The History

The term “two turntables and a mic” refers to a disc jockey’s basic equipment: turntables to play the records on and a microphone that is connected to a mixer. This set up was originally claimed to be used by Jimmy Savile in 1947 for continuous play. The term has been used by many famous hip hop and rap artists in their songs such as Run DMC and Eminem.
 
The disc jockey, otherwise known as the DJ, is the person you hear on the radio picking out and playing your favorite music. There are many types of disc jockeys with the most common being the radio DJ. You might find a DJ at a club, wedding and even private parties. In certain types of music you will find the DJ’s using different types of equipment; hip hop DJ’s use more than one turntable, while in reggae the disc jockey is actually someone who raps over pre-recorded rhythm tracks with someone else being the one playing the tracks.
   
When the first disc jockey emerged onto the scene in 1909, the term was actually disco jockey, which was later shortened to disc jockey by Walter Winchell in the mid 1930’s. The term disc meant something completely different than what it does today. The disc was actually a phonograph or gramophone record, otherwise commonly now known as a vinyl record. The gramophone record was introduced in the late 1800’s and was mass produced in the music industry. In the beginning the phonographs were played on turntables, which were only able to play for a few minutes at a time. Today, full length records are able to be played continuously on the turntables, but DJ’s no longer just use vinyl records, they also use compact discs, and even computer media files.

Hey guys 

           During the passing days I have been trying to figure out how to mix very different styles of music. I have been mixing from orchestra to mariachi and its been very( and when i say very i mean it)  very difficult.The BPM or beats per minute are non -consistent and the music has weird keys  no regular song can mix with

         My main focus as a DJ is to mix dance music ,so that means if you can dance to it i will in fact mix it but who fist pumps to orchestra or raves to mariachi.Did i want to be the first dj to attempt this challenge, yes,but its almost impossible unless i were to right a  score  to go along with my set.

          My new '"experiment" is to try to mix house and trance 2 sub-genres i really hate . But my main goal is to try and be able to mix everything and basically be the most versatile DJ. So all in all i cant wait for 90 minutes of house and trance on monday. 

          Do you know any house/trance songs? comment them below!

hey guys ,

 this is my FIRST blog ever  and the main thing i will talk about is my genus hour process. For my genius hour i am going to further enhance my skills in DJ-ing , and try to build a bigger set list.One of the main things to DJ-ing is transitions basically its how you go from one song to the next . This is one of the hardest techniques do master next to scratching.
   Last class period i worked on the transition and mixing part of it. my DJ set up consist of the pioneer  ddj-sb DJ controller bose portable speaker rca to aux chord 5 foot rca chord and serato dj software.It sounds like a lot but it nothing compared to most DJ's setup.
    Also in order to build a larger set-list i am going to use yalls help.Comment your favorite songs (any genre) and ill add them to my music library . Thanks for reading!
-DJ Riddick_ulous