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| Ibiza Dreams |
Whatsup TAs, my favorite people
There's a local club down here in San Antonio, which, among all the other clubs in the city, is the one that plays the most electronica. I decided to check it out with a friend of mine. It was 80% electronica, 20% rap/hip-hop, but the electronica was extremely cheesy... Ian Van Dahl, Benny Benassi - Satisfaction, etc. The mainstream "electronica" they played was all very upbeat and hard for the most part, as is most cheesy/mainstream trance.
I talked to a very cute waitress and told her I DJ and how I spin a more "European" style trance, not wanting to say "underground" to turn her off. She asked me to bring in a demo the next time I went to the club, and she'd hook it up with the owner.
As my style of DJing is towards Gabriel & Dresden, Tiesto, Luke Chable, etc...
The question is : What do you guys think would make an effective demo for this style of club. What type of set would I be able to record and have the manager say "Damn, this is good ." Keep the set upbeat throughout? Stick to harder stuff? Or do my own style beginning with chill prog and work it up to harder uplifting?
Hopefully this works out, I use CDJ800s, so i'm hoping they have some type of CDJs setup!
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| Mr.Mystery |
Well if they play mostly cheesy stuff I'd recommend something along those lines yet not quite.
Trance remixes of pop tunes, vocal trance etc. |
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ibiza Dreams
The question is : What do you guys think would make an effective demo for this style of club. /..../ and work it up to harder uplifting?
Hopefully this works out, I use CDJ800s, so i'm hoping they have some type of CDJs setup!
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Keep it similar to what works in that club and if you do get hired play 80% their style to begin and about 20% of your own. work people into it. But Demo it as (as Mr. Mystery stated) trance remixes of pop type tunes and a hint of your style.
As for the decks, count your blessings if you get one with decent CDJ's let alone mixer. Many clubs have the 800's or 1000's (b/c they are big clubs) but alot of the smaller clubs (200/500 people per nite) may not. A 2 year residency outside on the outskirts of chicago at a club named amnesia didnt have CDJ's at all. We had a Denon DN-D4000, 2 1200 MKII's and a Rane MP44. Not the best but very well to work with in a club. Your CD players are not the same tho, but being a pro DJ you need to be adaptable and know how to use a ton of equip. All CD players work essentially the same way |
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| MindShifter |
| If I were you I'd go back to the place and speak w/ the management before submitting a demo. That way you can let them know where you are commin from, and they can tell you what they are looking for. Then you can kinda tailor your demo to fit what they are looking for, but also adding to it what you are/can bring to the table. |
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| dartman |
i would probably make a demo that had alot of vocal tunes on it that would have some mainstream appeal. almost none of my friends listen to EDM but they dont seem to mind stuff by oceanlab ,4 strings, delerium, etc..... maybe throw some a couple "harder" tunes in there as well. obviously i dont know the club but i would try to stay away from prog, as alot of people tend to think of it as "boring" (myself not being one of them)
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| DjJade |
| especially if you wanna be alittle different, id say start with a remix of a mainstream song thats tasteful so that they know the song...but not and it would serve as a good icebreaker for the rest of your tracks that the will mostlikely not know. |
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| Boomer187 |
Nemisis put it best when he said to make sure you have some very good mixing skills in your demo. That way if they don't like the songs they cannot deny your mixing ability, then they prolly still book you.
it is not very realistic in thinking that a club will change its format very drastically for one dj, so I would stick to the vocal type stuff as mentioned earlier.
Good luck on this though, hopefully you can get in and mold the format to cooler music. |
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| Vlad |
Heres a few tracks that you might want to spin in a club like that:
Agnelli & Nelson - Nothing
Chicane feat. Bryan Adams - Dont Give Up (Alex Gold & The Sound Express Remix)
Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Your choice of which mix to play)
Andain - Beautiful Things (Your choice of which mix to play)
Armin van Buuren - Burned with Desire (Your choice of which mix to play)
Well Im sure you get the point... I suggest you slip in 1 or 2 real tracks, like Sunday Afternoon, and see how the crowd reacts to it - if you get a positive reaction subtley incorporate those types of tracks into your set. |
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