De Cosas que nunca le debes decir a un dj...

THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY TO A DJ
THANKS GT AKA BROWN MAN FOR THIS!TOP 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY TO A DJ
ATTENTION DJs: REPOST
Before requesting songs, making comments, or asking questions to the DJ please…CHECK BELOW FOR YOUR REQUEST:
1. PLAY SOMETHING GOOD…SOMETHING WE CAN DANCE TO!The D.J. has to play for more than one person…so, what you may hate may be another's favorite song and EVERYTHING played here can be danced to one way or another.
2. WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A BEAT?BE SERIOUS! We know of NO songs played in a club that don't have some sort of a beat!
3. I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT AND I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS…Please don't sing for the D.J.! They have to put up with smoke-filled rooms and dangerous decibel levels all night. Do them a favor and DON'T give them a rendition of your favorite song!
4. EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT!Oh sure, you polled EVERYONE in the club and, as their spokesperson, you are requesting the song.
5. I CAN GET LAID IF YOU PLAY IT!If you are GOOD ENOUGH, you can get laid to anything!! (also been known as "buy the album and get laid for a month!"). If you need ME to play you a song so that YOU can get laid, you've got problems.
6. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT!The only people who can get away with that statement write the DJ's paycheck! Plus more often than not, the DJ has the next song already cued up and ready to go, and does not have time to find your song, get it on the decks, and get it cued up in time to be next.
7. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANNA HEAR…WHAT DO YOU HAVE?It's a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the D.J. to recite the name of EVERY record in the booth! Also don't ask for a songlist! I don't know of any club DJ's that actually keep a printed list with them! We keep it in our heads or sometimes in a database!
8. HEY YO, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS!It is not advisable to say this when the dance floor is packed (but, some people do anyway)! However, even if there is only ONE person on the floor, it STILL contradicts the statement. You're just being rude. Have an open mind about music
9. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE TO IT IF YOU PLAY IT!Half the time I hear this, no-one goes to the dancefloor except for the person that asked for it, and when they realize they're the only one that wanted to dance to it, they bail. If you ask the DJ for a dance song and don't dance to it, expect the DJ to ignore your requests the rest of the night. However, if we play your song and you dance and have a good time, even if no-one else does, we'll still take your next request seriously. We like to please, even if it's one person at a time.
10. MOST IMPORTANTLY!!!! If you're at a club or event that doesn't play any Hiphop, don't ask if "you got any hiphop"? Just go outside to your car and turn on the radio or go home and watch MTV!!
SOME EXTRA ASSORTED THINGS NOT TO SAY
If you ask for a song and the D.J. says "I just played it", DON'T SAY, "Well, I just got here." It makes absolutely no difference. None at all. If you want to be sure you hear your favorite song at the club, you better be there when the DJ starts his/her set. We don't have a flashing red light in the booth that tells us that you're there and we can play your song now.
DON'T SAY, "Is this the only kind of music you play?" If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you wouldn't ask for Italian food. Rock clubs play rock, alternative clubs play alternative, discos play disco, etc., etc., etc…
