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Watch 69Beats Perform on Pioneer DJ’s ‘DJsounds’
Last fall, 69Beats took home his second consecutive Red Bull 3Style Poland championship. Shortly after, he headed to the Amsterdam Dance Event to play a set for Pioneer DJ’s DJsounds show.
69Beats delivered a dynamic performance, dropping his signature tone play and finger drumming techniques using Pioneer DJ’s DDJ-XP1. His energetic 53-minute set included genres like future funk, trap, twerk, and more.
69Beats also gave a quick interview in which he discussed why he switched to rekordbox, his plans for 2018, and how he chose his name.
In February, he will compete on his home turf in the Red Bull 3Style World Finals VIII in Kraków.
Watch him on DJsounds above.
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Watch 69Beats Break Down His Winning Red Bull 3Style Poland Routine
Last Wednesday, 69Beats was crowned the Red Bull 3Style Poland champion for the second consecutive year. Now, the 28-year-old DJ has broken down his winning routine in an informative video.
Using detailed annotations, 69Beats explains his thought process behind his music selection, pitch playing, scratching, and more.
“I challenge all of you to dive deep into my set with me as I explain what is exactly going on, and see if you were able to hear and see everything that I’ve done there,” 69Beats said on Facebook.
Watch the video above.
69Beats Launches New DJ Tutorial Series
69Beats at Suzet Music Club in Poland. (Photo source: Suzet Music Club)
69Beats, the 2016 Red Bull 3Style Poland Champion, has started a new tutorial series called Button Pushing for DJs.
The lessons help DJs of all types learn advanced techniques like tone play, finger drumming, and pitch playing, and integrate them into their party sets.
69Beats is known for his creative and well-executed routines, and more recently for tutorials. He was featured on DJcityTV’s Bedroom Sessions and Tone Play series in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
“[The techniques] help you make your set more entertaining and add a whole new vibe to the tracks you play,” the 28-year-old DJ says in the first episode. “And they can help you get out of some trouble if something unwanted happens. And the best thing about them, in my opinion, is that they really help you get the attention of the crowd.”
The first episode takes a look at basic finger drumming patterns. He encourages DJs to follow along using his tutorials on the educational software, Melodics.
Watch the video below.
Related: 69Beats Shares Advice on How to Create a Thre3style Routine
69Beats Shares Advice on How to Create a Thre3style Routine
69Beats performs at the Red Bull Thre3style World Final in Santiago, Chile on Dec. 16, 2016. (Alfred Jürgen Westermeyer/Red Bull)
69Beats, the 2016 Red Bull Thre3style Poland Champion, has shared some advice on how to create a Thre3style routine. The 28-year-old DJ has been inspired to help beginner DJs as the submission process for this year’s competition approaches.
In a lengthy message posted to Facebook and YouTube, 69Beats broke down his “Fire Story” sequence, which he performed at last year’s world finals. The sequence is based on “storytelling,” a technique in which a DJ strings together multiple “word plays” to tell a story.
“Storytelling is nothing new in [the] DJ world,” 69Beats wrote on Facebook. “There are many, many sets with many different approaches to storytelling. For me storytelling was a natural ‘level-up’ from just simple word play.”
He continued: “While preparing for Thre3style 2016 I wanted to take [it] a little further for myself so instead of just mixing tracks with the same phrases I started collecting tracks that had the same theme and doing bigger combos of them. And while [I was] collecting ‘fire’ themed songs I started to see that some of them [were] actualy [sic] creating a sequence of events and decided to make a full routine based on that.”
69Beats also wanted the routine to be veristile [sic] as possible. “The whole sequence is flavoured with as many different techniques as possible – scratching, juggling, tone playing/pitch playing, fingerdrumming [sic], cue point drumming etc.”
Watch the sequence and read his in-depth breakdown below.
69Beats Featured in DJcityTV’s ‘Tone Play’ Series
69Beats, the 2016 Red Bull Thre3style Poland Champion, has been featured on DJcityTV’s first Tone Play episode in nearly three years. The 28-year-old is known for his well-executed tone play routines, which helped him win the Poland championship.
Check back soon for the tracklist.
Watch 69Beats’ ‘Bedroom Sessions’ Routine
69Beats, the 2016 Red Bull Thre3style Poland Champion, has delivered a hip-hop and twerk routine for DJcityTV’s Bedroom Sessions series. 69 will compete this December at the Thre3style World Finals in Santiago, Chile.
Tracklist:
1. A-Trak & Milo & Otis ft. Rich Kidz – Out The Speakers
2. Cassie – Me & U – Acapella
3. Party Favor – Bap U
4. Broadway Slim – Malt Shop
5. Tropkillaz – Que Passa Amigo
6. Ape Drums ft. Major Lazer & Busy Signal – The Way We Do This
7. The Game ft. 50 Cent – How We Do
8. Nas – I Can
Follow 69Beats on Facebook, Instagram, MixCloud, and YouTube.
Do you have what it takes to be featured in the next “Bedroom Sessions” episode? Send a sample video to brs@djcity.com.
Related: 69 Beats Explains How to Take Your Tone Playing to the Next Level
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