Tell the truth: Have you ever faked djing?
Tell the truth: Have you ever faked djing? Posted on: 13.05.2013 by Dannie Dimora Just the other day i was at this party, where a very known dj in my area was spinning, and going backstage i noticed a youtube tab open with a "2013 boom megamix" video playing. He was just pretending to mix on his ddj-t1, mashing buttons and rotating knobs like crazy. I'm not hating on him, because i don't know the whole story behind it, so here goes the question:Now, my question is: honestly, have you ever been in a situation where, for a reason or another, you just weren't feeling like mixing? Say, a sleepless evening before the gig, or a strong headache, or just one too many shots or glasses of wine and you feared the worst trainwreck humanly possible? I can in all honesty say i never faked, except for loading 10min mixes to go to the toilet, or maybe twisting some knobs when drunken people came to the booth saying "can i do wiki wiki on the dj stuff oooh and how do you do that and what is that light over there and play levels" How about you? | |
| Leena Lhuillier 16.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
Pretending to be busy seems to work with some annoying drunk people And long mashup sometimes when i have to leave the booth for some reason |
| Lilliana Perris 14.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by jakeintox
When they ask for Infected Mushroom, I tell them that what is playing IS Infected Mushroom...the latest unreleased track. LOL....usually shuts them up. HAHAHAHAHA |
| Augustine Mitzen 14.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
It makes sense in that case, i'd let a mate play a tune or sth, if i had a chancethough. The thing is, when you put on a premix while you go to take a piss, what stops the crowd from believeing that's what you're doing the whole evening ? |
| Emelina Chillson 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by jakeintox
Originally Posted by mdcdesign
Por serio. I got into an argument one evening with my ex gal (one of the many reasons she's an ex). She was pissed cause I didnt answer my phone or text her back untill my set was done. I was on a radio show doing a 2.5 hour set. Her response was, "You had time to get back to me. All you were doing was playing music!" I called her a dumb twat and found a new gal. |
| Emelina Paglia 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Citizen_Insane
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| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
I don't even know if my mates made that much of an effort in looking like they were mixing, I guess they must have a bit as they claim that everyone was dancing (it was in a marquee in the grounds). Worst thing is that one of the lad could barely mix anyway. The other is a good DJ and he could do it, no problems but they just got totally pissed. All the kids were smashed and I mean "SMASHED" so they wouldn't have noticed. The girl who's party it was is an obnoxious, daddy's girl. A proper snobby bitch so in a way I'm glad my mates stiffed her for the money. Hey Ho. |
| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Fabiio
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| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by alchemy
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| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
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| Leena Lhuillier 16.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
Pretending to be busy seems to work with some annoying drunk people And long mashup sometimes when i have to leave the booth for some reason |
| Syreeta Piela 14.05.2013 | I couldn't believe of anything worse than standing in the booth for hours.. Doing nothing.. Surrounded by drunks.. Pretending to have a good time. Fuck it, get in the mix regardless if the room is full or empty. |
| Lilliana Perris 14.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by jakeintox
When they ask for Infected Mushroom, I tell them that what is playing IS Infected Mushroom...the latest unreleased track. LOL....usually shuts them up. HAHAHAHAHA |
| Tesha Freudenstein 14.05.2013 | no... |
| Augustine Mitzen 14.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
It makes sense in that case, i'd let a mate play a tune or sth, if i had a chancethough. The thing is, when you put on a premix while you go to take a piss, what stops the crowd from believeing that's what you're doing the whole evening ? |
| Trula Willadsen 14.05.2013 | I always turn it around. In the beginning of an evening when it's still pretty quiet there's always an employee or an early visitor coming over for talks. Sometimes they ask if djing is really that hard. I often tell them it's just pressing play/pause and acting interesting for the crowd. I will invite them to try it. Just press play, gently put the fader up and fade the other out. Easy as that. And when they trainweck, which they always do, I haggle them for not even being able to do something as easy as djing |
| Charlette Chalet 14.05.2013 | never did something like that. i produce intros with ambient sounds, pads, distorted vocals or whatever for bigger shows. usually i premix these with the first track of the set to not screw up on stage and just make it easier for me because it still happens that im getting nervous before the first track =P |
| Loyce Mekonen 13.05.2013 | No I haven't faked ever... but this saturday happened to me a small but funny thing. While I was mixing, a guy came up to the booth to see my gear or whatever. On that moment I, for no reason at all, went for the filter knob and I did absolutely nothing with it, a split second later I did the same with the bass knob. Just after that moment, when the guy left I turned to my girlfriend who was standing right next to me in the booth and told her "I just don't know why I did that... It just came out so stupidly automatic". She replied "nah, don't bother... he probably didn't know what you were doing anyway" lol. I felt like I was faking it and it felt awful for a second or two haha. |
