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4-6 hour sets

Anyone here tried doing a long set at home?

Im thinking about making between a 4 and 6
hour set at home.
The plus side is i can be more creative in what i play.
Mainly trance with a couple of classic trance tracks
thrown in, a little bit of Prog, Techno, Hard Trance and
Housey stuff.

Thing is i dont know how long i will keep my
concentration for, and i dont want to get bored while
doing it seeing as i will be on my own with nobody
dancing

So has anybody tried something like this and
pulled it off?
And did you work out a tracklisting before you started?



Thanks
Mark

The longest set I did at home was 8 hours. It's more creative like you said. You can play all the records you want from prog to trance to techno and with with build-ups in the set. Nowadays I don't do sets longer then 4, 5 hours. It's hard to keep your concentration when there's no audience only a wall to look at

I never work out a tracklist before I do a set, only sometimes when I'll mix demo-cd's, but most of the times I change it. I like improvising in my set, so no tracklist in advance for me.

i have done several 6 hour sets. lots of fun and you can play everything you got. best of luck.

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Originally posted by -=Freezel=- The longest set I did at home was 8 hours. It's more creative like you said. You can play all the records you want from prog to trance to techno and with with build-ups in the set. Nowadays I don't do sets longer then 4, 5 hours. It's hard to keep your concentration when there's no audience only a wall to look at I never work out a tracklist before I do a set, only sometimes when I'll mix demo-cd's, but most of the times I change it. I like improvising in my set, so no tracklist in advance for me.

Thanks for the advice,
Do You happen to have one of those tracklists so i can have a look at it, just to see what you did. Thanks

8 hours

Oh my, 8 hours. That's alot!
Usually I'm very tired after 4-5 hours. After 6 hours, I can't concentrate anymore at all.

an 8 hour tracklist... that must be about 130 songs

most ive recorded is 3 hours, most ive played non-stop must be about 8 or so

ewwww spinning for 8 hours at home? Thats soooooo boring.


I spinc twice weekley at one of the retail staores in downtown vancouver. I spin for a minimum of 4 hours, last thursday i did a 6 hour set.

I gotta try that sometime, I've never thought I'd be up to spinning for more than 2 hours, but it would def be worth a try... now to put aside enough time in the day to spin for several hours, that's the hard bit

When i first got my 1210's, my dad was away for the weekend so i threw a party which lasted 18 hours, in which the turntables didnt stop once !

There was only three of us using them, so i guess 6 hours each although i hogged them longer than that, hehe.

man, when i'm just f-in around by myself, i cant spin more than 1hr at a time. i guess i lose interest fast i guess.

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Originally posted by DJ M.G Thanks for the advice, Do You happen to have one of those tracklists so i can have a look at it, just to see what you did. Thanks 8 hours

I'll pm you in the weekend about it, I don;t have it so I have to listen to the set and create it.

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Originally posted by -=Freezel=- I'll pm you in the weekend about it, I don;t have it so I have to listen to the set and create it.

Cheers

i would probably say i played for about an hour, then took a break, and agian for about 30-40 mins, take a break, and maybe agin for an hour. ive been doing this like 2-3 times a week, all through my headphones, because i cant use the speakers due to neighbour complaints in my condominium. and i always have to wait for my dad to go to work, so he wont break my headphones, as he's done that before like 4 times i think. i havent recoreded a set yet, too many distractions in my house.

I recently did a set where I had to follow on from somebody playing breaks. Started at about 7 and finished at 11:30, my brain really hurt as well as my back from all the crouching over. It was good fun tho got another gig out of it

A gram of coke and 2 pills and you will make the mix of your life.. It will be awsome..

As creative as you can be, there is NO way I could stare at my wall for 6 hours... maximum I could go for in a straight period of time would be like 2.5-3 hours.. Amount of records has something to do with that.. LOL..

Longest set i have ever done was 5 hours. It was fun once i got into it. It was about 2 months ago and i even did a tracklist while i did.

Yahel- You feel
Koris vs Djules- Belvedere (mesh mix)
Goldenscan- Of our times
Tastexperience- Highlander (ralpie b massive mix)
Armin- Yet another day (riva mix)
The quest- C sharp
Three drives- Air traffic
Tiesto- In my memory (fade santuary mix)
Misja helsloot- First second
Hydra- Affinity
Way out west- Mindcircus (Gabrial & dresden mix)
Filterheadz pres. Orange 3- In your eyes (blue mix)
Solid globe- North pole
Solid sleep- Club attack
Jan van Houten- Heavens gate
Mr sam vs Fred baker- Forever waiting
Mesh- Purple haze
Kyau vs albert- Velvert morning (micro de govia mix)
Darren tate vs Jono grant- Let the light shine in
Solarstone vs Scott bond- 3rd earth
MIKE- Sunrise at Palomos
Aalto- Rush (Super 8 vs orkidea mix)
Dj Cor Fijneman- Venus (Tiesto mix)
Rapid eye- Circa forever (rapid eye mix)
System F- Solstice
Plastic boy- Life another life
Andain- Summer calling (airwave club mix)
Clokx- Clocks
Riva- Time as a healer (Armin dub)
Tiesto- Sparkles (airscape mix)
MORPH- Creatures (arc in the sky mix)
Nu NRG- Dreamland (Rank 1 edit)
Mauro picotto- Pulsar 2002 (megamind mix)
Kid Vicious- Proceed
Coast 2 Coast- Searching (C2C mix)
Euphonic- Sahara
Mario Lopez- The sound of nature (plug & play mix)
Neo & Farina- Binary refined
Moon project- Moments are forever
Riley & durrant- Candesco
Planet perfecto- Not over yet (Breeders it is now mix)
Alibi- Eternity
EON- Pocket damage
Nitromethane- Time to die (seraque mix)
Kamaya painters- Wasteland
Ayu- M (Above & Beyond typhoon dub)
System F- Spaceman (Matti laamanen mix)
The gift- Love angel
Pale x- Hibernation
Rank 1- Breathing (breaks dub)
Kai Tracid- Trance & Acid
Igor S- Boomerang (Igor S mix)
Basic Dawn- Pure thrust (Nu NRG mix)
Wavescope- The spirit (wavetraxx mix)
Goldenscan- Sunrise (pulsers 6AM mix)

I like the longer sets these days. I usually do 2 hrs or more these days. Get into a groove and go nuts behind the decks

usually just do 1.5hours ...

but 5hours is normal

6 hours is MAX didn't know i been mixing for 6hours until the sun came up

lots of fun

I've never mixed that long @ home with no-one around.

When friends are about there's no issues, but on my own, on no substances, 2 hours is the longest I've mixed (last night made a set 4 2day ). The last 3 mixes are dodgy as; I think i lost my edge. Average night I mix an hour; i just find it hard to make much more time.

--djway

If you get bored doing the set, your in the wrong profession!
If you get bored doing the set, imagine the crowd listening...

Consider those 2 things.

Key is be creative, music is an art - paint a pathway.

well im spinning for a full 8 hours at the store this saturday. Should be fun, all day in the busiest shopping area in Vancouver.

The longest I have spun at home was like 2 hours. I don't really get bored so much. I have a huge mirror right on the wall that my set up is on, so I'm not staring at a wall. And I always pretend that there are other people around. It helps me concentrate, and get into it a little more.

Ya, that's true, I've got a mirror in front of me to, and it really helps concentrating. I can recommend this to everyone.

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