Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Orange County, California
Your opinion on playing 'older' tracks...
There is so much made about unknown, new, and hard to find tracks heard during sets. I truly understand the lure of seeing a big name DJ spin and the thrill of hoping they unleash a wicked new bomb you've never heard...but will become obsessed with. It's the main reason many of us are hooked on this music: the thrill of the unknown. You don't know where a track is going but you can't wait for it to drop and the crowd to lose their minds. Sometimes top end DJ's throw in some classics and more than once I've read the threads where a DJ gets torn apart because he played a few old tunes.
Why is this such an evil sin? Or is it only the biggest and the best that are held to this accountability? To stay on top you must keep dropping jaws with brand new tracks. Can it ever just be that a good tune is a good tune, new or old? At smaller gigs, with unknown DJ's (ok fine, like myself or many of you) is there a need for any backlash to playing classics?
Going through the thousands of tracks I have in Serato the last couple months, I've gotten a bit nostalgic and if I love a tune, and it works into a set well, I play it. Why not? I haven't personally received much criticism for this - not that I'm playing to the biggest crowds either
Just curious what the general perception of this is. Always a sin to play oldies...or is it a case by case..dj by dj basis?
Originally posted by andrewyates
Why is this such an evil sin?
It's not.
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Jun-18-2009 17:05
72hrpartyanimal
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
personally, don't like to hear older tracks unless there is a good remix of it.
that, or if the dj is doing a hip hop set... "poison" by BBD never gets played out.
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Jun-18-2009 17:09
bas
Stronger Lover
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Here I Am Baby
quote:
Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
personally, don't like to hear older tracks unless there is a good remix of it.
I wish this was grounds for suspension. I would suspend you so hard. SO HARD.
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Jun-18-2009 17:16
72hrpartyanimal
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
quote:
Originally posted by bas
I wish this was grounds for suspension. I would suspend you so hard. SO HARD.
chicken shit
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Jun-18-2009 17:20
dutchessdani
tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Long Beach, CA
quote:
Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
personally, don't like to hear older tracks unless there is a good remix of it.
that, or if the dj is doing a hip hop set... "poison" by BBD never gets played out.
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Bite ur tounge billy! One of the best things about Ferry (or from my opinion) is when he is playing a new set you're totally into and then drops in BEAUTIFUL or some other version of FIRE that makes you go nutz and crawl out of skin right? ....(Que heart shaped finger language hand gesture) ha ha ha
When skillfully done I think it's what makes a Good Dj Great
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Jun-18-2009 17:54
Scoops
4 bags deep
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Jersey Shore
a good DJ can play bombs and newest tracks all night long
a great DJ can dig deep and pull out classics and make it work perfectly
ex: DT
Jun-18-2009 17:56
LYNDSAYwhaaat?
www.DjLyndsay.com
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: SanFranDisco, CaLi
I personally LOVE playing old or classic tracks. When I do some digging, and find some white label sh*t to download, I could care less if it came out years ago… it’s new to most people that are hearing it. Also, for most of the people that attend my shows regularly, they will even request that I play certain tunes (that I consider classic) and it really gets the crowd going because they “know” the song. And I find a lot of the new songs that come out (which can be fantastic) can also be repeated throughout a night by different DJ's because they are on the "top 100" or whatnot.
Jun-18-2009 18:00
djjoshuaallen
livin the dream
Registered: May 2005
Location: Los Angeles, CA
i hardly ever play anything that the crowd im playing for has heard before. So I guess it doesnt really matter much in that scenario. However, I usually dont play tracks that I have had in my bag for more than 6-8 months
Jun-18-2009 21:51
72hrpartyanimal
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West LA, California (where retired party people live)
it feels good - tony, tone, toni
never gets old yo!!!
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Jun-18-2009 21:59
Clovis
techno jungle shit
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
I play whatever I think will sound good in the setting regardless if it came out yesterday or 10-15 years ago.
You can play old tracks without them being instantly recognizable classics too. A lot of good dance music was made over the years that did not get hammered to death by every DJ and still sounds really good today...
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Jun-18-2009 22:02
HotDogWater
pantsaddict
Registered: May 2005
Location: somewhere in CA
i've noticed a lot of edm listeners especially are music 'snobs' -- they'll turn their noses up at any track a dj is playing that has been around for more than just a little bit.
myself, i like hearing the classics just as much as the new ones.
one of my favorite moments in electronic music was about 4-5 years ago when Armin and Markus were playing at 4th and B. oceanlab - satellite came on and the entire club sang the chorus -- still sometimes gives me goosebumps.
