I was throwing a school's out party with a few friends, we had a very nice room (6x20 metres) a nice soundsystem (without monitors though, which was very shitty, had to mix in the headphones all the time) and a nice decoration! i also had a really cool dj table a friend of mine did for me, but it wasn't very stable, so if people were jumpin' to my place the need jumped all the time...was kinda annoying!

so i started my set at 9pm with some smooth progressive (the likes of Redanka - Waves, Reflekt - Need to feel loved (Seb Fontaine & JP Mix) and Luke Fair - Digital) and the people were just standing there and talking...no one danced the first hour....but i wanted to create a flow and played another hour...so it was 11pm now and a guy came over and asked "can you play some techno, like future trance - this is a real shitty compilation over here with mainstream "hands up" acts on it - and i said "no, but i have some quality trance i'll play later" - 10 minutes later, i played the fantastic killahurtz mix of Stel - Finding Time, a old guy came over and asked if i have the "crazy frog" (the europeans will know this crap) and i thought "oh my god, if i don't play anything more mainstream now people will leave" - so i played Max Graham vs. Yes - Owner of a Lonley Heart, Ethan - In my Heart and Mylo - In my Arms and people loved it...but now i was out of the more mainstream stuff...so i played some prog trance, like perry o neil - myst and more and more people were leaving the room!

then a guy came over with some cds (80s, some austrian pop music - people love this coz they can sing along - mainstream hiphop) and said "there are about 50 people outside, who are there because they don't like your music, please play some of my cds." so i did and people were shaking once again to daddy cool and stuff...some friends arrived, we drank much alcohol and it was so much fun, coz the ladies were shakin' hard on the dancefloor!

my first gig with more than 20 people and i learned a lesson! play what people want to hear if you don't play a club, where your music is accepted!

thanks for reading!

Last edited by Tenshi on Jul-01-2005 at 09:21

Typical and that's the reason I won't play in such events.

You hear loads of these stories, i wouldn't mind changing my style a bit to get people onto the dance floor, but theres no way im about to totally change my style (80's stuff you mentioned), its just not me, obviously you HAVE to get the crowd into it, but if they want stuff that is TOTALLY different to what you mix normally then i dont see the point, another DJ should be mixing that stuff up, not me.

Either way, always good with the ladies

Glad u got them into it eventually!!!

Sounds sh!tty next time make your own outdoor rave, one of my friend friend is gonna throw one and I might have a gig there becouse I only play EDM and my friends loves all the music I mix with becouse he has never heard it and wonder where I find it all.. Anyway, goodluck next time! Toss a outdoor rave, easiest, just try to make sure if it rain your still under a dry party tent

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Yea like any house party or small party its most likely gonna happen. I had people comen up and asking for kylie minouge or the latest loyde banks or 50cent. So i just pulled out more slighty commercial funky vocal house stuff and cheesy kind of vocal trance. I wouldnt go as far as getting a pop cd though i just wouldnt be able to bring myself to doing it.

I had a similar thing happen to me a few years back. A buddy asked me to come over and spin at his house party as there were some trance fans there. I get there... like 2 people total... So at this point I started drinking and just mixed for myself. About an hour goes by and all these juice heads and thugs show up. I was starting to get a bit drunk so I didnt give a crap and just started playing some nice prog. That's when people started coming over and asking me if I had certain tracks. The nail in the coffin was when some guy asked me if I had that song that goes... (and he started to sing the hook from zombie nation). I said sorry buddy, must have left that one at home, picked up my records and left. Now I learned not to show up at those kind of parties.

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thanks for the comments people!

next time i wouldn't do it again...i mean i got 50 bucks for it but as it wasn't the music i'd play i'll pass one this kind of parties next time...

an outdoor rave is kinda difficult where i live...and i think it's too much of a risk (rain, volume, police,...)

lol, 80's.. boring

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not to sound like a prick or anything, but you fucked up in the first place by playing prog first. i know what your intent was but the fact is really if the crowd is not willing to dance to it, you shouldn't force it upon them.

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Originally posted by Tenshi so i started my set at 9pm with some smooth progressive (the likes of Redanka - Waves, Reflekt - Need to feel loved (Seb Fontaine & JP Mix) and Luke Fair - Digital) and the people were just standing there and talking...no one danced the first hour....but i wanted to create a flow and played another hour

I sincerely hope that you never expect to play in a club if you think that's how it works. I'm not dogging on you here, but if you're the DJ and people aren't dancing then you've fucked something up. Trying to create a flow is one thing, but if people aren't feeling your flow to begin with then you need to rethink your plan of attack as far as tune selection goes. Forcing prog down everyone's throat for another hour after you've already realized they don't like it is insane.

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Originally posted by Wraith I sincerely hope that you never expect to play in a club if you think that's how it works. I'm not dogging on you here, but if you're the DJ and people aren't dancing then you've fucked something up. Trying to create a flow is one thing, but if people aren't feeling your flow to begin with then you need to rethink your plan of attack as far as tune selection goes. Forcing prog down everyone's throat for another hour after you've already realized they don't like it is insane.

i forgot to say that there were about 6,7 people the first hour...i think the also wouldn't danced if i played their fav. tune...i knew that in the first hour no one would dance (i also wouldn't if there aren't any people in the place)
so i just played for myself in the first hour!