| Emelina Chillson 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by jakeintox
Originally Posted by mdcdesign
Por serio. I got into an argument one evening with my ex gal (one of the many reasons she's an ex). She was pissed cause I didnt answer my phone or text her back untill my set was done. I was on a radio show doing a 2.5 hour set. Her response was, "You had time to get back to me. All you were doing was playing music!" I called her a dumb twat and found a new gal. |
| Doreen Schurle 13.05.2013 | Jesus Christ, no. If I'm playing a 5 hour set somewhere, I'll stick a megamix on for the first hour or so (while it's still an empty room), but as soon as people start arriving and ARE DANCING rather than just standing at the bar, I'll start work. Until then, I just sit back or browse DJTT; but I'll NEVER pretend to be mixing when I'm not. It's pretty obvious when I'm actually DJing, because the building could literally go up in flames and I wouldn't notice because I'm that busy actually doing stuff. |
| Lashay Walchak 13.05.2013 | I'm in the Suburban bar scene where you mix for 5 hours so I'm jumping genres and tempos all evening . I've flat out lined up and played 7-10 minute segments of Z-Trips "Uneasy Listening" which has some epic 80's/90's mash-ups. It's too good to not let it ride. I'm not pretending to scratch, juggle or EQ, just sitting back killing 3.33% of my workload. A lot of the mash-ups I've done I've stumbled into while playing live. I'll go back and look at a set and build a new playlist with a handful of tracks that were working then add a few more and make it a 20-30 mini set that I'll use in rotation with a dozen other similarly made playlists. |
| Emelina Paglia 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Citizen_Insane
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| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
I don't even know if my mates made that much of an effort in looking like they were mixing, I guess they must have a bit as they claim that everyone was dancing (it was in a marquee in the grounds). Worst thing is that one of the lad could barely mix anyway. The other is a good DJ and he could do it, no problems but they just got totally pissed. All the kids were smashed and I mean "SMASHED" so they wouldn't have noticed. The girl who's party it was is an obnoxious, daddy's girl. A proper snobby bitch so in a way I'm glad my mates stiffed her for the money. Hey Ho. |
| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Fabiio
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| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by alchemy
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| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Polygon
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| Ling Mccamman 13.05.2013 | Funny this comes up. This past Friday I celebrated a Birthday with a friend of mine. Got hammered shit. Woke up with a EXTREME HANGOVER. Anyways the next day (Saturday), I had a gig @ 9pm. I was feeling like shit but not too bad, I was first among the lineup. I was quite displeased that I was put on first, I never start first, cocky I know:P. Anyways the crowd was meh. I mainly spin Electro, but this crowd was so dead. They were all wall-hugers..now granted this thing just started, but still. I read the crowd, I even got outta my comfort zone and actually went to different genres. So not even 30 minutes in I AM OFFICIALLY BORED. I then just start A-B mixing. NOW nothing wrong with that. BUt..Thats not how I do things usually. Needless to say I was sooo close to just open a New Castle and put a mix I had recored not too long on but I resisted and carried on....my wayward son. |
| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Lillia Datson 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by botstein
Hahahaha true! |
| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by johney
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| Ervin Calvery 13.05.2013 | No. I like DJing. |
| Luciano Hyppolite 13.05.2013 | what is the fun about faking hahah. One time I was playing at a party and I got so many "reggaeton requests" that I just put a mix I had but i did not fake it, I was not in the booth, every now and then I'd go back to check everything was ok. I did not pretend to be twisting knobs or anything. |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.05.2013 | 2 of my 'mates' got hired to play this really annoying girls 21st birthday party at her parents mansion (stinking rich). They took a load of records and cds....... but these kids were so fucking obnoxious they thought fuck it and put my latest mix CD on which I did for a club that a lot of the people there went to. So the kids heard the music they liked and my mates did NOTHING for nearly 2 hours apart from drink. THEY GOT PAID. I got nothing apart from I this story, which is ok I guess. They still bring it up "ha remember that time we got paid loads for playing YOUR mix" . |
| Augustine Mitzen 13.05.2013 | No, never have, never will. Bathroom breaks are just a matter of a reasonably long tune tbh |
| Xavier Ponce 13.05.2013 | Regularly played shows with a DJ who would pretend to be mixing Girl Talk-style mashups live, twisting knobs during buildups, etc - but actually was playing 5-10 minute mashup tracks that he'd pre-made in FL Studio and poorly mixing those mashup tracks together. It always felt like such a sham to anyone who was behind the booth, but damn if he didn't bring the crowds in full force. |
| Ethel Feigum 13.05.2013 | Sometimes I put on my headphones and pretend to listen to something, But that's just so drunk people will stop trying to talk to me. |
| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Citizen_Insane
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| Amberly Maimon 13.05.2013 | never faked it... like someone else said i left something to play during a restroom break... but i wasn't pretending that i was djing... |
| Dannie Dimora 13.05.2013 |
Originally Posted by Sanader
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