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yep. when an opener plays trance with breakdowns, the crowd tends to come-and-go.
And it's why the best openers for trance acts tend to not play trance when they open. They understand trance and know what works well with trance, but don't necessarily play trance in their opening sets. OK, well some do but the ones that do it well are far-and-few between. Most (95%) that do fail and fail hard.
You can always start with prog house or even some techno and work your way into prog trance or wahtever. Or put some prog trance in there, andt hen chancge it up when you get towards the end. But if it's an opening set that's pure prog-trance/trance, chances are there are gonna be issues. If you are DJ who can't go outside the box (trance) when opening, then you shouldn't be opening.
When it comes to the peeps leaving-and-returning to the floor constantly during an opening set, the place I've seen this happen by far the most over the years is at Circus (this isn't anything recent...just over the years). Funny part is, I've been there on nights with two headliners where the first one is more just good ole trance with the second known to lpay harder...if the first one plays too many breakdowns, the crowd there wille ven just leave the floor until the next DJ comes on. I remember this happened when I think Alex Morph & Sean Tyas played. Or someone & Sean Tyas. The first headliner wasn't really doing it that night -- lot of breakdowns by the first headliner and it was pretty bland -- so the crowd didn't fill the floor. Tyas came on and everyone came back in. I though Tyas was boring as it was just such a generic set, but the zombified crowd was kinda into him.
I always try to say an opener should get the crowd grooving, not jumping. If they are constantly jumping, the opener prob is doing too many breakdowns & buildups. If they do jump, it should be off of a groove...a big kick in the track...and not every track (you don't want to wear the crowd out!). Hard to explain.
Last edited by DaveT on Nov-10-2009 at 11:01
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