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DJ like a pro without skipping a beat The bestselling guide to spinning and scratching is back! If you've ever spent hours in your bedroom with two turntables and an earful of tracks that sound off-beat or out of key, DJing For Dummies is the go-to guide for taking your skills to the next level. Inside, John Steventon, a successful club DJ, walks you through the basics of mixing, the techniques and tricks you need to create your own DJ style and how to make DJing work for you. Covering both digital and old-school vinyl-based instruction, this guide covers all the latest DJ technology, equipment and software so you can get mixing and stay one step ahead of the crowd. Brimming with expert advice and easy-to-follow explanations, the information in DJing For Dummies gives you everything you need to build a foolproof set and play to a live crowd.
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It was BBC Radio 1's 1996 "Ibiza Essential Mix" that transformed me from clubber to wannabe DJ. Fascinated by what I heard, I bought a second hand pair of turntables, my best friend's record collection, and started to follow the dream of becoming my newest hero, Sasha.With no other resource available when I first started DJing, I'd take notes, writing articles to refer to if ever I felt like I needed help. Joining the internet revolution meant 15mb of free web space, and as I'd already written these notes about learning how to DJ, I thought it would be good to share that information with the rest of the world wide web. This meant creating the 'Recess' persona, and expanding the site as my knowledge grew. Originally a small, basic website, www.recess.co.uk has grown over the years both in size and reputation, to become one of the foremost online resources for learning how to DJ, the place where newbie DJ's turn to.I really love teaching people how to be better DJs, so much so that I've found myself leaning more towards that than playing live recently - culminating in taking 9 months out to write this book.
