Sorry if this post sounds stupid but I just starting going out to Trance Events. I'd really like to get a copy of my CD signed by the artist but I was wondering if DJ's do that. Do you usually wait after they finish their set and then do autographs or you have to reach out into the DJ booth and hope he signs it. Tell me your stories, GUYS!

Before or after, be polite, be confident, smile, be friendly, dont expect anything, have a pen, have everything ready to go, dont crowd him, dont do it while hes mixing, but be firm, dont let him leave before he gives you that autograph. However, tiesto and PVD are very difficult to get autographs from now. Good luck!

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# Artist Track Name Remix Name Autographed By Label
1 Jan Johnston Am I On Pause 29 Palms 29 Palms Perfecto
2 Jewel Serve The Ego Gabriel & Dresden Gabriel & Dresden Codeblue
3 29 Palms Touch the Sky 29 Palms Perfecto
4 Andain Beautiful Things Gabriel & Dresden Gabriel & Dresden Blackhole
5 Nalin & Kane Beachball Gabriel & Dresden Gabriel & Dresden Ultra
6 Marco V Simulated Marco V Marco V ID&T
Benjamin Bates
7 Thrillseekers Dreaming of You Steve Helstrip Data
8 Ferry Corsten Punk Kid Vicious Ferry Corsten Positiva
Ronald Ven Gelderen
9 Future Breeze Smile Future Breeze Radikal
10 Y Traxx Mysteryland CJ Stone CJ Stone Nebula
11 Potatoheadz Pump It Up CJ Stone CJ Stone Popular
12 Hydra Affinity Thrillseekers Steve Helstrip Discover
13 Dumonde God Music Dumonde Bulletproof
14 Dumonde Human/Atmosphere Dumonde F8T
15 Dumonde Can You Dig It Dumonde Serious
16 Dumonde Mind Made Up Dumonde F8T
17 George Acosta Emotions George Acosta Ultra
18 Jurgen Vries Brave New World Darren Tate Direction
19 Angelic Stay With Me Darren Tate Serious
Judge Jules
20 Jurgen Vries The Theme Darren Tate Direction
21 Maddona What It Feels Like For A Girl Above and Beyond Paavo S Maverick
22 Marco V C:/del*mp3 / Solarize Marco V ID&T
23 Dumonde and Tom Wax Louder Dumonde Bulletproof
24 Tiesto Urban Train Ronald Ven Gelderen Nebula
25 Nu NRG Connective Nu NRG Vandit
26 Surreal You Take My Breath Away Lange Groovalicious
27 VooDoo & Serano Overload CJ Stone Radikal
28 Shane Too Late To Turn Armin Van Buuren Armin Van Buuren Armind
29 Armin Van Buuren Album Sampler 3/3 Armin Van Buuren 76
30 Gaia 4 Elements Armin Van Buuren Captivating
31 Eon Pocket Damage Ferry Corsten Tsunami
32 System F Exhale Ferry Corsten Tsunami
33 System F Spaceman Ferry Corsten Tsunami
34 Alibi Eternity Armin Van Buuren Armind
35 Blank and Jones Desire 3/3 Blank & Jones Gang Go
36 Mauro Picotto The Others Mauro Picotto BXR
37 Blank and Jones Nightclubbing Remixes Blank & Jones Gang Go
38 Svenson Sunlight Theory Svenson ID&T
39 Blank and Jones DJ Culture Blank & Jones Gang Go
40 Angelic It's My Turn Darren Tate Serious
Judge Jules
41 Mauro Picotto & R. Ferri Alchemist EP Mauro Picotto Primate
42 Tomcraft Prosac Tomcraft Kosmo
43 Tomcraft Lonliness Tomcraft Ultra
44 Airscape L'Esperanza Johan Gielen Xtravaganza
Svenson
45 En Motion Truth Steve Helstrip ID-J
46 CJ Stone Infinity CJ Stone Popular
47 Shy Brothers Nemesis Shy Brothers Solid Traxx
48 Svenson Devil's LSD / Inside Outside Svenson ID&T
