The best way to get your name noticed?

[drlego]

also someone said "take requests", but i would advise against this. the best thing to do is to define yourself, stick to what you believe to be good and be true to yourself. if what youre doing is good, a crowd that enjoys it will eventually gravitate towards you. I guess what i'm trying to say is, do you. what if untold took requests? he would be a wedding dj, not a pioneer...

yeah that was me. I also said within reason as a qualifier.

The stock answer for a ridiculous request is "I have it but I dont have it with me"

but if you have the tune and the dance floor wants to hear it whats the problem? After all a DJ is about making the dance floor move, people dance. If people want to dance to a song that you have and have with you...............?

[truefiktion]

I dont normally have the problem of not having a tune people want because they always want commercial tunes and i have them months before they even reach the likes of youtube lol. unless i go to a propa dubstep gig then the requests are more sexual lol

[kwun-tings]

also someone said "take requests", but i would advise against this. the best thing to do is to define yourself, stick to what you believe to be good and be true to yourself. if what youre doing is good, a crowd that enjoys it will eventually gravitate towards you. I guess what i'm trying to say is, do you. what if untold took requests? he would be a wedding dj, not a pioneer...

yeah that was me. I also said within reason as a qualifier.

The stock answer for a ridiculous request is "I have it but I dont have it with me"

but if you have the tune and the dance floor wants to hear it whats the problem? After all a DJ is about making the dance floor move, people dance. If people want to dance to a song that you have and have with you...............?

yeh ive pulled that line a few times, but you cant really pull that one with serato and 20GB of dubstep on my mac lol.
actually once i said straight up to the guy.. 'nah mate, i dont like that tune'
i think he requested borgore lol

[kuklee]

Aha...I've got another question...how can i get a tune signed if lables ignore the tunes sent by new producers?
I don't wanna hijack your thread tho...just curious. If you don't wanna discuss this here...just don't answer to the question, even though i think "getting noticed" implies this as well. Thx

[fractal]

also someone said "take requests", but i would advise against this. the best thing to do is to define yourself, stick to what you believe to be good and be true to yourself. if what youre doing is good, a crowd that enjoys it will eventually gravitate towards you. I guess what i'm trying to say is, do you. what if untold took requests? he would be a wedding dj, not a pioneer...

yeah that was me. I also said within reason as a qualifier.

The stock answer for a ridiculous request is "I have it but I dont have it with me"

but if you have the tune and the dance floor wants to hear it whats the problem? After all a DJ is about making the dance floor move, people dance. If people want to dance to a song that you have and have with you...............?

i think we just have different styles of djing. when people come see me, it's because of the sound i represent and the sound im building, to ask me to just pull out whatever and mix it whenever kinda turns me into a jukebox imho... I'm not afraid of clearing the dancefloor if kode9 took request would hyperdub be the label it is today? stick to your ideals, don't let the crowd decide who you are... if your stance is strong enough and your sound is good, eventually you, the dj, will determine who the crowd is, i.e. "Dj such and such is playing tonight, i love his style, lets go!" to be true to yourself is to get noticed, to go along with the crowd is to become just another one of them....

[Dodger Man]

1) Start up your own night! People see that your on the graft and they wanna work with you!
2) Produce a lot of tunes. If your coming out with 3/4 tunes a week and they are half decent, you'll get noticed!
3) Be original, don't always try copy the sound you like.
4) Go to raves, meet promoters, always bring cds!!!
5) Get on aim and start sending your beats about
6) Make mixes at least once a month, make sure the tunes are reasonably new!
7) Get those dubs! Try your best to find the best unsigned music no one else has.

Do these things and you'll be on your way...

[drlego]

also someone said "take requests", but i would advise against this. the best thing to do is to define yourself, stick to what you believe to be good and be true to yourself. if what youre doing is good, a crowd that enjoys it will eventually gravitate towards you. I guess what i'm trying to say is, do you. what if untold took requests? he would be a wedding dj, not a pioneer...

yeah that was me. I also said within reason as a qualifier.

The stock answer for a ridiculous request is "I have it but I dont have it with me"

but if you have the tune and the dance floor wants to hear it whats the problem? After all a DJ is about making the dance floor move, people dance. If people want to dance to a song that you have and have with you...............?

i think we just have different styles of djing. when people come see me, it's because of the sound i represent and the sound im building, to ask me to just pull out whatever and mix it whenever kinda turns me into a jukebox imho... I'm not afraid of clearing the dancefloor if kode9 took request would hyperdub be the label it is today? stick to your ideals, don't let the crowd decide who you are... if your stance is strong enough and your sound is good, eventually you, the dj, will determine who the crowd is, i.e. "Dj such and such is playing tonight, i love his style, lets go!" to be true to yourself is to get noticed, to go along with the crowd is to become just another one of them....

Nah man, I play my own stuff and against Im not afraid to clear the floor either. Sometimes weeding the floor is whats needed. Mala and Pokes will take requests, Kode 9 Played a tune for me last time I saw him so to does Benga.

Im all for educating a dance floor and moving them but its a 2 way street. Who are you playing for? Yourself or the crowd? Its not a battle.

