my brothers friend is having a house party and he needs a back up dj cause the one he had dissapeared.
i dont have any "good" songs.
the closest top 40 song i have is a salt n pepper remix of push it.
should i spin anyway? have you ever spun at a party that was supposed to be top 40? how did it go?
Aug-05-2008 04:38
BOOsTER
Holding Infinity
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Sea of forgetfulness
My first time out was just a terrible night, wrong promo it said it would be normal Top 40 club night loooooool
and loooooong before that the owner was told that I play only Electronica hahaha...
you can't imagine the faces of those all hard-ass hiphoperz looking at me like " Uuuuh what's going on? " funny shit, when I remember it, what was not funny was playing for empty dancefloor...so depends...if you can handle playing for an empty dancefloor go for it, even that can be a great experience, it's solely about your psychological abilites of coping with that stress.
just play some cheesey david guetta house music or some fluffy armin trance
Aug-05-2008 11:33
Ryan0751
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2005
Location: Boston, MA
Normally I would say "don't do this" for a club event. If you don't like what you are playing, you'll be miserable. If you play what you like in the wrong venue, the patrons will be miserable (and the promoter and owner will hate you when people leave).
But it's your brothers friend... and a house party, which are usually low-key. Just go and get a bunch of the top 40 crap listed on iTunes and work in some fun house remixes here and there.
You CAN pull this off and still provide quality, no need to cheese it up too much.
Aug-05-2008 13:28
dark_Omens
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Detroit, MI
Grab some of the tracks off amazon.com (higher quality but same price as iTunes), and just play what they like. Unfortunately, house parties are a bit different than clubs. A house party focuses on the booze, where as at a club, one tends to focus on dancing (well... and booze). You'll keep people dancing as long as you play songs that the girls know the words to. But if you do well you'll get asked to do more, and hopefully eventually be able to mix in some of the stuff that you like.
Aug-05-2008 13:50
Zak McKracken
Trance
Registered: Jun 2003
Location:
yeah dont do it.
Aug-05-2008 14:53
Rememberence_
James Packer
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: HXTA #6
Shit DJs play what the crowd has no interest in. If that's the case then why bother.
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Aug-05-2008 15:06
winston
ultraviolet catastrophe
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Yggdrasill
pushitclubmix
Aug-05-2008 18:36
Rememberence_
James Packer
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: HXTA #6
quote:
Originally posted by diggerz
pushitclubmix
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"I played 12.30 til close at 3am at the club (Antro), following on from an Australian dj,
which seemed unusual in deepest Texas." - Judge Jules
Aug-05-2008 18:40
manu.el
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Sacramento
best of both worlds
yourremix.com
strictlyhits.com
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No elevator can go deep enough for my music
Aug-05-2008 20:59
TheKidsWantTechno
elektron slut
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: santa barbara
they want it, they just don't know it yet
Aug-05-2008 22:06
MSZ
godspeed
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: kill me
just go play your house techno or trance. not like youre getting paid to satisfy the customers.