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I'd play this very unique style called Variety. I don't hear many DJs play it, although 2ManyDJs and Erol Alkan are pretty good at it.
Id start off with like mainstream club music.. then go into some house.. then progress it a bit.. do some trance.. some techno.. then into eurodance.. bring it to the 80s and stay there for a good couple of hours
it would be the best thing
or if i had the right crowd.. id play italo disco all night
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| Originally posted by Spirit5 Lol I thought u produced trance? Wouldn't play any of your own productions??? Being sarcastic?? |
I'd probably play a deep, atmospheric house and trance affair, as I really enjoy blending that kind of stuff together into "journeys". But I'd also enjoy playing a breaks set with some rocky stuff thrown in.
Bottom line: I'd play what I enjoy.
everything melodic 
cheese
Uk house, hard trance then turn it into hardcore
Anyone who said house & trance together needs to get shot
Trance live is so kiddy/nerdy
How many big room anthem style tracks can you listen to ?? yelling Tiesto or Armin with hands in the air ??
Id rather listen to some dirty basslines
I am a DJ. This is my style.
Sam Reaves - May 2006 Promo
01 Supermode - Tell Me Why (Club Mix)
02 The Disco Brothers - B-B-Baby
03 Freeloaders - Now I'm Free (Raul Rincon Remix)
04 Noir - My MTV (Ian Carey Remix)
05 Njoi - Anthem (Hoxton Whores Remix)
06 Enzo Mori & Stephane Clark - First Class (Tocadisco's Electro Mix)
07 Teamsters - Feels Like Love (King Unique Dub)
08 Sigurumn - Star Baby (Axwell Cyber Japan Remix)
09 Chocolate Puma - Always And Forever (Till Westwood & DJ Delicious Remix)
10 The Disco Boys feat. Manfredd Manns Earth Band - For You (Dub)
11 Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again (Hott22 Remix)
Lets face it people, Trance is not really popular nowadays. Well, its not that is not popular but,,, Often, the most prestigous DJS play Progressive House, Progressive Trance or Breakbeats.
Its time to listen to something new. I specially like Breakbeats. They are awesome. I also like Progressive House.
I think you can explore a whole different world of sounds in these genres, that you just wouldnt be able to explore in plain trance, that nowadays is just boring.
Id go for Breakbeats and Progressive House. Mix them together, just as many djs nowadays do, Like James Zabiela, Danny Howells and BT.
If I were a dj I couldn't limit myself to just one style, but I'll bite:
EDM:
progressive/epic-euphoric-uplifting/tech - trance
progressive/disco-french - house
techno - I don't know what to call the type of techno I'm referring to but it's the bangin' type. For example Cave, Kanzyani, Picotto, etc.
Non-EDM:
New Wave/Synth-Pop/Hip Hop/Rap/Breakbeats/Free Style - 80's music
Disco/RnB - 70's music
Smooth/Classic - jazz
Basically anything that makes people dance you could consider me open to mix that type of music.
prog trance/house, tribal, tech house, techno. with the occassional classic thrown in, probably to end.
no electro, no breaks, no epic trance.
I actually think it would be cool to play stuff like the Macarena and the Chicken Dance, the Shuffle and Cha Cha Slide and play some polka, mixed in with early 90s boy bands like New Kids On The Block, and maybe even later 90s stuff like Backstreet Boys and N'sync, and some Britney Spears, and play some Madonna (Like A Virgin...maybe Vogue) and Boy George/Culture Club (Karma Chameleon), Gloria Estefan (Bad Boys), Ricky Martin (Livin' La Vida Loca!) and Villiage People (YMCA, Macho Man) and Michael Jackson (Thriller, Beat It) and maybe put in some Barry Manilow and Rod Stewart or some Elton John! Oh and I have to slam some Mc Hammer on there as well..."Can't Touch This!"
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| Originally posted by Spirit5 I actually think it would be cool to play stuff like the Macarena and the Chicken Dance and Cha Cha Slide and play some polka, mixed in with early 90s boy bands like New Kids On The Block, and maybe even later 90s stuff like Backstreet Boys and N'sync, and some Britney Spears, and play some Madonna (Like A Virgin...maybe Vogue) and Boy George/Culture Club (Karma Chameleon) and Villiage People (YMCA, Macho Man) and Michael Jackson (Thriller) and maybe put in some Barry Manilow and Rod Stewart or some Elton John! Oh and I have to slam some Mc Hammer on there as well..."Can't Touch This!" |
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| Originally posted by Arraias forgot ... Gloria Stefan and Ricky Martin |
Energetic and driving trance
Re: if you were a dj, what style would you play?
