I think I could be good at that as I could never mix two records, I had 1210s set up in my bedroom for about 18 months and stacks of records all belong to a mate who had nowhere to set up at home. Think I made one tape every mix was like someone falling down a flight of stairs lol. The tracks were brilliant but my attempt at mixing 
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Can recommend the Samsung Portable SSD, t5 or t7 models. I base that recommendation on the blazingly fast speeds and reliability. I’d stay away from USB Flash drives these days. It’s old and unreliable tech.
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Aba Shanti-I plays on one deck, sometimes stacking records on top of one another.
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So I figured I’d show off a little, I did the one record player thing and had some fun making videos for YouTube.
https://youtu.be/6euKRmLSzq8
Sounds like Kim Syms didn’t want to change direction too much from Too Blind To See It.
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Two decks and a switch. Record plays entirely, 15 second break while he gets the next one on. Didn’t play loudly at all either, you can easily have a conversation on the dancefloor. People would clap after records from time to time.
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She didn’t want to diverge from the success of
Better get back in the kitchen
This opportunity feels good and
Get back in the kitchen feels good.
Love a bit of Kim Syms, what an era
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Digital novice question. I’m playing at a friend’s birthday party in London in a couple of months, as she wants certain music, and it’s not my normal type of gig I won’t be playing vinyl. I was thinking of taking my Xone 92 and plugging laptops into two of the channels, don’t judge me. If I download the free version of Rekordbox would I be able to dj just with my one laptop and leave the mixer at home? I have a Scarlett 2i2 audio interface I can go from the laptop out.
I’ve only been messing around with that for the past month so I’ve never done a set with a laptop but you can download the software and try it out pretty quickly. In the top left of the screen it will say the mode. By default it’s in Export mode, which means exporting tunes to USB stick. Change the mode to Performance and see what you can do with it. You can mix two basic house tunes without headphones as there’s a cross fader in the interface. If you want to use a proper mixer you need to send separate outputs from the laptop to separate channels on the mixer. Your interface has just 2 outputs which sounds like one stereo pair but maybe you can use each output in mono for each channel.
Main problem with trying to DJ with just the laptop and no mixer is that you are using the laptop touchpad to move one fader or knob at a time. Fine for long smooth house mixes but no good for cutting across and cueing up.
I think your audio interface has a headphone output so you may be able to route the cue channel from the software to headphones and the main out to the two outputs in stereo. You can see the routing options in the settings screen if you audio interface is plugged in.
That’s perfect thank you, I’ve just been having a play and I think I’ll be able to do all I need from the laptop.
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It’ll be hard to cue tracks! So be careful.
I’ve been downloading and recording some off vinyl then putting them into Traktor. A bit of an obscure question… with older tracks where the tempo fluctuates. if I adjust the beat grid and intervals so everything is on the line through the whole track, does this mean that when played back that everything is quantised? I’d rather this was not the case as I enjoy the fluctuations. I didn’t really understand before but I’m beginning to get the point that @howler made about it being a bit paint by numbers, I don’t want to make everything sound anodyne by inadvertently quantising it!
You can switch the quantize function off.
Ta! Short answer to a long question 
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No, only way to “quantise” a track like that is to warp it in Ableton.
AFAIK, quantisation on Traktor will snap things to the grid when you play it against something else. It’s a playback function, not a track edit function, if that makes sense.
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Whoops, I meant Rekordbox not Traktor
Same thing on both. If you click on the Q it toggles quantize on/off. In Preferences you can adjust what quantize does when it’s switched on. But when it’s off, a track just plays as it is.
@MGG is right that it’s just a playback function. It doesn’t fundamentally alter the actual track.
Brilliant, thank you. I got confused with two bits of software that replace c with k! I’m actually really enjoying the process of organising and analysing the files I’ve acquired. I might dip my toes in and get one cdj to add to my setup. I’m beginning to think that a lot of contemporary music and also tracks that I’d only play out make more sense as digital.