Essential Attributes Of A Good DJ?

[Etches828]

Just out of curiosity, what do you all think makes a good DJ? Is it technical ability (e.g. Beat Matching/Teasing/General Clever Mixing etc...) Or a good tune selection and sense of creating a beginning middle and end of a set?

[HamCrescendo]

great shades, white smile, fantastic "OLLY OLLY OLLIES"

[apmje]

Its a bit of both but without a doubt his selection, the more dubplates the better innit. I'd much prefer a guy who played tune after tune but wasn't the best than a guy who was a show off and was technically great but played shite.

[AntlionUK]

Its a bit of both but without a doubt his selection, the more dubplates the better innit. I'd much prefer a guy who played tune after tune but wasn't the best than a guy who was a show off and was technically great but played shite.

sexist much?

[apmje]

Oh sorry, my bad. I meant to say persons of either gender.

[JimmaJamJamie]

Being Youngsta!

[rinseballs21]

track selection is the only thing that matters imo

as long as it isn't a complete trainwreck, then im good

[Pedro Sánchez]

Making sure the audience enjoy themselves and giving them their hard earned moneys worth and doing the music justice.

[DREdio]

Being Youngsta!

THIS

[elibomyekip]

track selection is the only thing that matters imo

as long as it isn't a complete trainwreck, then im good

Pretty much this. Selection over mixing. But if the mixing is really that bad, then it can completely nullify the good selection.

[rliquid]

- Progression through the set. Playing an hour of tearout can become incredibly boring.
- Tight.
- Well thought out track selection (key matching, harmonisation, throwing some classics in the mix).
- Mixing the whole thing up - blends, double drops, cuts etc.
- Reading crowd and playing what they want to hear.

Andy C seems to do all this extremely well, that's why he is one of the world's best! Would love to see him try a pure dubstep set.

[apmje]

- Playing an hour of tearout can become incredibly boring.
- Reading crowd and playing what they want to hear.

Usually a tough situation for a lot of DJs!

[rliquid]

- Playing an hour of tearout can become incredibly boring.
- Reading crowd and playing what they want to hear.

Usually a tough situation for a lot of DJs!

Distance and Mala manage to do it very well. Building up the hype and dropping one or two tearout tracks like eyez, hindsight, twilight, no warning etc is so much better than just playing and hour of pure jump up tunes (it can become very boring very fast).

[spire]

and dropping one or two tearout tracks like eyez.....

lol.

[elibomyekip]

and dropping one or two tearout tracks like eyez.....

lol.

The sub on Eyez (and particularly the VIP) go HARD

[nousd]

playing their own dubplates helps

[wilson]

and dropping one or two tearout tracks like eyez.....

lol.

The sub on Eyez (and particularly the VIP) go HARD

The VIP is a tearout out tune, by Malas' standards anyway. Still prefer the original though

[sub-tropical]

got to have massive sun glass's, a bad arse drug problem and a massive fuck off fore head

[sc0tty]

- Progression through the set. Playing an hour of tearout can become incredibly boring.
- Tight.
- Well thought out track selection (key matching, harmonisation, throwing some classics in the mix).
- Mixing the whole thing up - blends, double drops, cuts etc.
- Reading crowd and playing what they want to hear.

Andy C seems to do all this extremely well, that's why he is one of the world's best! Would love to see him try a pure dubstep set.

If only

[spire]

and dropping one or two tearout tracks like eyez.....

lol.

The sub on Eyez (and particularly the VIP) go HARD

The VIP is a tearout out tune, by Malas' standards anyway. Still prefer the original though

ok. by Mala standards that might be a harder tune, i just couldnt help but laugh, just cause if i played that tune for anyone around where i live they'd ask "could you play the hard stuff? like not the mellow dubstep?"

I prefer the Eyez/Mala/DMZ/Deep Medi/etc side of things, so dont get me wrong, just struck me as funny at the moment.