I think if I was on the fence about tasering someone and they said "Don't tase me bro", I'd pull the trigger.

What do you expect....homeboy is from the OC...

I mean when you wrote about a DJ competition in the OC? c'mon know....

seeing a DJ competition in the OC is like watching Justin Timberlake beatbox......

its just wrong on soo many levels.....

ah i wish you were around here more often haha

Zappidy zap zap!

Marty Feldman owns them all!!!

Ha ha ha!

Actually it was kind of worse than that. It was for WMC which is predominantly electronic music, some power 106 dudes were there playing the top 40 hip hop which was really bad. As for me I am off to costa rica next week to spin, south by south west next month then off to WMC and two new weekly spots in OC, so having no competition isn't really that bad. If I don't have to hear any scratching for a few weeks or talk about the pillars of hip hop I will be very excited. Currently here we get a lot of the LA hipsters and Long Beach hip hop heads coming out here to dj. I just saw klever, a-trak, tittsworth and dj sega in the past week or so.

that's awesome, didn't realize you spin the tunes for a living...!!!

what kind of stuff you dropping these dayssss...?

Cool. OK, let's talk about Q-Bert and Mixmaster Mike and Kid Koala and then pay props to RunDMC, Mel Melle, the Sugarhill Gang and Public Enemy.

I spin electro, mash-up, throw in some eighties, and bmore. Kind of like soulwax mixes without the cheese. Thats what I prefer at least and what I am best at. I used to do raves and this club in LA called matrix back in late 90's early 00's and really liked playing out UK hard house and proper house. So its along those same lines as far as counts, bars and keys go. I do however get stuck playing out at hip hop clubs locally doing all that scratching and beat juggling stuff. To me its not as fun even songs I like people don't and kids are so stupid now a days you can be playing E-40 or Dude & Nem and they will come up asking you to play hyphy.

There are a lot more clubs like that though willing to pay 500+ for a night of spinning, some of my friends that play electro locally make a fraction of that. I have travellled though for none hip hop related stuff to japan and the uk, if I could get solid work like that all the time that paid really well I would never play rap music again, even though I spent more than I made on those particular trips as it was my first time being at both.

what number is this diatribe on your list of shit white guys say to look cool?

Now THAT was funny.

They haven't put that on there. I am going to submit it soon though, along with smoothies, foods in bar form and being sarcastic.

Well that is what I do to make extra money, I don't do it to look cool or really like my name out there or want people to recognize me or anything, I am pretty reserved but just like the music. My day job is working at a marketing firm.

If I wanted to be bragadocious about it I would set up a website featuring work I have done or something like that with like a bio of myself. I actually take breaks from djing all the time when I feel like there is no new music I want to play. Its definately not something I do to exploit for personal gain and realise it is something many people could do with minimal effort and never even really looked at djing as being something cool and the ones that walk around with this sense of they are fucking awesome really piss me off.

Plus what are the odds of this

or you could just post about it on whatever forums you're a member of.

fucking DJs, you guys should be forced to pay royalties to the artists who's records you make a living off of.

Get HMS in here before the thread gets locked.

Aren't you in your mid-twenties...that means you were dj'ing clubs at 16?

I only brought it up because people asked why I posted this originally.

Psh they should pay me for playing out their crappy records I have to buy because they pay radio stations for play and kids think its good music, plus I have to buy duplicates. At least I don't download it. Most electronic music gets sent to me by the labels or artists themselves.

I actually got my first set up at 10 and was emancipated at 16 because I had already been going to raves and promoting. I had to start djing out to make a living so I would still be able to graduate high school, already had connections from partying and promoting so it was an easy progression. My part time job at the YMCA was cutting it.

I'm not going to lock it.

EDIT: Eh, whatever.

Most likely, if you are playing a legit club, they are paying ASCAP and BMI fees.

Don't talk about things you don't understand. Don't say an artist is "RFSO". RFSO is alive and well, but RFSO doesn't live here anymore.

Get HMS in here before the thread gets deleted...

Oh I think it's fine to let it play out for now. If it gets ugly I *might* lock it, but it won't get deleted.

RFSO I understand, LASK I don't know what that means, that might bring HMS out.

I was trying not to be a scumbag bastard that is offensive but somehow it happened, everyone gets easily annoyed in the whatever section of this forum.

Anyways if you live in LA and actually buy vinyl records