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Posted by dJohn on Jun-09-2002 01:32:

Construct a set

I have a party coming up pretty soon..bringing these vinyls. Just wondering how you guys would construct an hour and a half set(roughly 10-15 tracks...)
NOTE: Keep in mind it's a small house party, and there's gonna be people fucked up for the first time, so I wanna see how I can construct a set to get the full effect...
Flight 643 2x12"
Columbia EP 2x12"
Joker Jam - Innocence
Viframa - Cristalle
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
Connector - Interference remixes
Rank 1 - Awakening(all remixes)
Ferry COrsten - Punk(Extended vocal and Kid Vicious)
29 Palms - Touch the Sky
Blank&Jones - Cream(PvD and Extended remix)
Marco V - GODD
Trancesetters - The Saga
Tranq Base - Razorfish
Three Drives - Sunset on Ibiza(Original and A&B Mixes)
Midway - Monkey Forest
Jam&SPoon - Be Angeled 2x12"
Tiesto - Suburban Train
Mauro Picotto - Verdi
Fabio MC vs Mario Piu - Invaders
iio - Rapure(Riva remix)
Lange - Drifiting Away
Ricky le Roy - One Life
Boyd Westerman - Loop Life
Oakenfold - Southern Sun Breakz Dub
Underworld - Born Slippy
DONS - Sharp as a Knife
DJ Virus - All Your base
Nu-NRG - Dreamland
Mirco de Govia - Epic Monolith
Tastexperience - Highlander(Original, Ralphie B and Endgame Remixes)

Well?

Posted by burns on Jun-09-2002 07:04:

Begin with some thing in the middles, not to soft not to hard.....

Tiesto - Suburban Train

Then its all down to what the people want.. Maybee kepp going up..then bring them down...he he

Posted by thomassster on Jun-09-2002 07:29:

I'm guessing start hard and end soft. Mauro picotto is something good to start off. Marco V could come around there. I'm guessing you could do any order you want, and then do anything you want for a while, then drop columbia, and then drop the good stuff like tracesetters, nu nrg, and tastexperience, and then end it with rank 1! I'm not a dj so i don't know exactly how things will go, but i would like a set like that.

Posted by Cobalt on Jun-09-2002 07:30:

First off, that's an awesome list of tracks to make a set of.

Try not to jump around too much in terms of beat and genre. Group your availible tracks by sound, such as progressive, hard trance, uplifting, and so on. Then construct the order you want these sounds to flow and put in about four tracks of each.

I recommend starting with something slow and minimal, then building up to progressive with a some energetic tracks thrown in. Make a few small breakdowns by alternating between progressive and uplifting. Then choose a tune to break out the full energy and start the main movement of the set. Lead into some powerful tracks like GODD and keep up the relentless beats for a few more tracks. Then slowly let off and slide down into some chill tracks before finishing off with a kick ass anthem of your choice. Fits nicely into the time slot.

Posted by webbie on Jun-09-2002 07:52:

I kinda agree with Cobalt, dont start with the hardest 150bpm tune you can find in the beginning, atleast I find it very hard to relate to a intro which consists of a fast beat and maybe a snare.

Nah, take it up instead so you kinda flowingly goes into everything without thinking, thats how it should be.

Posted by plastikE on Jun-09-2002 11:13:

DJ Tiesto - Flight 643
Ferry Corsten - Punk (Extended Vocal)
Marco V - Godd
Trancesetters - The Saga
Three Drives - Sunset On Ibiza
DJ Tiesto - Suburban Train
Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun Breaks Dub
Iio - Rapture (Riva Remix)
Joker Jam - Innocence
29 Palms - Touch The Sky
Lange - Drifting Away
Midway - Monkey Forest
Nu-NRG - Dreamland

just my opinion....

<>plastikE<>

Posted by PSi on Jun-09-2002 14:00:

foo dont you have an accapella or something??? thats what i would start with.

and you got too many hi nrg tracks there, ppl arent going to dance to all of them, you need something mellowier to give them a break.

later
PSi

Posted by Club Attack on Jun-09-2002 15:02:

Mate with tunes like that it should be pretty easy to get them goin! (if their taste is anything like mine!!!)

Personally I'd start a bit slower, for example, Star Guitar, and PVDs Vega (starecase mix), just to get people into it. Brng it up slowly coz people (esp. fucked ones!) need time to get themselves involved in the music. You have got quite a lot of pumping tracks there and if you play epic monolith as your first tune you don't leave yourself much to build up to.

Split your anthem-type tunes up with less epic tunes so people sit up and pay attention when they hear something big coming in. I think it'd be good if you dug out few more progressive type tunes to put in between coz even though I love most of he tracks you've got there, I'd struggle to dance to them all one after another.

It would be quite hard to plan the whole set unless you write it down, so its probably better to keep an eye on what your audience are up to. If they look bored, throw PVDs mix of Blank and Jones at 'em, whereas if they start becoming disinterested with antherm after anthem you need to slow it down with less full-on tunes, then bring it up again.

On the other hand, if their a bunch of fairly fucked mates and havin the time of their lives at a house party they might just wanna have it to a load of decent tunes regardless of the order your playin them in!!!

Hope thats some help, hope you have fun too!

Posted by burns on Jun-09-2002 16:24:

quote:
Originally posted by plastikE
DJ Tiesto - Flight 643
Ferry Corsten - Punk (Extended Vocal)
Marco V - Godd
Trancesetters - The Saga
Three Drives - Sunset On Ibiza
DJ Tiesto - Suburban Train
Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun Breaks Dub
Iio - Rapture (Riva Remix)
Joker Jam - Innocence
29 Palms - Touch The Sky
Lange - Drifting Away
Midway - Monkey Forest
Nu-NRG - Dreamland

just my opinion....

<>plastikE<>

WoW Thats a powerfull set !!! If he dropped some thing like that he would blow the roof off

Posted by Floorfiller on Jun-09-2002 20:06:

Tastexperience - Highlander (Endgame Remix)
Tranq Base - Razorfish
Viframa - Cristalle
Nu-NRG - Dreamland
Trancesetters - The Saga
Ferry Corsten - Punk (Extended Vocal)
Three Drives - Sunset on Ibiza(Original mix)
Joker Jam - Innocence
Connector - Interference
Rank 1 - Awakening
Mauro Picotto - Verdi
Tiesto - Suburban Train

also another opinion...

Posted by dJohn on Jun-09-2002 21:46:

Wow! Excellent feedback!
Thanks everybody...I was struggling with this for a while. Althogh the party isn't until August, I just wanna general idea of what you guys would do with these records.
I was thinking maybe start off slow and cinematic with Tastexperience, and lead into uplifting, mellow trance, then drop them down into a darker, more progressive side before rising up gradually with hi energy tracks and finish off with a bang.
But yeah, great ideas! Thanks again!
Also forgot to mention the Beautiful Strange 2x12"...
and possibly Delerium - Silence(Tiesto and Airscape mixes) and the allmighty Bedrock - Heaven Scent(Evolution Dub and Original)

Posted by Floorfiller on Jun-10-2002 16:04:

i'm sure no one would mind if you threw some silence (tiesto mix) in there hehehe

Posted by DJ-Kuza on Jun-10-2002 20:12:

nice, I have almost every one of those tracks. Just missing 2 or 3. Is that all of your records