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Play a mixture of stuff, that should keep their attention. When kids like that, you probably aren't going to play stuff your deeply passionate about, but your not really playing for yourself now, your playing for them. So i'de play some trance, but not 100% trance. Start off with some slower stuff, maybe some R&B and hip hop, and then work your way into some dirty house music and some electro house, i'm sure they'd like that, even some Benny Benassi they'd like. Yeah his stuff is kind of irritating but they most likely would have heard stuff like "Satisfaction", there's some neat remixes of that too, esp the "Steve Murano Remix". Then play some uplifting and melodic trance, and maybe get a little techy too, just all out banging stuff to end it. Sounds pretty nice to me...yeah you should play stuff your passionate about, but you have to play to your audience...and this is the biggest difference it seems from being a bedroom DJ to being a mobile or club DJ (but if your at a club, you have more freedom esp if your at an EDM club, because people are older and most likely enjoy that kind of music).
Funny thing is though, I was at a school dance in high school and my junior and senior years they hired a student at my school who had DJ equipment to DJ our school parties, because it was cheaper. Well one of the first times he played, he played a bunch of r&b and hip hop and older pop stuff like Michael Jackson and Madonna and Britney and such, and then I was talking with him and asked him if he had any EDM and he had a few. So he put on a techno track, and it was pretty fast and banging and guess what...people stopped dancing. And this WAS pure dance music, with a fast, heavy beat..nice rhythm, and I was thinking "wtf???"  so if that happens, f*ck it and play the slower stuff haha...
Last edited by Spirit5 on Jun-04-2006 at 18:32
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). bring loads of that and try to get some house remixes of some current radio tracks. but that's really about as far as the EDM route goes with that type of crowd.
