I think the future of DJing looks much like it has this whole time. There will be a group of DJs who will embrace the new technology and take it to places others can only dream, and there will be a group of DJs who stick in their understood and comfortable zones.

Right now, with beatmatching becoming a thing of dinosaurs, I think DJs need to approach music from a different angle. Instead of fading from one song to the next we have to be more focused on loops, effects, triggers and layers. But, at the same time, the basics will win the crowd over, no matter how complicated we try to make it.

I would want to ask the DJ panel who they would recommend newer controllerists get their abilities noticed by the people that matter to the industry (club managers, promoters, etc.). There is still a very real stigma against laptop DJing and we need all the tools we can have at our disposal to break through.

I feel you Devil, I lost a gig today b/c the other dj I was going to play with uses SSL, and he told the promoter that my Traktor setup was not compatiable! All i need is a free line in on the mixer & a electrical outlet! WTF!!! Damn Haters

Lemurs with 30" screens. Modular applications that accept multitouch input. Theremin like hardware interfaces…the fun is yet to begin…

For me, the future of DJing is at the intersection of production, entertainment and performance. Far from there being a "standard" DJ setup like decks & a mixer, increased personalisation and automation of setups will allow DJs as performers to take on more control and do more with their two hands and bodies. Video mixing that follows what the DJ is doing will become standard part of the booking. Presets and personal rigs that allow control of more sources and effects than ever before will become DJs selling points and hooks. Instead of beat juggling on two decks you'll start to see heavy use of sample-loop-and-destroy finally leading to live performances that vinyl-based DJs could never achieve. The line between production, mixing and remixing will blur as live performances get released as remixes and that morning's half-finished remix get brought into the club for finishing in front of the crowd. Where previously people spent days laboriously preparing their Ableton Live grids, we will see a new generation of kids more comfortable with live manipulation of unfinished ideas riffing on the sources they brought with them and bringing in clips from their enormous libraries of sound sources as they mix. Ideas that gel with the crowd will be available the next day for sale via download, as will the night's performance.

In a wider view, the spread of music across the world at the speed of the net will lead to a homogenization of the commercial global sound, leading to pockets of local "scene" being fiercely defended by the kids against "CoolHunting Marketers" taking their ideas and selling them back to the mainstream slackjawed audiences. Local club participation will be an everyday activity, with kids sending in mashups and tracks to their club DJs and creating their own local and state-wide scenes. As always, being there in person will be the only way to properly experience the music.

Dammit Fatlimey that's what I was going to say.

as long as they sell beer in public places, we all have a job. i don't drink at the diner because they have a juke box or get loaded at my favourite restaurant allnight because they sprung for xfm. i check out real live humans that rock turntables, and make mistakes and stay cool. and I have been a DJ for the better part of 2o years. ..and I have made a lot of mistakes and still have a solid base of kids having a good time. have fun, be yourself and you can do it again next week.

2 turntables , a mixer and a microphone.

[quote comment=""]2 turntables , a mixer and a microphone.[/quote]

Really? Do you think the 15 year old kids now are going to choose a turntable over their computer in 3 years?

[quote comment=""]Really? Do you think the 15 year old kids now are going to choose a turntable over their computer in 3 years?[/quote]

Well, I've started DJing approx. a year ago and went away from a basic midi controller to some turntables and a DVS system. I love to combine old and new techniques together. Applying controllers to a vinyl setup is kinda great.. ;-)

[quote comment=""][quote comment=""][quote comment=""]Really? Do you think the 15 year old kids now are going to choose a turntable over their computer in 3 years?[/quote]

"2 MP3's & a Midi controller" is more like it!

I know that most of the guys on this site would back me on this statement

Fatlimey you are dead on. The idea of live remixing/production/DJing/wtf is exactly how I work and how I see the future of DJing. Also like you said I think that a lot of sets will include lighting/video as it becomes so much easier (with midi) to do all that while still DJing.

Deadmau5 is a gr8 example. His show is full audiovisual experience.

I personally love vinyl, I mix vinyls in through ableton and can then apply effects to them, scratching with phasers and beatrepeat sounds fucking insane. I also use a DVS (ammobox/reaktor) so I can drop samples from ableton onto vinyl.

