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What music should be played in siderooms?
Pretty much every club event I attend there is a main room playing one of the main styles of electronic dance music (techno, house, prog etc.) and a side room (or rooms) that's playing pretty much exactly the same or very similar stuff.
Often midway through a night I find I'm in the mood for some more downtempo or much lighter electronic music but it just isn't played - even on the outdoor terrace where people are just standing around smoking.
Does anyone else find that there is not enough variety between rooms at clubs?
I think that whatever is being played in the mainroom, something quite different should be played in the sideroom. Anyone else agree?
Downtempo triphop-ish stuff always worked well for me. Good stuff when sitting down, having a drink and enjoy talking to random drugged out weirdos.
chilled broken beat and jazz infusion.
D&B do it quite well, you'll have the liquid/jumpup in the main room and the 2nd room will often have dubstep, halfstep & more experimental stuff.
Humppa.
Every room should play trance, tbh.
best lee burridge quote of all time (and there are so many good ones too).
from the interview:
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| Interviewer: If you would be forced to play in a club's restroom, what would you play? Lee: Trance, as that music belongs in the toilet. |
I read somewhere that Lee used to play psy-trance at full moon parties in thailand in the early 1990's. I'd love to hear a Burridge psy-trance set.
lee used to play all kinds of trance. Many djs did in the 90's, i don't hold it against him either because it was fresh and good then. He never dropped the silly vocals with a sean tyas kick.
Haha You wouldn't have any of these old school sets or anything to recommend would you? Kind of got me in the mood for some trance!
The sad thing is, most of the stuff being played in bigger rooms is historically what made side rooms so great. All the techno/minimal stuff that you heard in the mid 90's was coming out of smaller rooms (say for example PVD or Sasha was playing in the main room, the second room would have tech-house, minimal, deep house, vocal house going on). I guess part of the reason I never tried to venture out to see a big DJ like Villalobos or Hawtin was because all their bookings come in big rooms, 1000+ people and I could never understand how you could enjoy that style in that environment. Since in Toronto, we have clubs with multiple rooms, there is a high chance you can hear a big name DJ playing that style in a big room when you go to an all access event with multiple international headliners... and from my experience, it's very disappointing. Maybe I crave higher tempo at certain hours of the night, maybe the music is really not that great, but hearing it feels so out of place. I can't imagine spending 50 Euros to go to a place like Priviledge to hear it all night.
For the side rooms, I think it's great. Marco Carola played an amazing set hear about 2 years ago to a room of about 150-200 and it was off the charts. It really gave me the sense of belonging and appreciation that not all music sounds good in any environment, you have to experiment and find the right ingredients. It also depends on the party, that has alot to do with it. There isn't one genre that should be played in a side or main room, because if you go to both rooms periodicly through out the night, the balance could be non existant due to the promoters who just put their friends in there without any consideration to the contrast of styles. It's a tough call, really.
villalobos plays mostly house music.
theory debunked.
/TAPS
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| Originally posted by floyd741 Every room should play trance, tbh. |
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| Originally posted by adi_hanson +1 With 2 hours dedicated to the 1995-2000 scene |
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| Originally posted by floyd741 I would prefer 1997-2002 lol |
Any of the ambient hybrid sub-genres.
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