Back in the day the NY guys used to play different genres depending on the crowd, the venue, and the mood. Danny Howells, Tenaglia, and Jonathan Peters for example used to dabble in different areas of music from week to week. You would see people posting all kinds of track ID's the day after the party ended, and based on that you'd have an idea of where the vibe was for the people at the party. It seemed like the crowds and the dj's werent so pigeonholed into a name brand sound like they are now. The crowd used to just go w/ the flow (for better or for worse) but now it seems like DJ's are taking less chances and just playing it safe.
Are my sentiments felt by any other TA members? Which pro dj's out there have a music collection that is so deep that they can play different sub genres of EDM from week to week and still keep the fans coming back?
Scoops
Eelke Kleijn
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Originally posted by Guest
Back in the day the NY guys used to play different genres depending on the crowd, the venue, and the mood. Danny Howells, Tenaglia, and Jonathan Peters for example used to dabble in different areas of music from week to week. You would see people posting all kinds of track ID's the day after the party ended, and based on that you'd have an idea of where the vibe was for the people at the party. It seemed like the crowds and the dj's werent so pigeonholed into a name brand sound like they are now. The crowd used to just go w/ the flow (for better or for worse) but now it seems like DJ's are taking less chances and just playing it safe.
Are my sentiments felt by any other TA members? Which pro dj's out there have a music collection that is so deep that they can play different sub genres of EDM from week to week and still keep the fans coming back?
What about our home town hero, Josh Wink?
Mr Game+Watch
I've always found that a lot of prog/ex-prog DJs come to NYC they tend to play a bit more drummy, stripped-down, tribal stuff than usual for the NY crowd.
Guest
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Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch
I've always found that a lot of prog/ex-prog DJs come to NYC they tend to play a bit more drummy, stripped-down, tribal stuff than usual for the NY crowd.
MAYHEMMMMMMM
Mattsanity.
finally x-press 2 gets some love here
Dawnchaser
I spin a mix of epic/ hard/ tech/ prog trance, breaks, dnb, techno, hard trance, and call it Adventure Trance for the sake of space... And I also play psytrance (morning and prog) occasionally, usually as different acts, but if I wanna do something novel, I play both of my acts in one Vs set, for a really weird mix of different sounds.
It's no fun playing the same thing all the time, y'know?
Rodri Santos
i like to play 3-4 genres on every 2h+ set but a dj that doesn't change his style according to the crowd is not a good dj. At least at the start you've to play what people expect to hear then you can start messing with your pure sound and see what happens. I've seen very good djs playing a brilliant set to people who loathed they style he was playing which in the end makes him a bad dj.
As for examples i can think about Eric Prydz,Markus Schulz (i've seen him playing radically different sets because he was once included for some reason in a line up with mainly techno, tech house artists) and several non famous djs.
I think it's easier for local djs to switch styles. If i am in the top 10 of the djmag i expect that people to come to see me know which is my core style. A good event to look at is the Queens Day in the netherlands . The crowd just know there will be some djs but they don't know who they are mostly, a dj that feels is his chance to drop the wildest beats clearly shows here that he is pretty unexperienced. On the other hand if you just have 30 minutes of fame might be your chance to play your best stuff out which i fully understand.
corjay9
I saw Move D last friday, it was a Halloween party at a University-type bar/club.. I'd say 60% of the crowd wasn't there for the music, they were there to party.. I'm a big fan of his productions and he regularly uploads sets onto his soundcloud..
What he plays at Panorama Bar wasn't what he played on friday.. his sets in Germany are deep, experimental sounding house and techno.
On friday he played a lot of vocal tracks, some classic jackin NY house, some Chicago house, some good tech house, some funky stuff, a nice mixture of sounds.. vinyl only set, you could tell he knows his music, and he came prepared for the room. I would say he killed it pretty much... he got a huge ovation at 3:15am when he finished up, everyone was cheering.. when you can make a crowd of uneducated (EDM-wise) people to go crazy, you're doing it right.. this one went off:
When he played this, I lost my .. also went off. One of my favs:
Dykes_on_Jay
move d has been collecting music and making it for so long that it is a cinch for him to do this.
Tranzmit
i hate the same old thing all the time i don't care about genre i get bored by the same 4/4 beat which is why i love the old prog stuff by dave seaman and the renaissance stuff and digweeds old stuff and sasha obviously.
Lunar Phase 7
Here is a thought...
In all but the rarest of occasions is a DJ actually needed anymore?
