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- troycott, on 01/15/2008, -0/+20Before every set, DJ Tutor enjoys a Red-Bull-espresso energy shake
- JimmyTRUELOVE, on 01/15/2008, -4/+20Not to be a prude, but ANYONE that knows ANYTHING about Dj'ing will know that mixing 6 tracks at 4x4 like he's demonstrated, in the manner that he's shown, is basic to say the least. The shoddiest of bedroom Djs could do the same if they've been mixing anywhere of 6 months or longer.
It's not done off the cuff clearly, all he's done here is set the BPM for each track to coincide with the other beforehand (before recording the video) and he's just cuing each track up. This is awful.
The world record he may be referring to is done OFF the cuff where the Dj has to alter the pitch of each track, meaning the dj would have to solo each track out via headphones.
He never once alters the pitch control, only slowing and speeding up the vinyl / cd so as to make it coincide with the beat as a whole. It's difficult to appreciate or comprehend if you've never mixed before but honestly this is so easy it beggers belief. - down4twenty, on 01/15/2008, -0/+14and 2 lines of pure columbian
- cryosis, on 01/15/2008, -0/+7Look the DJ in this video wasn't trying to impress as much as to entertain. Yes, he preset everything up and didn't need to touch the pitch. Big deal, he here for entertainment. If anyone was going to be serious about showing how this is done, I would hope it would have been more polished.
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -0/+6it was house music, all electronic music is not "techno"
- rickremixx, on 01/15/2008, -0/+5CJ's LOL they still are
- nico623, on 01/15/2008, -0/+5If all else fails...call it noizecore !
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -1/+6hell yeah! and bring back the analog instruments while they are at it. The sound you get from Vinyl and Analog is a million times better than the new "digital upgrades". Roland doesn't make the 909 anymore, but sound wise it blows any synthesizer or digital drum machine out of the water.
- RobotKing, on 01/15/2008, -0/+4Pre-beatmatched? Dj's either remember or have bpm's written somewhere for their tracks. The tempo's were pre-matched, probably to save time, but he still had to go to each and ride the beat.
Sneaky sneaky spamming your site. - rickremixx, on 01/15/2008, -3/+7LOL out of the loop you cant tell me cd's sound the same as vinyl !!! cd's suck sound like ***** and have no soul like vinyl does i been dj'ing the last 18 years in California and las vegas so i am in the loop
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -0/+4Slipmatt, there's a name I haven't heard in forever. You're giving me Hardcore Heaven flashbacks here. I see where a lot of people want to embrace the new technology. I just think that if anyone is to have any respect they need to at least learn and master vinyl first. Because if you don't then I believe there is less appreciation for the art of turntablism and dj'ing. I see a lot of young kids who have no idea about the history behind DJ's or anything about the music. Back in the 80's no one wanted to be the DJ, it was all about going to the party, The DJ had the toughest job in the club, in the digital age its not so difficuly anymore.
- saiboat, on 01/15/2008, -2/+6i love this dude. i've seen some vids of him months ago on youtube and he keeps pushing the community.
hes so ***** funny too :D - Proctor, on 01/15/2008, -1/+5Speed Garage Sucks. Mix some Electro House or REAL Techno.
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -0/+4I've mixed back and forth between jungle and hardcore, but there is no way you could throw house or trance in there. 1200's only go up to plus 8
still it would be interesting. I've +8'ed some trance before and you can get that late 90's trancecore sound, but some genres just woudn't mesh well - edrift101, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4Photoshopped. :P
- spyrochaete, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3That's precisely what I call all electronic music. "Techno" is my catch-all term because I don't like the term "electronica". I think "techno" is the most appropriate word because that's how Kraftwerk referred to their music, and most wouldn't call the majority of their songs techno.
- borez, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3Not actually playing trance is a great way to keep it from getting boring
- W1LS0N, on 01/15/2008, -3/+6dont talk rubbish mate - where have you been for the last few years?
vinyl replication for CD players is pretty much bang on now, meaning you mix with a cd deck and it behaves in exactly the same way as a vinyl record does. you sound like you've been out of the loop for a while. - PixelD, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4Try that with DnB or breakbeat it would be
- rickremixx, on 01/15/2008, -2/+5nice to see a dj make it on digg.. this dude is a good friend of mine and got mad skills
- inactive, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3jeff mills revolutionized the way techno could be mixed on multiple decks, live at the liquid room anyone? that ***** was so kick ass and what got almost everyone i know that has or does spin techno inspired. otherwise hawtin's the man these days, always staying on top the game with new innovative ways of mixing and redefining techno all the time
- scorchedearth, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3That was a cool video. Not the most impressive work but it was ad-hoc and he admitted that it would be.
I am sure he could do much better if he were putting serious effort into it.
Dugg. - Peynis, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3"You think turntablists bother beatmatching on the fly? "
No.
But then again, DJ Tutor isn't a turntablist. He's a DJ. Big difference. - bedouin, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4I dug you up after finishing your first paragraph.
- scorchedearth, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4The thing that you fail to realize is that most mixers make the input signal digital, thus compressing all of those beautiful frequencies that the analog medium is able to transmit.
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4Anyone out there knows Umek is the king of multiple deck mixing. Hawtin can mix 3 decks, with the 909 and his EFX processor, those are talented DJ's. And I have seen Marco Carola mix while rolling cigarettes.