If you ask for a song, BE SPECIFIC. DON'T SAY, "I wanna hear something, anything but this!" Try going to the bar and saying, "I wanna drink something, anything but this…" You can't complain if you're not SPECIFIC. HOWEVER, if you ARE specific and the D.J. says they don't have the song, DON'T SAY, "What?!! What do you mean you don't have it? What kind of DJ are you? Why don't you get into the wonderful world of fast food! You obviously don't know what you're doing as a D.J.!"…We may reply with "I don't come to your job and SMACK the DICK out of your mouth when your working." THE DJ MAY SHOOT YOU!!! OR DROP KICK YOUR ASS MATRIX STYLE! Or just have you escorted out of the club. We can do that. Trust me. DO NOT BE AN ASS.
Special Note
A nightclub D.J. gets very little respect. They are expected to play everything for everybody. It is impossible to satisfy all to the people all of the time, yet club jocks are expected to do just that. If a radio jock tells his listeners a song is a hit, the majority of the people think it must be "because they said so on the radio." However, 80% of the time that same song was being played in a club long before the radio "DISCOVERED" the "NEW" song. So give the D.J. a break! The next time you request a song, stop and think before you speak. Remember a request is just that… a request!! It's not a guarantee your song will get played!! Ask once for your song and the DJ will try and play it. Keep asking and you're being a pain in the ass! Don't send all your friends to request the same song hoping to get it played. DJ's aren't that stupid!! They get dozens of requests in a night and there isn't enough time to play them all.
If you have a CD that you want the DJ to play, and the DJ agrees to listen to it, they're ALREADY DOING YOU A FAVOR BY TAKING THE TIME TO DO SO. If they don't play it don't be pissed, they made a judgment call that the music wasn't the right type to be played. If you wanna hear only songs that you wanna hear, STAY AT HOME AND LISTEN TO YOUR CD'S.
If you DJ or MC (or just say that you do) DONT ask me if you can "DJ/mc for a little bit" AT MY GIG especially if I don't know you! If you wanna spin/mc at a club, talk to the owners and give them a mix tape! No one will take you serious without one. Of course unless you already have paying gigs (in which case you wouldn't be tryin to do it at my gig). They're paying us to play music and make announcements, not to host open mic night.
My booth is not a "Coat Check!" So don't come up in it asking me if I could watch your coat/purse. If that shit is to much for you to handle you should have left it in your Damn car!!!
Also don't come up in the DJ booth and just hover around!!!! A DJ needs space to work. You don't see me coming into your work and standing over your computer, or looking over your shoulder while your trying to work. That would just be plain Fucking rude!!
And if I do decide to let you hang around in the both, NEVER EVER set your BEER/Drink down around my VERY EXPENSIVE equipment!!!!! If that spills I'm out Thousands of Dollars!!!!! You don't see me and my folks hanging out on the hood of your car. So PLEASE show me the same respect for something important to me.
And above all and most Importantly, if the DJ has one hand on the mixer, one hand on a turntable and is wearing headphones, DON'T BUG US unless you know us!!!!!!!
Oh, I almost forgot one more thing. Don't flash us any money for your request unless your "DONALD TRUMP"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a hard job being a DJ. Our work most of the time goes very much unappreciated. Think about it, we are the only people in the club who don't get a chance to actually just sit and hang out with our buddies. If we stop to take a break, the whole club and the music stops with us. We spend sometimes 6 to 8 hours in a booth, STANDING the whole time. We are lucky if we get a chance to find a second to take a bathroom break. Cause when we screw up and the music stops everyone starts yelling and complaining. "No one ever remembers when we are doing a good job, but screw up even once, and everyone notices"
If you read this and appreciate it… Show your DJ some love. Post a comment. Buy their mixtapes. Go see them perform. Tell a friend about them. Buy them a drink. Tip them. Treat them well.

