As fucking if!

[TUG]

I want to work for a DJ! (obviously a big one like him)
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[NinjaLee]

Not a bad birthday present.
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[Spit-Fire]

the best bit is how causal he is!,
if some body got me a duke 848 as a birthday gift.... lets say the rest of the video would have been pornographic .

the girl, who i assume is the Mrs,
doest look to chuffed as well.... i suspect her socks and aftershave prezzie this year have been out classed a tad
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[pepperami]

AT the other end of the scale..... my missus bought for me on my 50th birthday, the big 5-0, wait for it!














A PAIR OF SOCKS , and she did`nt even wrap them, and they were a week late
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

[pepperami]

[Skudd]

For her 40th I bought her diamonds and gave her a big party.
For my 40th she fucked off.
I got the best present ever.
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[fire]

merely a toy for them minted c*nts.

Another reason to work for a DJ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qI4phAjHE

lil Bit un kosher for work, and try bear with the dancing clown for the first 50secs, its worth it
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[Jayy]

Dead Mouse is global DJ and award winning producer, he charges somewhere in the region of £10,000 for a set and he'd doing about 5 a week.

He is rather cool though being a graphic designer and a complete nerd (notice the pacman tattoos and shit).

Seen him play loads of times but he's one of the least entertaining DJs around, he uses software to auto beat match/synch, he has no DJ skills at all but fair play to him, he makes good music and gets paid a fortune for it.

[Hetzer]

[Jayy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoKuaLERlk

So you're telling me, turntable trickery like that isn't a skill?

[Hetzer]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I think Richie Hawtin has skill.

[nerd vid] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1H9W_iLff0

[edit] to show sarcasm
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[Jayy]

[Hetzer]

I suppose it comes down to ones real-world-useage definition of "skill". Compare DJing to playing a guitar or piano etc...where do they rate relative to each other? What does it take to learn to be a competant DJ vs a competant guitar-player?
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[Jayy]

Two entirely different skill sets. There's allot to learn in both, put it this way, if you swapped a DMC champion with an amazing guitar player for a day, I could guarantee that the DMC champion would have picked up the basics of playing a guitar but the guitair playing wouldn't have got anywhere on the decks.

It's not something you can just learn easily, it takes many years to get anywhere near 'alright' and many more to get to a level like that and therefore I would define it as a specialist skill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMVGDxYtOdc&feature=related

I don't know if you understand what's actually being done there if you watch the routine, some people look at it and just think, sounds like a load of shit but if you actually DJ, you understand how fucking hard them cuts and scratches are and the timing. It takes an obscene amount of skill to do it, there's about 20 different things to do at the same time.

[colin1]

Ignore hetzer, he doesnt get modern music, and thinks if it cant be played live, it's programming not real music, which has to be made by musicians.

The way I see it, art is all about the image created, whether thats with a paint brush or with a camera. The dutch masters would blur the line between the two, by using a camera obscura to project and image onto canvas, that they would then paint. Cheating ? Maybe but its all about the finished work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGbRpdCRwt0

This track is one of my favourites, and it wouldnt be the same without modern production techniques. Yes it could be done unplugged style, but I dont think we should only be able to listen to folk music.

Even folk music benefits from a fair amount of high tech production techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFkmQMJXMaA

same thing without the benefit of production (not so good)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1tbX_NJn98

ok so they are cheating bastards, but i think cheating should be encouraged if it raises standards
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[Hetzer]

Pick up the basics of playing a guitar in a day? BS. As is you even trying to compare DJing to playing a guitar.

DJing rates on the same level as learning card-tricks. Skill? Like I said, it's all relative. But by my definition a skill is something exclusive; eg, something that most people can not do well, no matter how much time they're given.

Just about anyone could learn to DJ, given how little is actually involved.
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[Hetzer]

[Flip]

[Jayy]

I'm talking about picking up a guitar, and grasping the concept of playing strings, learning a few chords and generally strumming your bollocks off. I'm not saying you can pick up a guitair and play like slash instantly.

However, getting in front of a pair of decks, learning how to beatmatch isn't easy, then pitching all the controls, mixing two songs together seemlessly, isn't something you can easily pick up, even with an entire day.

My two comparisons are drawn from a guitar player who has never used a pair of turntables in their life and a DJ who has never picked up a guitar in their life.

Most people, with a few weeks of practice, can learn how to beatmatch and then learn how to mix two tracks but doing it to a level like above is another story.

Like I said originally though, they're both skillful things to be able to do with entirely different skill sets.

[Hetzer]

[colin1]

[Hetzer]

[GhostRider]