49 Aria Dido Armin Van Buuren Armin Van Buuren Blackhole
Tiesto Tiesto
50 Rank 1 Airwave Piet Bervhouts ID&T
51 Dumonde Never Look Back Dumonde Manifesto
52 Dumonde Tommorrow Dumonde VC
53 Oceanlab Clear Blue Water Paavo S Popular
54 Oceanlab Satellite Above & Beyond Paavo S NuLife
55 Above & Beyond Far From In Love Paavo S Hi-Bias
56 Mauro Picotto Meganite Ep Mauro Picotto Alchemy
57 Perpetuous Dreamer Sound of Goodbye Armin Van Buuren Armin Van Buuren Cream
58 Armin Van Buuren Yet Another Day Armin Van Buuren Nebula
59 Armin Van Buuren Album Sampler 2/3 Armin Van Buuren 76
60 Armin Van Buuren Blue Fear Armin Van Buuren 76
61 Darkstar See Me Feel Me Armin Van Buuren Armind
62 Rising Star Touch Me Armin Van Buuren Armind
63 Dumonde Das Licht/Sexomatic Dumonde Chaos
64 Ultra Free Svenson & Gielen Johan Gielen UTD
Dumonde
65 Darude Feel The Beat Darude Neo
66 Albion Above The Sky / Air Ferry Corsten E
67 Tomcraft Silence Tomcraft Kosmo
68 Conjure One Center of the Sun 29 Palms 29 Palms Nettwerk
69 Snap Rhythmn is a Dancer CJ Stone CJ Stone Data
70 Perpetuous Dreamer Dust.WAV Armin Van Buuren Gang Go
71 Scot Project Y (How Deep is your Love) Scot Project Perfecto
72 Darude Sandstorm Darude Neo
73 Marco V Recovered / Magnitude Marco V ID&T
Benjamin Bates
74 Marco V In Charge Marco V ID&T
Benjamin Bates
75 Marco V Certainly / Indicator Marco V x2 ID&T
Benjamin Bates
76 JamX Meets B.I.A. Das Licht Dumonde Dance Pollution
Bossi
77 Talla 2XLC Come With Me / Always Talla 2XLC Club Culture
78 Rank 1 Black Snow / Citrus Juicer Piet Bervhouts ID&T
79 Mauro Picotto Iguana Mauro Picotto BXR
80 Tranquility Base Razorfish Above and Beyond Anjunabeats
81 Marco V Godd Marco V ID&T
Benjamin Bates
82 Dumonde Human Dumonde F8T
83 Airscape Sosei Johan Gielen ID&t
Svenson
84 Adrima I Can't Stop Raving CJ Stone Dos or Die
85 Riot Bros Flashback / Guyver Unit Guyver Tidy
86 Nu NRG Dreamland Nu NRG Vandit
87 Signum Solar Level Signum Jinx
88 Hagen & Pascal Forever Signum Infusion
89 Signum What You Got 4 Me Signum Tidy
90 VooDoo & Serano When I Rock CJ Stone CJ Stone Urban
91 The Horrorist One Night in NYC *Sentimental signing CJ Stone Superstar
92 Arrakis The Spice Kai Tracid Tracid Traxx
93 Kai Tracid Trance and Acid [Remixes] Kai Tracid Tracid Traxx
94 Kai Tracid Concious Kai Tracid Tracid Traxx
95 Binary Finary 1999 Ronski Speed Ronski Speed Positiva
96 Kyau vs Albert Velvet Morning Ronski Speed Ronski Speed Anjunabeats
97 Southside Spinners Luvstruck Marco V AM:PM
Benjamin Bates
98 Out Of Grace Anglia Marco V Free For All
Benjamin Bates
99 Three Drives Greece 2000 Remixes Ton TB Ton TB Massive Drive
100 Three Drives Sunset on Ibiza Ton TB Xtravaganza
101 Three Drives Air Traffic Ton TB 3D
102 Svenson & Gielen Beauty of Silence Svenson Dos or Die
103 Svenson & Gielen Answer the Question/We Know What You Did Svenson Full Access
104 Svenson & Gielen Twisted Svenson ID&T
105 Svenson & Gielen Answer the Question Remixes Svenson ID&T
106 Oliver Klitzing I Like That Beat Oliver Klitzing Tracid Traxx
107 Oliver Klitzing I Like That Beat Oliver Klitzing Tracid Traxx
108 Reeloop Fucking Society Oliver Klitzing Headline
