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Originally posted by xstalkrx I'm obviously new to all of this. The only skill I have mastered is beat matching. Anyways...I was wondering if its considered bad to lay down a set comprised of mostly old and/or classic tracks? Also wondering what is the best way to get a local gig? When you are trying to get gigs...I mean...there aren't like tryouts or anything. How do clubs know what kind of talent you have?

to answer your first question, its completely up to you to make whatever you play work. I personally wouldn't really have any interest in dropping all older / classic songs in a set. That doesn't require too much imagination ya know. Everyone knows what the big tracks were in 2002, no need to rehash them all. But thats not to say that playing older tracks is a bad thing. When I buy records I try to stay away from anthems that are going to eventually be played out. I like to buy records that I know I'll be able to play down the line because they aren't being hammered to death by all the big names at the moment.


The second question....there a a handful of recent threads about getting gigs...use the search function.

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What about playing lots of old tracks that aren't "anthems" or well known? Is that frowned upon or do you think that would be OK?

Most of the trance releases these days are pretty poor and the quality was a lot higher in the early to mid 90s in my opinion.

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Originally posted by A.J. What about playing lots of old tracks that aren't "anthems" or well known? Is that frowned upon or do you think that would be OK? Most of the trance releases these days are pretty poor and the quality was a lot higher in the early to mid 90s in my opinion.

i play lots of older tunes, and a lot of brand new tunes. the trick is to find good tunes, and tunes that work well in your sets. i dont know much about trance in general (and i call myself a trance addict...) but in house for example, theres just soo many tunes, that diggin through the crates and finding older stuff that wasnt necessarily played that much is a huuge part of my sets.

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Originally posted by IKKI-ZUVK An old wise man, told me once... It's not the size mate, it's how you use it! Hope it helps

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I enjoy a set with a mix of old and new more than a set with only new. Older gets the crowd going more.

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well i cant always afford to keep up with the new shit...
so i just buy what i think is good.... and if its new then cool... and if not then oh well
its something i really like, so to me it dosnt matter

It doesn't matter to me either. There are really old records i try to include in my sets from the 50s or so for mood. I also find older electro and electronic albums to have some depth that newer stuff is lacking. I personally like to try and record a set that tells a story or seems to have purpose. To me that makes it much harder and more rewarding than to beat match two simular records and mix those together. My goal is to sound different.

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any old tune can be played, fi you create a right oment for it. however, some tunes... well, the only way you can play em is if everything else in your set is brand new, asskicking, amazing mixing, then maybe the crowd will forgive the classic.

personally, i HATE it when someone plays stuff EVERYONE had heard, and is old. it's like you're telling me that i don't know shit and have been lving under a rock for the past years, so you might as well give me a tour of what's been banging.

playing old tunes that almost got no play is the way to go. i do this a lot. i could play hours of 2003-2004 shit and no one would notice, because they were records no one heard.

getting gigs, well, it has been beaten to death in this forum, just search around man.

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depends if its tunes that have been hammered to death or ones that few people have heard yet are older, big difference in my opinion.

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i like old tracks but whats even cooler is hearing an old tune thats been remixed now, doesnt happen often really but in the instance of fancy fair 2005