What Do You Get By Guest Posting?

There are plenty of benefits for guest posting, here are some of the main ones:

• Your post will be shown to the over 10,000 visitors visiting each month
• Share your knowledge with others iterested in DJing
• Get a link and bio back to your own website (free traffic!)

Use this opportunity to connect with other fans of DJing, share your experience and talk about what you’ve been up to.

How To Guest Post

Simply click on the “Guest Post” at the top of the page, read the guidlines and submit your post, it’s that easy.

If your post is accepted, it will be shared on BDJ and you’ll be given appropriate credit.

What Kind Of Posts Are Accepted?

BDJ is about DJing, equipment, electronic music, party culture and all that goes along with it so obviously try to keep it within the scope.

A few examples would be:

• DJ equipment guides
• DJ software reviews
• Electronic Music discussion
• Party and Rave culture
• History and DJ spotlights
• Interviews

That’s just to name a few.

And Eventually, There’s Pay

If your post does exceptionally well, I will be happy to forward you some money via paypal. If you continue to submit great posts, again, I’m happy to pay for great work.

Submit a guest post to BeginnerDJ!

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I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to this mix now but I keep coming back to it, it’s absolutely filthy.

If you’re looking around for a download link, look no further:

Download Excision Shambhala 2009 Mix

A lot of these tracks are unreleased or just coming out so you can bet you’ll hear some new dirty Dubstep choons.

Check out the tracklisting for the set:

1.  Excision – Subsonic*
2.  Excision & Subvert- Darkness*
3.  Rebel Sonix – Ankle Grinder
4.  Datsik – Retreat (Excision Remix)*
5.  Bassnectar – Ready 2 Rage
6.  Excision & Datsik – Swagga*
7.  Dz – Dubstep in Disguise*
8.  Prodigy – Voodoo People (Riskotheque remix)
9.  Riskotheque – Heaven and Hell
10. Downlink – Station Six*
11. Excision & Datsik – Calypso*
12. Datsik – Mechano*
13. Stereotype – Shock (Nero Remix)
14. Excision & Liquid Stranger – Get to the Point*
15. Vaski – World on Fire*
16. Stickybuds – Whalestep (acapella)
17. Excision – Dirty Shoulder*
18. Reso – Beasts in the Bassment VIP
19. Proxy – Dance Dark (Ollie & Bare Noize Remix)
20. Bassnectar – Cozza Frenzy VIP
21. Chase & Status – Mad House
22. Defstar – Get Down
23. Excision & Datsik – Sin Side*
24. Excision & Datsik – Boom*
25. Spl & Triage – Bushido
26. Excision – The Village*
27. Current Value & Dean Rodell – User Error
28. Mark Instinct – Destroyed*
29. Pendulum – Ransom
30. Excision & Bassnectar- Nation
31. Dimentia & Triage – Payback
32. Audio – Pandorum
33. Aeph & Maztek – Changes
34. Triage – Crimson Glare
35. Arsenic – Decapitator (Audio Remix)
36. Tech Itch – Ruckus (Excision Remix)
37. Excision – Slayed*
38. Jakes – Rock The Bells VIP
39. The Widdler – Harrington 1200
40. The Widdler – Prehistoric World
41. Datsik – Gizmo
42. Downlink – Gamma Ray*
43. Excision & DZ – Round 2*
44. Excision & Datsik – Invaders*
45. Datsik – Galvanize
46. Excision & DZ – Yin Yang*
47. Excision & Liquid Stranger – One*
48. Excision – No Escape (Datsik Remix)*
49. Excision & Noiz – Force (Bassnectar & Excision VIP)*

Excision is such a great Dubstep producer and DJ. Unlike a lot of Dubstep DJs, he really mixes it up with his style, throwing in some Drum and Bass here and there but actually mixing!

I’ve seen quite a few Dubstep DJs just do basic spinbacks and cuts but the fact that Excision actually mixes and layers his mix really makes it something out of this world.

In case you didn’t grab it:

Download Excision Shambhala 2009 Mix

or read the discussion over at DubstepForum.

Peace

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I have in my possession a copy of How To DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster and I want to give it to one lucky person!

How To DJ Right is a great reference book for beginner DJ’s and this is your chance to win my copy. How To DJ Right takes you from the basics of DJ gear, beatmatching and finding records all the way up to promotion and finding gigs.

All you have to do is tweet the following message:

Just entered to win How To DJ Right on BeginnerDJ.com (http://bit.ly/cT4vXd) Just RT for your chance to win!

It’s as simple as that.

One lucky tweeter will win the copy of the book.

Remember: the more you retweet, the better your chances are at winning!

Contest ends Friday 3/19/10.

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More importantly, Mixcloud has  put together their Best Of for 2009. Although they kind of cheated (only launching in later 2009) Mixcloud has put together a really great compilation of the biggest mixes, listeners and uploaders for 2009.

If you don’t know Mixcloud is a relatively new podcasting website where users can upload mixes, share through social networking and rate the mixes in a Digg like setup.

