Throw this whole concept of a style out of the window. Don’t try and conform to a preconceived style you think you should. Just buy the records that YOU like. If you do that, your own style will naturally emerge.

I agree with the poster above. I would say don't worry to much about finding a style, just buy records you really dig spinning and that IS your sound. Wheather you buy every kind of music or not, that just is your sound, messy or not

I know one think I noticed for myself is that epic trance is definitly what got me into the scene and into DJing but once I starting buying records I was surprised how often I was playing my B-sides. The lesser known remixes or maybe if not lesser known, not the reason I bought the vinyl.

Anyway, I think the important thing is to not worry. Your sound can evolve with your tastes. Although if you are DJing to get big or something and are trying hard to promote yourself and develope a fan base/following then switching "sound" all the times is probably not a great idea. But seriously, I don't think (or at least hope not) that is why you started spinning.

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Originally posted by Breeze U shouldnt think about it too much its not a big deal just play what u like dun worry about style or whatever, i use keep thinking i need to stick to a style, but now i just play all kinds of styles in my sets progressive, all genres of trance to banging techno, its more intresting then sticking to on thing.

same goes for me.

i start slow with prog for
3 or 4 tracks until i build up my emotion and set my mood
then time for banging hardtrance

and if i need to go harder i throw down hardstyle (for the last 1 or 2 tracks or so)

cheers
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Originally posted by Spin Doctor Throw this whole concept of a style out of the window. Don’t try and conform to a preconceived style you think you should. Just buy the records that YOU like. If you do that, your own style will naturally emerge.

i was getting ready to post that, but you beat me to it.

f*ck everyone else, buy what you LOVE and play that.

im lucky, i exclusively love prog house/trance/breaks to death (which goes together quite well). other genres i can put up with, but im always going to be spending my vinyl $$ on the above.

so to reiterate:

if you stick with what you love, that is your style, and people will recognise you, for YOUR sound!

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Originally posted by Spin Doctor Throw this whole concept of a style out of the window. Don’t try and conform to a preconceived style you think you should. Just buy the records that YOU like. If you do that, your own style will naturally emerge.

i second that. Justt give time to the time

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Exactly instead of going towords one type of stile creat your own. I dont even pay atention to what genere the stuff i play is in. In my sets iv even mixed some hip-hop and put it in my set its all up to you. Some of the reasons people go towords electronic music is to get away from the norm standerized by society theres no need to put another label on it, just let it be free

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Originally posted by JayKuE you're definitely right, however, my reference to the scene which i guess i shuda clarified was more so "overall" to the trance scene in general. for example, within this community. here we have an amateur's dj section where well, obviously amateurs upload their mixes for ppl to dl. if i, [a decently knowledgable, though arguable, TA] see a tracklist with all so many tunes i'm familiar with, no matter how seamless ur mixing is, i wont bother downloading it. why? cause it wont have brought anything new into my life. i guess what i mean by contribution, is more so in regards to innovation and creativity, rather than a replication of a sound that top djs have already established.

There's a reason you hear amateurs playing the tracks the big DJ's play. Because they're all so damn good! I personally make mixes for my own enjoyment. Instead of listening to a few different mixes to hear my favorite tracks, I put all my current favorites into one mix and throw it in the car. Then I post it here, if someone wants to download it, that's great. If no one downloads it, no skin off my back, I only made it for myself to begin with.

I'm not going to pick out a bunch of mediocre tracks just so I sound different. Spin what you like. I don't understand why everyone goes through some DJ crisis trying to establish an identity when I'm probably having a lot more fun spinning what I enjoy. It may not get me far in the DJ world, but who wants to be big as a DJ if you're not spinning what you want to spin? Don't conform to what others want you to conform to, or what you think you have to strive to be. Just be yourself, and let the music do the talking.

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Originally posted by Spin Doctor Throw this whole concept of a style out of the window. Don’t try and conform to a preconceived style you think you should. Just buy the records that YOU like. If you do that, your own style will naturally emerge.

FKN WORD!!! Its important not to just follow the crowd, or stick to certain rules people believe apply to spinning records. If you can get away with dropping New Order - Blue Monday in the middle of a trance set and get away with it, then by all means do it.

Play the records you love and try to blend them in the best way possible. If all you can do is play www.*insertsomethinghere*.com's top 10 then you are merely a jukebox.

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i recognize myself in the exact same boat 4-5 months ago... I am so sick of trance, ofcourse there is very little quality trance made nowdays, and even then it gets over exposed to the extreme by top jocks like Tij, Ferry and Armin. But if you look at the progressive scene the exactly same thing is happening there... Sasha has become an ass and spins records that are 3 months old. I was in such a panic as to what I was going to spin, as I wanted to have a style that brought something new to the table... or rather the style that was not over exposed to the max like trance and progg have become as of late.. but no matter what if the record is popular everyone will start to spin it eventually... just look at "James Holden - Nothing (93 Returning Mix)" it was hammered to death by every progg jock than Armin and the rest of the trance world decided to kill the record...

anyways what I was trying to get I guess was the search for that style that made me feel good about my self and was fresh and somewhat different from everything else that is really big as of now...
at one point I really got into techno, I still spin some of it, but some of the stuff I just can't listen to it just not fun for me... as a techno jock it's a completely different job as a dj, for the most part you spin on 3 decks sampling from each record and making a new tune, it's innovative but it seems just a tad bit too repetetive to me, that's why I use a moderation of techno in my sets... (even reading an interview with Misstress Barbara she said her self that "I, Carl Cox, Sven Vath and all the other big names in the techno scene had the exact same records in their box, it was just the matter of skill as to how they would all put it together in the set" ...later I got into a lot of house but the harder side of house (no I am not talking about hard house)... and it just came to me one day that I loved the hard variation of house and techno and it just came to me as a realization that I loved tech-house like mad!
After reading up some more info on the DJ's I finally saw that every true DJ never sticks to just one style, you never see yourself playing the exact same stuff 3 years down the road... you always want to inovate and try new things and apparently it's absolutely normal...

hopefully what I wrote here somehow helps you...

the only real thing you can do is try to stay away from all hype filled vinyls and go on a search for the less known tunes, the one site that really helped me was www.juno.co.uk with all the samples I would just sit there for 2-3 hours and listen to every single thing that they had for sale in nearly every section and the stuff I like I wrote down and that out of that whole bunch I picked the records that appealed the most to me...shit I mean you should see the variety of stuff I purchased over the last 5 months or so... it's insane...

maybe whould you should do is take a little break from all of your music completely for a little while like a week and come back and see what happens...