nice (-: hit me up ill take care of u on the cd (-;

ok im bout to hit the sack for tonight so i wont be responding till morning but please keep the comments coming guys. it means a lot to me that you all are willing to even discuss this openly and objectively.

thx all

-nite

i can't believe no one mentioned



DIGGER - CHURCH OF RA

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Originally posted by djrodimus Sound advice. Actually i have a lot of experience promoting. like 10 years almost. Only thing is that it has been in a club / warehouse type setting mostly and the parties I threw back in a day could never be associated with church! )-: but all of your suggestions are good. most of which i have done. i have the support of about 2 or 3 churches at this time as well as a few dozen kids. but that’s bout it. oh actually there are some very old school djs in the city (Detroit) that support what im doing as well. regardless of their religious views. i was given a free vendor space at the Detroit electronic music festival this year for my company to sell my cds and t-shirts because of one of these djs. i sold 50 copies of my cds at 10 bucks a pop and about a dozen shirts. ive already gotten 1/2 dozen emails back from kids that bought my cds asking where they can buy more and when am i coming out with some new stuff. and right now Digitally Imported is reviewing my latest cd and I'm pretty sure it's gonna get played in the Trance channel...I hope (-:

Nice!!! Good luck with that

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Originally posted by Spirit5 I guess i've had a similar idea about spirituality and EDM, especially with prog and trance. I think there's definitely something spiritual about some older (and newer) trance and prog tunes. I really don't find the songs played in church week after week that spiritual. Sure there's some really inspiring stuff and beautiful stuff, but I don't see it as awe inspiring or stuff that will just take you away. I just find instrumental music to have this feeling that vocal music doesn't, it just lets you imagine things without giving you anything, the message is up to you. I know some people hate it when I or other people on here talk this way about this music. If you don't like the way I talk about it, don't worry, it's none of your business to tell me how or what I can feel. I think it requires you to look beyond it being strictly this music associated with drugs, drinking or clubbing. I guess there's just something theraputic about some music and the overall experience with it. The one that always comes to mind is Hydra's "Affinity (Thrillseekers Dub)", that tune gets me everytime. Yeah it's a few years old, but the whole atmosphere and melody and beauty in that track would definitely work in a spiritual-dance setting. I can just picture the early morning hours, as the sunrises and hearing that tune blasted in a half outdoor/indoor event, with people dancing, waving their hands in the air and just this sense of awe. I think this is an incredible feeling. I don't even think a church is the best place for this, unless it's really big. I can just picture this place by a lake or ocean, with a temple-like place overlooking the water. This place would have some big windows like some churches have. The sun would come through the cracks in the ceiling and windows, as waves crash upon the shore. This is just a lil bit of idea I have for an event in a place that is a mixture of a club and a spiritual/transpersonal retreat center. I tried starting a thread like this when I first joined here, it went okay but I think this is an approriate thread to mention it again after a year. I think it's a cool idea...even if it never really happens, but who knows...

Completely agree with you on this as well! I still get buzzed while i'm listening to mixes during busrides and things like that.

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Originally posted by Rainborn But srsly, I don't think many people will read your post. Split up the text a tad.

fucking hell. you think people have such short attention span as to not want to read a short paragraph?

>JM<

You could throw some Andy Hunter into a mix. His songs have been in a bazillion video games/movies/trailers and is the only producer (that I know of) with Christian influences in his songs. Heck, his first album was called "Exodus".

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Originally posted by Polt You could throw some Andy Hunter into a mix. His songs have been in a bazillion video games/movies/trailers and is the only producer (that I know of) with Christian influences in his songs. Heck, his first album was called "Exodus".

very cool. im gonna go try to find some of his tracks now. thanks for the advice. (-:

Play some MoShic at the start.

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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit i can't believe no one mentioned DIGGER - CHURCH OF RA

hmm would that be like RA the Egyptian sun god? lol

To the OP, to be honest I can't add any experience on the promoting side or help as a Christian but kudos to you for trying something new.

As it happens I've been to a nightclub that was in a church in the UK. Unimaginatively called 'The Chapel' in Salisbury. The chapel itself was one of three rooms.

A curious twist of fate was that my boarding school had bought the chapel with plans to move it brick by brick 100 miles to my school where it would be re-built and act as our chapel. After it was bought planning permission was withdrawn and it went on the market. About 6yrs later I returned on a night out

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Originally posted by Brizzo "It's all gone Pete Tong" is actually a phrase in Europe, England I believe. Pretty sure that's where Pete Tong got his DJ name from as well.

The infamous Rojam ID. 14 years, 9 months and counting...

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Originally posted by Cloud Play some MoShic at the start.

I love Moshic, but I don't know if that would work for a first try.

I'd take a gander at the Rock Remixes thread someone posted. Something people are somewhat familiar with is likely to receive more open-mindedness. For instance, I dj a few parties at my school, where nearly no one listens to house/trance. Every time I try and slip in a series of straight EDM, I get people coming up and saying "can you just play rap?" But if you throw in remixes of popular songs like The Killers, or Kelly Clarkson, or whatever, people are more likely to go with it, and that allows you the freedom to throw in one or two that they don't know in between. I'd say if you're looking to give an introduction to EDM and still have people enjoy themselves, remixes of pop/rock songs are the way to go at the beginning.

As for the mood of an actual church event, I don't know what kind of event you have in mind exactly, but something about Ulrich Schnauss sometimes feels a bit spiritual in a more peaceful sense. Esp. a track like Blumenthal.

Hope that helps, and good luck.

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