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Denon DJ Competition (Vote for me, with a twist!)
Posted on: 23.08.2013 by Doreen Schurle
I hate these "vote for me" threads as much as anyone else does, BUT, unfortunately sometimes you have to play the game to move ahead. I've entered the Denon DJ competition for BPM Show this year; the 16 people with the most votes (ugh, I know) go through to live heats, semi finals, final, etc. At that point, it's down to judges but before that, we have to crowdsource for YOUR help

Still, I don't want to win this unfairly or immorally, so I need to ask you guys for a favour. I'd love to have your votes, BUT, I don't want you to just blindly vote without actually feeling I deserve it. Listen to this mix, and if it's worth a vote - technically, I understand prog house isn't to everyone's personal taste - then vote for me. Otherwise, feel free to give me constructive criticism or even just tell me I'm crap, after 15 years the constructive comments still help and the insults are just water off a duck's back

Anyway, here's the page: http://www.visitbpm.co.uk/comp.php?e...4#main_content

Cheers everyone
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Stewe
So who is up for community competition #2

It's a getting about that time
Doreen Schurle
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by synthet1c
You did a good job man, but it looked like you wanted to slit your wrists at the end of your set when you missed the mix, if you hadn't of done that you could of blagged your way through, and it's lame especially when there's no dance floor, but you should try to put your hands up for the drops. Also why was there no denon gear in a denon dj comp? that's kinda weird...
Oh the end of the set they came over to the stage and asked me to kill it, hence the faders down (reached my 5 minute limit) But yeah, it's REALLY painful having to stop a set on a sound/lighting system like that lmao. If they'd let me I would've kept on for the rest of the day :P

Denon were sponsoring it by providing the prizes etc; all the gear that was supplied was by BPM themselves and Chauvet, hence the 2000s/900 and the 1200s. I felt sorry for the sound guy when I asked him to pull all the Pio gear away so I could set up :P
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by mdcdesign
most Saturdays I play Haddaway - What Is Love, which is usually my biggest track of the evening ...
Now I AM regretting voting for you
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Ross
The violent hip thrusting made me feel extremely uneasy.
That's a first
Doreen Schurle
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by DISaS73R
Did they also give you guys time machines for your sets? That's the only thing which would justify playing Niggas in Paris in the autumn of 2013.
Hey, it won me the first round so it clearly wasn't THAT far off base :P Plus most Saturdays I play Haddaway - What Is Love, which is usually my biggest track of the evening ... although that's old enough to be proper retro :P
Delena Katherman
19.09.2013		Just watched the video of the winner. Seriously, I'm shocked at that winner like almost everyone else.

I believe it's around 4:15 that he transitions between songs and you can hear that he's not beatmatched. It's so off. He then just fades one track out and the other in. The effects are really heavy handed and standard (FLANGER! PHASER! GATER!), and I'm actually one of those people that doesn't mind DJ's throwing in a lot of effects if it sounds good.

OP, nice work.
Doreen Schurle
19.09.2013		Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my routine for the final

Doreen Schurle
18.09.2013		As promised, a few vids

Here's my performance from the final, complete with the judges comments as recorded by the mrs:


And here's a re-record (just done now) of my winning performance in second heat:
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Stewe
So who is up for community competition #2

It's a getting about that time
Doreen Schurle
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by synthet1c
You did a good job man, but it looked like you wanted to slit your wrists at the end of your set when you missed the mix, if you hadn't of done that you could of blagged your way through, and it's lame especially when there's no dance floor, but you should try to put your hands up for the drops. Also why was there no denon gear in a denon dj comp? that's kinda weird...
Oh the end of the set they came over to the stage and asked me to kill it, hence the faders down (reached my 5 minute limit) But yeah, it's REALLY painful having to stop a set on a sound/lighting system like that lmao. If they'd let me I would've kept on for the rest of the day :P

Denon were sponsoring it by providing the prizes etc; all the gear that was supplied was by BPM themselves and Chauvet, hence the 2000s/900 and the 1200s. I felt sorry for the sound guy when I asked him to pull all the Pio gear away so I could set up :P
Kellie Myrum
15.09.2013		So who is up for community competition #2
Jonathan Chiuchiolo
15.09.2013		You did a good job man, but it looked like you wanted to slit your wrists at the end of your set when you missed the mix, if you hadn't of done that you could of blagged your way through, and it's lame especially when there's no dance floor, but you should try to put your hands up for the drops. Also why was there no denon gear in a denon dj comp? that's kinda weird...
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by mdcdesign
most Saturdays I play Haddaway - What Is Love, which is usually my biggest track of the evening ...
Now I AM regretting voting for you
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Ross
The violent hip thrusting made me feel extremely uneasy.
That's a first
Doreen Schurle
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by DISaS73R
Did they also give you guys time machines for your sets? That's the only thing which would justify playing Niggas in Paris in the autumn of 2013.
Hey, it won me the first round so it clearly wasn't THAT far off base :P Plus most Saturdays I play Haddaway - What Is Love, which is usually my biggest track of the evening ... although that's old enough to be proper retro :P
Olin Easley
15.09.2013		Did they also give you guys time machines for your sets? That's the only thing which would justify playing Niggas in Paris in the autumn of 2013.
Annalisa Shogren
15.09.2013		The violent hip thrusting made me feel extremely uneasy.
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013		7.29 It's awesome. Chicken dancing.
Annalisa Shogren
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Timbo21
No. He was absolutely appalling.

Very un-musical, over use, or should I say abuse of FX. Tracks that I didn't feel sit well at all together. A typical scenario of the wrong gear getting into the wrong hands .

