The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019)
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#2Well written, tech heavy, and one of the best writeups I've seen on ripping vinyl to USB high speed SD cards.
* And those were mentioned almost in passing, entirely not the point of the article, but so great to see!
I want to also tell the world about Techno-club.net. There's a ton of UR-related artists still making true-spirit techno. Fantastic selektors!
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#4A few months on Hacker News there was a post about Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ software. It prompted me to download it and play around. It's very cool. Despite being a complete novice, I learned a few things after a dozen hours of playing around:
* I don't have a physical controller, but I can understand why people always use them. Keyboard and mouse are not fully sufficient.
* The built-in key and beat detection is really quite good for house music, and it gets you most of the way there in terms of managing song transitions (but not all the way there)
* A side effect of consuming 99% of all of my music from youtube and spotify means I have no local library to feed into Mixxx (I ended up yt-dlp'ing a bunch of stuff)
* There is a true art in song selection, and I don't possess this skill.
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#5A few months on Hacker News there was a post about Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ software. It prompted me to download it and play around. It's very cool. Despite being a complete novice, I learned a few things after a dozen hours of playing around: * I don't have a physical controller, but I can understand why people always use them. Keyboard and mouse are not fully sufficient. * The built-in key and beat detection is…
Your last point is the most important skill a DJ needs to learn. Song selection is everything.
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#6A few months on Hacker News there was a post about Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ software. It prompted me to download it and play around. It's very cool. Despite being a complete novice, I learned a few things after a dozen hours of playing around: * I don't have a physical controller, but I can understand why people always use them. Keyboard and mouse are not fully sufficient. * The built-in key and beat detection is…
I could not get it to work, there was a dialog window popping up that I couldn’t click to dismiss. Tried many times and went back to Serato.
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#7Ha fun to see this on HN! Love the approach she outlined here, though I’ve tried doing similarly but don’t have the time or incentive to invest in it just to play on my decks in my living room once a month haha.
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#9Avalon Emerson is such a great dj and producer. I’d love to see them live sometime - I’ve a great set from 2017 of theirs on SoundCloud that’s really eclectic. Love the style.
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#10A few months on Hacker News there was a post about Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ software. It prompted me to download it and play around. It's very cool. Despite being a complete novice, I learned a few things after a dozen hours of playing around: * I don't have a physical controller, but I can understand why people always use them. Keyboard and mouse are not fully sufficient. * The built-in key and beat detection is…
I'm playing with the djay app which can source from Apple Music..