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John 00 Fleming
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| a.chan |
This was in his myspace blog, and i just wanted to see what everyone thought about this idea.
I have something for all DJ's to try this month. Go through your record box/CD wallet and take out all your uplifting and anthemic tunes and leave them at home when you play your next gig. For the first time in your career you will be forced to think about your skill as a DJ, you will have to work hard using the existing tracks left in your record box to lift that crowd. Anyone can throw a string of anthemic tunes together and get a crowd jumping. I could send my mum to HMV and get her to buy everything in the dance section, and then get her to throw them together in a set and get a crowd going. So where's the skill in that?! Are DJ's today turning into an age of pre-programmed jukeboxes?!
There is no better feeling than having a crowd in the palm of your hands. By not playing obvious tracks you get them locked into the groove of what you are doing. The adrenalin rush is immense as you play with the dance floor, any twist or turn you take will get rewarded by the crowd reaction. When you do build to a crescendo the reaction is 100 times more powerful and explosive. You have to think deep and hard about every track you play making you lock into the zone of the dance floor. From start to finish of your set you have to work very hard making sure you don't lose the crowd. Now to me that is the job of a DJ. I look at some of today's new DJ's and see them play anthem after anthem. So where is the skill in that I ask myself again? I really don't think those guys have experienced what it's truly like to be a DJ? So maybe try my game, and leave those anthems at home and get the true feeling? |
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| Clinkz913 |
leave anthems at home....hmmm
meaning 90% of modernnday trance? |
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| Spirit5 |
There's two types of DJs, well more than two obviously, but two types of trance DJs.
1. The journey DJ, who builds sets and plays a variety of styles/moods/energy levels etc.
2. The Top 40/ASOT/Jukebox DJ, who plays the top tracks. Usually of the same style but may be of a different style as well. May just play around the same BPM in an entire set and not go beyond it.
What is important to note however, is being able to do both. So leaving the anthemic stuff at home, as it would be a good idea, the crowd might want to hear some tracks they recognize or expect to hear. I mean it's nice having a set with some tracks you have no idea, but being able to weave in a mixture of lesser known tracks and less anthemic styles, with the more anthemic styles, is important. So you want to be 1 & 2, not just 1 or not just 2. |
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| a.chan |
Hes talking about seeing if you can get the crowd going without the top 40 songs. I just think it would be cool to try and see if you can do it.
Spirit5, what you said is absolutely true, and im not disagreeing with you, it would just be different to play a set with tracks that not many people in the crowd would recognize, and se if you can get as good a reaction as if you were playing well known tracks.. |
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| idoru |
I might not be the biggest fan of his musical style, but the man has made some excellent observations and statements, and this is one of them. Excellent post on his part.  |
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| J:\Digital |
There's not many things that J00F can say that I don't agree with..
So good post. :toocool: |
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| a.chan |
| Thanks, thought it was a good read, cool thing to try out too. |
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| RapidFire |
| hes one of the few big djs out right now that has the right to say something like this. |
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| Pinokio |
As much as I respect John, I don't agree 100 % with him.
If he wanted to mean don't play the top 40 stuff then that's fine.
But he said leave your "uplifting" tunes at home.
Uplifting is a genre, and for example at my place, when I play Uplifting music, 98% of people don't know what music I am playing, so I can play music to people they haven't heard before through a Journey.
| quote: | | There is no better feeling than having a crowd in the palm of your hands. By not playing obvious tracks you get them locked into the groove of what you are doing. The adrenalin rush is immense as you play with the dance floor, any twist or turn you take will get rewarded by the crowd reaction. When you do build to a crescendo the reaction is 100 times more powerful and explosive. You have to think deep and hard about every track you play making you lock into the zone of the dance floor. From start to finish of your set you have to work very hard making sure you don't lose the crowd. Now to me that is the job of a DJ. |
I've done this with uplifting music, not "Anthemic", so I think he is wrong. |
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| a.chan |
| I dont think he means " uplifting " as a genre, but more as the tracks that everyone knows, and that you will get an immediate response to if you play it. |
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