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    Do you write down the BPMs?

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    writing down BPM's is a cardinal SIN of mixing. It is simply unacceptable. The more you do it, the less decent DJ you will become.

    You need to be able to listen to both tracks at the same time, and judge which one needs to be sped up / down.

     

    Writing it down is WRONG!

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    what about knowing bpm's from the head is that wrong too ?

    Do you write down the BPMs?

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    do it by ear,it will help you down the line...

     

    maybe you dont want to be a pro,but you would like to dj in a small(or big) party right?

     

    if you learn on writing bpms,or counters and the party gear doesnt offer them ,you are in for a hard time! ;)

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    bpm counters are totally useless !!!! I have never seen one that is accurate enough to fully rely on ...

    funky oldschool

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    Maybe just check out the older funnish stuff... it does exist allright.

    ook, pelinpala, tf, squaremeat just to name few.

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    I already have most suomi cd's that's why I ask for oldschool thx :)

     

    cosmosis most funky track is psychofunk imho. (also in that mix ;))

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    psychofunk rules althought I think T.i.f.f. is better and funkier ....

     

    It was while I was listening to my psychofunk 12" (other side howling at the moon !!!) I came up with the idea to start this thread ....

    IDM

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    aha!!! :)

     

    so IDM is a more general term...i am listening to a set that anoebis posted here a long time ago and i just bumped into it :Finnish & Australian Experimental trance

     

    so i was wondering why it is called IDM,its like old school,very twisted and nice!

     

    now experimental,if its diefferent i know nothing about it!

     

    oh and Illbient(i have heard this term before,cant remember where though) Glitch and Noise.... :huh:  :huh:  :huh:  :huh:

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    that stuff has nothing to do with IDM : it's goa/psychedelictrance :suomi and australian trance to be more precise

    Cosmo - Gravity

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    well I still have to hear it (will be in my mailbox monday).... he came and played at our last party in february and totally trashed the place with his music. For me he makes the best darkpsy.... I really like his breaks and the speed of his tracks ..... He is currently working on his second album this time for the noisepoison guys ....

    Astral Projection Unknow track

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    well they found a lot of dope and I mean a lot, they started by searching everybody but this went way too slow so after that they only controlled people without a blank register.... I made sure I didn't take more then 3grs back home (3gr is allowed) .... the floor was filled with pills and weed so I was hard to resist ....

    Astral Projection Unknow track

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    Dude, I'm sorry to hear that... Sounds like a horrible experience... Did they press charges against you?

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    no they didn't even search for it .... We had to give them our id and I had to wait till it was my turn (6pm) .... they checked my name in the computer but since I have a clean register and it was already turning evening they let me go .... I've spent the afternoon smoking all the weed I found on the ground and even took some of it back home ....

    The DJ's of today

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    well then that must be the difference between you and me, i don't like put myself in a box of a certain style, and play ONLY that style...i think a dj has skills if he is able to play all sorts of music, and still make it sound like his 'own' sound. not always keep on banging in the same style and refuse to step outside your box....i don't really understand dj's who absolutely want to play THEIR style, no matter what the crowds reaction is. it like 'I'm gonna tell you what good music is...'

     

    again: no offence intended. i think it's just 2 different approaches on what kind of dj you want to be:)

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    One of the reason why I stick to only 2-3 styles (not one like you said) is simple : I still have a lot of fullon cd's and can very easy spin a set with them but I am sure that there are many dj's out there who are far better than me ... So I've chosen 2-3 styles wich I'm good at => always quality above quantity. I prefer to be good at 1 thing that to be mediocore at 2 things...

     

    but there's a difference between serving the crowd with music they want in your own style, wich i do, and just saying 'fuck the crowd i play my music and if you don't like it go home', wich you do (imho)

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    any examples of me saying fuck you to the crowd you have only heard me play 2-3 times? Througout whole this discussion I get the intention that you think to know what the crowd wants (that must be your magical abillity)... I gave up this idea a few years ago that's why I play music I like for myself and try to find an audiance with the same taste not the otherway around. I think I have suceeded in this since I mainly get booked on parties where they specifically ask to play the stuff I normally play so no need to say fuck you to the crowd....By the way if I get booked on a full on party I still would play the same stuff I usually do but slow it down a bit but if they ask me to play full on I'll say no.

    I've played sets (maybe 2) for the crowd (when I still played south african fullon) and afterwards people came complaining (like they always do) and I was like shit man you are right and I felt bad about it... Now I play music I like and when they complain I have something like hé good for you I liked it very much so maybe I'm not your kind of dj... You simply cannot please everyone....

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