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| Originally posted by Reactic I would play uplifting and tech-trance, think this are the styles with most engergy among the trance styles. |
prog trance -> prog house -> house
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| Originally posted by DOOMBOT Your style will change more then you know. Trust me.  Rght now, I'm playing more Prog House and Prog Trance. Couple months ago I was 100% trance. What a roller coaster ride dj'ing is. It's fun! |
If at a rave, I would spin a good flow of epic and progressive stuff but probably mostly epic/melodic trance.
If at a small club or lounge, would probably spin more house.
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| Originally posted by Tayfoon Anyone who said house & trance together needs to get shot Trance live is so kiddy/nerdy How many big room anthem style tracks can you listen to ?? yelling Tiesto or Armin with hands in the air ?? Id rather listen to some dirty basslines |
I'd play country remixes, maybe some breakbeat remixes of skynrd thrown in there too. I'd grow a mullet, wear a cowboy hat, and play in those types of venues that have mechanical bulls in the corner, muahahahah. Add in some gimmicky record scretching, tiesto jesus poses, scratching some records with my nose while im drunk, great fun man.
Imagine a dillinja like DnB remix of that toby keith song where he goes "We'll put a boot up your ass its the american way" that would rock some friggin dance floors, I could go all over the states with that sound!
edit: that would have been more funny if I posted before spirit, damnit!
On a more serious note, I would play ameteur microsound and trancey tunes with a computer, and if I got good at it I would start throwing in my own live loops and reworks and stuff like that. I do have some ideas for how to make the digital dj concept a bit more charismatic and enjoyable for a dancefloor crowd, but it would take a bit of engineering to pull off, and maybe some inprovements in today's technology. Instead of hiding behind a computer screen it would use a kinda cyborg like interface, which I think I could pull off if I had a team of people as crazy and geeky as me who were willing to conspire.
I can understand that todays crowds favor this bass heavy ditry boomy proggy style, but as hard as I try to get into it, I just can't make it fit. I imagine t club setting isn't the best context for the type of thing I want to do, but I want it to be dancable, it would definately favor a specific audience and a specific type of venue.
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| Originally posted by Zombie0915 edit: that would have been more funny if I posted before spirit, damnit! On a more serious note, I would play ameteur microsound and trancey tunes with a computer, and if I got good at it I would start throwing in my own live loops and reworks and stuff like that. I do have some ideas for how to make the digital dj concept a bit more charismatic and enjoyable for a dancefloor crowd, but it would take a bit of engineering to pull off, and maybe some inprovements in today's technology. Instead of hiding behind a computer screen it would use a kinda cyborg like interface, which I think I could pull off if I had a team of people as crazy and geeky as me who were willing to conspire. |
I've put alot of thought into this, it seems other people have as well. If you look up things like "wearable computing" and that dude from the "cyberman" documentary you can get a good idea of what I am imagining. Something like replacing the computer monitor with a pair of those neat glasses which allow a person to see the crowd and also see a compter interface at the same time(with some different software which fits the devices better). Then you would replace your mouse/midi controls with some motion capture gloves or something. There is a company selling these motion capture midi controllers which are these crazy robot looking things you wear on your arms to control music, the web page has a tesimonial from some people using it for trancy/proggy sounds. There are a bunch of these cyborgs experimenting with music performance, alot of dancers wear these suits to control sounds, I think they are called gypsy suits or something.
Anyway, with people always complaining that laptop dj's look like they are checkng their email or something, I imagine having a person stand in front of the crowd and control music with the gestures of their bodies would be much more entertaining, you could say, trigger nasty bass notes with pelvic thrusts, a crowd would get a kick out of that, maybe even on the same level as watching a person manipulate turntables.
Another idea I had would be to have that display render instruments in kinda a 3d space, and use the motion capture gloves to play them, so you could have like a guitar rendered in front of you and play air guitar with those gloves and it actually make a sound, maybe with some DSP that manipulates the guitar model in physically impossible ways, but something like that would be hard without tactile feedback.
It would be alot of fun to do music and virtual reality together like this, maybe the crowd could wear some gizmo's too that would augment their reality for a fun party experience. It would take alot of practice and hacking to make a good system for all of those things though, but it is still very possible I think, so I practice my music for now, and hope to gradually move towards something to that effect, even if its just some ameteur low quality thing.
The music is odd, some of it is this netlable stuff, some of it is this academic and experimental stuff, a little PvD, Ianis Xenakis, samples of Douglas Engalbart's presentations (he invented the mouse and the computer desktop interface), lotsa fun with PD, csound, and weird music devices, maybe one day it will all come together, but at the moment it is just a huge mess of computer gizmos and unpleseant noises.
techno. everything else is homosexual.
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