good job

[quote post="7577"]#6 The winner of the coolest Jesus T-shirt award.[/quote]

I’d say it looks like Ean if he starred in Napoleon Dynamite. . . .

These contests are looking and sounding tougher and tougher. . .

Much respect to the winners and mentioned!

[quote post="7577"]#6 The winner of the coolest Jesus T-shirt award.[/quote]

I’d say it looks like Ean if he starred in Napoleon Dynamite. . . .

^Oops. . .

Hahaha

It’s not jesus it’s breakbot :-) (He does look like jesus though)

Nice videos!!!! It’s really motivational to see those performances.

Breakbot is the new Jesus!

Congratulation’s. These are some great routines.

The best thing that really stands out for me is Zac’s great use of fx, as many of us know layering up all those fx and making them work together as well as zac did really isn’t easy, word to your mother!
I love the way he drops the all time funnest rap line in too.
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How about we see a comp aimed at the scratch dj’s for a change Ean, combining controllers with turntable’s has changed my dj world, I’d love to see what creative use of a new and old a comp would rear.
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Or scratching/battle routines on controllers, who’s the best midi scratch dj in the land?
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Maybe a dj software remix comp where entry’s are only allowed to use a small handful of 8beat loops selected by Techtools, meaning creative use of mixing and fx would be key to winning.

^^^ That’d be a pretty cool comp. Controllers + TTs or scratch routines like you’d expect from the worlds best turntablists but on controllers.

Congrats to the winner too! deserved it with the work and skill that would’ve gone into that

How about a poor/beginner DJ comp?
Sub-$200 controllers only?

Cool vides give it up to all of them for trying… more than I did…

@Zac, congrats! Already told you in the youtube comments that you’d rock :)

(and indeed, he’s a technology expert… I i’d only know half of what he knows…)

that’s actually not a jesus t-shirt. breakbot is the name ;)

Congrats Zac Kyoti! Great video. Lots of great entries. I love these contests!

If I hear again the renegade master vocal I think I’m going to puke :)

Congrats to the winner and all the others

@Yul, I think it’ll be a few years before I can play that song again!

That’s Breakbot on the T-Shirt, Ed Banger superstar… N o t Jesus.

[quote post="7577"]#6 The winner of the coolest Jesus T-shirt award.[/quote]

team jesus!

Some interesting videos.
Here is a video clip of ben liebrand doing something similar live on 4 cdjs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP7Lhpcb5ss
The audio is a bit rough as its recorded on someones phone but you get the idea.

Awarding several people that straight up DID NOT use songs from the video…

WTF

Robbed lol

rules need to be more clearer
1st 2nd and 3rd winners
we should be able to down load the full tracks off of DJTT

cant wait for the nexted one

Congrats to Zac! There were some really high quality entries this go around so I’m honored to have been honorably mentioned :)

I’d love to see a contest focused on live remixing: stuff where you change the genre of a song like Double Dutch’s entry in the February contest way back when.

My personal fav is the slice ninja. That intro was sick.

Good work to everyone, I should enter next time instead of just trolling around.

Congrats to all the winners, and to everyone who entered. Great videos! I also like all the contest suggestions brought up so far. Definitely would love to see more contests focused on creative mixing. A contest to see the best incorporation of non-electronic tracks into an electronic set would be great (I’m thinking of Ean’s video using the Led Zeppelin song from a few months ago).

@dubresearch – Thanks for the mention, I’m chuft someone remembers that vid. I should go back and finish it really, but part of me thinks it’s to hard to polish a turd, and sometime’s it’s just better to move on to the next thing.
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A remix comp would be really cool, so many time’s we’re quick to defend the digital dj culture by claiming whats possible. A comp based on a remix theory taking only two songs and turning them on there head but still making it sound good would really help us push the envelope. The rule’s would be difficult to set, but I’d suggest Techtools selects 5 to 10 songs of which entry’s could only choose 2 for the entry. Yes it wouldn’t be an easy task, but good effects use would be key to success, and lets be honest fx is one of the biggest reasons many of us love digital dj’n. I’d especially expect Ableton dj’s to shine in a comp like this.

My winner is #1, the winner the mix was to long for each tracks

Big Ups to Zac. Super-Talented.

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Or scratching/battle routines on controllers, who’s the best midi scratch dj in the land?

DJ SHIFTEE without question

CONGRATS ZAC!!!

