Melbourne Beats

Kiddfectious Dj Competition

Here’s your chance to play main stage at one of the most exclusive gigs of the year. Kiddfectious versus Hard Kandy. Good luck and are looking forward to all the submissions.

Rules, Regulations and Technical Requirements:
STAGE 1 - 60MIN DEMO
What we are looking for:
* Technical Ability
* Track Selection
* Originality

Cd Requirements:
* No software mixing, real-time hands-on mixes only.
* The cd can only run up to 60 minutes max! Only one cd per dj.
* The judges decision is final.
* The top ten selected DJ sessions will be announce for their individual merits.
Hardstyle, hard trance, techno accepted genre of music.

STAGE 2 - LIVE PERFORMANCE
Performance/Judging catergory:

Technical Ability
Seemless & precise. Most important aspect. If mixing is out not really worth considering, Key mixing. Mixing in key and pitch. Between one song to the next. for example - Mixing at the right spot. creative drops and great basslines are on order.

Track Selection
Programming and flow of the cd. Nice flow from start to end, with consistant levels throughout. Know when filter/apply effect on tracks and when not to, a lot of these points should be second nature to a skilled dj who does their homework and puts a bit of time into their art.

Stage Presence
we want to see a winner who steals the show

Crowd reaction
so best have a crew cheering you on

Venue details for finalists announced in a couple of weeks
*terms and conditions will apply

Winner announced Monday 17th May

Submit Cd’s To:
Hard Kandy DJ Competition PO Box 4123 East Richmond Vic, 3121
Submissions must contain:
In 50 words or less, “Why should we choose you to perform at kiddfectious”
-Real name
-dj name
-contact number
-email address
-style of music on cd please
-60minute CD
All Submissions Must be received by no later than: Friday 31st March 2010 (No Exceptions!)

This gives you just over 4 weeks to get your best work on CD & get it to us, so you have plenty of time!
Please Note: You must mix your demo using Decks or CDj’s, please no Ableton or software mixes!! And you must DJ in the competition using Decks or CDJ’s – No laptops

*Min age 18yrs*

Goodluck..

how will you know if they use software or not?

you use your ears surprisingly. most professional DJs can pick it easily

also because they gotta do it excusively on decks only if they win. and that would make a complete cock outta most serato/laptop djs.

sounds like its open-genre eh?

cant believe we get to meet the kidds as a the prize, im goin to record mine asap

OMG GOING TO RECORD A TERRORCORE SET RIGHT NOW!

bonsai wrote:also because they gotta do it excusively on decks only if they win. and that would make a complete cock outta most serato/laptop djs.

Im not sure many people really have a clue when it comes to serato. Its just like mixing with records or cds..

L-J wrote:

bonsai wrote:also because they gotta do it excusively on decks only if they win. and that would make a complete cock outta most serato/laptop djs.

Im not sure many people really have a clue when it comes to serato. Its just like mixing with records or cds..

if you can mix on serato you can mix without serato.. it's laptop djs who'd cop that flak..

Pretty behind the times that you can't use Serato/Traktor etc... you could just as easily burn all the tracks at the same BPM to CD, in the order you want to play them, and even save your cue points... not sure what they're trying to accomplish by making it vinyl/CD only.

happpy hardcore has the same 'dubplate' culure as dubstep afaik.
there are many parallels between these sister genres.

Direkt wrote:Pretty behind the times that you can't use Serato/Traktor etc... you could just as easily burn all the tracks at the same BPM to CD, in the order you want to play them, and even save your cue points... not sure what they're trying to accomplish by making it vinyl/CD only.

trying to make it look unlike a LAN party

nic wrote:happpy hardcore has the same 'dubplate' culure as dubstep afaik.
there are many parallels between these sister genres.

But this isn't happy hardcore yo... it's hardstyle, hard dance and techno....

Mr. Bonsai: for an "upcoming" DJ comp, it's a little odd that they exclude the modern age DJ'ing medium.

Direkt wrote:
Mr. Bonsai: for an "upcoming" DJ comp, it's a little odd that they exclude the modern age DJ'ing medium.

'modern age' dj medium = auto beat match/sync. auto fail imo

hard copy & decks or GTFO

LOL

GTFO

bonsai wrote:

Direkt wrote:
Mr. Bonsai: for an "upcoming" DJ comp, it's a little odd that they exclude the modern age DJ'ing medium.

'modern age' dj medium = auto beat match/sync. auto fail imo

hard copy & decks or GTFO

again...

Direkt wrote:... you could just as easily burn all the tracks at the same BPM to CD, in the order you want to play them, and even save your cue points...

Know it?

Direkt wrote:
Know it?

the amount of work that would go into that versus pressing 'sync'...

Unknown.

FTs though

FT's.

Touche.

do you tjhink that vinyl sounds better than mp3's?

nic wrote:do you tjhink that vinyl sounds better than mp3's?

please explain to me what a vinyl is...

bonsai wrote:

nic wrote:do you tjhink that vinyl sounds better than mp3's?

please explain to me what a vinyl is...

bonsai wrote: the amount of work that would go into that versus pressing 'sync'...

how do u do that on serato?

same o wrote:

bonsai wrote: the amount of work that would go into that versus pressing 'sync'...

how do u do that on serato?

serato itch definitely has it, i know that serato scratch doesnt as yet... but traktor most certainly does...

known.

think im going to get traktor soon. prob sell mah decks and mixer tbh - sitting there rusting, swap for mad pingas
does anyone here use traktor?

nic wrote:think im going to get traktor soon. prob sell mah decks and mixer tbh - sitting there rusting, swap for mad pingas
does anyone here use traktor?

Yep.

And mad pingaz, when they can be found.

Direkt wrote:

nic wrote:think im going to get traktor soon. prob sell mah decks and mixer tbh - sitting there rusting, swap for mad pingas
does anyone here use traktor?

Yep.

And mad pingaz, when they can be found.

sif ever again.

FTs are the drug of the nation

wot are FT's?

good place for discussion imo
long live hard kandy

Fat
Tits

Known.

Direkt wrote:Fat
Tits

Known.

Known.

PO?

Poooooooooooooooooooooo




Know it.

None of this Know It. Its Known. Good Times.

http://www.mixmeister.com/bpmanalyzer/bpmanalyzer.asp

Drag your tracks in, once they are done serato automatically reads the bpm..

Serato already has that function once you analyze the track.

But obviously pitch control is still needed.

do you need to manually 'warp' tracks in traktor like in abelton?
as i have spent many hrs warping everyting for abelton allready.
do not want to do again

Dstract wrote:http://www.mixmeister.com/bpmanalyzer/bpmanalyzer.asp

Drag your tracks in, once they are done serato automatically reads the bpm..

Doesn't Serato already have a BPM detector?

nic wrote:do you need to manually 'warp' tracks in traktor like in abelton?
as i have spent many hrs warping everyting for abelton allready.
do not want to do again

Nah dude.

Just like every other digital DJ app... you use the software or a controller similar to turntables or CDJ's with pitch adjustment/sync.

going to demo now.

You need to warp if you don't want to mix don't you?

^ I don't understand the question... are you talking about Traktor?

Due to high levels of interest in the Kiddfectious DJ Comp the date for submission has now been set back to April 6th

This shall allow all you Dj’s more time to produce a high quality Mix CD

Happy Mixing and cant wait to hear the demos!!!!!

i think hard kandy is a pretty cool guy, eh plays terrible music and doesn't afraid of anything

Hope everyone got their cd’s in the post today. Full details of the competition to be announced on the evening of the 9th. So fair the quality has been awesome.

Scott Alert wrote:Hope everyone got their cd’s in the post today. Full details of the competition to be announced on the evening of the 9th. So fair the quality has been awesome.

Shit, first I forgot to submit my footy tips and now this. I'm having a bad week.

Scott Alert wrote:Rules, Regulations and Technical Requirements:
STAGE 1 - 60MIN DEMO
What we are looking for:
* Technical Ability
* Track Selection
* Originality

derp all hardstyle is teh same

Due to the overwhelming response to the DJ comp, we will not be able to release the final 24 till Mon 12th. HOWEVER, dates for the heats will be the 16th, 23rd & 30th of April. Final will be the 7th of May. All Nights to be held at Eurotrash Bar. There Will be 8dj’s battling it out every week, with the top 3 going through to the final.

Dj Times will be drawn on the night 30min before the opening set of the competition starting at 10:00pm

Doors open at 9:00pm

Each week a special guest dj will be judging

Each set will be for 30min with 8 Dj's a night

Featuring every week will be a drinks happy hour.

All details to be announced on Monday the 12th regarding what 8 dj’s willing be battling it out each week. This will be listed in a new event posting for each night

Good Luck & thank you for all your entries