ShareThe staff of DJ Times has chosen the 100 DJ/NOMINEES, using their career accomplishments & current drawing power as basic criteria for inclusion.
In the past year, DJ Shiftee won the 2009 DMC World Championship (his 2nd DMC World title), appeared on the January cover of DJ Times, had a mix & profile featured on the front page of URB.com, endorsed by Traktor and featured in their ad campaigns, toured Asia, Europe, and the US. He has done mixes for BBC 1Xtra (Fairtilizer link), Urb.com, and Boundless Radio. Shiftee has an NYU professorship, and he developed the turntablism curriculum at Dubspot.
Vote for DJ Shiftee for America’s Best DJ 2010 – and if elected Shiftee pledges “to end homework for all students and reduce the national deficit by 50%.”
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO :: In this video, DJ Shiftee shows a turntablist party routine using Native Instrument’s Traktor and Maschine together. Shiftee notes – “a lot of times, I get booked to play a party at a club, and some people will come to see me and expect to see a turntablist, but most people are there to dance and have a good time. I make routines like this to try to satisfy the people watching, but not distract the people dancing.”
This is the first of three videos; in part two and three, Shiftee demonstrates backspinning and MIDI mapping your controllers – offering tips and guidelines, describing and demystifying key techniques and tricks for people interested/looking to learn how to deejay.
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