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Posted by chef.roo on Jul-23-2007 01:47:

Quick question about track lists

Hello,

quick question about track-listing.

If you've been hired to play at a club or a mix on the radio, is your track list pre-planned, or do you choose your tracks live?

Posted by Ministerio on Jul-23-2007 01:57:

Re: Quick question about track lists

quote:
Originally posted by chef.roo
Hello,

quick question about track-listing.

If you've been hired to play at a club or a mix on the radio, is your track list pre-planned, or do you choose your tracks live?

live at club

preplanned on radio is usually how it goes..

Posted by DiscoStew on Jul-23-2007 02:51:

Re: Re: Quick question about track lists

quote:
Originally posted by Ministerio
live at club

preplanned on radio is usually how it goes..

Agreed.

At a club, the sound is usually sooooo loud that if two tracks don't go together perfectly, you can't really tell. Everything gets drowned out by the "oom-tss". On radio though, you want everything to be perfect because even slight volume drops and key clashes are very obvious.

Posted by nefardec on Jul-24-2007 06:00:

i always have a feeling what i am going to open with and how i want to close and what new tracks i want to bust out at a gig before i play, so regardless if there's a tracklist or not i have a really good idea of the sound and progression of the set before i even start.

if you don't know the venue/crowd though you should probably leave it really open ended

Posted by Stu Cox on Jul-24-2007 08:20:

I just wing it for both of them haha

Seeing that my radio show's weekly, I wouldn't have time to prepare a full tracklist for each show - there just aren't enough hours in the day to do that as well as everything else that needs doing!

So I just have a flick through the new tracks I've got and pick a track to start on (usually go for something a bit funky/groovy as the show before me is funky/electro house), pick a record of the week, my trademark bassline of the week and a few notable tracks I wanna put in there, then throw the rest together along with the chat as I go along.

I appreciate this is quite different from doing a radio show without talking as that ends up a bit more like a demo - my show's more about me presenting a load of tracks, music news, events listings etc rather than "check out how well I can mix"

For gigs I'll probably get a rough structure in my head, maybe a couple of ideas of tracks I want to play but it's all very flexible (as it has to be really) and I rarely end up totally sticking to any kind of plan I make!

Posted by Timski on Jul-27-2007 09:54:

Only things i really rehearse is what goes well with what, so basically I just play what I know will go well with something else.