IdleRich
IdleRich
I must have mentioned this before cos I found it totally fascinating, but some while back I saw this amazing video with EDM megastar Laidback Luke giving an actual lecture on how to DJ. I guess it's been taken down cos I've often tried to watch it again but simply cannot find it.D££_Old man shouts at cloud I know.... and fair enough he is good at buggering around with loops and breakdowns and fx on top of scratches etc but it always surprises me in EDM (sorry i mean house) how much that malarkey trumps music. I'm probably misled by the highlight clips I see uploaded but it seems like most of the time it really is Darude - Sandstorm (but with a different bass line) that is getting rinsed.
Anyway, like I say, it's an actual lecture in what looks like the huge tiered lecture halls I sat in in the first year of my degree, but the seat are filled with people who have paid to sit at the feet of LL not cool not J and he's customised the desk to contain his dj set up.
And he explains plus demonstrates his philosophy to the crowd. For a loooong time. And it is really interesting. But for me the part that stuck out way more than everything he did say, all the stuff about techniques and making sure your mixes are super tight, and being one hundred percent prepared on the equipment so you don't freeze etc etc is how little time he spends talking about tune selection, it's very much an afterthought and he suggests that he is a dangerously out of control maverick because there are some tunes in the beatport top 100 he doesn't play (note, it's not the same as playing tunes that aren't in it, he just doesn't play the whole thing).