What to do when a crowd doesn't dance?

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Posted by burns on May-22-2002 15:27:

What to do if the crowd dont dance ?

My first response would be to grab my records and fuckin peg it. The chances are your dropping trance to a bunch of HARD HOUSE PILL HEADS UP FOR A FUCKIN SCRAP !!!!!!!

Posted by AnD on May-22-2002 19:12:

I only DJ on youth party�s and stuff like that, mainly bcuz i am one myself. If you want high-school aged teens to dance to your music you have to get them to the dancefloor first. I alwas bring records with mixes of soft pop-music and stuff like that. The teens love to dance to that. To make them stay when they are up danceing BE SURE to once in a while when the time is right, play something they know like sandstorm, of some mix of madonna or whatever, u c what I mean.

that is how i make them dance... its almost always hard to get teens to dance, it feels like they only dance when someone else does.
Thats why I always have 5-10 friends on the party im playing @. They stay on the dancefloor almost all the time wich makes the other people know its ok to dance, without being afraid of haveing to stand there alone...

IF they dont dance and I dont bring my friends, i just keep playing.. still better than standing home in the bedroom mixing... i almost never get payed for the djing so what the heck, i only dj it becuz i think its fun and love the music i play...

Posted by burns on May-22-2002 20:09:

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Originally posted by AnD
IF they dont dance and I dont bring my friends, i just keep playing.. still better than standing home in the bedroom mixing... i almost never get payed for the djing so what the heck, i only dj it becuz i think its fun and love the music i play...

HA HA HA, Thats what im talking about !!! I would do exactly the same thing mate, Or even better, Put a tune on, run to the dancefloor and bounce about, then go and mix out of it then run back to the dance floor, he he.

Posted by axs on May-23-2002 18:27:

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Originally posted by boomp
throw records at them and call them names.

works for Mark EG! If all else fails, you could smash the tables with a shovel too!

Posted by djxtension on May-24-2002 18:11:

Yeah, I like that one: smash the tables with a shovel...

But it's to bad that that would be a bit to expensive...

Ah, who cares. It's all about having a good time, and i'm quite sure i will enjoy smashing the tables...

Posted by Eugene on May-24-2002 18:16:

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Originally posted by AnD its almost always hard to get teens to dance, it feels like they only dance when someone else does.

It's not just teens. Nobody wants to look stupid by being the only one on the dancefloor, watched by everyone sitting around.

Unfortunately unless GROUPS of people come to the dancefloor at around the same time, you won't get a very exciting night. People will inevitably drift off the floor as soon as they realize that it won't be packed.

Which is why you, as a DJ, have to know what anthems to drop to get everyone dancing. Usually Darude - Sandstorm does the trick.

Posted by t0ast! on May-26-2002 02:32:

i dunno about you, but i _love_ to be the only guy on the dancefloor...when the dj's in my town play the good shit, noone wants to dance. i just stay up there and go nuts....eventually people join.

Posted by AnD on May-26-2002 13:37:

Posted by YuVaL on May-26-2002 13:48:

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Originally posted by t0ast!
i dunno about you, but i _love_ to be the only guy on the dancefloor...when the dj's in my town play the good shit, noone wants to dance. i just stay up there and go nuts....eventually people join.

yup
im with toast... on friday when a d.j dropped blank & jones - nightclubbing (although its old).. everybody sat down... and i danced like a nut case

Posted by Eugene on May-27-2002 02:24:

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Originally posted by DJ-Energy

when a d.j dropped blank & jones - nightclubbing (although its old).. everybody sat down...

Well, let's analyze this. Why did the crowd sit down? Was it immediately following some big anthem? Or because the track isn't that good?

Usually when this happens, it means that the track isn't good... and I must say that although Blank & Jones write some fine Dream-Trance, most of it is too "soft" and delicate to excite a dancing crowd.

Of course, it's wrong to play bangin' stuff all the time... when you bring in a bangin' track, the crowd gets excited just because of the difference in energy that it senses.

Posted by Dj Flesch on May-29-2002 17:31:

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Originally posted by t0ast!
i dunno about you, but i _love_ to be the only guy on the dancefloor...when the dj's in my town play the good shit, noone wants to dance. i just stay up there and go nuts....eventually people join.

I love that too t0ast! I was dancing to Dj Micro with a whole crowd of people. I had my eyes closed and when I dropped my glow stick, I opened my eyes to get it and realized that a big circle formed around me. I loved that and just went nuts!

Anyway, IMO, I think that when you encounter people who aren't dancing, it's not because you suck as a dj, it's because you don't know which places to take up the offer to spin at. On a previous post, someone said their friends can't dance to trance. Even though that baffles me, you have to know what the crowd will be like ahead of time. Paul Oakenfold could play for people that don't like trance and not get anyone to dance! Look at the other djs in the line-up. If you are the only one spinning, make sure they want trance and only trance etc. Playing small house parties/graduation parties I would expect people not to dance. People are shy and they aren't there for the rave environment, they are there to celebrate graduation! People go to clubs to dance and drink, but you have pick and choose your offers.

Posted by YuVaL on May-29-2002 19:14:

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Originally posted by Eugene

Well, let's analyze this. Why did the crowd sit down? Was it immediately following some big anthem? Or because the track isn't that good?

Usually when this happens, it means that the track isn't good... and I must say that although Blank & Jones write some fine Dream-Trance, most of it is too "soft" and delicate to excite a dancing crowd.

Of course, it's wrong to play bangin' stuff all the time... when you bring in a bangin' track, the crowd gets excited just because of the difference in energy that it senses.

well.. let me tell u how it was
i was sitting around listening to some weird ass psy-trance and everybody were danceing to it, i personaly didn't like it cause i thought it was 2... cheeseee.... i m8 say, then he dropped blank & jones... and i started going nuts
and everybody sat down some reason
i mean that tune is a masterpiece... u cannot sit down while hearing this

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