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Just another night in good ol' Garden Grove.....
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| andrewyates |
So tonight at my weekly event....
A) There was an armed robbery across the street about 11pm, at Del Taco! My friends went outside to walk to another bar & get our other friend - when they were told by police to stay put - or risk getting shot. No word if the robber requested a quesadilla as the safe was opened....
B) No matter how hard I promote & bring dance music fans, I still get hip hop requests throughout the night - the beauties of being in a somewhat small venue where people can easily get to you. For comedies sake, I played "2 Pac - To Live & Die In LA" by request, all 87 bpm of it - and nobody seemed to mind either way. Guy who requested it, for over an hour, did not dance. Typical, pretty funny.
C) After the club closed, the was a HUGE fight in the back parking lot...somewhat near my car! About 12 people were involved. Security went out and pepper sprayed pretty much everyone, several punches thrown & connected. About six or seven cop cars showed up to sort it all out. My car was somehow untouched.
As if it's not tough enough to convince ANYBODY to come party in freaking Garden Grove, & hear a DJ they have likely never heard of, this just makes the town look so much better. hahahaha, see you all next week right? Ahhh good times, so how was your Friday night? ;) |
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| DjWoody |
Don't give up! It took us a long time to where we at now at my club. We had a similar issue but with latin music and now we're mainly house. What we did we started playing dance remixes of latin songs and slowly started mixing them with house. Now we mostly play house and just a few latin songs.
What kind of house do you play? That SHM, Laidback Luke, David Guetta, Afrojack, Chuckie, stuff should work. Laidback Luke has a lot of hip hop house mashups. I play a few of them at my club and people go crazy. |
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| Apeattack |
| quote: | Originally posted by andrewyates
B) No matter how hard I promote & bring dance music fans, I still get hip hop requests throughout the night - the beauties of being in a somewhat small venue where people can easily get to you. For comedies sake, I played "2 Pac - To Live & Die In LA" by request, all 87 bpm of it - and nobody seemed to mind either way. Guy who requested it, for over an hour, did not dance. Typical, pretty funny.
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Some of the people at 7Seas (and other lounges) may really like house and trance and keep coming back for the music. But I imagine that many people care more about the food, drinks, and friends, while the music is much less of a concern.
Like Woody said, you are going to have to find a way of appeasing them both... at least for now. Throwing in some EDM remixes of popular hiphop songs or even pop-EDM songs (or whatever you call LMFAO's and Guetta's productions) won't make you completely happy, but it probably will make most of the patrons happier.
If you have some house or trance songs that you really like and want to share with everyone, perhaps you can use the EDM remixes as a way of drawing attention to those songs. For example, if you really like a particular trance song, play an EDM remix just before it. More ears may be attuned the trance song because they were listening carefully to EDM remix before. |
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| DjWoody |
The mainstream crowd doesn't like to hear the same song for a long time. So I edit most of the tracks I play and get straight to the point and cut down the big breakdowns into small ones. Check it out, this is the last 12 min of my closing set last night. I closed off with a song Anthony Ross remixed (he's a TA), and the crowd went nuts to his song.
1.- Sander van Doorn vs Afrojack & R3hab - Koko Prutata (First State Bashup) (Dj Woody Quick Edit) - 1:18:51 AM PDT
2.- the Ultimate Seduction - Instant Seduction (Kriss-One's Edit) (Dj Woody Edit) - 1:19:56 AM PDT
3.- Ferry Corsten - Punk (Arty Rock-N-Rolla Mix)(Dj Woody Edit) - 1:21:08 AM PDT
4.- Chuckie vs Tiesto - Move It 2 Industry (Tim Morgan Mashup) - 1:23:10 AM PDT
5.- Kernkraft400 - Zombie Nation (Laidback Luke Bootleg) - 1:24:38 AM PDT
6.- Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (Laidback Luke Remix) - 1:26:34 AM PDT
7.- Axwell & Calvin Harris - You Used To Feel The Vibe (Romeo Blanco Festival Edit) - 1:27:45 AM PDT
8.- Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You (Anthony Ross Remix)(Dj Woody Edit) - 1:30:19 AM PDT
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| DjWoody |
BTW, I literally edited #1 & #2 minutes before I went on. As soon as I was done with #2 I jumped into the mix. Ahhh... The beauty of having Ableton & Serato on the same laptop.
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| DizkokidD |
| woody... whens the next time you playing at your club and Andrew same question for you and which club is it? |
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| DjWoody |
| quote: | Originally posted by DizkokidD
woody... whens the next time you playing at your club and Andrew same question for you and which club is it? |
I'm there every Saturday. I'm gonna bring in Robert Stern in the next few weeks, you should come to support him! ha! |
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| andrewyates |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjWoody
Don't give up! It took us a long time to where we at now at my club. We had a similar issue but with latin music and now we're mainly house. What we did we started playing dance remixes of latin songs and slowly started mixing them with house. Now we mostly play house and just a few latin songs.
What kind of house do you play? That SHM, Laidback Luke, David Guetta, Afrojack, Chuckie, stuff should work. Laidback Luke has a lot of hip hop house mashups. I play a few of them at my club and people go crazy. |
Thanks for the encouragement! We're doing pretty well all things considered. The owners do ZERO advertising, yet we're getting decent turnouts - hopefully from word of mouth.
I pretty much do play the SHM, Avicii, Porter Robinson, Guetta, etc. selection, plus some of my own bootlegs and edits people seem to like. They don't dislike the music, but they aren't typically going nuts either. My problem is I'm used to playing straight edm - with very few top40 remixes - and having people want that. It's kind of tough at the weekly now, cause I want edm fans to show up - but not of them do to overtake the top40 crowd. I don't like playing most top 40 remixes - I feel like I'm a traitor to those who want brand new edm all night! Either way someone is always complaining, which didn't happen so much back in the day - or even a couple years ago when I played at Heat & Red.
I guess I have the typical problem of wanting to be SHM, but it just doesn't work that way....hahaha. |
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| DjWoody |
| I see... Another thing you can do, you can start inviting mainstream DJ's over. Let them do a 2 separate 30 min sets and have them invite their friends. That way they'll take care of all the mainstream stuff and you play your EDM plus your venue will be exposed to new crowds. We also do that at our club. There's 3 residents where I play at, and we all rotate every 30 mins. One plays very mainstream house & latin, the other plays a mixture SHM type of house & mashups, and I tend to play more towards the real EDM stuff. But because we switch it up every 30 min, the crowd doesn't get bored as easily with straight EDM. |
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| Nerologic |
You guys are pretty much playing what my buddy Frankie Steel plays out in the Jersey Shore type clubs.
Just hyphey and quick change ups because that crowd literally has ADD. Pauly D would be God to your guys crowd.
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| andrewyates |
| Yeah, the ADD is quite abundant, but it's to be expected. I used to always be so annoyed with quick mixing dj's... |
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