Re:The Art of DJing: Jeff Mills
by igotsideas on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:12AM
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Lol I'll battle you for money on the mixxing tip anytime. I mixed for years before I started skratching and continue to mix more than skratching to this day.
There are some tablist who don't mix and yeah, they're weak. Don't assume that all of them don't know how to mix though.
Dj battling is such a foreign concept to me as a trance/techno dj. Like I'm not sure how you're supposed to compare two different djs that play 9 records an hour. Like woo, you really picked a subtle key change to lift up the energy slightly after building tension for 20 minutes by playing repetitive drum-heavy tracks!
Re:The Art of DJing: Jeff Mills
by igotsideas on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:37AM
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lol Check out redbull 3style. You made me laugh though. Thanks.
> DJs are given 15 minutes
Lol, at 15 minutes, i'm like halfway into my second song, lol.
I used to rage at the pointlessness of 1 hour sets, I wouldn't even bother with a gig that advertised 15 minute slots.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned in this conversation is a musical journey. That is a talent in itself. A surprisingly difficult on in fact - which even many top DJs don't do well. But it's a very different style of DJing to the stuff DMC turntablists would be adept at.
It's two different worlds - like comparing progressive rock to punk and saying "they're both guitar music"
Turntablists and edm djs live in very different worlds with different audiences and different expectations.
I used to do event promotion for an extremely large weekly EDM event and turntablists (including very big names and DMC winners) just cleared the room almost every time we booked them, even if people appreciated the technical ability. The thing is that EDM audiences aren't interested in how hard the dj is working -- they just want to forget where they are and dance and not think about how the music gets made.