109 Kaylab Shinkansen EP Oliver Klitzing Headline
110 Reeloop Important Oliver Klitzing Tracid Traxx
111 Kaylab Larm Macht Krank Oliver Klitzing Pro-ceed
112 Derler & Klitzing Nuclear Device Oliver Klitzing OTR
113 DJ Tiesto Nyana Sampler Blackhole
GTR Mistral Gareth Emery
114 Alibi Eternity (Remixes) Armin Van Buuren Armind
115 Major League Wonder? Armin Van Buuren CodeBlue
116 Hybrid Kill City/Alititude Hybrid Distinctive
117 Hybrid Finished Symphony Hybrid Distinctive
118 Hybrid Morning Sci-Fi Hybrid Distinctive
119 John Creamer and Stepane K I Love You Hybrid Hybrid Pipeline
120 Marco V Tolerance/Savage Benjamin Bates ID&T
Marco V
121 Marco V Simulated Remix Benjamin Bates ID&T
Marco V
122 Scot Project O (Overdrive) Scot Project Extrawild
123 Scot Project F (Future is Now) Scot Project Overdose
124 Push Universal Nation '99 M.I.K.E. Inferno
125 Tranquillity Base Surrender Paavo S Anjunabeats
Jono Grant
126 Push Tranzy State of MInd M.I.K.E. Inferno
127 Push Strange World/The Legacy M.I.K.E. Inferno
128 Markus Schulz You Wont See Me Cry Markus Schulz Plastik Records
129 Elevation Somewhere/Clear Blue Markus Schulz Armada
130 Push Electric Eclipse M.I.K.E. Bonzai
131 M.I.K.E. Sunrise at Palaimos M.I.K.E. Bonzai
132 Plastic Boy Silver Bath/Dahab M.I.K.E. Bonzai
133 Accuface Let Your Mind Be Free DJ Dean DJ Dean Tunnel Trance Force
134 Iio Rapture Armin Van Buuren Armin Van Buuren White
135 Allen & Heath Xone 62 Dave Seaman MIXER
136 Major League Wonder? Armin Van Buuren Blackhole
137 ATB Addicted to Music ATB Kontor
138 Talla 2XLC Can You Feel The Silence? Talla 2XLC Impetuous
139 Hagen & Pascal On Stream/Adaptor Signum White
140 Rank 1 Beats @ Rank1.com/After You Piet Bervhouts ID&T
141 Rank 1 Awakening Piet Bervhouts ID&T
142 Rank 1 Such Is Life Piet Bervhouts Tommy Boy
143 Rank 1 Such Is Life (Remixes) Piet Bervhouts ID&T
144 Rank 1 Awakening (Remixes) Piet Bervhouts Clubgroove Records
145 Rank 1 Tracks From Symsonic Piet Bervhouts ID&T
146 Dada Pogrom War is a Pogrom Kenny Lead Berry Research
147 Hi-Gate Saxuality Judge Jules Incentive
148 Marco V vs Jens Loops n Tings Marco V ID&T
149 Marco V Simulated Marco V Simulated
150 Marco V Combinations Sampler Marco V ID&T
151 Insigma Open Our Eyes Steve Helstrip ATCR
152 Indemand & Unreleased #2 Circa Forever Steve Helstrip ATCR
153 Indemand & Unreleased #1 Open Our Eyes/Circa Forever Steve Helstrip ATCR
154 The Thrillseekers Synaesthesia Steve Helstrip Popular
155 The Thrillseekers Synaesthesia Steve Helstrip Neo
156 En-Motion Getting Away With It Steve Helstrip Incentive
157 Rapid Eye Stealing Beauty Steve Helstrip ATCR
158 Morpheus Signs/Magnetica Steve Helstrip Captivating
159 Whiteroom Whiteroom Andy Moor White
160 Bossdrum Beat Is Pumping Bossi Dance Division
161 Cosmic Gate Human Beings (Remixes) Bossi EMI
162 Cosmic Gate Firewire Bossi Popular
163 Cosmic Gate Exploration Of Space Bossi Radikal
164 Cosmic Gate Mental Atmosphere Bossi EMI
165 Cosmic Gate No More Sleep (Album) Bossi EMI
166 Cosmic Gate The Drums (Remake) Bossi E-Cutz
167 Cosmic Gate Different Concept Part 1 Bossi ID&T
168 4 Strings Take Me Away (Into The Night) Jan De Vos Popular
169 4 Strings Daytime Jan De Vos AM:PM