I’m sure you’re going to get into debate about Mixcloud vs. Soundcloud, that’s a given, but using your noggin’ correctly a good DJ will use both services to upload and promote their mixes.

Anyway, back to the topic at point.

The Mixcloud best of 2009 list consists of:

• The 50 Best Cloudcasts
• The 50 Best Cloudcasters
• The 10 Most Active Cloudcasters

Using a combination of voting, plays, favorites and community suggestions, Mixcloud has put together a rather impressive list of some very fun listens. The 50 best cloudcasts will easily hold you over for a weeks worth of listening. These cloudcasts are a mix of every type of genre, I’m sure you’ll find a mixes you’ll love.

The #1 cloudcast is worth taking a listen just for the nostalgia: Electronica 2000 – 2009. 10 years of what went on during the 2000’s from the rise of dubstep, grime, new styles of electro, massive hits, DJ revivals and all kinds of goodies.

Now, go have some fun listening to Mixcloud’s Best Of 2009. Comment on some of the mixes, listen to what people are into, upload your own mix and start promoting yourself!

http://www.mixcloud.com/bestof/2009/cloudcasts/

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BeginnerDJ has actually been around for a little over a year but until recently it has remained dormant. The relaunch of BeginnerDJ has sparked a new interest in the blog as well as for DJing in general.

It’s been one month since the relaunch of BeginnerDJ.com and already it’s seen quite the response. I wanted to show you some of the highlights of the last month since the relaunch.

A brief overview of the BeginnerDJ relaunch

It was over a year ago that I started BeginnerDJ with the intent of bringing readers the best information on DJing, gear, promotion and all there is to know about the electronic music scene.

This hasn’t been a small task in the least. There are literally hundreds of subjects to touch on – all of which I hope to cover.

So, let’s take a look at some of the stats of the last month since the relaunch.

Visitors: 871

Page Views: 2871

Comments: 11 (ehh)

Retweets: Avg. 2 – 3 Each

The most popular BeginnerDJ posts so far

Let’s take a look at some of the most popular posts on BDJ in the last month.

The 10 Best Rave Movies of All Time – 614 views

Hercules DJ Console MKII Review – 304  views

How To Find New Music – 296 views

5 Amazing Italo Disco Hits – 290 views

How To Beat match – 272 views

Where to go from here?

As I mentioned, this has only been the first month since the relaunch and I’ve barely scratched the surface of the amount of information there is to know about DJing.

With each passing week, more and more posts are being added on all kinds of DJ subjects.

From this point forward it’s only going to be up and up.

In the future you can expect in depth guides to DJ gear, great articles on crafting your mix, how to promote yourself as well as some big surprises which will be revealed soon.

Thank You!

I want to thank everyone that has visited, contact and have helped promote BeginnerDJ.

I especially want to thank Dave from BoyInABand.com, @Dwyndal, @media_modus and @DJPsyence.

I wouldn’t have been able to get to this point without everyone so big thanks!

Finally…

If you have any suggestions about the site, posts or would like to help out, feel free to drop me a line or comment in a post.

Laters

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When I saw that the IPhone now had a DJ app I thought it would be worth mentioning if you’re interested in DJ software and apps.

Introducing… TouchDJ.

This is the first, full on DJing app for the IPhone – what a perfect platform could you not agree more? You get the full on touch screen of the IPhone which is a great way to interact with the app.

You can do just about anything in relation to DJing: mixing, scratching, eqing and it allows you connect some speakers as well.

Although I’m a bit skeptical about how well one could use this app for DJing, I must admit it looks very tempting to invest in an Iphone (since I need a new phone anyway).

Although the TouchDJ won’t be able stand on the same levels as a pair of decks, I’m sure many will find it useful in their sets or if they just want to have fun.

Let’s look at the features

The overall interface of the app looks very sleek and easy to use. The IPhone uses touch, obviously, which allows you to rock the tracks back and forth like vinyl or CDs. You’re able to control the tracks like you would in DJing.

TouchDJ uses a thing called “Visual Mixing” which breaks up the tracks visually so you can see the bass separated from the mids and his. TouchDJ claims you’ll be able to mix without headphones (wait for that train wreck!) which seems a bit out there but I’m sure you could get good enough with it to do so.

It does come with a beat sync feature but we all know this is a big foul for DJing. If you really want to DJ correctly, you need to know how to beatmatch.

The best part of TouchDJ is that you get to use your MP3s. Sometimes vinyl can be restricting depending on your area or how much you can invest but everyone is able to get a hold of MP3s through places like iTunes.

The biggest concern I had when checking out TouchDJ was how it would be able to play back the sound and mix with headphones because the IPhone only has one stereo out port. My question was answered when they showed how you can hook up a splitter and connect headphones and speakers – nice!

The one major drawback of TouchDJ is that, at the moment, you’re not able to import your iTunes music straight from your phone. You’ll need additional software to place it in the TouchDJ music library – bummer.

So, enough of me yapping about it, we all know you skipped over this just to watch the videos, so check em out below.

TouchDJ videos

What do you think about the TouchDJ, worth it? Not worth it?

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