(DJ Instruction). From old-school vinyl records to today's all-digital music platforms, the modern DJ has a huge variety of choices and information to navigate. Look no further than this unique book and video reference guide by seasoned pro DJ Hapa, who provides a wealth of insider tips, tricks, and techniques for DJs of all skill levels, covering topics such as: DJ controllers, CDJs and vinyl; choosing gear; beats, bars & phrases; inputs/outputs; using FX; basic scratching; sampling and looping; transitions & beatmatching; and more. Includes over two hours of video tutorials with DJ Hapa online for download or streaming.
DJing is probably the coolest way to make music, right? Now you can learn how with How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons! Do you think you have what it takes to be a superstar DJ? Do you daydream about making the hottest mixes behind the turn tables? Well, now is your chance to learn how to be a shredder on the tables with How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons, a simple guide to DJing! Learn the ins and outs of mixing, scratching, and blending and prepare to play in front of a live audience! With easy-to-follow instructions, colorful graphics, and helpful tips from an experienced professional DJ, this handy book breaks down everything you need to know into 10 simple lessons. How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons covers everything from equipment and software, to basic music theory and tips on performance, this is the perfect introduction to music mixing for aspiring DJs.
This book follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes story of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an international sensation. Interweaving interviews, the book dives into glitzy clubs, underground parties, and diverse communities who made up the scene amidst the tumult of 1980s/90s-era NYC.
From Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success. - Stay away from They - Don’t ever play yourself - Secure the bag - Respect the code - Glorify your success - Don’t deny the heat - Keep two rooms cooking at the same time - Win, win, win no matter what
(Technical). Spin Now! puts you on the fast track to DJing, whether you want to be a digital DJ or vinyl junkie. In this book with ccompanying audio and video, Los Angeles DJ, world-class turntablist, producer, and classroom instructor DJ Shortee teaches you everything you need to know so you can start mixing tunes like the pros! From CDJs, turntables, and DJ mixers to DJ Software, MIDI controllers, and more, discover the tools of the trade and how to choose which are best for you. Learn how to set up different gear and how to operate it correctly. Find out where to get music and how to select your tunes in order to create your own unique sound. Learn how to identify beats, count music, sync tempos, and match keys. Master the basics of cueing, scratching, and droppin' on the "one." Learn how to create seamless mixes through beat matching, blending, and EQing. Discover useful practice techniques, get advice on how to promote yourself, learn how to survive your first gig, and more! The included clips contain specific exercises directly correlating with lessons in the text, including material that lets you play along in real time. Each technique is taught using both CDJs and turntables and can easily be applied to any DJ software and controllers. No matter what equipment you use, Shortee's lessons are essential to learning how to DJ like a pro!_Want to become a Pro DJ? Learn from one!
Enthusiastic!" "Young!" "Star-ready!" These are just a few words that best describe DJ Priest, the 11-year-old DJ who was born in Nashville, TN but is currently living in Atlanta, GA with his mother and little brother Power. He has navigated through the music ranks to become one of the premiere DJs within a short period of time and now he plans to do the same within the literary world. He has written his first book, GO DJ, to show other young kids that through determination and hard work anything is possible.Being a youth himself, he is always in search of giving back to those who are less fortunate. "I feel if I can enjoy myself, I want those who are unfortunate to enjoy themselves as well," he said. With routine sets at the Boys and Girls Clubs in Atlanta and participating in Big Boi [Outkast] Annual Events, which contribute to youths in Atlanta, he has established 'role model status' and wants to prove that giving back is a priority. Another one of his accomplishments include his annual toy drive.Look for the upcoming series of children's books penned by the young author, DJ Priest.www.djpriest.net
Through four decades at the pointy end of dance music and club culture, the Secret DJ has seen it all. In this hilarious, gripping, and at times extremely moving follow-up to the smash-hit first book, the mysterious insider pulls no punches, wryly lifting the lid on misbehaving stars, what really goes on backstage, how to survive in the DJ game, and where the real power lies in rave. Most of all, they chart how capitalism bought and sold the utopian dreams of the Acid House generation - and whether those dreams can still be saved. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the dancefloor; past, present and future.
