DJ'd my first party last night...

[DZA]

I played my first gig...

in 1989

I would have been 1 then

[dynamat]

if i knew the dj was using itunes i would stop dancing and get everybody to leave.

ever seen shitmat live before?

fuck abelton djs. my opinion.

fuck you. in my opinion.

LOL Shitmat must be endorsed by MDMA

[hurlingdervish]

my laptop and itunes lol

Sorry to break it to you buddy, but that's not DJing.

sorry to break it to ya buddy but anyone playing other peoples tunes in front of a crowd is a dj

Which is like saying anybody who picks up a guitar and strums out a shitty riff is a guitarist/musician. You're splitting hairs.

no one is talking skill

they are both dj's

one has more skills than the other

but djing wasn't all "look at me look at me!" forever , most often it was a service to the crowd not to your self

not saying vinyl djs are lame, they are very impressive

its words that are getting in the way here obviously theres a split between the kind of DJ that serves the crowd, and the DJ that serves the crowd while impressing them

[lowpass]

The analogy with the guitarist is wrong

it should be this: -

guitarist strums 1 chord at a time, playing each string with the right pressure (no bum notes/ flat / sharp/ muted etc) chooses the next chord very carefully and then plays it, simple as

anybody watching aint gonna be that impressed. (visually it aint that amazing) but musically this guy is doing everything right.

compared to

guitarist tries to play solo from enter sandman, tone is off, few wrong notes, timing is off in some bits, but visually there's quite a bit of finger movement there which looks cool

A DJ who doesn't beatmatch is not a bad DJ, are you gonna call out all the radio dj's because they don't beatmatch?

obviously they aren't "real" DJ's because they don't beatmatch, maybe they should be called something else, jukeboxes maybe?

[deadly_habit]

my laptop and itunes lol

Sorry to break it to you buddy, but that's not DJing.

sorry to break it to ya buddy but anyone playing other peoples tunes in front of a crowd is a dj

Which is like saying anybody who picks up a guitar and strums out a shitty riff is a guitarist/musician. You're splitting hairs.

no cause you have wedding djs radio djs
and real beatmatching djs

[deadly_habit]

I played my first gig...

in 1989

I would have been 1 then

yea i feel old now too

[86.]

Wow, I'm actually older than The DZA...I got the impression that you were an older head up on here.

But you do have the numbers "88" in your name...so likewise you can guess when I was born (I thought I was being clever lol)


But yeah, I always though the point of Ableton wasn't to emulate what you people call "real beatmatching DJs", the purpose is completely different. Do people actually just beatmatch with Ableton?

But to be honest I do find turntablism/scratching and all the hip-hop shit the illest form of DJing. But when my time comes to play out, I'm looking ahead, not behind.

25 years from now, if this thread was to be dug up...somebody would be laughing at every comment that's anti-forward thinking when it comes to presenting music. God knows what they'll have them. People are using computers and mp3s now, you may not like it....but that's what it is, move on.