Maximlee

Get flyering… burn some cds and hand them out… i mean if its free in then people will come if they like the music u are play. Flyer looks pro so that cool. Its all about getting your name out there.

Forget socail networking online… it simply doesnt work.. you gotta create a buzz a vibe in the real world 🙂

best of luck

rfb, post: 32389, member: 2662 wrote: I don’t know man, just yesterday I got some pretty unpopular / “undergroundy” deep house tracks off of itunes.

I can’t tell a difference between beatport 320 and itunes tracks, so I usually go for iTunes as Beatport is more expensive, even with a coupon code.

its really mad cau alot of people talk about wav beening to expensive and itunes having cheaper tracks… 10-15 years ago when people earned far far less… they had to pay on average £6 for a vinyl now they dont want to pay £1.30… were is the sense in that?

Soren, post: 32211, member: 4369 wrote: Thx for.the answers. I am not planning to commercially mix or remix anything, I was just wondering. I am completely new here and I thought this forum were for newbies as well as unstructured questions. The questions just popped into my mind as I was browsing on the forum. Will google from now on.

was alittle harsh… welcome to forum 🙂

Kent Sandvik, post: 32206, member: 3967 wrote: Anyone who uses music without a license (like most DJs) for mixes should at least as a courtesy to the artist/label/producers list the track info as a playlist. If someone does not do that I don’t listen to the mix, period. Recommend others to do the same. If a DJ is too lazy to make a playlist, then most likely the mix is not that special, either.

I hear what ure saying but for me a mix is about taking people on a journey… what kind of journey am i going to take you on if you know what tunes are coming in?

If you think like that thou then alot of other people do.. so will include if i post a mix.

Dayvue, post: 30960, member: 837 wrote: Hi guys! A few of my friends suggested that I check out WIX as a hosting spot for my site. I was really skeptical, but think that it is really well-designed for DJ’s I put a fair amount of time into customizing things on the site, but think that the result is very professional and such. At least it has helped me get some gigs!

http://www.dayvue.wix.com/dayvue

Let me know what y’all think!

this is so cool and a masssive inspiration for me…. your back from mar video is off he hook and has sparked an idea of in my head big time. Thank you so much. what model is ure main mixer?

Happy mixing.

DJ Menno, post: 31837, member: 3768 wrote: Much said already, I would just add this : a very important thing about mixing is when you end the song and when you throw the next one.

A good mix needs breaks, melodic lines without bass, double drumming (throw the first beat on the upbeat of the playing song). The songs themselves and the way you blend them can already add a lot to your mixing.

When using effects, I generally use echo for beautifull female voices, a little dose of flanger just before throwing a beat everybody knows and is expecting, and loops to get out of a song when I see no exit door 🙂

althou very true…alot of what you have said is the basics of djing…. if you simply just mix intro to outro you are not going to keep the energy in the mix. Personal i think you may get off with a flanger in trance but thats about it… very overused effect. Just from your writing i imagine you have a pioneer mixer….lol

Loops are a vital place of modern djing… you can use elements of a tune that ure going to take in… as added rthymn.. for example a perc loop and eqd it so it fits in mix then then you mix the next tune in the listener has already got that sound in there heads for a few minutes so makes ure mix sound alot better.

On a good day sasha can have four tracks playing… now if mixing techno its alot easier to do this.. but he mixs melodic layers which is simply of the hook… it takes a complete understanding of harmonics and keys.

now with digital djing… you gotta be doing something else with the free time available to you with the use of the sync button… be that adding layers… dropping samples..extending mixes with loops.. loop juggling… or maybe getting some visuals on the go… and on that note if you do, dont have it running from same computer.

Happy Mixing.

rjwhite41, post: 31809, member: 2565 wrote: I’ve never had any problems but I don’t play anything too commercial either. It’s like anywhere else, technically you should only play things you have the rights to, but it’s up to the label to flag it. Which I doubt happens very much there. There’s an option to put in your tracks, just like Mixcloud except you aren’t forced to do it. I always do whenever I upload a mix anywhere, spread the word on your favorite artists and all. I use Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Mixcrate and House Mixes. I find I get the most hits at House Mixes though. I get the least at Mixcloud.

They cant copyright tracks in a mix…. its only if you do short mixes or fades…which technical isnt really mixing. In summary if the tune can be downloaded and cut out of mix then they can take them down. Just mix well…which is what you should be doing anyways…lol