Archive for the ‘DJ Tips’ Category

Using the power of social media is now essential in modern day business, and as a DJ, you are a business. Courtesy of The Club DJ Guide, a short article on ‘Tweet Adder’ can be found, an innovative way of using this enormously powerful promotional tool. Hope you find it useful. Tweet Adder

As seen on The Club DJ Guide

Blending songs is a key part of DJ’ing, otherwise we would all listen to our ipod’s when we are on a night out! For the beginner, we found this very helpful video on DJ Tech Tools on 5 different but easy ways to move between tracks. Have a look…

As seen on http://www.djtechtools.com/

DJ T has also kindly provided us an example of a simple transition to get up to DnB tempo…check it out!

Budding DJ’s…instead of going down the Turntable or CDR route, you can always use your laptop, probably where all your music is stored anyway! Check out this short but informative video on how easy it is to set up using a laptop.

How to DJ with a Laptop

As seen on http://www.howcast.com

Apparently Drum and Bass is one of the toughest genres to become an expert mixer in. So Ellaskins gives us a short tutorial to help you budding DnB DJ’s make it seem easy!

The way the industry is these days, if you want to get recognised, you really have to push your promotion. Luckily we live in a time where the Internet makes self promotion relatively easy, if you put the work in. DJ Paul Velocity, a Funky House DJ on the UK circuit for 12 years now has allowed us to feature his 15 Free Online Self Promotion DJ Websites article (16 with Dubzoo :p). Some you will know, some new to you, but this is a must read if you really want to get that exposure! Check it out and we are going to be adding to this list very soon!!

As seen on paulvelocity.co.uk

For all you DJ’s that keep it on the vinyls, DJ Angelo has kindly given his permission to stick on some of his tutorials on How to DJ. Scratching is a pretty difficult skill to learn, so if you want it as part of your DJ toolkit, listen well and watch closely to part 1 and 2!

DJ Angelo -- Scratching Basics Part 1

DJ Angelo -- Scratching Basics Part 2

One of our favourite websites is www.djtutor.com. We love Ellaskins so DJ’s who are starting off… listen to what he has to say!

As seen on www.djtutor.com

Let’s hear what one of the longest serving DJ’s around has to say…

As seen on VideoJug. Links Below

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Carl Cox Advice For Up And Coming DJs