Tomado de: http://www.myspace.com/soulselectordjs

Dee jay...Mezclar y agitar...pon a bailar y a pensar...

Imagen tomada de: http://romdenotas.wordpress.com/

Una cita de DJ Spooky Interview with Carlo Simula for his book MILLESUONI. OMAGGIO A DELEUZE E GUATTARI (Cronopio Edizioni)

"Essentially, for me, music is a metaphor, a tool for reflection. We need to think of music as information, not simply as rhythms, but as codes for aesthetic translation between blurred categories that have slowly become more and more obsolete. For me, the Dj metaphor is about thinking around the concept of collage and its place in the everyday world of information, computational modelling, and conceptual art...but the basic sense of "rhizomatic" thought - thinking in meshworks, in nets that extend to other nets - it's the driving force of my music and art. I think it's a great place to start thinking about a philosophy of "the remix." The "remix" is about certain kinds of polyphony - it's about making multiple rhythms work together, synchronized, cut, pasted, and collaged. That's the real "abstract machine"..."

Una cita de Le corbusier acerca de la música y la capacidad de ésta para generar la voluntad de baile en las personas...

“negro music has touched america because it is the melody of the soul with the rhythm of the machine. it is in two-part time: tears in the heart; movement of legs, torso, arms and head. the music of an era of construction: innovating. it floods the body and heart; it floods the usa and it floods the world. hence, everything in our auditory habits changes. psycho-physiologically it is so powerful, so irresistible that it has torn us from the passivity of listening and has made us dance or gesticulate, participate. it has opened the cycle of sound of modern times, turned the page on the conservatories. new cadences, new cries, unknown groups of sounds, an exuberance, a flood, a vertiginous intensity… launched by the negroes, it is american music, containing the past and the present, africa and pre-machine age europe and contemporary america.”- le corbusier, when the cathedrals were white, 1947

Tomado del blog: http://tazadete.wordpress.com/

Resumen la batalla de los dj?s dos...clasificatoria cuatro...la noche de vinilos...

La fría y lluviosa noche del viernes 28 de noviembre se realizó de manera desapercibida en la ciudad quizás una de las mejores batallas de dj's para mí realizadas al día de hoy. Con un par de tornamesas y muchos vinilos los "contrincantes": delujo vs andrés espinosa vs dmoe vs dano sacaron cada uno en su toque lo más característico de su sonido y demostraron para el escazo público a que fueron allí. Larga vida al vinilo!!! Y gracias a los dj's por la buena disposición y energía que transmitieron durante toda la noche...

Los ganadores fueron todos cuatro y otros cuantos pocos...

Gracias a todos los que aportaron y apoyaron para la realización de éste evento.

Nos vemos en el 2009...

Resumen la batalla de los dj?s dos...Series Killers...

El encargado de hacer el calentamiento en tan fría noche de halloween fue nuestro querido Wolf, con una máscara que realmente lo dejaba pasar más que desapercibido...
El primer enfrentamiento (en el que tocó 50 min. cada uno) lo realizaron vlez vs dijon triathlon en el que salió airoso vlez, me gustó su toque al igual que su disfraz...también los de chepe por quien sigo insistiendo deberiamos hacer una neumatón...
El segundo choque de titanes (en el que tocó 45 min. cada uno) se dió entre MALA y glaDkazuka quién a diferencia de los otros dj's participantes de la noche siempre realiza un live set con sus increíbles aparatos; los dos al pelo y con algún disfraz se batieron duro...y salió triunfador MAdkazuka...
En la gran final de la noche de halloween vlez vs gladkazuka nos pusieron a bailar en un buen remate...se impusó por aplausómetro escazo el live set de Gregorio A.K.A gladkazuKa, Madkazuka, etc...el ganador de la noche es un rey para la pista de baile, el hombre lobo!!!...

Gracias a todos los que colaboraron y apoyaron para la realización de éste evento...

Nos vemos en la noche de vinilos...

Imágenes de la batalla de los dj?s dos...clasificatoria tres...series killers...en halloween...por medetrash...

Contacto medetrash: http://www.medetrash.blogspot.com/

neumatón...2008...imágen por Medetrash...

Contacto [neuma] : http://www.seriesmedia.org/
Medetrash: http://www.medetrash.blogspot.com/

Imágenes de la batalla de los dj?s dos...clasificatoria dos...Cocinados en su propia salsa...cohete vs sano vs qk vs mk...por Amatissta...

Contacto Amatissta: amatissta-iconoclastic@hotmail.com

Una reseña de Sergio dj residente del Pub y colaborador, de la clasificatoria dos...mk vs qk vs sano vs cohete...Cocinados en su propia salsa...

