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Playin' Trance for ppl who've never heard of it (pg. 3)
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| Zild |
| I wouldn't accept a gig at a Top 40 Club then go in there and play only underground hip-hop because thats what I'm into. I don't see how hard it is for some people to understand that. If you can't get a gig playing to a crowd that will appreciate your music then try harder. I've played a few parties where I knew everyone wanted to hear Top 40 music and I had a friend come with a cheap CDJ and a bunch of burned CDs and we tagged that crappy ass music all night and I did some scratching and everyone got down on the dance floor so I still had a damn good time. Can't beat playing records at a women's dormitory while its snowing with all the free beer you can drink even if I did hate the music I was playing. |
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| amartinathome |
| quote: | Originally posted by djtrinity
i am totally opposite of that....if your a mobile dj that is what u do....if u specialize in trance or whatever u don't play house to to play to the crowd.....what u do is pass up the gig because there is no reason for u to be play'n there......why is this so hard to understand?
why would a trance dj play hip hop for a crowd?....its unfair to all involved to bring in a trance dj for a crowd that wants anything but that |
Yes, I agree with you.
I'm not saying change your style of DJing. Let someone play the style that happens to be in demand that night. If the crowd wants a style other than what you play, then so be it. But don't go up there and ram your style in their face. Let some hip hop DJ do their thing. |
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| UphoricNitemare |
I'm sorry, but your just waiting for a disaster. Playing trance for people who don't like trance is a bad idea. I played trance at my birthday party, and as we all know, the scene is not huge in kentucky, especially central kentucky. Halfway through my set, everybody's like, can you play something else? You just can't force this kind of music on people. Oh and by the way, i guarantee you everybody is going to ask you to scratch for them. I played at a friends party (not a rave, but more like a college type party), and everyone did that to me. It was soooo annoying. I mean people automatically think that the point of those things are to scratch a record, which i for one don't even like. I don't like the way it sounds, and i don't think its fun.
If you want my advice, i'd say give in and play some hip-hop. And if you must play trance, i would go with some very poppy vocal sounding stuff, non "techno" people seem to like that the best in my experience. A lot of G&B, andain, that sort of thing |
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| Hyoctane |
I'm from Miami, so I have been exposed to pretty much the whole music revolution from Freestyle to booty to trance/house.
Based on experience( not like some of the other posts)... Spin remixes of stuff those types of people have listened to. Stay away from anything that has big breakdowns or climaxes(as stated in other posts). If you can scratch, that's a good idea with breakbeat.
There's tons of bootlegs and stuff of hip hop with breakbeat remixes. No cheese. Anything commerical(Tiesto, Van Buuren, Corsten, Van Dyke, Oakenfold) that they may have been exposed to is a good idea.
If they don't like the EDM at all, you can always switch to electro, booty, Miami Bass if you have any. Depends on how old they are. Anyone younger than 18 probably didnt' get into music until well after that stuff was gone.
I'm 25, I grew up in the middle of it's heyday.
Anyway, just have fun with it. If they don't like it, oh well.
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| snowman99 |
Last night I saw Judge Jules play at a student club, the sort crappy of place where the dj cant shut up for more than a minute (literally), plays s club 7, and cant mix to save their life. So the audience wasnt exactly hardcore clubbers, more drunk students who are used to 60s/70s/80s cheese and pop/rnb. Personally I think the crowd reacted best to the crappy DJ playing stuff like Faithless City and other commercial dance anthems/cheese before and after Jules was on.
But Jules played a proper set, wasnt very hard, but not like anything poppy or pop remixy. Stuff like Freefall, that renato vs cohen one, and quite a few others I know but dont know the name. Crowd never really reacted though when something like that distintive sound of marco v - tings relooped came on, you know that unique sound, not like a trance crowd would have. Nothing too vocal. Seemed to work ok, for about 2/3 of it, but that might have been cos it was Jules. Last 1/3 was pretty quiet.
So I think if you have an up for it crowd (not the kind where the whole floor empties cos they dont like the song that much) and you dont hit banging trance straight away, you should be ok. Either that or an empty floor:toocool: |
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| mndeg |
not the sandstorm!
just dont do any songs with high pitched synths
A.D.D. kids cant stand that stuff |
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| Special_K |
| quote: | Originally posted by djtrinity
i am totally opposite of that....if your a mobile dj that is what u do....if u specialize in trance or whatever u don't play house to to play to the crowd.....what u do is pass up the gig because there is no reason for u to be play'n there......why is this so hard to understand?
why would a trance dj play hip hop for a crowd?....its unfair to all involved to bring in a trance dj for a crowd that wants anything but that |
Whew.....FINALLY, Someone gets it.
Ive been playing out for a pretty long time, i NEVER comprimise my style, whats the point?
IF someone wants me to play at a place that isnt going to have a crowd that is into my style i turn the gig down....its that simple. I just assumed all genre specific DJ's were like that....guess i was wrong. |
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| DJ Dinz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Special_K
are you ing joking? dude if you play any hands in the air euro cheese vocal you are ganna get your ass kicked. its been said before, ty whiny euro whore vocals would piss me of let alone a bunch of hip-hop junkies who have never heard of trance before. |
Dude... TRUE! no in joke... They love it but andain only... when comes to agnelli nelson, oceanlab, AVB... they run away & feel like whackin you up..
when u come to Groove Coverage, Cascada, Future Trance United or any cheese trance vocal they love it...
Enimem's song remix by Drunken Monkey... USher's Yeah remix by Drunken Monkey... B1c - Naughty Sexy Bitchy... Pulsedriver - Slammin ALL WORKS DUDE, believe me! ;)
So what u call that type of trance.. sorry if i say it as Vocal Trance.. cause i dont really know what u guys call this trance... Trance sound like Hard Trance but with different vocal not like AVB,Motorcycle n etc type....
When u ask why it is totally unfair? Because i spin in land with clubbers that just know that Trance exist... most clubbers are HipHop, Progressive House, Tribal & Crap Trance lovers.. in every club...this people mix together... |
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| Gunyouken |
I would have just gone the hard trance/house route. Tidy traxx, jens- loops and tings, kai tracid, etc.
None of this starting with breaks into vocal trance, into darude sandstorm nonsence. I think non trance people generally respond better to the hard route. |
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| UphoricNitemare |
| i would definately stay away from anything too repetitive like house though. "non-techno" people generally don't like EDM because they think its too repetitive. Even though this rock type stuff is more repetitive, but the vocals are emphasized a lot more than the music. The music just hide behind the vocals. Thats why i say go with some vocal stuff. |
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| onceler |
| When is/was this dance? I am interrested to hear the outcome of it. |
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| emperorhui |
| It's Saturday night. Gives me a bit of time to think about it. I'll figure somethin out. Thanks for the advice. I'll post the outcome when I'm through [and my tracklist if I remember it] |
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