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Playing music other than trance @ a party
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| Atmos |
Hey guys,
Well, in the time I've been Dj'ing, I've really only stuck to House/Trance parties and done what I really love. But, one of my good friends birthday is coming up, and she doesnt like house or trance at all. She wants me to DJ at her party, and I told her yea. Well, the point is she likes hip-hop, regeaton, salsa/merengue, and other types of latin music. I am completely unfamiliar to Dj'ing this genre and was looking for some tips and ideas as to what I should do and how I should do it. Thinking about just cross-fading everything...I need opinions
Thanks in adv
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| EvilTree |
There's plenty of latin and jazz house.
Make a mix and give to her friend and see if she likes it.
It's fun stuff to mix. |
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| KilldaDJ |
play some jazzy drum n bass or something
alternatively, buy some latin CD, play that and get drunk. |
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| Project-K |
| you might be able to cheat your way in with funky tribal house with latin influences. There's plenty of that stuff. If she likes salsa/merengue there's a good chance she'll dig that too. |
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| Zild |
| You screwed up. You should have told her to hire a DJ who plays what she likes. |
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| Atmos |
| Yea but she's a real good friend so I'm doing it as a favor. Anyway, thanks for everything guys, but what I need is tips on how to mix (the actual technicality of it). Should I just crossfade everything? |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by Atmos
Yea but she's a real good friend so I'm doing it as a favor. Anyway, thanks for everything guys, but what I need is tips on how to mix (the actual technicality of it). Should I just crossfade everything? |
You're going to be looking at a lot more sudden cuts and transitions rather than the fluid, drawn-out mixes you are probably used to. I've been running into the same problem. To me, the hardest part has to do with the fact that people who listen to hip-hop usually listen to no particular BPM-range in general. As such, it makes it hard to mix 87 BPM hip-hop tracks with 103 BPM ones. In progressive house, you know you can get away with playing tracks in the 127 - 132 range, or in trance you can play stuff in the 136 - 142 range, and everyone will be happy... but this just isn't so when it comes to hip-hop. People want to hear what is popular, and what is popular doesn't mix well with everything else that's popular.
I've been meaning to go through all of my hip-hop/rap mp3s and group them by similar BPM to see how many mixes I can get away with. I'm not an experienced scratch-DJ or turntablist so being creative without sounding like ass is hard for me. I mainly just need to practice it more. A lot of times I just end up crossfading the tracks or cutting them at a time which seems appropriate, and mixing the ones I can, so that at least I feel justified in DJing as opposed to just setting a WinAmp playlist.
One thing that I have been doing is mixing popular tracks that happen to have a 4/4 beat (Nelly Furtado - Maneater, for example) in with some house pop remixes and then going back to playing "mainstream" stuff. I like to see how much I can get away with. I've only played for a few house parties with mostly friends though, so they are fairly forgiving.
You might pre-make a playlist for this one. Group stuff together as best as you can and, when all else fails, just fade it over. |
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| BOOsTER |
taht's not the best advice really...
you must read the crowd and a mainstream crowd isn't as forgiving as trance one...they might not know the proper terms, but they'll tell you that you suck really easy.
Thing to do is try to mix when you are confident it's possible...and in all the other cases just fade it...
it'll let you sound that you know what you're doing...and in the other hand you'll show that you know that some stuff is just clearly unmixable with the skills you have (I'm assuming you're not a wild turntablist.) |
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| T-Soma |
People who listen to those genres mostly couldn't give a sh*t they just wonna get drunk and dance. Start the first beat of the incoming track on the very last beat of the outgoing track. Done.
Don't bother with anything fancy/technial.
Like already said, try some remixes, stuff with latin influence. |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by BOOsTER
taht's not the best advice really...
you must read the crowd and a mainstream crowd isn't as forgiving as trance one...they might not know the proper terms, but they'll tell you that you suck really easy. |
| quote: | | People who listen to those genres mostly couldn't give a sh*t they just wonna get drunk and dance. |
+1. |
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| T-Soma |
I forgot to mention that track selection is still important...
Don't stray from the top 40.
If you do you may get attacked on the grounds of "trying to be creative". |
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| Atmos |
| Yup...Top 40 is very important with "radio-listening" people. I guess imma have to swallow my pride and not play "creative." |
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