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Originally posted by Tenshi 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!

Well the only way I see the early bedrock stuff working on the mainstream crowd
is if the all just took their first pill.
Maan, they would all worship you like god!

Try to give the crowd familiar stuff ,club classics, 80's remixes ,party songs,
if you want to stay true to your prog style there are tons of prog remixes of popular
songs ,Nirvana vs adam freeland,eurithmics remix by danny tenaglia ,
madonna ray of light (sasha remix),u2 paul oakenfold remix (yeah ok dont do that...)
justin timbarlake remix by sander kleinenberg, the list goes on...
Get the instant feedback and choose your music from there,
Dont ignore the crowd cause the are the reason you are spinning
if there was no crowd you wouldnt be spinning there.

Why bring prog trance back in the mix and push yourself in the corner when
you already know that the dont really care for that?

After playing their favorite songs you can carefully bring some underground stuff
but remember long breakdowns will not go on a sobber crowd,
there is just no attention span,to throw something like that
in the mix ,all they want is a groove.

You are ther to entertain thats the bottom line.
If you want to do a moody prog set ,get to know the promoters
in your countrys underground dance scene, and blag an opening set at an
outdoors festival, they will love your sound there.

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Originally posted by Tenshi the "crazy frog" (the europeans will know this crap)

we know that crap too... fun tune

exactly why i don't even attempt EDM when playing at parties..

people my age aren't open to it, so i figure instead of fighting it i can just keep on playing fiddy cent

OMG, If I had to play Crazy Frog (Axel F Remix), I would just toss the decks in the audience and leave. Damn.

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Originally posted by djkoolaide keep on playing fiddy cent

keep on playing that...good one

tons of good comments on this one. a mixed party you'll always have people unsatisfied. also you'll have request, so you better bring your smile with you and say sorry forgot it at home, or yeah it will come. out of my short lived experience, it's nice that you thought of creating a flow, but remember it's not a specific music kind of party. it's mixed, so you'll have hip hop fans, as much as you'll have trance, prog...etc. so you'll have to bring the best of all worlds. on that note, it's hard to have a colletion that will include a wide variety of music from such diverse genders. if you think you can't do it, don't play at such parties, of have a buddy that spins hip hop to help you out.


edit: does it not annoy anyone (people that live mostly in North america) that people ask for the same song that they've heard on the radio twice that day as a request at a party?