The Best DJ Download Pools In 2014. Imagine getting all the hottest releases complete with DJ-friendly edits and remixes, straight to your inbox.
It's possible if you join a digital download pool! With so many online, though, choosing one can be a daunting task. In this article, we roundup the best ones right now to help you make an informed choice. Pic: Do Androids Dance Before the turn of the millennium, record pools were the music resource for professional, gigging DJs who needed the freshest tunes ASAP. Today, record pools have made the transition to digital, letting members download music from their sites instead of mailing tunes in the post, cutting shipping cost and wait time, and also making it a lot more convenient for DJs.
DJing with Laptops: It's Just Not The "Real Thing" For Some. Do laptop & controller DJs need to spend an arm and a leg for something like a full-on Pioneer set-up, decks or production-style gear just to earn the respect and credibility of the public?
In some cases, it seems they do. I was talking to a bright, clued-up 29-year-old female wedding planner this weekend about the types of DJs her company books for its clients. She was telling me about a wedding where the couple are spending over $1000 a head - just on the food! High class stuff. Pioneer KUVO - Vernetzung von Clubs, DJs und Community. 8 Alternativen zu SOUNDCLOUD. Make DJ Charts from Traktor, and More Free Playlist Tricks. If DJing with vinyl leaves traces in our memory, recollections of physical handling of album sleeves and crates, then for digital DJing, we must rely on data.
Traktor DJ is quietly noting everything you do as you play – at the gig, in the studio. The key is how to do something with that data. The coolest trick came last month from our friend Tomash Ghz – he of the superb Digital Warrior, among others. Cloud DJing - Der nächste Schritt in Richtung Zukunft? Making Your First Tune: A Guide For DJs Part 1. Picture this: You drop your next big tune, and the crowd goes absolutely mental.
You bask in the rapturous moment, maybe even throw your hands in the air. You're unashamed of this bit of cliché; you're even quite proud. You deserve to do it, after all: That was your tune that you just played! As the basics of DJing have become more and more accessible thanks to digital technology, and as DJ software and gear have started to resemble production systems to an extent, it's no surprise that many a curious DJ wonders about getting into producing music. In today's world, it's the DJ/producers who get the global bookings, it's the DJ/producers who grace the big festival stages, and it's the DJ/producers who make the top 100s and the rich lists. Making Your First Tune: A Guide For DJs, Part 2. Imagine making music you love, surrounded by all the tools you need to do it, yourself seated in the producer’s chair.
Well, you don’t need a fortune for that dream to become a reality: The trial version of Ableton Live makes that happen, and you can do it in the comfort of your own bedroom. All you need is a bit of knowledge and the confidence to get going! Having gone through the installation and set-up procedures in the first tutorial, as well as getting acquainted with Ableton Live’s interface, we’re now ready to take the next step in creating your first tune.
In this week’s tutorial, I’ll quickly teach you some basic house music beat theory that forms the foundation for virtually all electronic dance music. "Forget Genres. There's Good Music & Bad Music..." "Well, I have to say I was having a great time until I realised the DJ was playing deep vocal house when I'm sure the flyer said french funky house and nu disco!
" We recently published a letter from a reader who was worried about not being able to tell the different musical genres apart, and about how this perceived lack of knowledge would affect his chances of getting club DJ bookings. Among the many responses to that post was one by long-time Digital DJ Tips reader and veteran DJ Dennis Parrott from Detroit, which really caught my eye and which I think contains much wisdom for DJs stuck in what I call the "genre trap".
Dennis describes himself as "a 50-ish part time DJ who was too young to be a hippie during the Summer of Love and too old to have been a rave kid, but who never doubts the power of a good song to move people and make the world a better place. " And with that introduction, I reproduce Denis's reply in full below, with his permission and with a few of his additions. Making Your First Tune: A Guide For DJs, Part 3.
Want to get that polished, professional sound in your production?
If you think your production sounds a little bit flat right now, we're going to give it a little bit more depth and space in this week's training. We’re now more than half way into our Ableton Live training series, designed to get you from total beginner to first track made using nothing more than a commercial sample pack, the trial version of the software... and these tutorials, naturally. Making Your First Tune: A Guide For DJs, Part 4. In this last tutorial, we're going to create a mixdown of your production so you can share it online.
Congrats, you're almost done making your first tune! We’re at the end of our short training series on producing your first tune in Ableton Live. We had fun putting this together for you, and we hope that it encouraged you to get down and dirty with the popular DAW, and that you gained some insights into what goes on behind the curtains of music production. This is only the tip of the iceberg for both Ableton Live and the production process, as there are so many other things going on behind songwriting, synthesis, and engineering / mixing, and hopefully the techniques you’ve learned in this series are learnings that you take with you for years to come. In this final tutorial, we’ll adjust the levels of the individual tracks in your production so your levels don’t go “in the red”. Adjusting levels Adding compression.
One Button MIDI Mapping Contest and Tutorial. Today’s article comes from two ideas in the DJ TechTools article idea pool.
