Ok so last night i got to headline for the biggest regular house night in the city (which isn't very big). It was good fun, even though my mixing was prettttty shit, oh well. It was annoying i only had a 2.5 hour set from just before 11ish to 1:20. There is a law here that all non-hotel clubs have to shut by 1:30. So i had to program the night to go from chilled out warm up, to crazy banging peak hour in that time. I can play a warm up set easy, it was just annoying that there was like ZERO people there until 11:45/12.

Luckily but 12:30 the floor had filled up and people started to dance like mad. I knew I had them at 12:30 when i dropped Beckers - Switch (Original Mix), Someone had jst requested a vocal tune and i had read their mind and dropped that track. It's a real stormer, and from then on i just owned the fuck out of them and the sound system. I REALLLLLLLLY need more practice in a live enviroment. Some of my mixes were pretty shady, but it was awesome barely anyone understands whats a good and bad mix. Every gig is a learning experience!

Equipment:

Denon DNX-1000 or wtvr, the 4 channel Denon Mixer (The middle two channels had some fader troubles, they would cut in and out occasionally, Thank god the denon has the matrix so i could easily change the channel)

2 Denon 5000s (I reeeallly dont like the platter on these... still good players on 4X pitch though... i just dont like the feel)

2 1200s

Final Scratch


But the biggest equipment fuckup was the fucking table! Ah!! Holy shit, it was so short! My back hurt like fuck when i got home!


Some of the tunes of the night:

Can Costa - Dizzy Synths (Paolo Mojo Remix)
Stef Vrolijk - Little Julia
Trentemoller - Beta Boy (Allied Nation's Edit)
Filter - Take A Picture (Hybrid Remix)
BCML - Mr. Horowitz (Way Out West Remix)
Beckers - Switch
Slok - Lonely Child (Original Mix)
Jon Gurd - Future
John Starlight - Deep Down
Mason - Bermuda Triangle

The crowd cheered me off, and i did a power down on the last tune., silly police, making me stop at 1:20.

It was a nice feeling to get cheeres like that after a set.

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may i ask what way you cue in the headphones in a club?

also taken from my post "Mother******":

had a pretty good gig last night (crowd was dancing having a great time) and i was mixing well. however i had the fcukin worst night in the booth.

at 8pm when i had finished wiring in the decks, i told the tech to switch me onto the club sound system. well music came on alrite but it was the DJ from the other room! couldnt find the guy for 15 mins so i had to wait for him to come back to sort it out. once that was done i thought right lets start my set no more probs. track one plays fine, start mixing in track 2, it comes out very low on the master. not the needles fault but rather the connector on the tonearm. needed a new turntable so for a half hour while they go get a spare from a nearby club, im spinning one tune, turning down the volume, and replacing it with another record. finally the next turntable arrives and this one seems to be working alrite, but as the guy is wiring in the grounds you hear static bursts over the club system. after that things were fine....for a while.

at about 12 one of my needles breaks. have NO CLUE how this happened. shure whitelabels, 1 month old, correct weight/height settings and i dont scratch or cue too heavily. it was just playing the record then all of a sudden it starts skipping like crazy until finally it just slid along the record. i was incensed. i quickly threw on a CD with 3 songs mixed back to back while i investigated the problem. the stylus was short and bent a little to the left (like nous dick) when it would be perfectly straight. tried pushing it back into place which worked a little. the needle would track but i had to be very gentle and girly (like nou) when cueing as it didnt track when going backwards.

during all this is i was playing a great set and the crowd were going wild and for the last 90 mins i really got into it and had a good time, forgetting all the previous trouble. when i dropped the last record, there was a huge roar of approval from the crowd and that made me smile. when i turned the music off they were shouting "MORE MORE MORE" but the powers said no. then to round off my night my headphones feel off the table, smacked the ground and snapped. RIP HDJ1000s. Well that summed up the kinda night i was having

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Originally posted by Basstard may i ask what way you cue in the headphones in a club?

I just cue up one channel in the headphones, using my left ear most of the time (Unless there is only one monitor and its on the left side), Then hear both (Or all three) tunes and make sure they are locked.

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aye thats pretty much what i do. the best way to cue in a club is to have 1 ear in the cans with the cued track and 1 on the monitor. any other way just doesnt work and will wreck ur ears

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i had a pretty good gig mixing hip-hop last weekend, only reason i did such a good job is couse i had a pre-selected tracklist i made up. no-body knew but me.. so it was all great.

not like dance music, i had to find tracks that had the same beat so it sounded nice.

yeah, hip-hop is actually a lot harder to mix than people think. i've actually moved to mostly hip-hop DJing since i finally got my 1200s.. edm vinyls are too fucking expensive, and frankly i became bored with DJing edm. when i get my CDJs, i'm sure i will get back into edm a bit more (i still play a lot of house) but yeah. hip-hop always presents you with a problem in every track you want to mix. which is why it doesn't get boring as quickly as EDM does (although i have not played any EDM in front of a live crowd more than 20 people.. so i don't have club experience with it. maybe it's a lot different in a club.)

