DJ Music

WHen DJing first started out, it was basically late night sound engineers ‘guarding the fort’ at radio stations after presenters had gone home, it was basically a case of keepign the station going and playing music to night owls, it wasn’t until DJing got into the clubs that DJs became a ‘profession’, as for modern mixing, that didn’t come in till much later when the cross fader became integrated into DJ mixers.

Its been a case of contention for DJs for a while, as to whether its more important to master technique or master the art of programming to become a DJ and DJ music like a pro. Now really this is quite a loose question, first it depends on the style of music you DJ, specifically if  you DJ hip hop for example you might find that technique is critical.

There are basics of DJing music that apply regardless, however, such as beatmatching, and whilst you can get away with not doing this absolutely perfectly, you still need to get it fairly right, after all, you don’t want to screw up the rhythm of the music for the crowd. However aside from getting these fundamentals right the bottom line is in being able to anticipate and respond to the crowd and play a set that reflects this, and all the fancy DJ tricks won’t help when it comes to reading people and choosing music they will respond to.

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