DJ How Long Before a Track Is Old and Not Worth Playing?

0:00 Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor

Alright guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor. First of all, would you be interested in some private DJ lessons? Yes! I give over the web via either Facebook private video or Skype private video call DJ lessons. I can teach a complete beginner up to someone who knows quite a bit about DJing but wants just a few more skills. So, whether it be on vinyl, controller or CD players, give me a shout, I can help you with mobile DJ work, radio work, club work, maybe even you're just a bedroom DJ and you want to just have fun with your friends. Or maybe you're a bedroom DJ and you want to become a club DJ. Maybe you're a bedroom DJ. And you want to become a mobile DJ. Maybe you're a mobile DJ and you just want some more information on expanding your knowledge.

1:50 Let's go back many, many years to when DJing started

Maybe you want to know how to use the microphone, or perhaps you just want to have fun and want to know how to mix. I can help you with practically every single genre. I've even helped people with their own style from their own country that I've only heard a little bit of. So, if you're interested in some digital DJ lessons, give me a shout. There will be an email right down there in the description. But, let's get back to the job at hand. When is music old music? When is a track old? When is a song that is out now that is pumped to death old and you chuck it in the back of the box? Well, the answer is actually never. Now some of you may disagree with me. But, you know, I'm going to try and persuade you to change your mind.

Now let's go back many, many years to when DJing started. Now again some of you may say it started before then but when did DJ really, really start? When did the art of DJing? It probably was the very late 60s and early 70s when people had dodgy turntables. Some mixer they made in their garage. And played tunes to their friends. And then it sort of progressed from there to companies making proper double decks. And DJing still playing on dodgy DJ decks with elastic bands controlling them that went And as soon as you jumped on the dance floor, the needle flew about five miles. So those tracks are old school tracks. The likes of 60s, 70s and 80s. So are they old? Are they the sort of tunes that you don't want to play anymore because everyone knows them?

A lot of people do know them. But I don't want this video to drag on. I want to explain what I feel is correct and then you have a think about it. Now in my eyes, every track is not old. It's new. It's exciting. It's vibrant. Do you know why? Because there are people around the world to this day who have not heard some tracks from the 60s or 70s. There are people around the world who have not heard some classic dance tunes. So for example, there were loads and loads of tracks released every single day. The people who hear them will get to know them. But the people who don't hear them might find a track released today next year or the year after or ten years from now and will go bloody hell, this tune's amazing!

4:16 I love the brass section in that and it was made in the 70s

And their friend will go yeah but I heard that ten years ago. So I want you to think like this. There are people around the world who have not heard tracks that you've heard. I, to this day, will just have a skip through record collections and listen to songs and think wow that's fantastic and it was made in the 60s. Or I'll listen to tunes and go that is so funky. I love the brass section in that and it was made in the 70s. I will listen to a house tune and think oh my god, I have got to buy that and it's ten years old. So tracks really they're not old! They're still vibrant and alive and with today's modern day technology and electronic dance music as DJs we are so lucky because we can have a set of tunes and play them in another country

Or play them down the road and a lot of people would never have heard them. So just because you've heard a track and you know it does not mean to say that the person living next door knows it as well. DJ Tutor Ella Skins and I'm absolutely crazy. Do you know what? I like being crazy because it means my eyes are open and I have fun. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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