Beat Refinery Teaches DJ Hopefuls Hip Moves
December 21, 2012
From hip hop parties in the suburbs to dance clubs in the cities, DJs are spinning and mixing music for audiences young and old. In recent years, some DJs have become international superstars - better known than the groups whose music they play! Those who aspire to a career in this growing field can now learn and hone their skills at DJ schools. One of them is called the Beat Refinery, the first such school in the Washington area.
"What I am doing is called beat juggling. Essentially you are taking one record and putting it on both turntables, so while this one plays I am getting this one ready to start back of the beginning of the loop," said Sean Johnson, who is in an advanced mixing class, his final course at the Beat Refinery. He's been taking evening classes at the DJ school outside Washington for about two years. By day, he works as an audio engineer.
"I don't do that full-time anymore. I am slowly working on my way to be a full-time DJ. It is really just kind of making a dream come to life," Johnson said.
Twelve-year-old Ethan Feinberg has been taking classes here for a year and a half.
"I want to be a DJ when I am older, and I really like music. And it is fun," Feinberg said.
"We have 10 year olds all the way up to 50 year olds. Women, men all nationalities, sometimes we have had students that can't speak English but there is the music that brings them together," said long time DJ Chris Stiles, who co-founded the Beat Refinery in 2010. It is the only DJ school in the Washington area.
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