DJIZN
It would appear you think outside of the box. You have had
some very respectable success online with YouTube; you’ve
succeeded where so many other have failed. Tell us about what
you’ve done with YouTube and how it all came to pass.
I ?rst got into the world of mixing by making hip-hop mash ups on Fl Studio. Tupac
acapellas on weird hip hop beats, stuff like that. I got into DJing when I wanted to
start doing that live. After I bought my ?rst pair of decks I started looking towards
YouTube for inspiration but was really disappointed by what a found. Although
lots of turntablists were posting great videos, I didn’t ?nd much creativity in the
controller camp. There were tons of mixes with DJs playing generic music, with
no technical skill and just a bit of basic beat matching between tracks. There was
all this new technology that allowed DJs to do things that were never possible
before, but very few people were really using the technology its potential.
I wanted to ?ll in this void. I switched over to a controller-based set up and
became known for doing 4-deck sets. This is when I started shifting into the more
electronic side of things. I recorded “Wub Wub, Chop Chop” which got a stupid
amount of success online. I’ve always had a goal of developing new techniques
in each video that I made. This eventually manifested into my current set up that
I use in my new Youtube videos; I now use drum pads loaded with sounds either
sampled from other songs or produced by myself. I drum out beats live or add
layers of instrumentation to tracks made by others.
Online success is a weird thing. There are people with millions of plays but are still
playing in their bedroom. This is not the response most people expect me to have,
but Facebook likes and Youtube plays are just numbers; the world’s highest paid
DJ is only sitting at 3 mil [?Z?\?
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