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I don't know what everyone usually hears the most about "DJ"? Is it "Don't talk, don't talk, dj first" or "If I were a DJ, would you love me".
DJ is a very magical profession for many people, many people do not understand him standing alone on the stage pressing those buttons, shaking his hands and shaking his head, looking very powerful, but what he is doing. Today we have a good chat about what a DJ is, what it comes from, and what the DJ does on stage.
The full name of the DJ is Disc Jockey. Disc refers to a disc, a record, or an operating disk, so generally everyone looks at the DJ player on the top of the two discs, so it is called Disc
Jockey, on the other hand, refers to the jockey who drives a horse and can also understand the operator. So Disc Jockey refers to the knight who controls the record, that is, the person who operates the DJ disk.
In the early 20th century, there was only one way to share music, except for his own personal performance live, to hold the most advanced sound storage medium of the year, that is, records. Put it on the phonograph and share the music for everyone to hear. And this person who shares a lot of music with a lot of records is called the person who drives the record, like the jockey who drives the horse, and the name "Disc Jockey the record jockey" was born.
But as times have evolved, there are more and more ways to share music, and DJs sharing music with listeners is not limited to the form of recordings. There are also many kinds of DJs, radio DJs, bar DJs, Internet DJs and so on. Of course, we are going to talk about the DJ of the bar today, what is the job he is responsible for?
Most of the songs that people usually listen to are 3-5 minutes, and when you listen to the first song and prepare to cut the second song, there will always be a pause for a few seconds, which will sometimes make people very unhappy, especially when they just get up, because there is no coherence. In a bar or music festival, it is heard for hours or even a night, continuously, as if it were a skewer. So the DJ's job is to seamlessly connect many songs in a more unified style. Because each song, its beat is different, some fast and some slow, we also call BPM = Beats Per Minute = beats per minute. So a very important job of the DJ is that when the beat of the two songs is different, he adjusts the beat of the first song and the second song to be connected. For example, the first song is very fast "bang bang bang" and the second song is "bang bang bang bang bang", then the DJ will connect the two songs together, and when the first song is about to end, it will slowly slow down the rhythm of "bang bang", and connect the two songs together.
Of course, in addition to the mix, some will also scratch , and some will also be combined with other instruments. Like launchpad, they'll make a Mashup out. So DJs are not some kind of electronic sound style.
Finally, let's talk about what music producers have in common with DJs. Producers mainly use computers to make music, and DJs mostly put the finished music work into a CDJ-like DJ player and connect it and make a complete Mix. To put it simply, the producer makes these songs, and the DJ is to put these songs together, but of course, it is not excluded that the producer has the ability of DJ, and the DJ also has the ability of producer.