What's in My Mobile box?/ What's in yours??

0:00 I'll tell you, you've got to have a good wide variety of music

Alright folks, Jonathan here. Now then, a lot of people say that they want to start earning money from DJing and a few people have emailed me and they said like that yeah, they want to start doing mobile work but what is the first thing you need if you want to be a mobile DJ? Well I'll tell you, you've got to have a good wide variety of music. Now then, this box here is full of... Everything, alright? What we'll do, I'll open it up for you and we'll have a look. Now, I promise you, I have not sort of like put all the stuff in here that's the good stuff because I know they say practice what you preach but at the end of the night sometimes I just bung records, CDs in anywhere, okay? So this is a bit of a lucky dip in here. So I'll give you a general idea of the sort of stuff I've got. Now one thing I do recommend is in the UK

There's a selection of CDs called the Now CDs. Now, again, I'm not advertising, I'm telling you, alright? I'm trying to explain things, breaking it down. As my friend Rick Remix will say, peace to you my friend. And that is, well basically the Now CDs, what you have is they've just got like a basic selection of the tunes out at that particular time. Now the beauty about them is it's not just dance. It's not just rave, it's not just pop, it's not just like rock, it's all genres, okay? So, I mean, right, so we've got loads of now CDs in here. And believe me, there's loads of now CDs. Now another one, mobile, alright? Weddings, The Beatles, alright? Now again, this is how diverse this collection is, okay? There's loads of CD singles here as well. Right, Motown, alright? Now believe me, this sort of stuff, I mean what have we got on here? Isley Brothers.

1:52 Listen guys, without these people you would not be listening to dance

Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Dinah Ross, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Mary Johnson, Stevie Wonder. Classics! Listen guys, without these people you would not be listening to dance music today. I promise you. What else have we got in here? More Now CDs. Best anthems ever. Chumbawamba, Blur. The Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene, Supergrass, Cooler Shaker, Reef, Radiohead, Bush, Reef, Place Your Hands, that tune, alright? That is a hard tune. You play that at the right place, right time, and I'll tell you what, like House of Pain, jump around, rock around the clock, it will raise the roof, alright? What else have we got in here? Let's have a look. More now CDs. Alright, here's a good one for you. How about that, alright?

Old school classics from the 70s. Alright, James Brown, Heatwave, Casey in the Sunshine, Band, The Tramp, Sister Sledge, Callin' the Gang, Dynasty, Earth, Wind & Fire, Edwin Starr, The Emotions, Tavares, Candy Staten, The Real Thing, Vicky Sue Robinson, The Jackson, Stargard, Melbourne Moore, Yvonne Elliman and The Spinners. I mean, that's only one side. That is worth to me its weight in gold. What else we got here? More now CDs. Alright, now then. This guy here is undisputedly the king, alright? Elvis, alright? If you are a mobile DJ and you have not got Elvis with you, I'm afraid you're not a mobile DJ. Seriously. Alright, now then. You want some fun? Aqua, alright? Yes, outrageous, but right place, right time, they'll shoot you. No, they love it.

3:48 What else we got in here?

Okay, what else we got in here? Let's have a look. More narrow CDs. All right. Dancing in the Street. Some more Motown sort of stuff. Right, what have we got on here? Let's have a look so you can see it. We've got Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. We've got Thelma Houston, Frankie Valli, Smokey... That Thousand P... ...Dubar, Shanice, Mary Jane Girls. My God, there's all sorts there. More dance floor classics. All right, now. Right, okay. Without going into detail, basically... I've got an absolute, just a mishmash of all sorts here because if you're going to do mobile work, you have to have everything. You can't... Right, let's look at it from another angle, OK? You are now possibly in your bedroom, you've got set turntables in front of you and you've got like 50 hard house tunes or 50 electro tunes or 50 drum and bass tunes or 1,000 drum and bass tunes, it doesn't matter. Now, if you're happy...

With the music you've got and you're happy playing that music, then that's brilliant because there's nothing wrong in that. But if you feel there's something inside of you that says I want to start earning some money from this, I want to start maybe earning a few quid, well maybe, just possibly, being let's say a mobile DJ is something that you should actually consider. As they call it, crap. You are on a Saturday night earning money when they're spending it. Okay, I hope that's been a help, but a bit of an insight here into the sort of music a basic, I hope, mobile DJ would take with them. Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy.

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