in this case bennassi is your friend

i had a great time playing "techno" to a non "techno" crowd

play some darude, bennassi, the slide vs white stripes remix, all the big popular crap

and u mite not be playing the best music but u should still have a great time because the crowd is dancing

slowly progress into the trance or edm just as dj_ikronix sez
ps ikronix, ur a smart man
ur formula worx lol

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definatly try to keep it as vocal as possible, but throw in some good vocaless tunes in every now and again. and id say progress through a few different styles, starting with some hip hop vs trance mash ups and then slowley building upto trance?
it could work... anyway when its all over please post and let us all know how it went

Yup, vocal and commercial is the way to go. Breaks also work very nice.

I've played for a non-trance crowd before, and I had a very hard time getting them to dance. I played lots of commercial and well-known tunes, and that kept them on the dancefloor for a few minutes. As soon as I layed down something they didn't know, they were gone.

At my school, I sometimes give cd's to people.. I've found that they appreciate tracks like Portishead - Roads (Sultan & Tone Depth Remix) to the harder tracks like Ernesto vs. Bastian - Who's the Starter? I say start off with a good vocal track, maybe some Sarah McLachlan, not silence though :P give that to them in the middle of the set to blow em away hehe... also maybe some Delerium.

They also seemed to like tracks like.. Whirlpool - Under The Sun, and Solid Globe - North Pole. So it really I think depends on how stubborn your audience is. But I thought people in my school were going to give me very negative feedback on the tracks, since I live in LA and radio has nearly destroyed most good music here. Oh, and they love tracks with a piano, Marco V vs. Jens - Loops & Things Relooped and Coldplay - Clocks (Ron Van Bueken[spelling is probably wrong] mix)

What they didn't seem to like were tracks like Envio - Time To Say Goodbye (Passiva Remix), complaint was the wooshy sound was weird. Also Midway - Amazon, they liked the breakdown, but not the beginning or end.

Hope this helps.. and good luck with that lol..

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VOCAL & MELODIC TRANCE!!

I spin in the land where clubbers been poison by Progressive House & Chessy Trance *Asian Ears* ........

There was a time, i spin a progressive trance & tech trance... the clubber feel that the songs is wierd *bunch of them are my friends, they say the song make me dizzy*

so i whacked on vocal trance... a dreamy female sound.. 1st i put in agnelli n nelson - holdin onto nothing then satellite.. n back to prog trance... i got nothing!! They seat n watch... then back again to vocal stuff... it was the most magically scene.. playing this track "ANDAIN - BEAUTIFUL THINGS (PHOTON PROJECT REMIX)" for 1min.. when it comes to the uplifting part... then magic comes..
Clubbers HANDS IN THE AIR!! Then after this song goes Alphazone - Revelation... n WOW!!! They dance hard, Jumpin around, n shaking their heads of the dope in their bodies!! LOL ....following the flow... i put in HARD TRANCE.. such as Special D, Dumonde, Yoji Stuff...*Groove Coverage - The End (Special D Mix)... helps me pump the party hard!* n they love the night!

But till now they reconginze trance as TECHNO or a melodical Progressive house.. n sometime they put trance = progressive house... SAD about this!!

CHEERS!!

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Originally posted by DJ Dinz VOCAL & MELODIC TRANCE!! I spin in the land where clubbers been poison by Progressive House & Chessy Trance *Asian Ears* ........ There was a time, i spin a progressive trance & tech trance... the clubber feel that the songs is wierd *bunch of them are my friends, they say the song make me dizzy* so i whacked on vocal trance... a dreamy female sound.. 1st i put in agnelli n nelson - holdin onto nothing then satellite.. n back to prog trance... i got nothing!! They seat n watch... then back again to vocal stuff... it was the most magically scene.. playing this track "ANDAIN - BEAUTIFUL THINGS (PHOTON PROJECT REMIX)" for 1min.. when it comes to the uplifting part... then magic comes.. Clubbers HANDS IN THE AIR!! Then after this song goes Alphazone - Revelation... n WOW!!! They dance hard, Jumpin around, n shaking their heads of the dope in their bodies!! LOL ....following the flow... i put in HARD TRANCE.. such as Special D, Dumonde, Yoji Stuff...*Groove Coverage - The End (Special D Mix)... helps me pump the party hard!* n they love the night! But till now they reconginze trance as TECHNO or a melodical Progressive house.. n sometime they put trance = progressive house... SAD about this!! CHEERS!!

are you fucking joking? dude if you play any hands in the air euro cheese vocal shit you are ganna get your ass kicked. its been said before, shitty whiny euro whore vocals would piss me of let alone a bunch of asshole hip-hop junkies who have never heard of trance before.

lol damn comp froze up and posted like 6times... fixed it

anyways... if theyre a hip-hop crowd give em what they want

at my school dances all they play is hip-hop and then like 2 EDM tunes near the end

go out and grab a few hip-hop tunes or if you have a CDJ available burn some

you may get some good turnout from playing your stuff but if you have a long set not everyone is gonna care to listen to your music for very long...

im thinkin maybe playing a couple well known hiphop tunes then a few of your own then a couple more hiphop...

dont forget slow tunes... its a school dance, not some nightclub or massive... the crowds gonna wanna get all snuggly cuddly with eachother and ya cant do that with upbeat stuff

are you gonna be the only source of music or is there gonna be some other guy there with a CD box?

Just do your stuff... don't mention the crowd. If i go to a party where the play music i dislike (like hip hop), i'll never dance and get bored. If it isn't your taste, u have to exept it... same with your set... just play your best tunes and hopefully some will get along!

Greetz

That's weird, I thought DJing was all about playing to the crowd.

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Originally posted by amartinathome That's weird, I thought DJing was all about playing to the crowd.

It is, some people forget though.

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Originally posted by amartinathome That's weird, I thought DJing was all about playing to the crowd.

i am totally opposite of that....if your a mobile dj that is what u do....if u specialize in trance or whatever u don't play house to to play to the crowd.....what u do is pass up the gig because there is no reason for u to be play'n there......why is this so hard to understand?


why would a trance dj play hip hop for a crowd?....its unfair to all involved to bring in a trance dj for a crowd that wants anything but that

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