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Posted by mute9003 on Jul-11-2004 08:08:

whoever played in a nightclub or for big crowds

i just want to know the general idea of how u advance ur set when u play in a night club since i never did
i mean how do u start and do u keep same intensity in the middle and then drop down by the end of a set or u switch hi with lo intensity tracks

Posted by DannyO on Jul-11-2004 08:14:

It all really depends on the crowd.

One of your skills as a DJ is to read them.

Posted by Zombie0729 on Jul-11-2004 08:38:

also what slot you are in... opening, mid, closing, etc... your set should vary for each unique headliner...

however if you are the one headlining then theres no rules...

Posted by dukes on Jul-11-2004 12:04:

and dont forget the croud will only remember the last 2 songs you just played so changeing intensity/direction can be done pretty fast.

Posted by _-MIl0 on Jul-11-2004 17:57:

iv played all 3 for about 400 peoples, anyways heres the deal, the one fuck up i did was i was comeing on after a hip-hop dj near the end of the night, so i let his record play out then i put on my brand new g&d prog track, bad idea dont make massive jumps like that it just kills the floor

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Jul-11-2004 18:41:

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Originally posted by _-MIl0
iv played all 3 for about 400 peoples, anyways heres the deal, the one fuck up i did was i was comeing on after a hip-hop dj near the end of the night, so i let his record play out then i put on my brand new g&d prog track, bad idea dont make massive jumps like that it just kills the floor

Yea but going on after a hip-hop DJ...there is no other *good* way to transfer to progressive/trance. Your gonna clear the floor no matter what, but you'll get your crowd that wants to hear you come on.

Posted by DannyO on Jul-11-2004 18:49:

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Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Yea but going on after a hip-hop DJ...there is no other *good* way to transfer to progressive/trance. Your gonna clear the floor no matter what, but you'll get your crowd that wants to hear you come on.

What about mixing on Drum N Bass then goto Breaks and then onto Trance, I think you could make it work.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jul-11-2004 19:15:

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Originally posted by Prodigy Child
What about mixing on Drum N Bass then goto Breaks and then onto Trance, I think you could make it work.

Yeah, vocal breakbeat stuff would probably smoothen the transition.

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Jul-11-2004 20:50:

true, transitioning that way will sound better no doubt, but the fools who listen to shit-hop are still gonna leave anyways when you change up and go into electronic.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jul-11-2004 21:00:

Yeah, but who cares about them, eh?

Posted by on Jul-11-2004 21:36:

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Yeah, but who cares about them, eh?

wErd...
I think it would be a bit weird to be asked to spin (when you spin trance) in a club that obviously has a hiphop crowd in attendence... The promoter or club owner must be smoking something to ask an Electronica DJ to spin after a HipHop DJ... or even worse to spin in a HipHop oriented club...

Posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY on Jul-11-2004 21:56:

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Yeah, but who cares about them, eh?

Exactly

Posted by DJ Kibon on Jul-12-2004 02:27:

Re: whoever played in a nightclub or for big crowds

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Originally posted by mute9003
i just want to know the general idea of how u advance ur set when u play in a night club since i never did
i mean how do u start and do u keep same intensity in the middle and then drop down by the end of a set or u switch hi with lo intensity tracks

I have a small amount of experience with this, and I have to agree with one of the above posters - there is no set rule for this, it's entirely dependant on what the crowd is into.

For example, as much as I would love to play long sets of floaty epic vocal trance, the crowd at the afterhours club that I play at tends to prefer the harder "big room" type trance.

Posted by _-MIl0 on Jul-12-2004 03:05:

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Originally posted by DJ Lazy
wErd...
I think it would be a bit weird to be asked to spin (when you spin trance) in a club that obviously has a hiphop crowd in attendence... The promoter or club owner must be smoking something to ask an Electronica DJ to spin after a HipHop DJ... or even worse to spin in a HipHop oriented club...

Well the thing is, have you ever seen that film city of god (cidade de deus) anyways i was doing a chairty even for em cuz i wanted to raise so money for a station their putting up their. So basicly they got me and a farly big dj hear (dj malborough) to play. Me and the guy fliped a coin to see who would go last and it was gonna be like i play about 2 hours at the beging then hed play a 2 hour set then id close since i won the toss, so anyways i was being stupid and i wanted to try out that new g&d record and thats when it happened. It was a stupid newbie mistake and its just one of those moments where your liek ARgh cant beleive i did that. iv succesfully gone from hip hop to trance befor but it involves going to house first ( i usually do that anyways so it dont matter) anyways my first set kicked ass so it made up for it and i got lucky and half the speakers kicked out so i got to blame it on that.