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Originally posted by Jake Conlon how do you warm up? i havent got a clue as i dont really own any warm up material. please share your tips.

Well basically don't play any huge tracks in the style that the main dj is gunna play. If you play a different style feel free to play what you want, but start off slow and keep the energy movin up throughout the set so that when the main DJ gets on the crowd is all ready for him.

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Originally posted by Jake Conlon how do you warm up? i havent got a clue as i dont really own any warm up material. please share your tips.

do a few stretches, maybe jog on the spot gently, make sure all your muscles are nice and warm.



basically when playing a warm-up set, you need to play music which people, although they might not dance to it, will enjoy and get them in the mood. not too fast, not too slow. not too outrageous and not too dull. remember not to out-pump the main act

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im gonna have to go vinyl shopping then,

thanks for the tips

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I think that playing in a club as the main DJ, you can pretty much play anything you want.

When your opening for someone, I think the hardest thing to do is make sure you don't over kill his set, and also not to make the crowd tired after yours.

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Maybe put some nice house or groovy tunes like Way Out West - Killa.

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definately play something slower and more chilled then what the main dj will be spinning.

i spin deep house so i like to start my sets at around 120 bpm and end it around 124.

when spinning always have in mind to build the set up a couple of songs at a time.

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Have to agree. Tunes that are a little slower - nothing with any big breaks in them. Its all about the minimal house. Gets people movin' their head sayin' "Oh, I'm startin' to feel it a little."

Kind of like the calm before the storm.

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"One Raves to Chill. One Chills to Rave Anew."

Funny this topic should come up. Another site I regularly use has just posted a fantastic article on the art of the warm-up set. It's slightly geared towards hard dance but the principles are the same (and there's some good comments from one of the UK's best up-and-coming trance DJ's). Here's the article:

http://www.harderfaster.net/?sid=2c...featureid=10886

Check Steve Hill's comments at the end as well: very useful and relevant.

Hope this helps: the warm-up set is the most important of the night IMHO and often the hardest to get right.

so guys, what the hell do you do if you don\'t have warm-up material? im hoping to get my frist gig this year, but the slower warm-up tracks just dont do it for me. vinyl is expensive and im not gonna buy stuff i dont like. is my really narrow taste in tunes gonna hold me back?

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Have to agree. Tunes that are a little slower - nothing with any big breaks in them. Its all about the minimal house. Gets people movin' their head sayin' "Oh, I'm startin' to feel it a little." Kind of like the calm before the storm.

beautiful description and very true. i do remember a few of the breaks nights around southampton last year. it would usually always start with some hip hop and funk breaks then move into breakbeat then into drum and bass. from that point onwards it can only get dirtier and harder and faster. and it usually did

god only knows what would happen if you opened on full on drum and bass early in the evening. talk about backing the main DJ into a corner. how the hell can you rev the crowd up anymore than a few back to back monster 180bpm amen/reece tunes?! add to the fact that you'd probably make half of the club migrate to the next one under the onslaught - too much, too fast, too soon.

as was often the case - they just werent ready for it yet. it wasnt the right time.