DJing in the 21st Century...

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Most people would never know it. The party is full of energy, the dance floor is packed, and the DJ is playing all the right songs. You decide to go over to request a song so you walk up to the DJ booth. When you get there you notice that the DJ is currently glancing at a strange screen. Not paying it any mind you give the DJ your request. The DJ presses a few keys on (is that a keyboard?) and before you can even blink your song is displayed on the screen ready to be played. You then notice that there aren't even any CD's around! Where is the music coming from? You finally notice a computer  neatly nestled in the DJ's case. Everything that you have been dancing to all night has came from a computer!

This is a new trend that many DJ's all over the world are adapting. Computer DJing is coming a real asset to today's interactive DJ. It provides a way to may the DJ quicker and more efficient ultimately giving better service to their clients and partygoers. 

To further explain this new technology let us first dismiss some common myths: 

We do not play our songs off of "Kazaa".

All of our songs come from original CD's that are encoded to a file on the computer called MP3. This is way to create CD quality music while optimizing the maximum amount of space on our hard drives. This creates an extensive library of songs that can easily dwarf an average DJ's CD collection.

The computer does not "crash".

A common question being asked today is what happens if the computer fails to perform properly, AKA "crash". Well we would be a bit disingenuous  if we said that our computers don't crash. There is no such thing as a trouble free electronic device. Everything including CD players are eventually  going to go down every now and then. We just approach it the way we would any other piece of equipment, with proper maintenance and back up precautions. We ALWAYS bring a professional CD deck and spin CD and MP3 seamlessly. We use a well programmed professional piece of software that has not "crashed" to this day. If it ever did the party would continue and the partygoers would never know anything happened. 

The PC is not hooked up to the internet.

Although many other DJ's make it a practice to hook their DJPC's up to the internet however we do not participate in this action. The main reason we don't is that  anytime a computer is connected to the internet the PC can be opened up to a lot of unnecessary security risks. These risks can eventually lead to a host of problems causing our PC equipment to become unstable and therefore unreliable. All of our music is legitimate and stored on local disc drives so there is really no connect to the internet anyway. Many of the DJ's that connect to the internet from the job site are usually downloading copyrighted illegally.

Here are a few benefits to using this media:

• Instantly find songs

• Will always be the intended song the DJ wanted.

• Larger music libraries: unlimited songs

• Makes the DJ more efficient enabling him to be more interactive with partygoers

• The sound quality is great!

• Setups are cleaner and more compact

• MP3's are less likely to fail than CD's: No smudges or scratches ever!

• Songs are less likely to skip than on CD due to the computer's massive buffering power.

• More effects and different ways to mix the club music

• Last but not least: It looks cool!

Not all of Distinctive Entertainment's DJ's use computers. Most of our DJ's spin CD's, but as the technology continues to evolve you can be assured that we will continue to stay on the cutting edge to give the best possible show to our valued clients.