I finally made my first demo! I’ve wikipediaed the living shit out of Drum and Bass subgenres and I believe it is mainly Jump-up in this demo. I could of course still be wrong ’cause music genre classification not an exact science, but it’s a fine name nonetheless.
I’ve spend most of the time in compiling the tracklisting. There are some minor mixing flaws (if you look for them), but I decided not to do several re-runs in order to get everything just right because it’s boring work and not meant as a studio album mix. Better to show I have good mixing skills than fake perfect mixing skills.
In order to get more gigs I decided I needed to focus on one particular music style, because being an all-round DnB DJ is cool but useless because I won’t be playing entire evenings. There are more than enough good DJs out there so booking a handful for an evening is commonplace. But because it was hard to pick one style to focus on I picked two. This is the first, and the second is more pop-music oriented: think dominant melodies, think vocals, think Hospital Records. This next demo is my current DJ project and will probably take a few weeks like the first did, because I need time to compile a good tracklisting and because I have a lot of other things to do in life.
Anyhow, enjoy an hour and a half of tightly packed bass-pumping beats!