The DJ revolution has taken the music industry by storm! Popular DJs have perfected and honed their "turntablist" skills to high degrees of technical skill and virtuosity. This book will provide all the resources you need to understand and perfect your skills. Most importantly, as these skills are explained, you will be able to practice and fine-tune your new skills with the included 7" records -- designed specifically to aid in learning these techniques quickly and easily. The Turntable DJ topics include: gear, cueing up, marking records, music theory, beat-matching, mixing, scratching, and much more!
Iconic award-winning recording artist and producer DJ Khaled's highly intimate photographic autobiography features never-before-seen photos, personally collected, that trace his journey from a young DJ in Miami to the superstar music mogul he is today. DJ Khaled, née Khaled Mohamed Khaled, needs no introduction to his millions of fans around the world. The Grammy Award-winning recording artist and producer is known internationally for his chart-topping ten studio albums and collaborations with the biggest names in music, including hip-hop legends Drake, Jay-Z, Future, Lil Wayne, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Chance the Rapper, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, and Kanye West, among others. Khaled is a New York Times best-selling author, TV host, king of Snapchat, record-label executive, and lifestyle impresario. Edited by DJ Khaled himself, this personal volume takes us into his world, from photographs of his teenage years in Florida where he started DJing and selling mixtapes, to working at the New Orleans record store Odyssey where he met Lil Wayne in 1993, through the recording of his ten studio albums and countless music collaborations, and the birth of the heir to his throne, his son, Asahd. With rare imagery, this deeply private and inspirational book is a combination of inspirational talk, outrageous adventures, anecdotes, and life mantras for success alongside the quotidian details of this music icon's life. DJ Khaled will be the ultimate collector's item for his devoted fans and lovers of music, popular culture, and hip-hop and rap history.
The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity. "Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about."—Rhythm Science The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science—the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world. Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes...What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material—with him rhyming!" Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes. Miller's textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and Marcel Hermans). They sustain the book's motifs of recontextualizing and relayering, texts and images bleed through from page to page, creating what amount to 2.5 dimensional vectors. From its remarkable velvet flesh cover, to the die cut hole through the center of the book, which reveals the colored nub holding in place the included audio CD, Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives, this pamphlet truly lives up to Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld's claim that the Mediawork Pamphlets are "theoretical fetish objects...'zines for grown-ups.
Two-Turntables & a Mixer reunite the UGK posse, revealing untold moments of the platinum, hip-hop traiblazer's personal journey while detailing the history of UGK's beginnings. Daniel Grogan, a.k.a DJ Bird, a prolific sound maker, mixologist, and stage DJ, is a turntable legend and one of the original founding members of the southern hip-hop rap sensation. The group's music has topped the Billboard 200 and received notoriety as the award-winning Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album. In addition, their songs have been featured on various movie song tracks. DJ Bird invites his readers aboard his mystical musical life of keeping it Trill (true and real) with UGK. Bound together by brotherhood and the love for hip-hop and southern rap music. DJ Bird details intimate accounts of his life with his music associates revealing untold stories of UGKs road to becoming established as world hit-makers. Born with a bigger vision that Port Arthur, Texas could ever contain, DJ Bird and the UGK brotherhood set out to put Texas on a musical map. Gripped by personal setbacks and the tragic loss of his dearest friend and brother Pimp C (Chad L. Butler); Bird had a bound determination to overcome his personal demons of cocaine and alcohol addiction. DJ Bird still triumphs. Shoveled by the devastation of two powerful hurricanes Ike and Harvey, DJ Bird teaches his reader, how to make a powerful come back. The devil doesn't sleep, so I want either, protect yourself, and always do the right thing. I have stayed true to that promise even until now, in music and the DJ World. My greatest platform in this life is located behind a set of turntables and a mixing board. Because of my dedication to my craft, you can still find me in all the Texas turn-up spot. UGK 4 Life.
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