I think it's cool that you're thinking about what the crowd actually wants to hear. My advise would be to drop a few 'very recognizable commercial tracks' like ATB- 9pm,,, Dirty Vegas- Days Go By,,, etc. If people seem to be liking that then try some new quality tracks and see what happens

remember my college deal was west coast so I dont know how it works on the east coast.

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yeah..6 and 8th graders..what do they know? and thats what sucks about djing..when u wanna mix what u like u know u'll be booed off coz where your spinning at peeps only listen to cheezy mainstream stuff that gets played over and over on the radio.

just do what 24K said..drop some stuff that everybody know i.e heaven, atb, etc. then drop in some of the stuff ulike..

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they judge you coz u aint rap (haha)
thas alota smacks u told and thats that
in the streets they nicknamed you fag
little wanna be mc that cant seem to see that you can never be who u think u gon be..see that? guess not? coz u dont fuckin rap!!

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Originally posted by musicaddict yeah..6 and 8th graders..what do they know?

i never said u aite, acid john? hehe just the general 6/8 graders, u know what i mean.

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people dont judge you coz u aint black
they judge you coz u aint rap (haha)
thas alota smacks u told and thats that
in the streets they nicknamed you fag
little wanna be mc that cant seem to see that you can never be who u think u gon be..see that? guess not? coz u dont fuckin rap!!

yea...i agree. the general 8th grader knows jack shit about djing.

play some *accesible* music if you know what I mean ( something that they'll *understand* )

and for the occasion don't be scared to play trance/house/techno and then a track of rap then more electronic shit


really it doesn't matter if you do it that way and that's what I'd suggest.

I'd say even go back to back with the hip hop djs like you do a couple tracks then one of them does a couple tracks then you hit it up again and so on




but if you go all the way *electronic* I think you'll scare them ( unless you play shit they might know .... or stuff that's really *accesible )

What i propose is.. start with the more commercial cheese... then slowly build ur way into more underground regions... if you sense a disturbance in the force.. then switch back...

hey man... 8th grader DJ is way cool.. cause u'll be famously remmebered in ur school and the chicks.. they dig DJ'z!!!

and who knows.. ppl who are into trance might come up to you later that you never knew liked trance b4...

so yeah.. up 2 U bRo

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how old is 8th grade ?

most ppl will generally take the hard route in2 trance, like the cheesey hard house with synths kinda thing

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East Coast is a lot worse. You have the ignorant tasteless teenage kids who blare hip hop and top 40 crap through the hallways at my school. On Wednesdays it's "Music on the air day" which basically means they play music on the P.A. while we switch classes. All they play is Top 40, and some even with the vulgar language in it, WTF!?!? The school allows this? Goddamn I hate some people.

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well in at that age

spin alot and heaps of CHEESE and all the mainstream stuff you hear on the radio, tv......etc......


but plenty of cheese for them

OR play what you like and have a good time, fuck the crowd!

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