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DJ Lifestyle
Its no secret, becoming a DJ can bring you a great DJ lifestyle. Most new DJs want to learn how to DJ so that they can get girls, get paid to party and share the music they love. This all does happen being a DJ but theres more to the DJ lifestyle than that. This section has all of your dj culture & dj lifestyle needs covered!
Don’t listen to the DJ haters when they say “DJing is dead. Robots can do the same as DJs now”. While these tech nerds are right, electronic music systems can perform a lot of the same functions as DJs, people still keep piling in to see DJs play.
Take the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) for example. This year they passed 100,000 attendees> Ever wondered what its like to play to a dancefloor that big a DJ? This video takes you backstage before, during and after the gig with Kaskade.
Ironically the best DJ booth to play in the world doesn’t exist except for 7 days of the year somewhere in the Black Rock Desered in the South of Nevada. And the funny thing is that it isn’t just one DJ booth, there are like 30 amazing DJ booths with packed dancefloors for 7 days straight!
This paradise is known as Burning Man and its one of the craziest parties in the world. 50,000 people drive, walk and even skydive into the middle of one of the dryest deserts in the world to camp for 7 days over September long week. Its a music, art and expression festival where anything and EVERYthing goes.
And the best part is that its such an amazing party, with 50,000 partiers all going off together that some of the world’s top DJs come to Burning Man to play for free. Thats right Free. Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox, Bassnectar, Tiesto and other top names have all made appearances at Burning Man just to be a party of the energy.
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In case you needed more proof that the Sweedish House Mafia are one of the biggest acts in dance music right now, they just confirmed their world-wide One Night Stand Tour for 2012.
The DJ tour includes stops at venues that have always been thought to be too large for a dance music artist including Madison Square Garden in New York City and Milton Keynes National Bowl in the UK.
It was just a few years ago that the top 40 world and the urban scene were calling electronic music dead. And to be honest it was heading that way. The music became stale and all the same. The producers and DJs didn’t seem to care. Innovation wasn’t there. Then came the technical revolution that allowed kids in their parents basement to make dance music with a $100 program on their PC.
It’s the news that rocked the dance music world; talented producer and DJ – DJ Mehdi – passed away last week in his Paris apartment. I was floored to hear this because Mehdi has been unleashing a number of dance floor killing tracks that showed him a promising future. He was just starting to make it big.
Mehdi and his friends loved going to the roof top of his Paris apartment to catch a glimpse of one of the most beautiful cities in the world by night. DJ Mehdi was relaxing at night on the roof with some friends and part of the roof gave way. All of the friends fell a number of stories with three not surviving the fall – including Mehdi. One friend is alive but in critical condition.
He was so young and the way he passed was so unlucky that you have to wonder why someone with such a gift had his life taken early. Whenever I hear tragic news like this it reminds me that life is precious, short and thus we have to make the most of our time.
And so I asked myself, would I have any regrets if my time ran out today? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Read the rest of this entry »
Paris Hilton has now decided to become a top DJ. Her management team has realized that there is no dominant professional DJ and that she could easily become the top female DJ in the world.
This is a shocker considering last year’s scandalous nightclub fight with DJ Steve Angello. Paris – now DJ Paris Hilton – came up to the DJ booth to ask him to play hip-hop. The dancefoor was going off to Steve’s usual peak-time bombs. Steve Angello politely said no. She called him an asshole because she didn’t get her way. DJ Steve Angello called her names back.
The night then escelated when Paris Hilton (DJ Paris Hilton) asked her boyfriend to go up to the DJ booth and get DJ Steve Angello to play hip hop. Steve said no. The boyfriend slapped Steve and started to threaten him. Steve shoved him back and a fight broke out. The result was that Paris said that DJ Steve Angello was just some nobody DJ.
So now the bratty girl that doesn’t know how to make a request is training from some of the world’s top DJs – like DJ Paul Oakenfold – to learn the ropes.
I just saw this really funny video that someone made of Tiesto trainwrecking. Its funny because its fake. First Tiesto would never play “Scatman”. Second DJ Tiesto has been DJing for almost 30 years now. Do you really think he would trainwreck that badly?
For those of you that may not know, a trainwreck is a DJ playing two songs live at the same time with them going out of beat. The beats are not aligned and as a result the sounds of the two songs clash. See 1:24 of this video for an example of a DJ trainwreck!
Now while this video is funny it brings up an issue that a lot of new DJs will face. Whoever dubbed the fake mixing over top of the video is hating on Tiesto. A lot of people actually believe that its Tiesto mixing. The video creator is trying to be funny but he’s also hating on Tiesto.
The issue of DJ hating was touched on by DJ Steve Angello just a few weeks ago when he said “let the haters hate”.
This is a post on a very touchy subject for many DJs and people in the DJ / nightclub scene. Its something I feel very strongly about and I hope you feel the same.
I’ve seen so many DJs complete the same learning curve. They start excited to learn how to DJ. They nail DJ mixing and create a demo CD. They hit the clubs and the rave scene and pass out their demo CD to anyone with ears. They are young, fresh and full of spirit. Then I see them a year or two later and they are full on wasters. They look pale and you quickly see why, its because they’re snorting lines and getting so drunk that they have to be pulled out of the dj booth.
The sad fact of the DJing scene is that there are a TON of people with drinking and drug problems. People that love to drink, party and get messed up are drawn to the nightlife scene. And while all of this may seem glamourous at first it has a VERY ugly side and dangerous repercussions for your health and your DJ career.
If you haven’t seen the recent video of DJ Steve Angello playing a peak time dj set to a huge festival called Dance Valley, you’ve been hiding under a DJ rock.
The video shows DJ Steve Angello playing the finale of his set and it shows him not really mixing. As a result a lot of DJ blog posts popped up calling Steve Angello a fake and that he has sold out his fans. A lot of media has swirled around this video especially since every video of the “DJ Steve Angello fake mixing” has been pulled down from Youtube.
So at first I figured that he was just playing off of SD cards (you can stick SD cards with your tracks into the CDJ 1000s now) and assumed that he had played the tracks so many times (they’re mostly his) that he could DJ without headphones. But then I saw his press release on the issue stating that at big DJ festivals they need to sync his set to the fireworks so he has the last 15 minuets of his set fixed to match the fireworks.
Are you upset by this? Does Steve’s closing set bother you?
After posting the last video of DJ Kaskade on tour in Brazil that showcases the DJ lifestyle, I had a How To DJ Fast follower email me with another video from Kaskade where hes talking about DJing.
First of all, Kaskade doesn’t drink and doesn’t do drugs so you know he’s into the scene for the right reasons. And in this video interview you can really tell. He loves DJing, producing and interacting with his fans so much.
My favorite part of the video is when DJ Kaskade talks about when he was learning how to DJ he would hear about all of the big club names like Ministry Of Sound and that now he’s playing them. Unreal!
This video of Kaskade on tour in Brazil really catptures the lifestyle of a professional DJ. Sweet hotels, constant flights, huge parties every night, producing music here and there.
If this doesn’t get you fired up to learn how to DJ, I don’t know what will!
1) How To DJ. Advice To Help You Learn How To DJ: How To DJ 2) Advice On DJ Lessons For Beginners: DJ Lessons 3) How To Be A DJ. Advice On How To Become A DJ: How To Be A DJ 4) A Review Of The Best Dj Games: DJ Games
