The Buzz MCR Great Way to Get More Music Knowlage for Your DJ Set

0:00 Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor here

Alright ladies and gentlemen, Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor here. And of course I try always, apart from my occasional nutty video, give good quality advice for the new and old DJs. So this is DJ related and if you are a DJ, an old or even a new one, listen up. Now, I live in Wales, United Kingdom, so wherever you are around the world, this does involve you. Yes it does. Now if we go back 10, 15, maybe 20 years, you know, you had a whole bunch of radio stations around where you lived and you could tune in to some really good music. Sometimes actually, maybe on the odd occasion during the weekend when they had DJs play what the DJs wanted to play instead of some dodgy back-in-the-day algorithm that just decided what you had to listen to simply because probably the big companies controlled the radio stuff.

1:27 You haven't really got a good knowledge of old school music

Let's not go into that. But I have talked about this before and I will talk about it again. Check out this website here, this radio station, The Buzz, as you can see that. It's thebuzzmcr.com. It's a radio station based in Manchester. Now, the main reason I want to drill this into your frigging head is very simple. You are an old school DJ and you're at your gig, your mobile gig, your wedding, your party, your 21st, your anniversary, and you're sick and tired of playing the same old set that you always play. We all do it. Alternatively, let's say for example you are a brand new DJ and you don't know what to play. You haven't really got a good knowledge of old school music. What you want to do is go and check out The Buzz Manchester. Yes. Why? You're probably asking, and you're scratching your head. It's because they play quality music. Now, they haven't asked me to do this video. They haven't said, Jonathan, can you do a really quick video for us and promote us? Thank you, and we'll bunk you a wad. No, sod that. I don't give a shit. The only reason I'm doing this video is because it's a bloody good radio station. Because there's no adverts.

2:51 Realise track, listen realise

There's no news, there's no DJs talking about how wonderful they are. All they do is play good quality music and I'll tell you what, on the weekends they've got some serious dance banging house DJs in all kinds of genres. I mean it's great. They play music from the 80s, from the 90s, from the 70s and what I like about it... You could hear all of a sudden like Lip Sync, Funky Town, maybe I don't know Kool and the Gang and all of a sudden they'll go into Duran Duran or something like that. Absolute classic! So the reason I'm explaining this is that the tracks they play you may know of them or heard about them and thought hold on a minute I could never play that at a gig but then when you listen to it you realise...

This is actually a good track and I've got this and I've never played it. And when you listen to it and you realise it is a good track, you go, I'm going to bring this into my set next time I play. You see? So not only are you listening to good music without, oh there's a traffic jam on the M42 and the Labour Party have now decided to all commit suicide. That would be a good idea. You're not going to have any news. You're just going to listen to bloody good music. Go and check it out, and I'm going to do more videos on this. Probably every month there will be a video on The Buzz because it's a good quality radio station. I can't emphasise this enough. To the extent in the description of this video there will be that disclaimer that YouTube asked you to post and a link to TheBuzz.com. That's it. Practice and enjoy. And I have definitely got The Buzz. Thank you.

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