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What to do when playing after a House DJ???
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| FuzzyGreen |
So you're playing a gig and the opener DJ is playing house for two hours before your set, do you:
A. Fade out his record and Fade in your track
B. Beatmatch into his slow-ass house track and try to slowly speed it up
C. Powerdown his record and rudly throw his record out into the audience. (pompus/ostentatious Oakenfold style)
D. Let his track play out until the end and leave an ugly silence before slaming in with an epic opener
E. Take the time to find a condom
F. Walk right over and you pound her
G. Slap the house DJ silly with your 12" |
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| Freak |
I have to do this all the time- suddenly change styles
Either power down (bit boring) then have a quiet intro/build up into the trancey stuff.
Or have some sort of middle ground to bridge between them (something energetic like deepest blue off the top of my head is what i would play)
Picth can be changed subtley quite a large % without beiong noticed much on the floor if you do it right...so it can be mixed in easy enough.
Its more the choice of tunes thats important. If the opener is agreeable then they can adjust the last tracks of their set accordingly to make it smoother. House is a large spectrum, and all sorts can be got away with.
p.s- if its a club setting, getting the lighting guy to black it out as you power down the house tune and bring in a nice intro into a trance tune will add 100x to the effect.
p.p.s- Im a house music nut and play it more than any other style :p so sod the trance and keep playing house all night :toothless (unbiased opinion honest ) |
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| FuzzyGreen |
| Yeah I'm just joking, I'll be playing progressive house/trance. No epic e. |
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| Cheetah86 |
| Maybe play a breaks track to break it up a little.(No pun intended) The tempo most breaks tracks are at(at least in my experience) are between house and trance. You might want to speed the house up a little into the breaks speed, just to give it a little boost but not making the pitch fader go up all the way, then slow your music down to the breaks speed for whenever you get into what you wantto play. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| I don't think its that big of a deal... just have your tune ready, and just fade out his as its about to end, and start yours up. This will get everyones attention to the "shift change" and go from there. Theres no need to have to find a track to match up a slow house track, if your playing faster progressive or trance. |
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| benoitfan |
| one thing I like to do though, is carry on what the other DJ has built and then make a sudden change; what I mean is, I have trance, house, techno records, and I guess every DJ has at least *some* records that don't belong to his main genre, or some remix etc. What I do is I follow what he's doin' (for instance if he was playing house I'd continue playing house) and then stop after a while and give the crowd something different. That way you're not being rude to the other DJ etc :) |
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| montana |
| i recommend to find slow trance records, or find records that sound good even pitched down to +5, or find some house records that you like |
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| Vlad |
| If you got skill, do a scratch with the house track, pitch it up a bit and mix into it. :p |
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| tylerc |
i dont see why a powerdown would be considered 'rude.' i would think that a house dj would know that there is usually a pretty big gap in the bpm of house and trance.
i would just do a powerdown and make sure the first tune you play had a pretty quick intro. none of that 2 minute atmosperics before any semblance of a beat drops. |
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| djxtension |
If you are the not the first dj playing, i would make sure i got there about an hour early or so, just to catch the vibe going on in the venue.
Listen to the other dj, what he/she plays, and try to go on from that.
You can learn a lot by just watching/listening to other dj's. Use that knowledge to start your set.
If you see the crowd is really digging house, you could mix on with it for a while, slowly moving on to trance.
If the crowd is clearly getting bored of it, switch the turntable off, and start a banging trance/techno/hardhouse/whateveryouplay set.
And why not ask the previous if it's ok to stop his/her last record? Some dj's really don't like it when the next dj just walks in and kills their set.
Just my 2 cents. |
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| ghosthondo |
definitly blend in some of your slower stuff and build from there(not trying to be rude but u should have this type of music on hand, your a dj your job is to find all types of music in the genre you play and build the set).
plus if your set is bulit up correclty the people listening will notice and that a good thing. |
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| DJ_Ikronix |
H. Get the MC on the mic (or do it yourself) and wax poetic while bringing down the volume on the house track. Then kuvva-kuvva the trance song in (assuming it starts with a kick :D ).
But maybe that's just me. |
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