Ok. I hope no one's asked this already b/c then I'd just be runnin my mouth. But anyway, I gotta play trance music at a REALLY important dance for a bunch of assholes who've never heard of trance before. All they've heard of in their lives is hip-hop. So how and what do I play to get the people dancin'?

Armin Van Buuren ft. Justine Suissa - Burned with desire (Rising Star Remix)

Start with some house remixes of R&b/hip hop tunes, and some mash ups.
Then some pretty commercially type dancey trancey stuff- if that goes well then take it from there.

Id also suggest keeping it pretty vocal, and not much moody stuff either. Find a trancey remix of some well known tunes and you might be on to a winner

Its a school dance. I was thinkin' about starting it with some breaks / Oakenfold stuff and then changin to somethin like Earthbound- One Nation Trance Nation and goin on from there. Basically, I figured I keep it as fast as possible after that. I dont know if that will work. Another problem is that I have to change from the DJ before me [who's going to be playing R&B and stuff like that]. He's probably going to plug his laptop into the CD system and play which is a real pain in the ass b/c I'm using turntables. Just to give you more of an idea of who these people are: Mostly preppy people [ppl who try to act preppy] They all think they're "gangsta" when clearly they're just tryin to act like it.

theres too many things to consider to give any good advice other than to try and keep the mixes quick, if you're playing the same track for anywhere near 8+ min it gets old, alot of hip-hop ppl dont like "techno" much even though you arent playing techno.. thats what everyone thinks it is untill you educate em on the diff genres of EDM

if you know any scratchwork that might help ya some, but remember theres a big difference in what actually sounds cool and what sounds like a desperate attempt at being cool - that being said, if you do scratch any, make it short and simple, alot of things fall into the opinion of being lame so whatever you do dont overdo yourself

love to help out, but it helps to know what you have in your set if you want better advice...

what do you have? mostly trance? some trance along with like house, DnB,....

btw, good luck, ppl see turntables and the very first thing most think is that you're gonna do some scratching and get dissapointed when you dont... whatever you do... hope its in their face and badass...

sound like a nightmare....have fun!!!!

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as much as you might not like it... get come played-out, comercial trax.
and, if the crowd likes hip hop, get some new hip hop tracks.

also curiously.....if its really not a trance crowd.......why bother play'n there?

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hmmmm. a crowd of "assholes" who have never listend to anything but hip-hop.

Well hate to say it man but first of all they are going to HATE it. and they will probably make fun of you call you a fag, especially if you play and e-tard fluff trance,,,,,stay away from the nu-nrg lol.

i mean unless you are freinds with all of them but by the way you described them you arnt.

Seriously throw lots of breaks their way. And for the love of god stay away from the cheesy shit.

As far as mainstream crowds go, I've learned to avoid huge breakdowns at all costs. Hip-hop heads do NOT like long breakdowns!

My "hip-hop crowd" sets (when I'm not actually playing hip-hop ) start off with stuff like

JXL vs. Elvis -- Little Less Conversation
Wiseguys -- Start the Commotion
BT -- Never Gonna Come Back down

You know, big, breaky, energetic tunes. If they can handle that, I'll start heading into some funky house.

RHV -- Never Let Me Down
Madison Ave -- Don't Call Me Baby

Stuff like that. I may throw in some big hip-hop remix tracks if I can, as well.

Then, I start to introduce trance. It pretty much has to be mainstream trance (or hard house) at first, in my experience.

Faithless -- Insomnia
Darude -- Sandstorm
Sash! -- Ecuador
New Order -- Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction)

Yeah, all of those things are overplayed. But a lot of people haven't heard them all that much, and they LIKE it.

And then we move to some newER big tracks.

Ferry Corsten -- Punk & Rock Your Body, Rock
Perpetual Dreamers -- Sound Of Goodbye (X-Mix) (Actually a very high-energy, popular track when I play it.)

If they're still with me, I may move onto the more "underground" (to them) anthems.

Rank 1 -- Breathing (Breaks Dub)
Tiesto -- Traffic
Push -- Strange World

At this point, if they're still with me, I can try playing a bit more progressive/non-anthemic stuff. But they can be pretty fickle, and one song the crowd collectively doesn't like can lead to calls for hip hop, or a complete dancefloor fire-drill.

I like playing prog breaks and such, but playing to an empty floor sucks.

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Im about to do this too man. My suggestion is NOT to play Burned with Desire. Repeat: DO NOT PLAY ARMIN VAN BUUREN, ESPECIALLY "BURNED WITH DESIRE" YOU WILL GET SHOTDOWN. Gagstas dont like listening to euro-chicks "whining"/"orgasming." Play somthing w/ really deep + steady beats: they will expect this. Throw in some Sandstorm (Darude's origenal mix), and if you can, throw in a few R&B vocals (like Usher) or notsogangsta' rap and pair it with some techno/house stuff. These guys probly will not be ready to 'dance' as we know it, they'll much prefer to grind w/eachother and call you a fag if you lay down an hour of dutch vocal-trance. DJ_Ikronix, now that i read his post, had a really good suggestion w/ songs. Be ready to pull out with some super over-played/popular dance tunes. Like "Milkshake" (i luv that song). And there's a really good mix of Britany Spears' "Toxic" with Usher+JayZ's song that came out this summer ("Yeah" maybe?). NO rave stuff, no "acid or xtacy" no "a little bit of xtacy" none of those reference songs, you will get crushed. You never know, some of these kids might be secretly rockin to Ian Van Dahl...but probably not. If your in NJ or PA lemme know and Ill come commiserate! And let us know how it goes. I'll say once more: stay away from the trancy vocals, they kill, I know...

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