how do you know when your ready to play out?

[Swanwickk]

The only way to find out if your ready to play out, is to actually get out an play. Everyone can mix 2 tunes together, the real art is reading the crowds reactions and interacting with them. When i first started playing out was at a dingy club in Birmingham, playing some early electro. Crowd wasnt feeling it so i started playing a bit of everything to get some bites, i ended up playing stuff like Noisia, Current Value to a packed room. Best feeling in the world. Just get out there mate, the best way to conquer them nerves is to jump in the deep end!

Its true that when you play tunes like that the room goes wild. I remember when I dropped stigma at this music festival and the crowd went to about 10 times the size it was before

[Pedro Sánchez]

Do you have a fitted new ear cap with the size sticker still on the peak?
Do you have a t-shirt with a cartoon illustration on it that looks like a 6 year old designed?
Got an iPhone with theft insurance that you can leave next to the deck and keep checking in between mixes for pretend txt msg's?
Two mates that can stand just outside of the booth to hype you up and bust gunfingas on every drop and rewind?
Facial Fluff?

If all of the above...then you are ready young skywalker.

[kingGhost]

Do you have a fitted new ear cap with the size sticker still on the peak?
Do you have a t-shirt with a cartoon illustration on it that looks like a 6 year old designed?
Got an iPhone with theft insurance that you can leave next to the deck and keep checking in between mixes for pretend txt msg's?
Two mates that can stand just outside of the booth to hype you up and bust gunfingas on every drop and rewind?
Facial Fluff?

If all of the above...then you are ready young skywalker.

facial fluff

[AfterEmpire]

Do you have a fitted new ear cap with the size sticker still on the peak?
Do you have a t-shirt with a cartoon illustration on it that looks like a 6 year old designed?
Got an iPhone with theft insurance that you can leave next to the deck and keep checking in between mixes for pretend txt msg's?
Two mates that can stand just outside of the booth to hype you up and bust gunfingas on every drop and rewind?
Facial Fluff?

If all of the above...then you are ready young skywalker.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG yessssss. This right here is the shit.

As a non Dj tho, coming from someone who is on the listening end a lot of the time, I think its true that as long as you can play songs that the crowd responds to well, and be flexible enough to change it up to find things that the crowd gets hyped about then your golden. Its all about hittin that sweet spot.

And for the record, upstateface, i don't even know you but you seem like a total queer.

Now you can go ahead and start picking out the grammatical errors in this post so that you can come off like an even bigger douchebag.

[Basic A]

And for the record, upstateface, i don't even know you but you seem like a total queer.

Now you can go ahead and start picking out the grammatical errors in this post so that you can come off like an even bigger douchebag.

You think its Friday too by any chance?

[AfterEmpire]

Is Friday the day when people argue with each other on this forum?

And naw, i just thought his relentless attack on syntax was annoying to say the least.
Figured that if he were to hear it from a few folks it might help him to grow as a person.

[deadly_habit]

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[Basic A]

Is Friday the day when people argue with each other on this forum?

And naw, i just thought his relentless attack on syntax was annoying to say the least.
Figured that if he were to hear it from a few folks it might help him to grow as a person.

But, you missed the backstory behind the jokes.

[AfterEmpire]

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WOOOOOOoooooowwwwwwwwww...

That was Intense.

[AfterEmpire]

Shit, I wish I could have been involved in all the backstory.

I'm such a DSF n00b.

[tavravlavish]

The only way to find out if your ready to play out, is to actually get out an play. Everyone can mix 2 tunes together, the real art is reading the crowds reactions and interacting with them. When i first started playing out was at a dingy club in Birmingham, playing some early electro. Crowd wasnt feeling it so i started playing a bit of everything to get some bites, i ended up playing stuff like Noisia, Current Value to a packed room. Best feeling in the world. Just get out there mate, the best way to conquer them nerves is to jump in the deep end!

Hahah, I always thought that if I ever start DJing I will just play whatever I want to play and not think twice about it. I think I'd like to do unique mixes too, go through a bunch of different genres of music, go from some disco into a jazz tune. I think it would be pretty hard to get booked with a reputation of doing that type of shit though, hahahah. But you know, gotta push the boundaries do something different.

[serox]

How did you know you were ready to start playing out? or where you not or whatever?!

when you can jump on other peoples decks/mixers and do an hour without mistakes would be a good start. Dont worry about it tho, Dubstep DJs can hardly mix cement let alone two records at the same time.

[serox]

The only way to find out if your ready to play out, is to actually get out an play. Everyone can mix 2 tunes together, the real art is reading the crowds reactions and interacting with them. When i first started playing out was at a dingy club in Birmingham, playing some early electro. Crowd wasnt feeling it so i started playing a bit of everything to get some bites, i ended up playing stuff like Noisia, Current Value to a packed room. Best feeling in the world. Just get out there mate, the best way to conquer them nerves is to jump in the deep end!

I disagree.

Mixing two records and getting the pitch right is the start of it. Next you need to learn how to bring a record in and out at the right points. Learning to do this smooth is something 80% of Dubstep DJs seem unable to do. I hear fingers and thumbs all over records and tracks coming in BARS out, constantly. If they cannot even get the basics right then I dont care about reading crowds. Learn to mix first then read the crowd, whatever that means anyway.

If you can do the above the next move is learning how to pick what record to put on next. Another thing I would say 90% of Dubstep DJs are unable to do. They put records in the wrong order, no flow and no style. The sets sound like random records pulled from a box (or cds now days) with ZERO thought put into it.

Who can mix? look at Youngster, he has it all. That is how to mix proper.

[serox]

I think I'd like to do unique mixes too, go through a bunch of different genres of music, go from some disco into a jazz tune. I think it would be pretty hard to get booked with a reputation of doing that type of shit though, hahahah. But you know, gotta push the boundaries do something different.

I would not recommend this tbh. It is something people who have just learned to mix try out. It can be done, but it takes quite a bit of thought to be able to mix from one genre to the next, proper.

Want to be unique? learn to mix like Youngster.

[paravrais]

Ha ha, hadn't looked at this thread yet and just found out it's absolute gold! XD

[Siderealdb]

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I guess I'll go for the blowjob instead.

[Sharmaji]

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i love how they photoshopped those 2 other girls in there

[deadly_habit]

and now for something completely different

i love how they photoshopped those 2 other girls in there

not shopped

and shockingly it's not a porn, just an awesome b-movie

[Jean-Luc Cougar]

I think I'd like to do unique mixes too, go through a bunch of different genres of music, go from some disco into a jazz tune. I think it would be pretty hard to get booked with a reputation of doing that type of shit though, hahahah. But you know, gotta push the boundaries do something different.

I would not recommend this tbh. It is something people who have just learned to mix try out. It can be done, but it takes quite a bit of thought to be able to mix from one genre to the next, proper.

Want to be unique? learn to mix like Youngster.

Agreed. That's technically fine for a mix/podcast but 99% of the time this is a disaster at a club. I guess maybe it would be okay if you were the first DJ and you played at 9 or 10pm as people were filtering in, but remember at a club pushing boundaries is priority #2, behind priority #1 which is rocking the crowd.

[serox]

Agreed. That's technically fine for a mix/podcast but 99% of the time this is a disaster at a club. I guess maybe it would be okay if you were the first DJ and you played at 9 or 10pm as people were filtering in, but remember at a club pushing boundaries is priority #2, behind priority #1 which is rocking the crowd.

Let the records do the talking is my tip:D