knobs. I programmed them all into Traktor1 and just winged it. After a while I realized it was fun and bought an S4. I taught myself to beatmatch, phrase match, mix like John Digweed just by listening and repetition, repetition, repetition. Whenever I wasn’t sure about something, I’d YouTube ellaskins or something but overall I’ve been on my own. For me it’s all about experimenting, listening to guys like Tenaglia, Dubfire, Digweed, Derrick May, Hawtin and so on.
ParticipantMy right hand always turns into a two finger gun during my favourite parts in a track as I slam it with the beat
ParticipantNever happened personally, however I did once see a guy get wheel chaired into the dj booth at our local after after hours 😛
Can’t let anything hold you back I guess!
ParticipantDj Emazing, post: 41771, member: 9575 wrote: Hence why I don’t Drink, Smoke or do drugs. As a matter of fact no dj should drink, smoke or do drugs but the club scene is full of that.
I don’t think I could name one top level DJ who hasn’t done drugs, drank or smoked. The same goes with all musicians.
Not everyone can handle it though, I’ve seen people go off the deep end in no time at all. The party life is as dangerous as it is rewarding.ParticipantDon’t worry, that’s at the bottom end of things. You can only get popular music on these file sharing sites, to find real underground tracks you have to do actual digging on BP or SoundCloud ect…
ParticipantGotta know your tunes more than anything. Looking at your computer should be a secondary option.
Participant4am…
meow… meow… meow…. Meow… Meow. MEOW. MEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Participanthttp://www.mixcloud.com/JZed/teutoburg-forest/
6 and here we go!
To match the forest’s dark history, this mix has no shine. It starts with a darker groovy tech house feel and mixes over to relentless techno. Featuring tracks by masteful producers such as Gary Beck, Tommy Four Seven and Slam! Intensity is key.ParticipantI’m in the same boat as you man. All my friends are in relationships and they think it means they can’t go out anymore. Most of em stay home almost every weekend leaving me with nothing to do. So… Go out alone, if you’re quiet or shy then you won’t be for long. Eventually you’ll get bored and start talking to people, I do it all the time now. It’s getting pretty easy, even in a city like Toronto where so many people have their nose up in the air.
ParticipantThat’s pretty unfortuante, I can’t believe places only go until 1am. That’s when the party is just starting in my opinion. I’d give you some ideas but frankly I don’t have any that aren’t renting out old buildings and hosting parties there.
Participanthttp://www.mixcloud.com/JZed/fries-gravy/
5!
Who doesn’t love fries and gravy really? Some things just go well together, house & techno are just another one of those things. Once again, expect to hear plenty of fresh latin beats alongside pounding drums which will eventually lead into more of that late night sound, with techno just made to take you to another place. This one is a trip, please enjoy!Participanthttp://www.mixcloud.com/JZed/motor-beats-with-jellylegs/
Round 4! Motor Beats!
This was my first collaboration mix on Mixcloud, had a blast pumpin’ out plenty of drums and techno on this one. Can’t wait to do some more collaboration mixes as well, great way to expose oneself.
ParticipantDid you know that Coachella is Native American for big dumb white guy?
*win*
ParticipantNietzSKY, post: 39699, member: 4553 wrote: When it’s done right, it’s done right (don’t get me wrong). I am still a fan of Children of Bodom, Necrophagist, and other stuff of the nature (I also enjoy a lot of power metal). Borgir I was never impressed with, though my friend swore by them, Lamb of God and Black Dahlia Murder. Even with Bodom, however, if you analyze their progressions, it’s a lot of very basic simple arpeggiated chord progressions, made to sound complex through the use of alternate picking. Solos, while requiring technicality, are usually just scale and mode grinds.
The problem for me is that there’s a difference between melodically/harmonically complex music, and music that requires a great deal of technicality to play.
That was always one of my biggest issues when it came to metal, every debate was always about how technically skilled the players were and how hard each song was. For example bands like Dragonforce, it’s incredibly fast and requires a lot of talent to pull off but (imo) their songs were atrocious. I really need to reply to this topic while I’m at home so I can go through my metal collection and search for some melodic stuff. I was way younger when I used to listen to it all, I’m going to have to listen with a more trained ear sometime, you’ve got me thinking about new stuff I haven’t thought of before.
ParticipantHalfamazing, post: 39586, member: 9258 wrote:
Again, do those that like heavy metal, live bands, rock, etc, have a tasty ear for electro, dutch dirty house, dark beats, hard-dance or even trance? I really don’t know if we will ever know the answer to that unless a giant poll is conducted. But all in all I do find it interesting and do apologize for being a bit closed minded in the past.I can help a bit with that, I come from a very heavy metal background. I spent my teens and early 20s listening to many different varities of heavy metal from American Thrash to Finnish Melodic Death and Norwegian Black Metal. When I started moving towards dance music in general I started off with old school drum and bass from the mid 90s, I fell in love with LTJ Bukem’s mixsets even though they were already over 10 years old. From there I slowly worked my way into the dark sounds of tech house and techno. I do enjoy a variety of styles from melodic, bouncy, funky house, techno and so on but my true love is for the late night sound designed for a quite a specific target audience.
NietzSKY, post: 39590, member: 4553 wrote: Allow me to explain; the bulk of the harder metal sounds (stuff that makes disturbed sound like new kids on the block) is generally very aggressive on percussion, and requires a great level of skill to perform on any instrument. HOWEVER, melodically speaking I find most of it to be incredibly lacking (usually a 4 chord arpeggiated progression or a very predictable modal scale made to sound more-complex through a use of alternative picking). I find these songs very boring and predictable. With the harder sounds of techno, however, there’s an entirely new element that can’t yet be understood in terms of tonal theory. This brings back the surprise in music for me, when I don’t know what sounds are going to be used in instrumentation and how they are going to mix with the chord structure/melodic progression. It’s as-if I’ve discovered a new world full of excitement, whereas I find most pop/metal to be incredibly weak in terms of poetry, boring in terms of structure, and a lesser variant of the art that has been with us for the last 400 years. In addition, harder techno generally tends to use completely synthesized synthetic sounds that are quite different from any other genre. The hardstyle kick in particular I believe is genius; I only wish I could have been there for the first.
I’m not gonna get really into the whole metal topic but as for your words on melodically speaking, if you’re interested in melodic metal bands I’d suggest looking in the melodic death and melodic black metal genres. My favourite metal band, Emperor was one of the bands at the forefront of black metal in general and were one of the first to go start using background synths with their music. Children of Bodom (earlier albums, they got less melodic with time), Dimmu Borgir and some other bands I can’t remember (I’m at work) are also notable bands that are more or less along the same style.
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