First, how would you turn a play button into a “turntable stop effect” on non-turntable controllers? Related to that idea, we are excited to launch a “One-Button Mapping” contest in which everyone is invited to submit their best ideas for modular macro mappings. These are highly functional mappings that layer many useful functions onto one button so you can add them to your existing controllers for a little extra performance action. To enter the DJTT single button MIDI mapping contest, upload your mapping to Maps.DJTechTools.com (Use “One Button FX” for the controller) and then post a link to your mapping in the comments of this article! Groove » » MOVE D & SOLOMUN Über das Auflegen. Interview: Holger Klein Erstmals erschienen in Groove 150 (September/Oktober 2014) Als im Winter 1989 die erste Ausgabe der Groove erschien, waren DJs noch ausschließlich Residents im eigenen Club, von denen das Publikum meist nur den Vornamen kannte.
FAZEmag -Focus On... Felix Kröcher! – der DJ-Contest wartet auf dich - FAZEmag - Auflegen wie Steve Aoki Steve organisierte Underground Partys und gelegentlich legte er auch selbst als DJ auf. Bis ein professioneller Job daraus wurde, dauerte allerdings noch eine ganze Weile. Seinen ersten bezahlten Job hatte Steve Aoki als Hutverkäufer auf einem Flohmarkt, danach jobbte er in einer "Penny Arcade", einer Spielhalle mit Videospiel-Automaten, bevor er als Ticketverkäufer in einem Kino arbeitete. 7 Places To Legally Download Free DJ Music. Post Views: 15,172 Arrrr... Having trouble finding quality sites that offer legal music downloads at no cost? Here are the best guilt-free sites today.. Pic: picphotos.net Illegal downloads are the music industry's equivalent of an elephant in the room. While we’ve come a long way in the battle against music piracy online thanks to stores like iTunes and Beatport, downloading tracks from dubious MP3 sites and torrent networks continue to be a hushed practice that has become part of today’s music culture not so much out of necessity as it was back in the late 90s and early 2000s when legitimate music portals were scarce, but arguably as a bad habit that’s hard to break.
And while the majority of DJ music can now be bought and downloaded from Beatport and the like, clearly making such stores the go-to places online to make tune purchases, there still are a few places that you can legally download music for free. 6 Reasons All DJs Should Be Using Pioneer's Rekordbox Software : AskAudio Magazine. Whether your preferred DJ platform is classic vinyl, digital vinyl systems like Serato, laptop-based solutions such as Traktor or Ableton, or plain old CDJs, everyone these days seems to be taking a USB key to the gig as a fail-safe back up.
Not only have Pioneer's latest USB-enabled CDJs been embraced as a global industry standard, but they're powerful and relatively easy to use for anyone with experience beat-matching. Problem is, if you're not using Pioneer's free Rekordbox software platform to organize the music on your thumb drive, you're missing out – big time.
Our Top Ten Halloween Tunes For DJs. Ghosts 'n' stuff... It's midnight in London as we push 'publish' on this post, and tonight we list ten undeniably spooky tunes for your Halloween dancefloors. Unless you're an ultra-serious "artist" type, you're gonna find it hard to resist dipping into your collection in search of something to play to the Halloween crowd in your venue when you DJ this weekend. Your dancefloor may practically demand it: It may just be a few girls in masks, or you may end up with a full-on fancy dress fest going on. So it always pays to be ready! Yup, a careful nod to all that's spooky and otherworldly is going to get you some smiles, for sure. 6 Best Places For DJs To Get Acapellas Online.
We list the best places to get acapellas online so you can drop them in your DJ set for a live mashup or create your own bootlegs (for personal use and production practice, of course...) This Movie Clip Sums Up the SFX-Beatport Vision of the Future of Dance Music. Synergy. Basically, SFX may have solved the problem of how to make money in the streaming business – by making its money elsewhere. Or, it seems that’s the plan. Here’s the problem: music streaming has razor-thin margins versus sales. The artists and labels eek out fairly small bits of change, generally.
They can blame the streaming services, but with those services having to pay off server bills, development, support, and all the royalties for the music themselves, there’s not much left in the way of profit in their end, either. Enter SFX Entertainment, the media conglomerate that bought out Beatport. Auflegen wie Martin Garrix Den musikalischen Durchbruch schaffte Martin Garrix 2013 mit „Animals“, seiner zweiten Solo-Veröffentlichung.
Die Single erschien am 17. Juni 2013 und stieg bis auf Platz 3 der niederländischen Charts. Holiday Weekend Roundup: 10 Un-Sexiest Dance Tunes Ever. "Sexy" is a term that gets thrown a lot in house and dance music, but there really are some un-sexy tracks out there. We've got a list of the 10 worst offenders, as well as some great weekend reading while you're coming down from all that turkey! Today's Friday Roundup becomes a special "Holiday Weekend Roundup" to celebrate Thanksgiving. We have a list of the 10 least sexy records in the entire history of dance music, a walkthrough of what goes on in the inner workings of a large-scale festival production, and a couple of things us DJs hope punters would stop doing when we're behind the decks.
Happy Thanksgiving weekend, folks! The 10 Least Sexy Records In Dance Music History - Club getting busy, hot and steamy? Want to comment on any of the articles above? You may also like: Auflegen wie die Top DJs