Second guy had some technical skills, but just too much button hammering, and again un-musical mashing. I liked how he did the chicken dance by turning pots with both hands at the beginning tho.
I'm watching the second guy now, loves to backspin out into the next tune.
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Ross
The first guy with the WeGo won it? I'll be the first to admit I'm not the best DJ out there, but I was mortified at his first mix?

From I Need a Dollar to Dirty Stinkin' Bass?

Am I wrong?
No. He was absolutely appalling.

Very un-musical, over use, or should I say abuse of FX. Tracks that I didn't feel sit well at all together. A typical scenario of the wrong gear getting into the wrong hands .

Second guy had some technical skills, but just too much button hammering, and again un-musical mashing. I liked how he did the chicken dance by turning pots with both hands at the beginning tho.
Annalisa Shogren
15.09.2013		The first guy with the WeGo won it? I'll be the first to admit I'm not the best DJ out there, but I was mortified at his first mix?

From I Need a Dollar to Dirty Stinkin' Bass?

Am I wrong?
Doreen Schurle
15.09.2013
Originally Posted by Timbo21
God, 5 mins. Not long is it. I really like the military drums bit.

The first guy.... well, words fail me. Second guy. Was he scratching with his head at one point?
Yes ahahaa.

The first guy won it, the song choices won't be to everyone's taste but his set did sound great in person; plus he did it all on a DDJ-WeGo which is pretty damn impressive. The second guy came 2nd place, because they didn't believe he could maintain that level of intensity for 4 hours. The last guy to play was the only one to have his actual MIXING criticised, but - like me - he didn't have anything prepared for the final and just threw something together last minute, so its understandable.

They pulled me up on not really looking at the crowd and staying quite "isolated" on the stage, in my own little world kinda thing haha, which is a fair point and something I know I do anyway.
Edwardo Rothenberger
15.09.2013		God, 5 mins. Not long is it. I really like the military drums bit.

The first guy.... well, words fail me. Second guy. Was he scratching with his head at one point?
Doreen Schurle
15.09.2013		Got through to the live heats thanks to you guys, and won my heat to go through to the live final Here's my performance from the final:



My performance starts at 12:24

The guy filming it cut the judges comments out but the mrs recorded it too so I'll post that one up when I get back from BPM tomorrow! Thank you guys SO much for helping to give me this opportunity
Lannie Kutay
10.09.2013		i definitely voted, (forgot to say)

But I just listened to the mix for a second time today. And its great!
Hellen Mindrup
10.09.2013		Good work man, be sure to let everyone know how much of an influence I was to you.
Kellie Myrum
09.09.2013		Congrats dude!
Jonathan Chiuchiolo
09.09.2013		congrats man!
Doreen Schurle
09.09.2013		Just wanted to let you guys know that I made it through to the heats at BPM this year thanks to you guys!

If I win, I'll be giving a big shout out to DJTT and [almost] everyone in the community!
Jonathan Chiuchiolo
01.09.2013		voted, good luck!
Hope Frisa
01.09.2013		Voted for good track choices.
Doreen Schurle
01.09.2013		Cheers for all your support guys; only 6 days to go and I'm in 7th so far Slipped two places today though so a little bump of this :P
Latoria Kavulich
27.08.2013		Will check out tomorrow. And prepare for a second by second soul crushing critique *whistle*
Edwardo Rothenberger
26.08.2013
Originally Posted by makar1
Thought you might want some actual feedback rather than just a handful of votes. Here's my analysis anyway.

1:05 Track A too quiet and thin
2:25-2:51 Track A too quiet, strange filtering going on, highs from A left too long
3:37 Vocal sample cut off, then played too quietly
4:43 Random drop in volume
8:40 More strange uneven filtering
9:14 High pass filter tail
11:35 Unnecessary high pass filter? Making Track A thin and quiet, tailing off and sitting in the background.
13:25 More high pass filtering? Uneven changes in volume? Sounding thin again.
19:22 Another high pass filter tail, where proper phrasing would have sounded much better.
21:28 Filter..
22:40 Track A sounding very thin (filtered again?) with overpowering bassline from next track
23:11 Random gap/poor overlap. Again, proper phrasing would have avoided this
24:35-25:20 Messy clash between both tracks. Track A sounding thin again throughout.
31:26 Part of the song? Cueing with fader up?
37:00-37:20 Some phrasing would have been nice
38:45 More overdone high pass filter
42:30 Sounding weak again with the filtered track
43:00 Cut off too soon. Echo freeze might have been good here.
45:55 Noisy clash
46:44 Abrupt end, phrasing needed
49:00 Another clash (keys?). Track B needs to be louder too, take out some bass from A
51:47 Another high pass filter tail. Track A should have disappeared by now.
53:03 Part of the track? Or another track sitting in the background?
54:10 Bassline is a little heavy, vocals a little quiet.
54:58 Very thin sounding lead synth + vocals.
56:44 Bad clash. Proper phrasing needed.
59:11 More pounding bassline with thin sounding melody in the background.
61:05 Echo would sound better on the end of the vocals.

As before, EQing and phrasing need work so you might want to avoid the filter+FX for a while until you get those sorted.
WTF!

Voted. Best of luck
Myrta Neweii
26.08.2013		voted. good luck.
Rosina Steinkuehler
25.08.2013		Voted. Best of luck!
Lakeesha Storman
25.08.2013		Well done man. You got my vote.
Kellie Myrum
25.08.2013		I'm busy here doing my Livid BASE custom mapping which is pretty big but soon as I finish that I'll look into posting my new mix
Annalisa Shogren
25.08.2013
Originally Posted by mdcdesign
I believe I'd be more interested in hearing one of his
+1.

I'm going to absolutely tear it apart. Voice commentary, the lot.
Doreen Schurle
25.08.2013
Originally Posted by Stewe
Makar 1, can I send you my mixes for analyses?
I believe I'd be more interested in hearing one of his

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