It's dangerous territory no doubt and there are many ways of looking at it.

What I did was create an alter ego of myself and started playing out under a different name, it's tough to do but can work if you are lucky.

The one thing you probably should do is stick to your bread and butter formula which is trance or hard trance but sneak something in at the right time and you might be surprised. But don't go off on a tangent if your crowd is expecting something else. What makes your situation tough is that you are playing quite tough to start with and if you were to drop in energy levels to a crowd that's expecting more you will loose them.

Many DJs, myself included have spent years playing music that they either don't like or even hate.

Try and figure out the demands of the people you are playing for, speak to people and find out what makes them tick.

Although, I used to play virtually all trance I have branched out into tracks that crossover the boundries, although you are not doing fully what you like you have to find a compromise sometimes.

A lot of times when I come on after a DJ that's been playing house of prog for a warm up then I will hit the punters with some snarly electro house so that the change isn't too drastic but the people can still sense the change in energy. I then work in some chunkier prog, probably drop an SVD track to bridge the gap and work it in to trance.

These days my sets are more based on how the energy in the tracks work than any specific Genre, basically if a track is good and it works with what I do then I will play it. Dare to experiment a little but don't go overboard on the first opportunity you get.

Cheers
Nem

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