Batalla de los DJs 2 Cohete, Sano, MK, QK

Esta noche tuvo a Juan Pablo como Dj responsable del warm-up previo a la aparición en escena del primero de los DJs concursante de la batalla, COHETE; y parece que su alias fuera intencional porque describe totalmente lo que se siente en la pista de baile cuando él es el DJ... se siente de verdad como un Cohete la fuerza y la energía tan vibrante de su toque èsta noche: um bombardeo con cohetes de drum n'bass para demoler lo que sea. Posteriormente comenzó SANO quien realizó un set bien housero y lo suficientemente sólido y arrebatador como para, no obstante la desaceleración post-COHETE poner a bailar a todo el público presente incluyendo algunos que con COHETE no pudieron, cosa que generalmente sucede cuando alguien intenta transmitir algo de formas diferentes a las más conocidas y hay personas demasiado "convencionales" o "tradicionales pues...". En fin que SANO terminó su set dejando a todo el público más que satisfecho y agradecido con la fiesta que nos dió con ese (hasta ese momento primer toque). Entre ambos DJs se fué a la final de la noche SANO (aplausómetro). Los siguientes semifinalistas fueron QK y MK en ese órden. Comenzó QK y fué agradable la sensación cuando comenzó y se sintió como la continuación de la labor perfecta de SANO pero ahora en manos de su colega QK quien hizo lo que parecía imposible: encender más la pista con màs house en todas sus formas, fue un asalto house, pero al igual que el anterior: arrebatador, versatil y a la vez coherente, nadie podía resistirse a bailar con esos bajos tan gruesos y potentes y el resto de la base rìtmica siempre bien definida, ejecuciones perfectas, selección de música perfecta, un toque perfecto. Y por último entró MK quien al principio tuvo un problema con su laptop que le impidió tocar por un momento, cosas que le pueden suceder a cualquier DJ tocando con laptop creo yo aunque no todos piensan que así y no entendieron la situación. Ya pasado ese momento de "fallas técnicas" comenzó como debió hacerlo: sorprendiendo con màs house, màs àcido, màs tempo, màs crudo y a la vez definido, incluso con su "pecado" al comienzo del toque el pùblico olvidò ese momento gracias a unos sonidos muy progressive en su set contundente, finalmente como segundo finalista entre QK y MK quedò QK y la final fuè SANO vs QK y creo que lo que ambos hicieron en su mini-set de 20 minutos cada uno (por la final) fue el remate perfecto con progressive, deep, old skool y electrohouse todo en un solo remate de lujo en el que cualquiera de los dos era el perfecto vencedor y en èsta ocasión el ganador la batalla fue QK.

Laptop + Traktor + Talento DJ + Buen Público.

Contacto Sergio: futurespirit@gmail.com

Resumen la batalla de los dj?s dos...clasificatoria dos...mk vs qk vs sano vs cohete...Cocinados en su propia salsa...

Juan Pa hizó el warm up de 1o a 12 mezclando nuevamente cd´s con el irregular Denom 4000 del Pub. Lo hizó bien aunque en ésta ocasión contó con un número menor de bailarines en la pista de baile...el grueso de la gente llego pasada la medianoche.
El primer enfrentamiento de la noche lo protagonizaron cohete vs sano. Cada uno de ellos tocó los 45 minutos acordados y de la batalla en reñida decisión salió airoso sano.
Luego se enfrentaron qk vs mk quienes protagonizaron un magnífico combate sonoro. Lástima el pequeño problema que enfrento la nena porque dió pelea hasta el final y de haber sido un poco más largo su toque hasta con la victoria se hubiera podido alzar...
En la final se enfrentaron un par de monstruos del sonido: sano vs qk, quienes a pesar de pertenecer a la misma escuela ahora cada vez más se les diferencia en lo que cada uno de ellos busca en el sonido y nos ofrecen a los bailarines en la pista de baile. Fueron 40 minutos de candeleo y diría que por eso a la hora del aplausómetro final en también reñida decisión salió mejor librado qk...
Batalla de decisiones difíciles para el público, buena propuesta sonora de cada uno de los dj?s...
Gracias a todos los que participamos en éste evento...

la batalla de los dj?s...clasificatoria dos...recuento...

El ganador en ésta ocasión fue dandy head. El primer flyer fue diseñado por cohete (http://www.discoscocinados.org/). El segundo por Joni (http://malogrado.furtopia.org/).

Todas las imágenes por Clara Holguín Lew.

la batalla de los dj?s...clasificatoria uno...recuento...

El ganador de ésta primera confrontación fue un excelso Gladkazuka haciendo un groovy live set.

Fotos tomadas por Clara Holguín Lew (calabazascia@hotmail.com). Flyer diseñado por Mauricio Botero (mauriciob78@hotmail.com).

la batalla de los dj?s dos...clasificatoria uno...

Kool waters

(clasificatoria uno)

Dynámika vs Amatissta vs m.a. vs Sergio

Flyer diseñado por m.a. http://www.flickr.com/photos/marsfromvenus/

Se inicia la segunda temporada del evento ha relizarse nuevamente en el pub. Están todos muy invitados y sean bienvenidos...