Im not suggesting that you let people dictate what you play. Someone asks for the locomotion is going to get a fuck off but if the tune they want fits, I have it. I will work the set around to it. Im up on the decks to make people dance. To entertain. Im not suggesting that DJs become a jukebox but giving people what they want is not a bad thing.

Same with rewinds, if someone is loving and tune and calls for it. Give it to them.

Get your tune matched, play it out, head up and look for the reactions. Nothing worse that lads playing the same stuff that they practice in their bedroom / music room who are just playing for themselves.

[kwun-tings]

1) Start up your own night! People see that your on the graft and they wanna work with you!
2) Produce a lot of tunes. If your coming out with 3/4 tunes a week and they are half decent, you'll get noticed!
3) Be original, don't always try copy the sound you like.
4) Go to raves, meet promoters, always bring cds!!!
5) Get on aim and start sending your beats about
6) Make mixes at least once a month, make sure the tunes are reasonably new!
7) Get those dubs! Try your best to find the best unsigned music no one else has.

Do these things and you'll be on your way...

thanks mate, short and concise. no bullshit.
and big ups for your free tunes a while back

[sarin]

i think youtube is the best way. i sent in my songs to youtube (MADubstep's channel) and they promoted it for me getting thousands of views

[untightled]

by making good tunes ...

[MikeE]

1) get radio show
2) record and upload + playlist radio show
3) attend gigs, meet people, be polite
4) network, network, network
5) promote gigs that push YOUR sound. Fuck other sounds.
6) loose lots of money
7)?????
Profit...

currently I'm stuck at 7.. underpants gnome territory...

[pdomino]

In that initial post, the thing that stuck out for me is you making excuses about 'being a student', be positive and just do it.
All been said but fling your muck about and some will stick.

[leeany]

Learn how to write graffiti and put it up on billboards n stuff, maybe with a url.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pakmGq5BxVs

[Loz_Idea]

I think its a good idea for dj's to have exclusives, tracks only they have, from their favourite unsigned producers. This shows they've got an eye on the upcoming scene, makes their mixes unique and as a bi-product helps the scene progress..

would be good to see more dj's doing this

[Garden]

post on dubstepforum

[Foul Matta]

best thing to me is to start your own events!

best way i think.

Couldn't agree more, especially if you're a non producer. I started the local dj grind over 10 years ago when i used to mix drum'n'bass. I stopped for a few years (after jump up in the dnb world took over along with mcs). When i started up again mixing dubstep I remembered how hard it was to get yaself out there. Sending out/spamming mixes is all well and good but the amount of times they'l go unheard is very high. So start up ya own night. This way you obiously get yaself heard, if you're doing them reguarly enough you will start to get a following. Also booking other DJ's that run nights or produce etc etc will only help your networking. And someone else said it perfectly.........DON'T BE A DICK!

[skotyb]

I love this thread.

"How do I get noticed without hard work?"



Most of the time you don't and then you get forgotten about because people realize you are shit and fade away.

For example - most commercial trends.

[bagelator]

I love this thread.

"How do I get noticed without hard work?"

get your cock out. worked for rusko.

This thread is the biggest blag. want to be noticed? rohypnol Vannessa feltz on I'm a celebrity get me out of here. Seriously, who wants to be noticed? I couldn't think of anything worse. Retarded nerds from forums bothering you all day and wetting their knickers when your new album doesn't sound exactly like the old one.

Just do soemthing different that hopefully doesn't sound like a million other things that everyone has heard before.

[Foul Matta]

also someone said "take requests", but i would advise against this. the best thing to do is to define yourself, stick to what you believe to be good and be true to yourself. if what youre doing is good, a crowd that enjoys it will eventually gravitate towards you. I guess what i'm trying to say is, do you. what if untold took requests? he would be a wedding dj, not a pioneer...

yeah that was me. I also said within reason as a qualifier.

The stock answer for a ridiculous request is "I have it but I dont have it with me"

but if you have the tune and the dance floor wants to hear it whats the problem? After all a DJ is about making the dance floor move, people dance. If people want to dance to a song that you have and have with you...............?

i think we just have different styles of djing. when people come see me, it's because of the sound i represent and the sound im building, to ask me to just pull out whatever and mix it whenever kinda turns me into a jukebox imho... I'm not afraid of clearing the dancefloor if kode9 took request would hyperdub be the label it is today? stick to your ideals, don't let the crowd decide who you are... if your stance is strong enough and your sound is good, eventually you, the dj, will determine who the crowd is, i.e. "Dj such and such is playing tonight, i love his style, lets go!" to be true to yourself is to get noticed, to go along with the crowd is to become just another one of them....

Im 100% with Fractal here. and am glad that other people share my beliefs, and that im not actually a snobby nosed stubborn DJ. If ya booked for a night its cos the promoter wants the sound that you deliver. I got booked once and was asked to play commercial as poss, I snubbed him and dropped what i normally would. i didn't get booked by said promoter again, but tbh i wouldnt wanna play somewhere where the promoter dictates your selection.

[55stevieboy2010]

yea regarding the 'no time cuz im a student sentence' im a lorry driver, work for me dad, dont think i need to tell ya how many hours we work, got a missus that wants fucking attention, bitch even wants me to help cook tea!!!! and i still find time for producing dude no excuse yea