I spent part of this past weekend at the Austin Record Convention, which is the largest record show in the United States. Sellers come from all over the nation to sell records for three days, and buyers show up from all over Texas, and beyond. I’d been to the convention in the past, but this […]
Heavy Hits is more than a record pool. You obviously know about our blog– you’re reading it right now– but do you know about our YouTube channel? It’s full of information and tutorials designed to help you become a better DJ or producer. Here’s a recap of what was shared on our YouTube channel this […]
Okay, maybe the title of the article is a little click-baity, because obviously beat-matching is necessary. A DJ has to blend songs and the BPMs need to be lined up to do that. Except, what if maybe he doesn’t? So yeah, I stand by the title. Is Beat-matching necessary? My answer is that it’s a […]
Tax time is here! Are you deducting what you spend on being a DJ from your taxable income? If you ain’t you ought to be! Why give Uncle Sam, or your nation’s equivalent, any more of your money than you are required to give? Since we’re DJs and not accountants, maybe some people reading this […]
Heavy Hits is more than a record pool. You obviously know about our blog– you’re reading it right now– but do you know about our YouTube channel? It’s full of information and tutorials designed to help you become a better DJ or producer. Here’s a recap of what was shared on our YouTube channel this […]
Burn down the disco Hang the blessed DJ… Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ Morrissey sang those lyrics in 1987, and at the time it was all a bit of cheeky good fun. Yet, we now live in a world where the idea of an audience lynching their DJ may not be […]
I posed a question in my previous article: Is new music really new? The answer, it seems, is no. Now let’s try to figure out why this is the case. The easy answer to “why?” is to attribute the dearth of new forms of music to the advent of the internet. Let’s explore this idea. […]
When was the last time you heard music that was really new? I don’t mean a new song, or even a new sound or trend, but I mean an entirely new kind of music? That was once the norm, when new musical styles surfaced every decade or so, but now? Not so much. I started […]
Heavy Hits is more than a record pool. You obviously know about our blog– you’re reading it right now– but do you know about our YouTube channel? It’s full of information and tutorials designed to help you become a better DJ or producer. Here’s a recap of what was shared on our YouTube channel this […]
The other day, a DJ complained to me that he thinks it’s unfair that Mixcloud requires DJs to pay a subscription fee in order to livestream on their platform. After initially staring at him in astonishment for a minute, I composed myself, and tried to explain to him his folly. Mixcloud is not a free […]