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went to a party on friday night where the headliner, a famous old school hip hop dj, showed up with a thumb drive on a chain around his neck. he had his whole set on a traktor playlist? crazy days we live in.

drop the name!

slowlygoingdeaf wrote:drop the name!

i would but, the promoter is a friend of mine, and google is too good these days. let's just say he's someone in anyone's hip hop collection.

we all know

played somewhere before where i was gonna drop all own productions and didn't wanna carry vinyl around so put it all on CD.
got there and no CD decks so had to load onto someones laptop and use traktor. that program is a joke, has a bpm sync button and it feels stupid playing a DJ set with no headphones!

SHNYDE wrote:played somewhere before where i was gonna drop all own productions and didn't wanna carry vinyl around so put it all on CD.
got there and no CD decks so had to load onto someones laptop and use traktor. that program is a joke, has a bpm sync button and it feels stupid playing a DJ set with no headphones!

spinning hip hop on it is even easier. at the end of the day, hip hop sets are more about selection than perfect blends and all that.

the future is now.

Here's the real question....

Are you really a "dj" if you show up to a gig with a thumb drive? No dubs? No vinyl? No cds?

that's disappointing....regardless of who it is.

Shouldn't be using traktor anyway, it's gash! Ableton all the way.

joenice wrote:Here's the real question....

Are you really a "dj" if you show up to a gig with a thumb drive? No dubs? No vinyl? No cds?

that's disappointing....regardless of who it is.

can't argue that joe. i guess when you get to celebrity dj/ icon status, you generally can get away with anything you want to based on the fact that people will turn up just because your name's on the flyer.

jim wrote:Shouldn't be using traktor anyway, it's gash! Ableton all the way.

lol @ dissing traktor and then bigging up ableton in the same sentance.

they can both be used just as lazily or unimaginatively.

no software is inherently bad or good. it's just how well someone uses it.

Ableton was in the next sentence

I just think it's a far better program.

Hahahaha! A friend sent me a very nice picture from a pen drive... But I'll prefer to wait a little bit to show it here... Hehehehe...

im all 4 it, it means dj's can find different ways to b creative with their sets!

i dnt see how people can say u r only a dj if u use vinyl! y??

in this day n age wen u haveprograms like ableton y noy b creative with it, at least u kno each set could b soooo different cos there is so many tools to play with!

Surely the selector should be judged on his selection and his style and not on the media the tunes are on? Rather a good selector with a pen drive full of good than a wace one with crap vinyl.

Any DJ who has ever had to carry record boxes any distance at all will probably smile at the simplicity of it but, yeah, it does sound wrong but the dancefloor reaction is what counts?

dj is gonna die

"is the music player here yet?"
"i love this MP"

no disc no jockeying no DJ

yeah but DJing should be 50/50 on selection AND skill, what skill does it take to mix on a laptop? press the synch button.

I'm sure tho with more and more people using laptop sets it's the punters who are losing out, think how fat it is when someones tearing it up on the decks, you can hear the sick mixing and see them sifting through their record box, cueing up etc. it's live!

If I go and see a dj I don't care whether he or she uses vinyl, cds or a laptop as long as it sounds good

Yawn.

"The electric guitar is going to destroy music!"

one could argue that the more people who use laptops the more competetive it becomes, and folks are forced to up their game; be creative and unique in new ways- pushing djin forward. didnt't people say all these things about cdjs?

havin said that- vinyl till i die