Iv mixed hip-hop for friends and such and i find it boring because hip-hop songs are not complex so they do not clash, i find every transition easy and dull. I like mixing trance because you need to have a good song selection for the mix to sound good. At first mixing hip-hop is harder because its break beat but definitly too basic for my liking.

get this!

on my last set the idiots who organised it forgot one thing... a decent sound system!

the warm up guy was on and his set was nice. chilled. but as the night progresses the sound has to be turned up.... right?..


they only go and overheat the cheapo amps they re using during my set. i ended up playing three of my trax through only the monitor system! it sounded awful. i felt embarresed to be associated with the clowns!

the guys could have forgot about fancy lights and a lazer. the first thing they should have sorted was the sound rig.

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Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy Iv mixed hip-hop for friends and such and i find it boring because hip-hop songs are not complex so they do not clash, i find every transition easy and dull. I like mixing trance because you need to have a good song selection for the mix to sound good. At first mixing hip-hop is harder because its break beat but definitly too basic for my liking.

i dunno man. you might be thinking that all hip-hop DJ-ing is just cutting the next track in. i'm more of a mixing person where you can atually hear the transition.. so there's still a lot of track selection that has to be done properly in hip-hop.

i guess i just got bored with trance.. i mixed trance long enough that i can now mix harmonically, pick a decent tracklist with good flow, and can make almost no beatmatching errors (i'm not trying to sound like i'm bragging, because i'm not). i got bored with matching the 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. gets kinda old after doing it for 4 years.. or maybe i'm not as big of a trance head as some here are

i mix mostly hip-hop now.. still play some house occasionally and some trance, but not often.

sorry for hijacking the topic. stories? there is nowhere here to get gigs, so i have none. but i'm moving to a bigger city soon and am already talking to some people about playing at their venues.. so i'll check back later if that happens

Here's what happened for my second GIG : warm-up set for international DJ/producer/remixer Marco G p

THE FUNNY THING : Last friday, i went to the local club of my hometown to chill out with some freinds. The Club also own an Afterhour ... so i went to de DJ booth and chill a bit with my buddy who's the resident DJ for the club. Around 1h40 he told me : Hey congrats, so youre spining before Marco G at 2h ? I said : WTF ?!! Never had a call from the promoter !

I went downstair to see one of the Club owner who told me that it was true ; the promoter made a last minute change in the booking 2 days before, and forgot to contact me before he leaved to vacancy ! Unbelievable, but true !

So one of a freind ot mine drove me at home in a crazy car race (whe came to the club whit is car ; and hoppefully im living near downtown); whent to my place bcz i did have my stuff whit me ! My coed was sleeping and woke up bcz of messy noise i made when i took all my stuff in my bedroom and slamm the door ! He was sure there's was a thief in the house, hahaha ! Came back at the Afterhour 15-20 min lather ... opened my records box ; took place behind the decks and put the needle on Perry ONeil - Kubik (Intro Mix)!

I was fucking nervous ... second gig, nothing basically plan to spinn in my head ... warming-up for Marco G (who play house-techno) ; and me who's spinning trance. There's was about 100-150 peeps in the place during my set. He show up at 3h15 and began to spin around 3h25. I tought i will died during my last transition ; Marco was just on my left side and waiting the last track ... It wasn't the time to srew up haha ! No major mistake ... some drift during 2 or 3 mixes, it was an amazing experience.

Here's some tune i remember i had played (not exactly in order )

Perry ONeil - Kubik (Intro Mix)
Ava Mea - In the End (Hydroid feat Santiago Nino remix)
Niklas Harding pres Arcane - Red Juwel
Keo Nozari- Close Enough (Interstate remix )
Lolo - Why (Nick Pilon Mix)
Santiago Nino & Shawn Mitiska - Sympolce
Maor Levi - Lital
Meno De Jung - Tundra (Mark Otten's Energetic remix)


Dave

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Well my last gig was horrible. It was supposed to be 3 DJs all together including my self. I was supposed to spin sometimes before 12am for an hour or so. I get there at 10pm pumped. 10:30pm rolls by nothing. 11pm rolls by nothing. 12 am rolls by the same dj still playing and the other never showed up. I get pissed off go upstairs and ask when I am going on , he goes NOW! He puts his shit down and leaves! So I look down and what the hell do I see... his equipment from home is starring at me. Never used it before , all gains are screwed up , can't hear shit over the headphones cause the clubs system is in my face. So I can't even mix my first song in , I fade out slowely and put on my first track. One track , two tracks I get the hang of it working the mixer and adjusted all the gains properly and cue channels. I feel a tap on my shoulder , it's him saying "We have to get this party going again , put Tiesto Traffic on". At this point I look at the dance floor there is more people dancing than there was previously. I get so mad that I just press eject to stop the mix and take the CD out of the player while it's still playing and I say to him. " Next time don't waste my time, it's all yours". Silence on the floor people have no clue what just happened. I go downstairs he plays some garbage remix of traffic. I get even more mad at this point and go to a different room and listen to Drum and Bass all night. I will never forget that night.