starting club mixing. help please.

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Posted by Unknown DJ on Oct-27-2003 21:12:

starting club mixing. help please.

hi. im getting to the stage where my mixing is flawless. ive been mixing for almost 4 years and i rarely make mistakes. i would like to start djing at clubs but have a few questions before hand. for starters how much money are you expected to spend on vinyl per week? how many records should i be buying? obviously when i start in a club its unlikely that il b the main dj so il probably b warming up, and since i dont have any warm up records, could you please recomend some for me to listen to to get the idea of what they r looking for. also how do i get into it? send demo tapes everywhere? and if any big dj's that post on this board read this (ie luke terry, o'bir etc) please can u give me as much advice as posible. all advice will be apreachiated. (
if you can think of anything that i havent asked that may prove usefull, please add it to the thread thanks in advance.

Posted by sebjr on Oct-28-2003 00:14:

wow you must be pretty tight after all that time!!

from my own experience when playing out live for the first time

1) have 2 beers to relax :P

2) make sure you know how to use their mixer, this is so important, especially if you dont have much experience with other mixers

3) bring a wide variety of tunes so you can play to any crowd

Posted by _-MIl0 on Oct-28-2003 00:43:

um well first i get payed about R$300- R$700 a club event more for raves less for small partys, dont know how much that would be american its about 3-1 so if i made 300 thats only about 100 american, anyways yea bring a shigload of vinil/cds ( i bring tones of cds with me and only the vinils i really like since thats how im used to mixing) get used to the turntables and the mixers exspecially and if you run into a cdj-100 tell the guy to buy a new cd turntable... I HATE THESE with a pation the cdj-100's are almost the crapyist cd turntables ever, only problem is their everywhere (okay enough cdj dissin) um yea play to the crowd and dont worry about warming up just set it off a few times and bring it down towards the end when the main dj comes on you want to get the people pumped up for the main event not just give em something to do for the time. Um as for how to get into it, you really just need to get to know people that work at the clubs even if their not the ones that decide who gets put on give em a mix cd and maby it will get passed to the right person anyways thats all hope it healped (my bad about the spellin and punc.)

Posted by Seany_G on Oct-28-2003 00:43:

Yeah the most important thing about opening or warming up for a headliner dj ist hat you DONT play harder or louder or faster tracks than he/she would. You play a similar style to what they would and you start off really slow and build your set up to where its almost at the hardless/style that the headliner will play. Then the headliner takes over...right whenur startin to rock it.

Posted by razzi on Oct-28-2003 14:12:

i hate warm up djing.. i play trance and harder trance, and its so frustrating keeping things slow when you just want to blow the roof off with some great track. its tough, but you have to start somewhere huh. good luck dude

Posted by T:REBEL on Oct-28-2003 19:12:

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Originally posted by razzi
i hate warm up djing.. i play trance and harder trance, and its so frustrating keeping things slow when you just want to blow the roof off with some great track. its tough, but you have to start somewhere huh. good luck dude

I agree with you but I also dislike riding the headlining DJ's vibe.

If it was up to me, I'd rather be the first or in transition from first to go and set the tone for the evening. Play what you want with the time slot that is given to you.

Posted by Arsalan on Oct-30-2003 17:50:

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Originally posted by Seany_G
Yeah the most important thing about opening or warming up for a headliner dj ist hat you DONT play harder or louder or faster tracks than he/she would. You play a similar style to what they would and you start off really slow and build your set up to where its almost at the hardless/style that the headliner will play. Then the headliner takes over...right whenur startin to rock it.

does anyone have a tracklist for dj addy (toronto) , i might be warming up for him and i have no idea what he's gonna spin and at what speed.

maybe ill let him go first and take over after him.