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Dj hints eh?



Try using two copies of the same record first to get a feel for bringing in the mix. Cue in (realease one record into the mix) on the one the one of the beat using the one beat of the record you're bringing in (it's tempting to use the snare on the two). use an instrumental and a track with vocals (or an acapella if you can find one)Tap the beat with your foot. Sounds simple but helps.

Flashy stuff

Try pressing both power off buttons at the same time then turn them back on at the same time (should still be in)

Find a long sound (james brown going Oooooooooooow!) scratch it slowly (forwards for half a bar, backwards for half) and turn the kills switch on and off at 16ths of a bar.

I'll try and think of a few others as well

And here they are... fresh from the rudimentary oven of my brain

Use long records... this gives you longer to beat match the devils. There is nothing worse than getting the tracks in time just as one of them finishes.

To make subtle adjustments don't touch the actual record. Just grab the central spindle doofer and give it a bit of a tweak.

Use music which has a drum machine or sampled drums: live drums usually have fairly terrible deviations in tempo making a clean mix unlikley if not impossible.

wear sunglasses and every now and again put your hands up in the air while screaming WOOOOOOOOO! regardless of how much you are enjoying yourself or how well the mix is going. Most people wouldn't know good music if they went on a five week kiyaking holiday with it and are more than likely to take your word for it.

Cheers. I'll be finding me sunglasses out

How's it going? Haven't heard from you in ages.

Ahh, been a bit lapse on rehearsing, as in not doing any at all, because we have the final major project completed by the end of march, and then we can practice in lessons.

Hows the regular slot going?

Going well. I'm getting a laptop next week so this friday's gig will be the last using my tower, thank god.

What exactly are you doing at college?

Oh, I'm still in normal school at the minute, but they've decided you can do btecs now along with your normal stuff. I'm carrying on music tech in sixth form, but on an a level were they've put in exams, the horrors. I'll be doing that with Biology, chemistry and psychology. all nice easy stuff

By the way, do you do the DJing full time, or do you have a day job inbetween?

I wish. I work at a pub and at a call center and I sell music to a number of design companies on the side. It's not DJing that I do, I used to do that, but now I writes me own music and perform that as well as promote the nights we do and do some of the visuals. We're setting up a label at the minute and hope to be selling mp3s from our own site by june so I might be able to quit one of my jobs before I die of natural causes.

Cool, let me know how the label forming goes.
For the call centre job you have my utmost sympathy, I apologise if I've ever shouted "mmm tryin t' have me tea" at you.

It was you!



Sorry, no, it's okay. It's inbound calls doing cinema time tables and involves me taking a call once every twenty five minutes so I get to make a nuis...nuica...an idiot of myself on here.

Oh, not so bad then. I'm not sure how you spell nuisance either.

Excellent!

How's it going? Have you been doing exams and what not? I got my laptop. It's good. I covered it in stickers.

ahh, the best thing to do with anything is cover it in stickers. Theres tonnes of disney stickers on doors in the house because we could never get them off once I'd stuck them on.
Yeah, I'm been doing exams, most of them I don't think I've done so bad on apart from English Literature, which I may just have got a few sympathy marks on for not drooling/bleeding on the paper. Only 3 left, and then I'm free! 13 weeks to say I'm bored in. Or train for the grand final at Harrods

What kind of laptop have you got?

I nearly got kicked out of my maths gcse for laughing. I'm not weird, I don't find equations funny. The thing was I saw this drawing of a moose on one of my desks in an earlier exam that said "Beckie Stockdale is a moose" next to it and took it upon my self to duplicate it's artistic mastery onto every exam table I had, the maths was in two parts, one day after another and on the second day I saw my own drawing as I was on the same table and had what is commonly refered to as a fit of hysterics.

I got a costom built music laptop, cost an arm and a leg but at least it won't break.

with the last exams!

Did you write the beckie stockdale bit too? At our school there's mainly all someone hearts someone stuff. I think I may have discovered the latest addition, Lucy is a cat, today. Dissapointingly, no illustration and I don't get that seat again.

What would you intend on doing with four tiny horses and a tiny carriage. Hmm, could provide good transportation for the shop disarrangement matches.

I don't think it would be a good escape vehicle if that's what you mean. Alhough I can see myself standing on the back dressed as a roman whipping the little devils into a frenzy. I just think it would be quite gangsta to ride about in a horse drawn carriage. If you got a tiny horse, flaunt it. Pimp my Tiny-Horse Drawn Ride I'm a bit bored, can you tell?

They only cost a few hundred quid each, I think.

Mmm, they're not the cheapest things to run either. Greenpeace like them though.
Tiny gansta horses? All stood about in the stable "brraap bled, we is goin out with de carraige innit yeh"

I'm a touch bored too, since exams have finished I have 13 weeks holiday. Do you still work with the cinema phone thing?

Yeah, I still work at the call doo-dad. 'cept now I'm doing more hours because I have more expensive bills to pay. So instead of being a gentleman of les-u-are I'm getting up at 8 am (due to certain employment and life style choices I haven't had to get up before the crack of noon since the millenium) to try and make bad ass electro with rude text-to-speech rapping on it. It's not working very well, the and the don't mix well

Don't say things like "thirteen weeks holiday" please. It makes me feel poorly