It was my fav vid too!

woah, sick video Zac. amazing skills!

Man great winning mix. Honorable mentions were great too, but Jesus? Come one man… a superstar DJ should know who breakbot is! ;)

Holy Jeebus Batman! Praise the Gourd!! Just got the news, so I’m one smiley-assed dj right now. Thanks everybody, for the props – and thank you especially to DJ TechTools for such a cool opportunity and most of all, the creation of this great resource that keeps us all trying to push our envelopes. Seriously, this community and blog has taught me so much – mad respect.

It feels good to get recognized even though I see room for improvement in my own set – I’ve never done any kind of “routine” before, so the experience I think will just help me get better, faster, stronger!

Everyone did a great job, all of you guys rock. Some of my personal faves in no particular order were:

Kahkaos – Slice Like a Ninja!!
DillWanner – no video, but the mixing was smooth, dubby, chilled
StarsforFree – creative work on limited controls, nice job
DubResearch – really cuttin’ it up, great timing
Liffgarden – a lot of cool techniques, sounds harmonically mixed

I second the idea for more competitions with limited parameters, love the idea of a selection of 8 bar loops, two tracks only, or more rock ‘n roll. These types of things are awesome for getting your head out of the box and pushing yourself.

Thanks again DJTT!! I’ll post pictures at a later date of me taking the Midi Fighters out on a picnic, watching a sunset, going to the movies, etc…

Had fun listening to the videos.

Zac Kyoti is really talented.. I thought there would be some controversy but it’s undeniable: he’s the bes!

@Zac – Is that a DJTT mapping used to juggle at 4:00? Or is it your personal mapping? (And if so, can you share how to??).

Dee Jay Flic – that was awesome. I enjoyed that A LOT.

@kru-kut, please direct me to other vids of shiftee apart from the S4 vid, a very cool routine but I personally wouldn’t call it a scratch battle routine, scratch wise he does one drill/uzi scratch for a couple of sec’s.
Here’s one of the best turntable-esq routine’s I’ve seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrr3s6UJzz8

It’s not a Jesus T-shirt it’s Breakbot T-shirt

@Marnis: the mapping on the VCI is custom, what’s going on is that the tops of the jogs act as triggers for the last floating cue point, the edges are set to beat jump forward and back, and the interval is set on some other buttons when in juggle mode. In the video there are doubles on decks A and B, and the floating cue was set at the same position on both tracks. Really interesting effects can be gotten out of setting the doubles at different cue points, like a kick and a snare.

@Double Dutch: I LOVE that vid. By far the best digi-scratch video I’ve seen yet. Good link!

-The edges are set to beat jump forward and back, and the interval is set on some other buttons when in juggle mode. In the video there are doubles on decks A and B, and the floating cue was set at the same position on both tracks.
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@Zac Kyoti- dude your a genius! I love it, all the best ideas seem obvious, once pointed out! Beat doubling accurately is virtually impossible with midi platters which is largely thanks to the emulated turntable pick up NI applied to Traktors decks in internal mode, WHY NI! (plus it make’s scratching on midi even harder). But applying the beat jump open’s up the old beat double technique straight away. Hmmmm, also you can add a modifier that once held down could change the length of the beat jump. For instance you could go from quarter beat, half beat and full beat jump. Busy day down the studio for me today. Great work Zac!!

cool

Yay!!! Honorable mention! GO KEYBOARD AND MOUSE!!! Thanks Ean!

Thanks DJTT for the inspiring and very interesting competition! Congratulations to Zac Kyoti. Nice installation, perfect and clean technique!
My entry is #2 and I`m glad that Ean liked the looped seven nation army bass!
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The next contest should contain several songs (DJTT should prepare and share this songs) and the task will consist in combining all the techniqes including cue point juggling, creative using of fx and loops to create unrecognizable mix.

[quote comment="35985"]Dee Jay Flic – that was awesome. I enjoyed that A LOT.[/quote]
Thanks Patch.

Enjoyed the comp. It forced me to learn a few things I’ve had in the back of my head to try for long time. Now I have like a million more ideas I’d like to work on.

Congrats to Zac, great routine with off without a hitch.

^^^(I should learn to proof read.)
Congrats to Zac, great routine, WENT off without a hitch.

Great contest! – it’s fun to see all the results.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i notice that a lot of people dont browse when loading a track.
is there away to automatically load ur next track?
say set up a preference so ur next song will load?

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