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eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:35 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/nyregion/08dj.html

djanthonyw · Post by **djanthonyw** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:38 am

This isn't news... anyone CAN DJ, but it doesn't mean they'll be good at it.

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:48 am

djanthonyw wrote:This isn't news... anyone CAN DJ, but it doesn't mean they'll be good at it.

Yes, but there are 300 people in this particular DJ school. Coming to a wedding, club or barbecue near you.

BFunKu · Post by **BFunKu** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:49 am

Yeah anyone can spin other peoples records. I give the most credit to DJs that spin nothing but their own tracks. Meaning Tracks they created and produced themselves. Also to HipHop Scratch DJs because that actually takes a lot of skill and practice. Anyone can Beat-Match considering most of the software DJ Apps do it all for you. You can't be a Scratch DJ with just software it just won't work and sound authentic. I don't care who you are. If you want to be a Scratch DJ then get yourself a couple Technics Decks, Scratch Stylus and practice your ass off.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:49 am

eduardo_b wrote:
djanthonyw wrote:This isn't news... anyone CAN DJ, but it doesn't mean they'll be good at it.
Yes, but there are 300 people in this particular DJ school. Coming to a wedding, club or barbecue near you.

many people go to college to study medicine, not all of them end up being good doctors

debra1rlo · Post by **debra1rlo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:43 am

I think you should only be able to DJ if you come from a long familial line of DJ's. Seems only fair.

ckatrun411 · Post by **ckatrun411** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:45 am

didn't use to be the case. Unfortunately now, the technology has made dj'ing too easy.

Gotta make true live electronica; That is a serious challenge.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:18 am

ckatrun411 wrote:didn't use to be the case.

You don't get to many weddings, do you?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:19 am

or strip clubs.

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:02 am

debra1rlo wrote:I think you should only be able to DJ if you come from a long familial line of DJ's. Seems only fair.

I'd like to see someone document their heritage of DJs. "Here's my great uncle Bernie with two Victrolas."

debra1rlo · Post by **debra1rlo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:07 am

eduardo_b wrote:
debra1rlo wrote:I think you should only be able to DJ if you come from a long familial line of DJ's. Seems only fair.
I'd like to see someone document their heritage of DJs. "Here's my great uncle Bernie with two Victrolas."

pfft, everyone knows the true old school dawgz roll with Phonograph cylinders

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:33 am

I'd like to see someone document their heritage of DJs

It'd be difficult. Especially as there are so many DJs that are complete b*st*rds, tracing those unlinked parents will muddy the waters.

Actually, I lie. Quite a few DJs I've met aren't complete b*st*rds...

...They're mostly c*nts.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:55 pm

ckatrun411 wrote:didn't use to be the case. Unfortunately now, the technology has made dj'ing too easy.

Gotta make true live electronica; That is a serious challenge.

If technology can make something too easy to be worth doing, it was probably a waste of time to do it in the first place... unless you just like to. Does that count for anything?

I tried my hand at doing a DJ-ish show for a while. On one hand it was a success (people enjoyed it) on the other they were some of the most boring shows I ever did. I even worked with my own loops that I made and performed live guitar/synth over it. Not for me.

Anyway, I'm pro schools like this. Anything that gets people more involved with music is a good thing. Few of the graduates will make a penny in a career as a DJ, but who cares? How many people here are feeding themselves solely on the money they make as a DJ? How many get more than 70% of their income from performing music?

Technology has broken down the barriers to making electronic music. It's a very good thing. People should participate in music in any way that they can or want to.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:30 am

vurt wrote:
eduardo_b wrote:
djanthonyw wrote:This isn't news... anyone CAN DJ, but it doesn't mean they'll be good at it.
Yes, but there are 300 people in this particular DJ school. Coming to a wedding, club or barbecue near you.
many people go to college to study medicine, not all of them end up being good doctors

Indeed...

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:31 am

Anyone can be a DJ, or so it seems