I saw Eric Prydz live and he's how the evening played out:

I got there 2 hours before he came on and the warm up guys played some generic house/tech house that was pretty basic. House rule is DJ's can't play bigger than the headliner, so these guys weren't playing anything spectacular. Absolutely no vocals at all and no elaborate melodies or big leads. Sometimes all you heard was a kick and off beat bass.

When Eric comes on he plays a 7 minute track that's one long pad. The rest of the set is broken down into three parts:

Part 1:

More of the same: warm up house.

Part 2:

More melodic stuff. This is where it gets interesting. He starts to play stuff with more melody. He plays a special bootleg of Pjanoo that reveals that famous riff for just one pass. The riff plays once and then is kind of muted for the rest of the track. A few tracks later Pjanoo is introduced again, but then it goes into

Part 3:

Mash Ups

Pjanoo is finally dropped and its a mashed up version with vocals from I don't know where. He plays a few other mash ups as well and ends the night with Mirage. He really seems to like 2night.

None of this is really surprising considering that he also builds up his track arrangements in the same way. 99% of DJs don't even bother to put in this kind of thought though, which is really a shame. What he did was not really difficult, and it just required a bit of forethought into his set.

Like L4C was saying before, you can hint at a track to come later on by dropping a small snippet of it before its going to be played in full, and that's what Eric did.

Anticipation is quite the drug.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

the problem is that pjanno kinda sucks it's fucking overplayed. What i do sometimes is having a hot cue with the vocal one shot or main riff notes of the keystone track you are building for. You can also use the cue as a sample if you don't have hot cues setted.

Alternatively you can set a loop of that specific part of the track but i don't like looping that much.

so you're saying sasha was the opener?

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Originally posted by Beatflux Like L4C was saying before, you can hint at a track to come later on by dropping a small snippet of it before its going to be played in full, and that's what Eric did. Anticipation is quite the drug.

Some of the best DJs I've seen have been great at doing this.

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Originally posted by idoru Some of the best DJs I've seen have been great at doing this.

Which DJs? Do you konw of any reference sets?

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Originally posted by dj_alfi change your avatar for fucks sake.

Paul Van Dyk used to do it all the time. It's not exactly an obscure trick, despite what you seem to think.

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Its good practice to do it as soon as you go on. Then you get a good feel of using equipment you never tried before.

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the thing is that if it is your own track, you can bounce say the melodic part to all keys. So that you can be more flexible as to how you do it and where you place it. In a way it would be like learning say chords and how to use them but you need vocabulary in order to improvise. The dj in a way part of his/her skill is to have this huge library at his/her finger tips and be able to do this stuff without planning too much. I mean there is pre planning exporting say your material maybe editing the hook so it is not quite the whole thing .... If you start your set with it planned out , it sort of defeats the purpose.

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Last edited by Looney4Clooney on Jul-10-2012 at 02:07

Did you dance and grind with babes and get fucked up and do lines at the after party?

i seem to recall oakenfold had done that "trick" a time or two during his essential mix world tour as well... dunno really if it was a trick or a mess up, lol. but there was at least one occasion where i remember hearing a track come in early, only to not really hear it until a few minutes later.

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Originally posted by keithos27 i seem to recall oakenfold had done that "trick" a time or two during his essential mix world tour as well... dunno really if it was a trick or a mess up, lol. but there was at least one occasion where i remember hearing a track come in early, only to not really hear it until a few minutes later.

I have heard Cressida use this technique a couple years back with 6AM (Kyau & Albert Mix)

I had not started DJing yet, was relatively new to clubbing, and had a couple drinks in me so I thought he played the song a few times during his set.

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im surprised people (on this website) think using a sample or dropping a melody is some sort of amazing, ground breaking mixing technique