Changing styles in a smooth way during the party

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Posted by gho on Apr-25-2002 05:16:

Changing styles in a smooth way during the party

Changing styles in a smooth way during the party

I can play at this place but I am a little preoccupied because almost all the djs that will play before me have psy or goa or hardtrance sets. Everything very dense including some techno but also with a very low and fixed drums and I want to play something more uplifting. IS THAT DOABLE???? Please help!

Posted by skywarp on Apr-25-2002 05:31:

Re: Changing styles in a smooth way during the party

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Originally posted by gho
Changing styles in a smooth way during the party

I can play at this place but I am a little preoccupied because almost all the djs that will play before me have psy or goa or hardtrance sets. Everything very dense including some techno but also with a very low and fixed drums and I want to play something more uplifting. IS THAT DOABLE???? Please help!

Wanna trade clubs ? Your club sounds like MAD FUN man ... nobody here in Edmonton plays goa/psy except myself ...

Posted by Xquisite on Apr-25-2002 10:32:

if ur talkin about changing genres.. i think it's possible.

I've been trying to make the transition from trance to funky house. Between trance to funky house, I fill in a progressive beat-only. Before that beat record, I play some less energetic trance. Then after the beat-only record, I try to pick a funky house record that would fit with the progressive record then work my way around that.

Posted by t0ast! on Apr-25-2002 17:25:

while i think changing genres would be relatively easy (with the right tracks on hand), changing speeds is harder IMHO. where i'm from, the clubs (read: bars) only play top 40 dance/pop and r&b....now if i wanted to try some trance here, i'd need a smooth enough way to speed up the music without it being overly obvious..(i.e. giving dancefloor peoples time to adjust)...anyone have ideas on that?

back on topic tho, i agree with xquisite. changing from trance to funky house (as an example) would be just like that. start with some beat-only music....throw in some progressive, and then start up the funk...

Posted by hapamoto on Apr-25-2002 18:48:

a couple of suggestions.. my dj crew has a house dj, jungle dj, and techno/ambient, and basically we play rock/paper/scissors to see who plays first and what order we go in.. so basically its up to us to blend w/ the other dj in front of us.. i always use an intro track and just match the speed of the track im mixing in, then at a long sustained chord, i start my other stuff at my speed, so u could do that, or u could do a "power off" on the deck that has their song.. i dunno, should be too hard.. if u wanna get an idea of this intro thing im talking about, listen to the beginning of my demo, that track that starts w/ the bongo drums i always match it to the beat of the other dj's song, and u can hear how i start my tempo during the drawn out parts.. a link to my demo is in the thread i started.. might be on page 2 of this forum..

Posted by gho on Apr-26-2002 03:02:

Something I was considering was using some hardtrance at first. I was listening to that Tiesto set he played 6 hours straight at Dutch Dimension (the last one I think). In the middle of the also uplifting set he puts some hard sounding stuff that acctually sets the mood the rest like Urbain Train. In the desert of the hardtrance I will be an oasis! hahaha

Posted by snokrash on Apr-28-2002 19:21:

I used to alternate with a partner DJ over a 5 hour session, we did an hour each to start with and 1.5 hours each to finish up. We worked through 80s disco/dance pop, house, tech-house, trance and hard-house. Of course that progression made transition easier, but my favourite stragegy for moving from house to trance was to play one of those tracks with an awsome ambient beginning. You know the sort that you never get to hear unless you have the track! It's nice to hear those played out.

I guess that might be a killer in some places, but in that situation there wasn't exactly a floor to kill!

Posted by oDrori on Apr-28-2002 19:29:

My Suggestion For it is:

First of all, choose a number of tracks for the transition, a number you feel comfortable with in terms of BPM change.

Choose a number of tracks you feel comfortable with in terms of genre change (To change genre from let's say Goa to Uplifting, you might want to start with goa, then slowly use track that use more Goa and a bit Uplifting elements, then little less Goa, little lest till you're in Upliftingland then you can play at your home court )

Now that you have those numbers, choose the bigger one and use that number of tracks (Plus-minus) to genre-shift.

A nice fast way around this in terms of BPM and sometimes in terms of style is to find a track with a long break that kinda makes you lose the the beat feeling, than use that break to insert a new track and fade the one with the break out... Kinda creats a nice hysteria