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Guest It'sPhilFromThursdays

Nice. V.good. My main feedback is that you should give me your mixer, you're gonna win another on this year anyway.

 

On a serious note, i do find all your cuts to be quite constantly aggressive, but then again when i cut on the right so are mine, so i'm a hypocrite and you shouldn't listen to me.

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Love the cuts. You've got your own style and you always execute cleanly.

 

I'm a little more ambivalent about the camera work... I've watched much worse, but I'd just had my tea when I watched this last night and it did have me scouring Amazon for a nice tripod I could buy you for your birthday.

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On a serious note, i do find all your cuts to be quite constantly aggressive, but then again when i cut on the right so are mine, so i'm a hypocrite and you shouldn't listen to me.

 

Point taken :) I think when I do battle videos or videos where I want to get straight to the point my cuts are pretty aggressive, I need to work more pauses in when I do these sort of videos :) Thanks for the advice man :)

 

Love the cuts. You've got your own style and you always execute cleanly.

 

I'm a little more ambivalent about the camera work... I've watched much worse, but I'd just had my tea when I watched this last night and it did have me scouring Amazon for a nice tripod I could buy you for your birthday.

Cheers dude! It was my first time recording with my go pro on a headmount. Normally I headnod in time with the beat but had to restrain myself from doing that - it could have been a lot more shakey! I'll look into investing in a stand mount for it soon!

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Fair point, for battling and short vids your cuts are perfect, really intimidating and like Rocky says you defo do have a recognisable style of your own.

 

I find when i'm cutting on the right i am more aggressive cos i'm not afraid of accidently ploughing into the tone arm and cos of the angle your arm is scratching at, it seems a lot easier to put a lot of energy into it.

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To be fair, that was probably the most digestible head mount scratch vid I've seen and I am quite touchy about silly things. Plus, if you've just got a new gopro with head strap and nothing else, what else are you gonna do? But yeah, turntablism isn't an activity I ever really feel is enhanced by a bird's eye view.

 

Further to what you and Phil are saying above, your cuts are quite battle or showcase orientated. As much as I wouldn't want you to change what you are already doing (cos it's great), I agree that maybe a few more gaps or maybe some lower pitched drags and slurs would further enhance the impact of your well honed power moves... for a freestyle scratch vid at least.

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Basically, us two chumps are hard dissing one of the best competition dj's around at the moment. :)

 

Aww. I'd rather people tore my stuff apart with constructive criticism then just said everything was good! Winning a battle doesn't make me a good freestyle cutter :)

 

Cheers for the pointers guys :d

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Phil - take that back, you scoundrel!

 

I'm still a Jon 1st groupie to the core... who isn't after he won hearts and minds in 2013?

 

I was just pushing against general online apathy where everyone just pats each other on the back with a one word response of a "like", rather than suggesting a way to make it better. Which is admittedly pretty hard if you're as good as Jon.

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I was only joking, really, it just struck me as funny. I heart constructive criticism to max, dudes, extreme edition, and my initial points stand to the max, too, totally, radicle dudes.

 

People entering a criticism free circle jerk does no one any favours unless you're doing some gay porn, etc.

 

[Also i'll edit my last post to make it more Rockwell/Phil friendly]

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Yeah liked it and obv it was super clean.... I would work on pauses, record manipulation, drags and stabs ( I know that sounds real basic) but these are things which I think are most sick about D and help him create flow.... for example at 0.29 your going through the motions a bit and filling if that makes sense

 

Would be really interested in seeing a slow beat with more funk style

 

killing it tho mate obv.....

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