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some guys actually hang out in the place before their set. i've seen bo and dom (filo & peri) and andy moor. there have been others at viva for sure. (i think miika, askew, others?)

dunno what to say. some of them will only do it afterwards. some will do it at the booth during their gig. some do it before.

then again some are too tired or feel they'd be too swamped and bail after a gig or stick around but security boots everyone out (including the djs, although they get time to clean up their gear). sometimes they don't want to be disturbed during a set, for various reasons. some show up on the dot for their set or even late.

just gotta try to best guess the dj's personality and mood and time it right.

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many sign for a bit while actually in their set,

Ive seen benassi to do this lots, same with seb fontaine, jules, AVB even did it.


But ive learned that a signature isnt everything, but be there for the music!@

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What Aqva said ^ Although if I were a bigtime DJ, Sean and you came up to me with 20 vinyls I'd be kinda pissed off. Yes, you supported my music, thank you, but do I HAVE to sign everyone of these? It would make me think you just want to try and resell them all on eBay or something. Its quality, not quantity. You bring up 20 tracks and they're going to just scribble through them. If I ever get tracks signed anymore I bring only one or two per artist (my favorites) and I always ask them to make a personal note on them so that I have some kind of memory of the occasion. My favorite being "Alje, Thnx for keepin me liq'd, love you daddy, XOXO L. Lashes". Note, the personal touch, far cooler than having 20 records with the same scribble on them, right?

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the only problem i have with people asking for autographs during sets is that everyone then wants one and starts swamping the dj

my personal preference, after cause a lot of time the djs get to the club just before their set or sometimes you dont even see them come in cause they hide behind security and quickly get behind the decks

After has worked best for me, although Andy Moor was the exception. I would add that patience is the KEY. I saw Above & Beyond (Jono & Paavo) last night at Last Supper Club (seattle). Like AquaYak said, be polite, friendly, etc, & wait your turn. It also helps to guage the situation. Last night, I let everyone else go before me b/c they just wanted to get 1 item signed by the lads or get their photos taken with them; I even lent out my pens to those who didn't bring theirs. I waited to be the last one b/c I brought 13 record jackets with me, which Jono & Paavo both signed. Paavo & Jono were really cool about taking the time to sign everything & they expressed their appreciation for showing my support by bringing the record sleeves to the gig.

Rules:

a) Be nice, don't push and smile
b) Get to know people, connections are always good
c) Most DJs and artists are really friendly and if you manage to catch one just ask politely they will definitely sign in
d) See if you can find their manager - these guys can arrange everything

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my friend got armin to sign her boot lol!!!

please dont give your dirty old sneakers to djs to sign
or throw your sweaty tshirts at the dj
not very polite

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Originally posted by apri_peel please dont give your dirty old sneakers to djs to sign or throw your sweaty tshirts at the dj not very polite

Or $20 bills. Or hats. And if you're drunk and high, don't even try coming up to AvB to have him shake your sweaty hand. Most embarrassing Vancouverite to ever attempt to meet Armin, I'm sure. Or it could have been that chick who called him Armand Van Helden. Its a toss up between the two, they were equally stupid people.

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time to resurrect the classic post about the time i found the armin autographed $10 bill.

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