Learn how to DJ underground Techno and House to a professional standard on our Underground DJ course. If you make the grade after assessment, and once things are back to normal, you will be invited to play at our night, which sees us in top venues including the Gallery at The Exchange nightclub in Downtown LA and . See footage in the video below. We are proud to say that every student so far has made the grade!
If you’re serious about House and Techno, and want to learn in groups of no more than four from a DJ plugged in to LA’s underground music scene, this fully comprehensive Underground DJ course for you. Our generously equipped DJ lab has every piece of industry standard equipment you’d see in respectable venues, including Pioneer Nexus decks with Rekordbox, Native Instruments Traktor with S8 controllers, Serato, and there’s even Technics 1200 vinyl decks for you to get to grips with. Learning how to DJ should be FUN – not frustrating!
This course is an EDM-free zone, and we have a separate EDM DJ course for fans of more commercial electronic music. Before we were fortunate enough to have the demand to run genre-specific DJ courses, our generic courses often resulted in instructors who could never be suitable for all the learners’ music tastes; you had to be lucky to get the right instructor. But now those issues are in the past, and we are thrilled to now be able to offer a fully comprehensive Underground DJ course where everyone is on the same page!
Please note that our club night is not always scheduled straight after your course, so if you’re coming to LA from out of town, please bear this in mind. If you can’t make our club night but wish to be in the lineup on a future date, we’ll make it happen.
101
Let’s Go
Arrangement of Underground Electronic Music
Building a Set
FX
Our Extensive Pro Hardware & Software
201
Your Set
Advanced Mixing & Digital Tricks
Advanced Set Building & Ad-libbing
Preparing For Your Show
After Your Show at The Exchange
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