What music to buy, are you a new DJ?

0:00 In other words, should you buy like chart poppy sort of stuff?

Alright folks, this is a video response going out to all the new DJs out there, a few other people as well, who've said, Jonathan, what sort of music should I buy? Now, should you buy this sort of stuff? In other words, should you buy like chart poppy sort of stuff? Hold on a second. Or should you buy maybe this sort of stuff? I don't personally know which one I would like. The first one. I'm only joking. Now, but anyway, no disrespect to that. Right, this is what I'm on about here. I've had a lot of people email me that said, right, Jonathan, we're a new DJ, we just started out, we bought the turntables, what music should we buy? You know, can you, in other words, well actually a couple of people have said, can you name me some artists to buy? Now then, I could name you a thousand artists, but what I am not going to do, and I have not done, I have not told anyone out there, what...

1:45 Local shop so how on earth

Sort of music to buy. In other words, I haven't said to anyone, buy house, buy hip-hop, buy soul, buy reggae, buy ragga. Because I would be doing, even though you may think I'd be doing you a favour, I would actually be doing you an injustice. The reason being is because you need to choose the music yourself. It is so important. You must choose the music yourself. But then you may ask me, well... So let's say for example a few people have been in the middle of Australia, middle of Brazil and of course there are no record shops. So of course then their question is well look I can't go to the local shop so how on earth am I going to get the music? Well there are lots and lots of shops online now. Just type it, I'm not exactly sure but type in say...

Record shops online and then I'm sure you'll get lots. Now then, what you need to do once you've got one or two, you'll find that again 10 or 20 years ago we never had this, alright? But now we have. You'll have a shop and quite often they'll actually have a small picture of the cover of the record. They will give you information of the artist, the title, the genre, that is the type of music whether it's house, hip-hop, soul, reggae, electro. But most importantly, most importantly... Most of these places now will have what's known as a sound bite. There'll be a small little icon and it'll say listen. If you click on that, then within 10 or 15 seconds you would have downloaded a small bit of that particular track. You can listen to it. Now this is where you need to do some homework. All the new DJs out there who are asking me what do I buy, do this. Go online, look at these record shops online should I say.

3:30 This is why I'm saying, I can't tell you

And then listen to the songs. Now, first of all, I want you to listen to everything. I want you to listen to the hip-hop, to the soul, the R&B, the reggae, the ragga. You may already know this anyway, but what you need to do is if there's a certain sound that makes your foot tap something, there's a certain vibe that you feel, yeah, I like this, whether it be anything. It doesn't matter even if it's 60s or chart music or Robbie Williams or Take That. Or I can Tina Turner, old stuff, new stuff, doesn't matter. If you feel you have found something that makes you feel happy and smile, then go for it. That is the music for you. This is why I'm saying, I can't tell you. I cannot say to you by house. I can't say to you by soul, hip-hop, reggae or ragga. You are the only person who knows that. You are unique. No one else can tell you that. End of story. Another thing as well.

If possible, if this is okay, the first video I ever put on YouTube was my niece Cherie, one of my nieces Cherie and she sang Wade in the Water which I think is a beautiful song. She's got a gorgeous voice. Please... Will you go and listen to her? It's the first video, Cherie singing Wade in the Water. Ladies and gentlemen, as usual, thank you for watching me. I know I'm a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes, but this is me. This is me being natural, and I'm exactly like this, walking down the street. So if you think it's sort of, I'm like this, you know, behind the camera. Well, there we are then we are. Bloody hell. You're wrong because this is me in front of the camera just the same as I am the other side or even this side here. I'm this side now or I'll go this side, this is me. I'm exactly as it says on the tin, I'm a bit of a nutter and I don't give a monkeys. So ladies and gentlemen thank you for watching.

Practice and enjoy, and I'm thoroughly enjoying this, doing this, and to be quite honest, I can't see myself ever stopping because it's good fun. I'm helping a lot of people out there, and a lot of people are now starting to help other people, which is what it's all about. Practice and enjoy. I've already said that if I haven't. I'm watching you. I've got my eye on you, alright? Do you like... Oh no, it's that way, isn't it? There you go. Take it easy. Bye bye.

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