Wedding DJs, Jamming with Ableton, and Building a Career in the Music Industry (When You're Not a Musician)

I'll DJ your wedding. Real talk. Problem solved. Just get me there. Feed me some food. Maybe tell one of the bridesmaids I'm dope. And don't say *XLR8R* never did anything for you. Done. I'm really down. If you don't want me to, I'll answer the question in actual detail.

Ayo. I'm just in the studio with some homies. Obey City from the LuckyMe crew is gonna handle this answer. *Respect, you seem to know your computer programs and all that… but you're in a band. You should be creating the swirly climaxes with live band dynamics, not effects. Keep jamming and become super tight—use the human element to your advantage and treat the software as sprinkles on the sundae. Basically, don't use software as a crutch—use it more as additional firepower to the brigade. This goes for all aspects of production. Try to make everything sound as good as possible before treating it with effects.*

Hi Ruby. The good news is, we aren't musicians either. We just push buttons and pretend we know what we are doing until it sounds good, so you're cool on that. On a serious note, keep writing, but maybe find some of your friends that make awesome music and offer to help. The thing about all of us is that we are pretty good at disappearing and creating stuff, but then we forget to make email lists or update our Facebook page. Take a few of us and make us more organized and take a few bucks in the process. Maybe one of us crosses over into making things happen and bam, you're our assistant. Then eventually, you have the credentials to try and maybe manage us or take on a new person to manage since you helped build our career. Someone has to become the next Diplo or A-Trak eventually. I keep preaching this, but if you don't keep all of your eggs in one basket, there's no pressure to become the greatest writer, or manager, or whatever other side job to make sure you can support people you believe in. Right now, I'm doing that with a few artists I believe in. I'm working 100% for free, because we have the best time doing it and hopefully, when success swings around, it's all good on the commerce aspect. If not, it's all good too. *Column 18*