- spyrochaete, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3The DJ still has the toughest job (well, him and the bouncer - "you're name's not down, you're not going in! twee twee tweeee"). Technology changes the way you DJ but there will never be a substitute for talent, track selection, and reading your crowd.
- eiknarf05, on 01/15/2008, -1/+4no its not techno, yes its very easy to do when your tone arms/weights are balanced and they are all the same BPM...
it would be more interesting if he mixed 6 RANDOM songs from various genres. that would be worth a watch. - Cadraig, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3Hmm. Last I checked Scotland was in Britain. There is no such thing as a 'British' accent.
- ChrisLondon, on 01/15/2008, -0/+3Why has this made the front page of Digg? It's not hard. I have been using 1210's for over a decade. Gimme 50 decks and time to set the pitch (as he has) and I will give you 50 beats playing in sinc.
- nistaani, on 01/15/2008, -1/+3Totally agree with you Jimmy, This is not a tutorial nor is it demonstrating mixing six tracks in any kind of useful situation. Respect for giving a funny video a go but there is no point to this.
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Techno was born in detroit, forged by the great trinity of Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson. I don't like the term electronica either, its a stupid name. I'll say electronic music but never electronica, but techno as a catch all is a pet peeve of mine and anyone who grew up on the Detroit scene. Just like house was born in NY/NJ
- boombye, on 01/15/2008, -0/+212s are the only way to go, otherwise you're just doing like the white kids and messing with cd players and *****...god that ***** is so lame if you live in chicago, ny, or any other big city...
- empath, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Anybody that can beat match can do that if you pre-set all the pitches in advance. Doing it on the fly would take real skill. I can do 3 records on the fly at once, but anything beyond that for any length of time gets REALLY hard, because if they're not perfectly beatmatched, records drift and you need to be able to pick out which track is drifting compared to which other record. Trying to listen to 4 songs simultaneously and pick out WHICH snare drum isn't hitting exactly on the 2 and 4 is damn near impossible, unless you really know the records. Particularly with techno which all sounds pretty similar anyway. Though the recent trend to digital production and CDJs makes it easier because the tempos are far more consistent than they used to be, so it's easier to get a mix that doesn't drift.
Here is a challenge for the djs, though: Try beatmatching two records without using headphones to cue by listening to the needle itself move across the incoming record. It's possible! - spectre_25gt, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2It is if you have a good ear.
- altovolta, on 01/15/2008, -1/+3That dude could have starred Trainspotting, as one of those junkies.
- dbavaria, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Why play any instrument at all then? Why even exercise speech when one can type?
- BooshTukka, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2What are you on about? The immediate cueing, the digital edge. It's not the same. Go ask someone who knows what they're talking about.
Even the tosser in this video wouldn't agree with you. - tman84, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2i gots pics of sharkey mashed out of his skull MCing. He was the best.
- habhi, on 01/15/2008, -3/+5all the beats sound exactly the same.
- spyrochaete, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Touche. Please forgive my ignorance.
- BooshTukka, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2He got to choose the records ahead of time, choose the points for them to start, and they didn't play very long. Easy.
If you can't do that in Traktor or whatever, you need to learn your tunes better. - spyrochaete, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2I like your style! It's loosely speed garage but with a serious mid-90s club vibe.
While we're plugging shamelessly, I've been ripping my old Toronto rave tapes to MP3 and sticking them on my website - http://mixtapes.demodulated.com
And I'll be mixing live tonight at 7:00pm Eastern on http://www.radiogrounds.com . I'll probably play trance, house, and techno though I'm feeling a little psy/goa today. - ths453, on 01/15/2008, -1/+3This guy is not a turntablist any idiot can put a record on and mix it. There is a huge difference between a DJ and turntablist, and just like sbogen wrote any DJ can do this. Now incorporating it into a live mix and doing it constantly for an hour or so would be impressive. And the markings we use on the records are not for pitch they are cue points to easily drop the needle on the scratch sample or at a break for beat juggling. Turntablist don't need to beat match if they are doing a battle set, it's not a mixing competition. That's why you see them without headphones and generally can set the pitch wherever they like.
- adidax, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Carl Cox is still the KING!
- BooshTukka, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Dude, what are you on about? The new generation of DJs, spinning CDs and calculating bpm with little tap-tap counters might do that, but where I come from we work everything out as we go - we vary the bpm during tracks to bring the crowd up and down - having it written down would hardly help anything, unless everything happened to be perfectly in time in the first place.
The only thing written on my records is "33rpm" or "A" for records that are labelled wrong.
He did have to "ride the beat", but that's easy to do. I bet the world record holder had to start all records at the base pitch setting, and used only vinyl. - boombye, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2House was born in the south side of Chicago, New York just has a fondness for Deep House, which is the original style of House music from the late 70s and early 80s. NY/NJ is not the home nor birthplace of House, they just love that Deep House or that Carl Cox type stuff. Where as Chicago never really cared much for it after the 90s.
- worldsbestgamer, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2Congrats, I say the same thing in several posts and they get dugg down. At least someone who is making sense is getting dugg up.
- BooshTukka, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2He doesn't touch the pitch control on one deck - they've all been done in his previous four attempts. What he did was a piece of piss.
- tman84, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2 props on the Mills comment, another great DJ. Usually the best DJ's are the old techno guys, Hawtin always being the man, his old Plastikman discs are still amazing. But there are some good house DJ's out there as well. Paul Johnson, Derrick Carter, DJ Dan, Doc Martin.
Did wanna mention Umek was the first guy I heard mix on 4 decks live -
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