CUSTOMISATION = THE FUTURE

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you will see the change more in music than anything else, the technology and equipment are available for most people to be a dj. it will be more about skills, imagination, and music. you will need a little more to be a dj, not just the sync button. maybe talent?

props to ean

[quote comment="14322"]Lemurs with 30" screens. Modular applications that accept multitouch input. Theremin like hardware interfaces…the fun is yet to begin…[/quote]

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I never want to see a theremin or anything that takes theremin like input used a dj device.

ever

lemurs are far enough. I don't think the dj community will ever embrace max and lemurs as dj devices unless your daft punk.

word to midians aproach though, I like the creative use of vinyl in a digital world as in processed through ableton.

the future is so bright, i got to were shades . . .

also: no more nude russians. jesus.

Future of djing implies future of technology, data processing and computing…

So yeah…I'm thinking touch-screens, motion proximity-sensors (à la Theremin) and Wii-like human interfaces. DJs would control not only sound but visuals too, from one piece of hardware. Clubs would become multimedia complexes with dancefloors made up of giant plasma screens (ceiling, floor, walls…) …so as to completely lift and submerge club-goers. I'm picturing and IMAX/OMNIMAX cinema style venue where music and visuals COMPLETELY immerse you in multimedia. It wouldn't be just djing or going to a club, but more like engaging in a mindboggling sensory experience. That's it, djs would not only appeal to sight and sound, but maybe to other senses as well? Perhaps a dj will be better able to control peoples perception by actively stimulating senses, feelings and emotions?

I dunno, maybe we'll all end up wearing helmets and visors with HUDs and link up to others across the planet and "dance the night away" in a static position, while a "dj" somehow controls the experience…

"The line between production, mixing and remixing will blur as live performances get released as remixes and that morning’s half-finished remix get brought into the club for finishing in front of the crowd."

I'd have to say Fatlimey is right. This is a thing you can already see happening in environmets that are open to it.

I think the future will look like this:

-Drive in djs will be playing 'conventionally' with mp3 jukeboxes (and monitor their lighting installations at the same time.

-Club dj's are semi live artists/dj's/remixers in their own right.

-Vj'ing will remain a seperate discipline, with a few exceptions.

The ableton/timecode revolution will stay and evolve, the "VDJ" thing not. (in general)

Well , now that djs has nothing to do to beatmatch , they nedd to perform. I mean they went changing the rules, they'll be kicked out the stage and performers will take their place… i'm not talking about wedding djs, i'm talking about producers on stage that better learn quickly how to play piano and MPC drums , cause the public won't be fooled for long , those who press play then put their hands up have no future une profession, those who turn filter knobs may last longer, those who trully perform will survive

[quote comment=""]Well , now that djs has nothing to do to beatmatch , they nedd to perform. I mean they went changing the rules, they’ll be kicked out the stage and performers will take their place… i’m not talking about wedding djs, i’m talking about producers on stage that better learn quickly how to play piano and MPC drums , cause the public won’t be fooled for long , those who press play then put their hands up have no future une profession, those who turn filter knobs may last longer, those who trully perform will survive[/quote]

Interesting perspective! Thanks for sharing.

I think the future of DJism are physical controllers (knobs, faders,ribbon or whatever) with feedback on a touchscreen modificable on real time.

Softwares like Ableton Live or Reaktor will release new modern and flexible versions.

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HAHAHAHAHA!

Ean You don't learn nothing?

;)

The future of djs is present:
http://www.mspinky.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=864…

Turntables controlling Live appz.

Lemurs, wiimotes, mpc samplers style…

and turntable or midi gear are the TOOLS for the TOOLTALBISTERS (or Free Creative Humans)

Stop dreaming about future, enjoy present.

Maybe Vestax or another CORP will understand the play… Childrens with 15 years not are the usually buyers… are the potentially but djing (turntablism or not) and Tooltablism (Controllerism plus Turntablism plus… every mental jail that you would create) are made for all of us…

Childrens & olders and childrens learn from olders.

I saw you

;)

Let's talk to Corps Hurry up Ean!

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[quote comment="14316"]Lemurs with 30″ screens. Modular applications that accept multitouch input. Theremin like hardware interfaces…the fun is yet to begin…[/quote]

I’m not too sure if the wider world is interested in theramin or wiimote type interfaces. We break CDJs I doubt Wiimotes and Theramins would survive the DJ torture tests… Sorry.

