While awaiting details and developments, Block played records to give the impression that he was broadcasting from a ballroom. He called the show Make Believe Ballroom. Prior to this, most music heard on the radio was played live. Jimmy Savile claims to have been the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play in The word discotheque is a French word which referred to a nightclub whose entertainment was provided by recorded music rather than by live musicians, and was a result of their Nazi occupation during the second World War….
The earliest discos were actually much like the American concept of a speakeasy. During the 50s, radio personalities would begin showing up at parties to play 45 rpm records and speak between songs, sometimes involving a live drummer to play beats between records in order to maintain the dance floor. This served the same purpose as beatmatching and mixing does today… to keep the party going and the energy up instead of having a jarring change between individual songs.
People began to realize the benefits of momentum when it came to social events. Francis Grasso began using beatmatching and slip-cueing in the famous Sanctuary nightclub in New York, during the 60s and 70s. Meanwhile, DJing became an important part of Jamaican culture. The emergence of a new music genre, hip hop, produced DJs who were significantly more skilled.
These DJs — or turntablists, as they came to be known — were performers and musical artists in their own right who moved records whilst playing on the turntable to manipulate the sound and create original compositions. Through practice they developed extremely high levels of hand eye co-ordination and an uncanny ability to find precise points in a song by dropping the needle on a record.
Two copies of the same record are put on the decks, and the mixer switches between them, creating a rhythmic beat by looping the breaks. Inspired by Herc, Bambaataa expanded awareness of break-beat deejaying through his famous street parties. He discovered the technique by accident as he stopped the record with his hand to hear what his mother was shouting out to him.
In the s scratching was one of the main features of the emerging turntablist artform and a staple of hip hop music. In , DJ Times magazine was first published. It was the first US-based magazine specifically geared toward the professional mobile and club DJ. In , Mobile Beat magazine, geared specifically toward mobile DJs, began publishing.
Because the audio was relayed over the internet, it was possible to access internet radio stations from anywhere in the world. This made it a popular service for both amateur and professional disc jockeys operating from a personal computer. In , the first MP3 digital audio player was released. The " Final Scratch " system developed by N2IT shipped it first working units in early and DJs were spinning on digital vinyl by mid While it would take sometime for this novel concept to catch on with the "die hard Vinyl DJs", This would soon become the first step in the new Digital DJ revolution.
In , Shawn Fanning released Napster, the first of the massively popular peer-to-peer file sharingsystems. This meant that DJs could apply for a license giving them the right to perform publicly using music stored on a hard drive, instead of having to cart their whole CD collections around to their gigs. The proliferation of Internet technologies have also created a culture of disc jockey enthusiast groups. DJ battles imitating the events on the game gave the DJ industry a more competitive phase.
The DJ industry has become increasingly about the atmosphere that goes along with a performance. Now not only does the DJ show deal with music and mixing but also lights and effect go along with it. Join our mailing list.
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