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Things not to say to a DJ!!! (pg. 2)
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| Jeremy H |
| quote: | Originally posted by archaudio
41. While using serato with a laptop " hey, can i go on faceboook on your laptop.?" |
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While browsing through my cd-case once.. a girl ran up to the "booth" to scratch the cdjs =/ I literally jumped on her and stopped her at the last second :p She got pissed tho. |
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| Tangil |
| "have you got the latest Ministry of Sound cd?" |
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| djimmersion |
the following is at house parties
I've had people ask me if i could play hip hop when I was doing an electronic or rock set
and if people hand me a CD or iPod I always browse through it in the headphones between mixing with a CDJ400, usually its the same genre as what is expected for the night, and if some of the tracks are any good I'll work it in the mix, great way to find out about new music sometimes
I've let some random DJ's play a few songs using my music at some parties under my supervision, most of them were great scratchers but most sucked at any mixing and I usually got asked to get back on the decks after a few train wrecks of theirs lol
as for getting inturrupted in the middle of a transition, I just ignore people beacuse thats how much I concentrate
If people want a CD of a song I ask them to wait till the end of the night get, or just give them the song credits |
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| andrewyates |
Oh yeah...I always hear "hey man, you got any rap?" It was hilarious about a month ago when a group of about four girls came up and were quite upset at the house music...they instructed me to "play something they can dance to...like some Brittney or Madonna" Um yeah, thing is that less than 10 feet away from them was about 200 people going nuts to my set.
Good times! |
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| Shad0wmaster |
The one incident that pissed me off most was when I was playing at a house party. I left the booth for a couple of minutes to go to the bathroom, and when I got back some had my headphones on and was going through my records, about to start mixing!
I was cool about it (told him to get off the decks), but I felt like biting his head off. |
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| wesleysnipez |
| One time I remember I left booth and my second-cousin was watching the deck all when I came back he was no where to be found and some dork pulling cables and putting his on table and saw him trash my mixer on the ground. I made him pay for it or I would call cops for destruction of property. He paid to buy me new mixer because when he trashed mixer it died. I got after my second cousin for it and he never did it again because told I would chop his balls off for it and all. Because he can keep it in his pants and left the booth because of hot chick. |
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| SuPeRSaW2005 |
here's another annoying one that deserves to be on the list (happens to me alot actually):
"hey man, if you want, just put on some auto-mix for now, leave the stuff and come chill with us"
...yeahhh, like I would leave all the thousands worth of equipment plus years of collected music collection unattended just to go get a few kicks for half an hour? |
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| Breeze |
| One i say to Djs with huge egos , "Your music is dont try to be a rockstar" works like a charm :P |
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| Nemesis44 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Freak
Right....
100% truthfully... I have had every single one of those said to me at some point- except for 38. "you're really good for a girl" !!! for obvious reasons...
5. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE IF YOU PLAY IT!
thats the one that used to make my piss boil...
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I have had most of those too minus the laptop stuff.
Usually everyone is dancing except the retard that's speaking to you...
I tell you what bugs me even more than any of those responses though is the attitude you can get from some other DJs sometimes. Had one or two run it with named DJs in the past but for the most it's young upstarts who think they are the because they have managed to play a minimal drum based set for 2 hours without a trainwreck.
An alarming trend I have also noticed in the business is that for the most part a lot of house DJs these days are pretty dumb... at least round my way. I'm not saying house DJs are dumb... just the ones where I work. Perhaps I'm too cynical... he he.
Cheers
Nem |
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| Freak |
| quote: | | I tell you what bugs me even more than any of those responses though is the attitude you can get from some other DJs sometimes. Had one or two run it with named DJs in the past but for the most it's young upstarts who think they are the because they have managed to play a minimal drum based set for 2 hours without a trainwreck. |
Well you know where I work.... ego management skills are essential for dealing with some of the divas... :rolleyes: |
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| Zild |
| Whenever someone asks me to put on 'something they can dance do' when I'm already playing electronic ing DANCE music. I simply tell them if you can't dance to this you won't be able to dance to anything else. |
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| Stu Cox |
While these things are all very annoying, I think it is still important to be friendly to these people - the answer I usually end up giving is something along the lines of "no, I can't play any r'n'b, this is a house/trance/whatever night, this is what I've been booked to play and it's all I've got with me, sorry"... give them a bit of a smile and at least they then won't come and annoy you again.
A lot of people just don't understand that not every club night works the same as a cheese night, so if they go to a "proper" night with some mates they might not realise that the ethos is quite different - someone's got to tell them so you might as well be polite about it, or you're just enhancing the general image of all DJs being twats!
Another bit of interaction that often gets rejected by DJs is people asking for requests... the hardest part of DJing is knowing what to play and if someone asks for a track, they've told you exactly what they want to hear, they've made your life easy so take advantage of it! If you've got it and it'll fit in, play it - you'll probably make that one person's night, plus their mates will go mental to it and it's likely it'll spark a bit more energy on the floor.
I used to avoid requests thinking "if I play that, it's not MY set anymore and it won't be a surprise", but then I realised that if it's in your CD wallet then it obviously fits your sound and it's only a couple of people on the floor who will be expecting it - in fact they may well not be expecting it cos so few DJs actually play requested tracks! |
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