[quote comment="14314"]Right now, with beatmatching becoming a thing of dinosaurs, I think DJs need to approach music from a different angle. Instead of fading from one song to the next we have to be more focused on loops, effects, triggers and layers.[/quote]

For many DJs who play wider genres than the Electronic genres auto-beatmatching does not work. Vocals and other instruments really confuse software and hardware reads on BPM. For band DJs, turntablists and hybrid DJs who cut and scratch as a part of their set interface change has been difficult at best. How do we virtually get to that point? At what point does the DJ no longer interact with the sample that he’s altering the sound of physically? When the DJ no longer is moving the sample around but relying solely on some signal processor to provide the effect. Its as if the idea is to no longer be able to really interface or interact with the music without the ability of technology. I say that as compared to using the new technologies creatively around the individual. Sometimes old technology is not necessarily bad technology as is proven by email – which is about 38 years old – but still the widest form of communication on the internet. At the end how will it sound if you are using flange X and I flange Y for example? Will we all retreat into the same sound (or type of sound)?

[quote comment="14314"]There will be a group of DJs who will embrace the new technology and take it to places others can only dream, and there will be a group of DJs who stick in their understood and comfortable zones.[/quote]

To be fair one of the fears that I personally had came to fruition. Where I come from I was made to understand that CDs would offer me better sound quality and no needle skipping… Instead what I got was a proliferation of poor quality, pirated CDs – that often skipped. I was never afraid of the technology. Just the limitations on the technology. Granted the technology always opens new doors and ways of enhancing my performance but most times at some cost that usually gets bypassed as being insignificant. Ironically from the gist of the conversation here its as if DJs are ready to accept that beatmatching is an unnecessary task that can be delegated to the hardware/software.

[quote comment="14427"]Well , now that djs has nothing to do to beatmatch , they nedd to perform. I mean they went changing the rules, they’ll be kicked out the stage and performers will take their place… [/quote]

So we now must become bands to survive?

The post here that struck me the most is this: [quote comment="14319"]as long as they sell beer in public places, we all have a job. i don’t drink at the diner because they have a juke box or get loaded at my favourite restaurant allnight because they sprung for xfm. i check out real live humans that rock turntables, and make mistakes and stay cool. and I have been a DJ for the better part of 2o years. ..and I have made a lot of mistakes and still have a solid base of kids having a good time. have fun, be yourself and you can do it again next week.[/quote]

I think this is the bible truth. People don’t really want us DJs to perform like a band. They want us to be DJs and play them tunes… If we’re good at it that in itself is the entertainment.

[quote comment="14325"][quote comment=""][...] Source:Where is the future of <b>Djing</b>? [...][/quote]
you will see the change more in music than anything else, the technology and equipment are available for most people to be a dj. it will be more about skills, imagination, and music. you will need a little more to be a dj, not just the sync button. maybe talent?

props to ean[/quote] – Wor.d

Sorry… More questions than answers and I’m not shooting down anyone’s idea or opinion but DJs are as wide and varied as the music we play (and the audiences we play for) and the evolutionary pace of technology change and adoption is really proof of that. CD players really only took hold in many parts of the world as a cheap and easy means of piracy.

Download -> Burn -> Play = DJ

If looping was the #1 plus of CD players I never understood why Pioneer took so much R&D time to create a scratch interface… But that’s just me. I really think the future sticks closer to the Traktor Scratch/Serato controllers and turntables/CD players. Turntables are like tanks. The total cost of ownership on a pair of TTxs or 1200s is lower than CDJs or the Denons if you ask me. If life is cyclical then we go back to where we started with the abilities now to loop and effect those venerable 1200s.

Hmmm….
Surely the future of DJing is all about one thing… the tunes!
Any DJ that selects and mixes excellent music in a way that entertains, shocks, creates emotion etc will survive. The technology is basically a way of getting that across. Do you really think that anybody busting a move on a dancefloor gives a damn how we as DJ’s reach that goal ?
I am all for technology and embracing all these new ideas, but bottom line is that the music is key…

damn you retards, don’t you get it? the effects, the loops, triggers, whatevers is KEWL when you do it but not really enjoyable to listen to, if you can’t stand to let a song play it means that song sucks choose another you ADD moron

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