bluewater Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 This thread has prolly been done to hell, but i aint seen it yet so....If You're a DJ, why did u start to spin..At first for me it was all about my love for drum and bass, and the fact that i learned it pretty quickly...Now its 50 percent the music and 50 percent the girlies i meet cuz of it - anyone else?Lou () Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickhouse Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Well, I'll have to still go with love of music (back in the day it was speed garage), cuz spinning sure as hell isn't getting me laid. On top of it, I was a trombone player for many years and had been in a few bands, and eventually I hung up the horn because it just got too boring. However, still gotta try to flex my musical muscle somehow, so why not pick the most expensive 'instrument' on the planet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewater Posted March 20 Author Report Share Posted March 20 Heheh true true...which brings up another question of mine i like to ask...You think the turntable is an 'instrument' or a 'tool'...Like, do you think using it can be artisitic, allowing you creative expression, or do you think its just something rote that anyone can learn and anyone can do if given the time...Lou () Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr0ne Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by bluewater This thread has prolly been done to hell, but i aint seen it yet so....If You're a DJ, why did u start to spin..At first for me it was all about my love for drum and bass, and the fact that i learned it pretty quickly...Now its 50 percent the music and 50 percent the girlies i meet cuz of it - anyone else?Lou () its always all about pussy man....all about pussy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 I dont' dj... but I might when I have more money... Just because I love music. (and boredom) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roha3000 Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Because the chicks dig it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echostar Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by joeg I dont' dj... but I might when I have more money... Just because I love music. (and boredom) hey if you want you can just change your name to justin...ill see if DaVe will let you change your CP name to trancend2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintron Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 I started Dj'ing because you can only get so close to the music just listening to it. I wanted to feel it at my fingertips. hell i love the music anyway.as for an instrument or a tool - YES it certainly can be. Used normally a turntable is a TOOL for mixing beats together...However, Turntablists (MUCH RESPECT) use turntables as instruments, cutting, weavin' & scratching beats together to make their own rhythms.pussy is a side effect of being competent at any of the above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by trancend hey if you want you can just change your name to justin...ill see if DaVe will let you change your CP name to trancend2 oh I'm sorry, I forgot, as long as you own turntables, i'm not allowed to... I keep forgetting...Yeah, well the day I start spinning happy hardcore, we can arrange the name change... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LavenderMenace Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by joeg Yeah, well the day I start spinning happy hardcore, we can arrange the name change... Justin doesnt spin happy hardcore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by lavendermenace Justin doesnt spin happy hardcore. yeah, pssst... thats the joke... Everyone always says that to him... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LavenderMenace Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by joeg yeah, pssst... thats the joke... Everyone always says that to him... yes I know, sarcasm boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echostar Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Originally posted by lavendermenace yes I know, sarcasm boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heretic909 Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 Music's always been my first love since I was little kid and I just kept expanding my grasp of it. 15 years of piano training, taught myself the guitar and bass and saxophone, started multi-track recording my own songs when I was 14, etc. Then I went to Spain when I was 15 as an exchange student and got to experience the European clubbing culture and music. And when I returned, I thought the people back home needed to experience the music also, plus I couldn't stand the shit that they played at the school dances. So I taught myself how to DJ and have been exposing people to new music in a creative way ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roha3000 Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 I was just playing about the chicks. I think my feelings are similar to Cintron. I love the music so much, I found myself listening to good mixes and saying to myself, I want to make beats like this too. I wanted to be able to take my love for the music to the next level, which is making it myself. It does, in effect, put you closer to the music.I still get that feeling when I am hearing good music. I just want to hit the decks and put my own beats together and I want other people to hear them. I am still working on my first demo recording and I love listening to my mixes more than any other DJ's because its my music, the tracks I like, the beats I put together, the sound that is my own. I find it very rewarding to hear my own stuff, hopefully I will reach the point where other people will too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 I've always felt there are certain artists that make you want to go out and buy your first guitar, and certain djs that make you want to go out and buy a pair of decks... These are the true greats.I've felt this way about a few artists/djs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 . . . I think you two need to just make up and play fucking nice, In my honest opinion . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 . . . Why did I start DJ'ing? . . .hmmm. . . now that's a question . . . . I would have to say it was because I had been listening to the music for sooo very long and it just eventually made me want to go out and try it for myself . . . I've been breathing beats now for almost ten years . . . so now that I spin I really get the insight into why certain songs work and others dont, the whole theory of ride and how properly matched songs can create a set that causes the listener to forsake the trees for the forest . . .. . In effect I began spinning to finally figure out exactly what beats were . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted March 20 Report Share Posted March 20 i've been producin' tracks since '94.random whack shit i'd track up in .mod or .mtm or .xm format.clubbing was a once in a while thing.i'd find a good concert or show of an actfrom a cd i had, and would go see them.i went to london in '99.i developed an intense thirst for drum n' bassand techno and house which did not suck.i searched far and wide in nyc for a similar scene,and collapsed into despair when i didn't find it.then lou (bluewater) introduced me to baktun saturdays.i was instantly hooked on directdrive.we didn't care they didn't have a cabaret license.we didn't care the turnout wasn't so good.we were just infinitely grateful for the dj'sthat burned shit up week after week tocrowds of sometimes as small as a dozenor two real muzik headz.directdrive grew into a bigger thing,and i started going more often.sometimes every weekend for months at a time.the globalbass parties at limelight started up.i went to nearly every single one.world of drum n' bass @ roseland.one nation @ tunnel.last summer at ps1...the lunaterium was off the hook.especially complacent's "rgb" and blackkat's "mythos".i'd bought a decent chunk of records while in london(including the grooverider LP which had onlybeen just released in the uk while i was there),as well as random things i picked up in '99 and '00at places like satellite and breakbeatscience,but without turntables i didn't really becomeobsessed with hearing them or figuring outclever ways to layer them atop each other.psuedo's open turntables started upand i figured i'd show up and throwsome of that wax down, so i and otherscould hear it loud, in some cases for thefirst time since i'd bought them.then i just sorta got into the ideaof the open turntables event andpracticing more often (on other people's decks-- thanks barvybe!) and when it becameenough of a tedium to lug records aroundand arrange practice time on decks thatweren't my own... i got it into my headto get my own "one's and two's" and a mixer.(which finally happened in mid-january.thanks quoth!!)around the same time i attended baktun'snew year's after party (dropped by untilclosing that morning, after dj nookie andltj bukem @ limelight) and being thereuntil sunup, even staying late enoughfor complimentary breakfast, served toall who refused to leave i really feltlike family... i kept looking around andrealized i've seen these people weekafter week, and always get recognizedas "that drum n' bass cat" that gracesparty after party.i don't even know how it happened.but i got it into my head right then and thereto make a new year's resolution to myselfto play baktun in may, or somewhere else.don't know why May -- perhaps cuz itcoincides with my bro's birthday, and i couldthink of no greater gift then to throw downfor 'im in very loud and boisterous fashion.i'm on a journey.i don't know where it's going.but i like where it's been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quoth Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 Originally posted by thehacker i got it into my headto get my own "one's and two's" and a mixer.(which finally happened in mid-january.thanks quoth!!)werd brotha man you dont gotta thank me, it was all good and well worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggfella4 Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 i started djing when i was in 10th grade..(soph in college now)...but when i first started out, i wanted to be a mobile dj, and i still am....10th grade is like the time when u go to like 43534 sweet 16's...and me being like the only guy there that actually loves to dance, i wasnt able to cuz the dj always played the shittiest music. so i had some money from working and xmas so i decided to buy some turntables...(even for mobile djing, vinyl is the only way to go)...and it took me a while to get up and runnign but now i have a mobile dj setup that pretty much dwarfs a lot of others, and i have an amazing time doing it, great money, lots of fun, good exposure....i pretty much got into house and trance from my brother...then i just spin house and trance as a hobby...hopefully one day i would like to get in like a small little lounge or club...i know i dont practice enough to make it big, so im keepin my goals realistic at this point!peace outgianni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quoth Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 Originally posted by ggfella4 i started djing when i was in 10th grade..(soph in college now)...but when i first started out, i wanted to be a mobile dj, and i still am....10th grade is like the time when u go to like 43534 sweet 16's...and me being like the only guy there that actually loves to dance, i wasnt able to cuz the dj always played the shittiest music. so i had some money from working and xmas so i decided to buy some turntables...(even for mobile djing, vinyl is the only way to go)...and it took me a while to get up and runnign but now i have a mobile dj setup that pretty much dwarfs a lot of others, and i have an amazing time doing it, great money, lots of fun, good exposure....i pretty much got into house and trance from my brother...then i just spin house and trance as a hobby...hopefully one day i would like to get in like a small little lounge or club...i know i dont practice enough to make it big, so im keepin my goals realistic at this point!peace outgianni ok ladies and gentlemen, there we have it...DJ PEACEOUT coming to a club or lounge near you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggfella4 Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 Originally posted by quoth ok ladies and gentlemen, there we have it...DJ PEACEOUT coming to a club or lounge near you. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH....GOOD ONE U MIC BASTARD!!!peace outDJ PEACEOUT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosclubber Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 I'd always had a thought of getting into it but everytime I tried to go out and buy decks my folks would put their foot down (loud noise etc). I always bought vinyls so it seemed the logical thing to do. Then I heard SASHA play at creamfields 1998 and his set was just the best ever (Dollshead - it's over, it's under; Madonna - Ray of light Twilo remix) and that settled it...i bought them and that was the start. Took me a while to learn but I hung around (I used to work in a bar where we had top DJ's.....one of whom now promotes Ministry of Sound in London and so I get in free) and I picked it up there and took it from there.My decks are still at my parents and of late I haven't played for a while. i had them in my place for a while until the neighbours complained (well it was 2am) and I took them home to avoid the temptation of playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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