DJ Information To keep the people dancing, the Future Turtles camp includes a complete set of DJ gear and powered speakers which provide excellent sound for our camp parties. So you wanna be a DJ... Here are a few things to know… To DJ on playa, there’s a fair amount of work to do ahead of time. We use a Pioneer controller ( XDJ-RX3 ) which requires you to prepare your music ahead of time. You’ll need to: Buy music - YOU MUSIC FILES (MP3s) Learn Rekordbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcB95NHUbk Our Audio Setup DJ Controller: Pioneer DJ XDJ-RX3  Powered Speakers:  Three Bose F1 Subwoofers  Five Bose F1 Model 812 Loudspeakers (1000 watts each) Three Alto Pro TX315 Loudspeakers (700 watts each) Yamaha MG10XU Mixer (not currently used) Furman PL-PRO DMC Power Conditioner (important to plug all equipment into this to avoid damage from flaky electrical grid!) We have a bluetooth -> XLR adapter for streaming through the audio system or through one speaker. A detailed inventory of the audio equipment we own is on the camp manifest Google Sheet, in a tab called DJ Gear. DJ Tutorial DJ curious? Let’s get you on the decks! Best beginner deck:  DDJ FLX 4 If someone is looking for a cheaper alternative to see if they’re interested in DJing then get the  DDJ 200 , but most people find after a short period of time they outgrow it and want to move to the DDJ FLX 4 Music library:  Beatport Streaming  and/or  ZIPDJ Beatport Streaming makes it easy to access a large music library in the Rekordbox software, but note that we won’t be able to access Beatport Streaming on the playa so they’ll likely want to use a website like ZIPDJ to download the song files onto a USB When registering for ZIPDJ, they ask for you to prove that you are a DJ, but they don’t seem to be that strict, if you create a  SoundCloud  profile and include “DJ” in your SoundCloud profile name you should be fine Quick tutorial on how to load songs onto a USB using rekordbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZCgsszBX0