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i posted this in phiz but i guess i'll throw it up here too dinosaur cheerleader - take her to shadow space (66:58) http://www.divshare.com/download/6990189-a29 1. Kasper Bjorke - Lost Signal 2. J Dilla - B.B.E. (Big Booty Express) 3. Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak (Featuring Kid Cudi) 4. Ivy - Hideaway 5. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Take You There 6. Air - All I Need 7. Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But A "G" Thang Feat. Snoop Dogg 8. Malvenkemo - Say 9. Jadakiss - Wall To Wall 10. Mary J. Blige - Work That 11. The Game - Too much 12. Jan Hammer - Midnight 13. Clipse - Cot drat (ft. Ab-Liva, Roscoe) 14. RJD2 - Silver Fox 15. Talib Kweli - The Proud 16. Junior Boys - When No One Cares 17. Busy P - Pedrophilia 18. Clinton Sparks feat Mobb Deep - Bidadidat 19. Mellow - Another Mellow Winter 20. Les Rythmes Digitales - About Funk 21. Giorgio Moroder - Pauls' Theme 22. Suicide - Ghost Rider 23. Ivy - While We're In Love 24. Wu Tang Clan - Stomp (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) 25. Chamillionaire featuring Slick Rick - Hip Hop Police 26. De La Soul - Oooh 27. Birdman & Lil' Wayne - Don't Die 28. Dave Hollister - Almost 29. Flying Lotus - Melt! 30. Adam Kesher - Local Girl 31. Takeshi Saitoh - Fallin' Love 32. Inspectah Deck - Big City 33. Tangerine Dream - Charly the Kid 34. Slick Rick - Street Talkin' 35. DaroC - Hypnotic 36. GZA - Shadowboxing 37. Tina Charles - I Love to Love 38. Phoenix - Definitive Breaks 39. Eurythmics - You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart 40. Uncle O - Avanche 41. Royce the 5'9" - Hip-Hop 42. R. Kelly - Happy People 43. Missy elliot - Play that beat 44. Binster - Abandoned Petrol Station (She Has Magic Powers) 45. Hercules and Love Affair - Iris 46. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Palladium 47. Mirage - Lake Of Dreams 48. Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five - The Message 49. derek b - good groove 50. 7he Myriads - French Wind 51. Cassie - Is it You 52. liberty x - just a little 53. Black Jack - Go Down Main Street 54. Lil Wayne - Roll On 55. Jay-Z - Girls Girls Girls 56. Mandy Moore - Candy 57. Sebastien Tellier - Fingers Of Steel 58. The Rapture - No Sex For Ben 59. Orange Juice - Rip It Up (The Intermediate Edit) 60. Otis Gayle - I'll Be Around 61. Daft Punk - Something About Us 62. Beyoncé - Crazy in Love 63. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great 64. CFCF - Claudio 65. Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce 66. Melee Beats - Made In Italy 67. Annie - Helpless For Love 68. Ludacris feat. DJ Quik - Spur Of The Moment 69. Pino Donaggio - The Erotic Story 70. J Dilla - Rico Suave Bossa Nova 71. Lloyd Ft. Lil' Wayne - Girls All Around World 72. The Chemical Brothers - The Boxer (Feattim Burgess) 73. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA remix) 74. Beastie Boys - Hold It Now 75. Booka Shade - Hallelujah USA 76. The Knife - Na Na Na 77. DJ Benzi And Evil Empire Prese - Crew Deep (Remix) feat. Missy 78. Fleetwood Mac - As Long as You Follow 79. Kirk Franklin - I Like Me (Featuring Da T.R.U.T.H.) 80. Glass Candy - ROLLING DOWN THE HILLS 81. A Forest Mighty Black - Tides 82. Junior Senior - Go Junior, Go Senior 83. Midnight Juggernauts - Worlds Converged 84. Chromatics - Tomorrow is So Far Away 85. The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize 86. Sébastien Tellier - Fantino 87. Junior Boys - Under the Sun 88. Arabesque - Catch Me Tiger 89. Blondie - Rapture 90. The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Go 91. Hot Chip - Look After Me 92. Studio - Life's A Beach! 93. Royksopp - Someone Like Me 94. Crystal Castles - Magic Spells 95. Ciara - Cant Leave Em Alone Ft 50 Cent 96. Spiller - Cry Baby (Malselves Memorobilia Remix) 97. Mos Def - Wylin' Out 98. Basement Jaxx - Living Room 99. Mouse on Mars - kompod 100. Sigur Ros - Sæglo´pur 101. The Bug - Freak Freak 102. Friend - Dreams 103. Cassie - Me & U (CFCF Remix) 104. T.I. - Why You Wanna 105. E.S.G. - The South 106. Chic - My Forbidden Lover 107. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero 108. Keedz - Stand On The Word 109. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (GlitchBitch Remix) 110. Radiohead - Nude (Amplive Remix) 111. Gaz Nevada - Special Agent Man 112. Ivy - Disappointed 113. Mark Ronson - Ooh Wee 114. Angelo Badalamenti - The Nightingale 115. Brigitte Bardot - Ca pourrait changer 116. Dr. Dre - Bad Intentions 117. Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest (Mums Ca Dreamin Remix) 118. Ulrich Schnauss - In Between the Years 119. Lil Wayne - Don't Stop, Won't Stop (Feat. Nikki Menaj) 120. Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody (Frankie Knuckles Hallucinogenic Dub) 121. Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
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mingster posted:i posted this in phiz but i guess i'll throw it up here too This mix is a total clusterfuck in my ears. You've got doubled vocals and ambiguous chord combinations all over the place. Its not a contest to see how many tracks you can use in an hour. I like a lot of what you have going on but you really need to thin it out.
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New dubstep mix I made, found some cool tracks and couldn't resist. Also, some good practice for my next gig: Dubalicious Deux - Professor Emperor 36:45 http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/71572/Dubalicious%20Deux.mp3 The Bug - Run Them Red (AFX Mix) Sully - Phonebox Ratatat - Mirando Ital Tek - Tokyo Freeze (Remix) Redlight - Rock The House Jakes & Joker - 3k Lane Lily Allen - The Fear (Duke Demont Remix) Martyn - Hear Me LD - Woodblock Loefah - Jungle Infiltrator Boy 8-Bit - Bulbs Burn Out Justice - Phantom (Prof. Emp. Dub) Kid Cudi - Day n Night (Rusko's Big Trombone Remix) 16 Bit - Ford Fiesta Matty G Matty's Theme Chase & Status - Eastern Jam Uncle Sam - Round The World Girls (Tes La Rok VIP Mix) El-B - Buck and Bury Orien -Chasing A Never Ending Dream
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Not sure how much Q&A has been going on in this thread, but I figured this would be the best place to ask. So, I've been networking myself to a lot of bar managers downtown, one bar in particular I like above all others. I did the lucky thing of talking up a friend of the bar owner, who then introduced me when I told him I was looking to DJ, so I have the personable look going, but now I need to make a demo mix of my poo poo. The truth is I have been a bit premature with my networking, as I haven't actually done a house party at this point (had one set up but got sick =(, however I have been practicing on my home setup. I don't plan to start right away, and will plan on having some house parties before I go real time at the bars, so I don't think this will be an issue. I do have a good sense of beatmatching in general, but have never put together a mix, nor am I sure of what a demo mix should be. My plan is to mix trance/psy-trance/house/dance music with a drop in of the occasional popular tracks (most likely a popular riff from some hip-hop or top40 club mixes). I was at this bar last night, and the DJ there was nothing of what I would plan to do. He drops in literally 10-20 seconds of any popular song of the last 10 years, then changes it pretty much immediately. He is very good at doing this, but I noticed a lot of people stopping during his transitions until they figured out wtf the song was. However on other nights I have heard some more traditional techno/house/dance stuff there. So here goes my question, Being that this is the Saturday heavy-night dj, I'm worried this is what he has come to expect. Quick transitions, popular songs, and genres I will not be mixing. Since I am going to be making a demo mix, I am trying to figure out how much I should focus on song selection for him to get a sense of what I like, to transitions and effects mixing. Should I be transitioning often? or focusing more on a realistic night of beatmatching and song flow? or somewhere in between? How long should I make the mix?
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MrPeanut posted:So here goes my question, The first and most important advice would be to make a demo that you feel represents the music you want to play/will be playing, not the music he wants to hear. I cannot stress this enough, because that way there will most likely never be any disappointments on either side. Now, as far as your demo-mix goes, that's actually not all that easy. What you want to do is give him a nice mix that both shows your diversity in styles and your mixing skill. He needs to know you are up to the job of entertaining his guests. Track-selection is key, especially in bars. If you give him a demotape that has a really good set of tracks, put together in a good order, then the actual mixing is of lesser importance. Sure, you still need to make sure it doesn't sound like jackshit, but it doesn't have to be 100% smooth and perfect. Most people, including barowners, remember tracks, not transitions. (They will only remember bad transitions, so don't make any of those.) I'd leave effects out, unless you use them in really small amounts to make certain parts sound just that tiny bit more interesting. Too many will kill your demo though, so be careful. Don't use flangers at all. As to how many songs and transitions you put in, that's completely up to you, just don't do anything you wouldn't normally do when playing out/spinning at home. So if you're used to say 20 songs/hour, then don't do a demo-mix that has 40 songs in one hour. If they then decide to hire you based on your demotape, that's what they'll expect. Length should be around 60 minutes. That's long enough to show him your style and skill, but not too long he might start skipping through. (Most normal people don't listen to DJ-sets longer than 2 hours). Don't go out of your way to get this job. If his idea of the music doesn't work with what you feel comfortable playing, don't do it. I've done a bar for some time and at a certain point decided to quit because I simply wasn't enjoying spinning stupid pop-songs all night. Good luck with it, and feel free to post your demo-tape here, so we can maybe give some more tips. (And laugh at you on our secret SA-DJ meetings held at secret places with secret people and secret music.  )
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Apr 6, 2009 01:46
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MrPeanut posted:Not sure how much Q&A has been going on in this thread, but I figured this would be the best place to ask. some advice: DO continue to have a nice, outgoing personality and meet bar owners and venue bookers. DO NOT,DO NOT, DOOOOOOOO NOTTTTTTT try to play 'psy-trance/trance/house' to a crowd expecting to hear top-40 and popular rap hits. Millions of DJs before you have tried that and it 100% a losing proposition. Nobody has a good time, not the bar owner, not the crowd, not you, the DJ. You will fail at this. People offer me these kinds of gigs from time to time and I am always tempted but always come to my senses and turn them down. Sorry, you're going to have to find another situation if you wanna play 'underground' dance music to a crowd. Try and befriend promoters who promote those kinds of parties/nights.
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tylertfb posted:some advice: This. Stick to house parties if you want to play house techno trance whatever (especially psytrance). Bars will not go for this. I earned some extra money playing at a bar one summer during college and it was pretty much the worst thing ever. Any attempt to mix anything "technoish" in would immediately earn me a few visits from patrons of the bar asking for something they could "dance to." This was the summer that Crazy Town - Butterfly was really popular so I think I played that every weekend.  I gave up on attempting to do anything clever or interesting and would just bring a book with me and expend the least effort possible on actually mixing. Of course, it didn't help that the DJ booth was literally a small room wedged between the two bathrooms with a window that was barred like a prison, so I could just sit there unseen and be ignored. If you are ok with dumbing down what you are playing for the sake of a gig and exposure, that's great. Just be aware of what you are getting yourself into or it will only lead to disappointment.
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again, lemme say as someone who crosses over between the "underground" and straight up club music, dont do this. as a fellow dj, it's never fun to see someone almost break into tears as they play trance to an empty dancefloor.
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Apr 6, 2009 21:40
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Somewhat on topic: Every year a message board I run does a "worst mix" competition. This year's entries are up, if you want to hear the hilarity. The main rule is that they have to be under 30 minutes long. http://tr.im/ilSe They're so bad they're good...maybe
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vanilla slimfast posted:Somewhat on topic: Every year a message board I run does a "worst mix" competition. This year's entries are up, if you want to hear the hilarity. The main rule is that they have to be under 30 minutes long.
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vanilla slimfast posted:Somewhat on topic: Every year a message board I run does a "worst mix" competition. This year's entries are up, if you want to hear the hilarity. The main rule is that they have to be under 30 minutes long. man I'd be so tempted to enter a straight-up prog/tech-prog/"tech-house for people who like trance" mix of like dubfire tracks and all that crap just to be a dick.
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Apr 7, 2009 19:35
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vanilla slimfast posted:Somewhat on topic: Every year a message board I run does a "worst mix" competition. This year's entries are up, if you want to hear the hilarity. The main rule is that they have to be under 30 minutes long. rihanna into smack my bitch up in that first mix is great
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tylertfb posted:man I'd be so tempted to enter a straight-up prog/tech-prog/"tech-house for people who like trance" mix of like dubfire tracks and all that crap just to be a dick. what would happen if dubfire played and nobody came? we found out in ottawa when he played to 6 people a few months ago.
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Apr 7, 2009 20:19
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Threatis posted:what would happen if dubfire played and nobody came? Really??? He always draws massive crowds in LA when he shows up... hey bones where is your avatar on DMB from? It's incredible. I feel like it has to be Robot Chicken but I could be wrong. Altoidss fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Apr 7, 2009 |
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Apr 7, 2009 20:47
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Altoidss posted:Really??? He always draws massive crowds in LA when he shows up... Yeah, Robot Chicken's second Star Wars special that aired a few months ago. I'd use it for an avatar here too except it's loving huge for a gif (like 2mb or something). Someday I'll make one for myself here
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Apr 7, 2009 21:00
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Altoidss posted:Really??? He always draws massive crowds in LA when he shows up... 
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Apr 7, 2009 21:01
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tylertfb posted:some advice: I will say that this place does play techno on occasion so it's definitly not a lost cause, however the Saturday night dj plays top 40. As a rule of thumb for my current move to the bars, I'm planning on dropping in a few popular techno tracks ie daft punk etc to get the people on the floor, but I'm certainly not trying to play to the typical college bar crowd. Most likely I'll be working the off nights, or the gay bars where techno reigns supreme. I do appreciate the advice, and will certainly try to make it to some off hour nights to see how my type of music is recieved, but from what I can tell from blasting deadmau5 on the streets from my 2k dollar car system  people definitly like dance techno atleast in moderation.Fake edit: I'll post that mix whenever I get done with it.
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MrPeanut posted:I will say that this place does play techno on occasion so it's definitly not a lost cause, however the Saturday night dj plays top 40. ok, you want to play psy/trance/buttrock/whatever? go nuts, but you play it to people that weren't coming out looking for it, and you're going to be disappointed. Example: I play some straight up "guns in the air/I get money" poo poo, but i wont play it to the white fratboys.
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Greetings, i'm quite new to mixing but I figured I would post my latest mix here to get an idea what people who know what they are doing think. This is predominantly electro. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GZ31S290 Here's the tracklist: 01. It Ain't Love F. Lil Mo - MSTRKRFT 02. Big Money Comin - Crookers 03. Blind Concerto - Mr. Oizo 04. Click Click F. E-40 - MSTRKRFT 05. Culture Prophet Guide to Planisphére - Justice 06. Detonator [Freform Reform Rexix by Freeform Five] - Shinichi Osawa 07. Day 'N' Nite - Kid Cudi vs Crookers 08. Shooting The Stars - Baby Diamonds 09. Stress - Justice 10. Electro411 - Shinichi Osawa 11. Erreur Jean - Mr. Oizo 12. gum - she 13. Happy Up Here (Boys Noize Remix) - Röyksopp 14. Maximum Joy - Shinichi Osawa 15. Human After All (Justice remix) - Daft Punk 16. Knobbers - Crookers 17. Last Days - Shinichi Osawa 18. Pourriture 7 - Mr. Oizo 19. music - she 20. Phantom Pt II (Boyz Noize Remix) - Justice 21. Positif - Mr. Oizo 22. Omen - The Prodigy 23. Pourriture 7 - Mr. Oizo 24. Star Guitar [Armand Van Helden Remix] - Shinichi Osawa 25. Waters of Nazareth - Justice 26. The Read Thread of Death - Baby Diamonds 27. Vuvuvu - MSTRKRFT 28. Stress (live version) - Justice Any and all criticism is great, this is the first mix that i've made that i've actually felt worthy of posting. A couple of my transitions are off at the beginning and apologies in advance for the volume on Human After All, I somehow knocked it down a few decibels. hope you enjoy.
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Apr 8, 2009 01:12
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MrPeanut posted:techno techno techno
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Apr 8, 2009 01:47
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Dance Move Burglar posted:I don't believe that most of the music you are talking about is actually Techno. Please learn what "Techno" means if you're going to be a DJ thank you I just couldnt do it this time
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Apr 8, 2009 01:57
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Dance Move Burglar posted:I don't believe that most of the music you are talking about is actually Techno. Please learn what "Techno" means if you're going to be a DJ I'm using techno as a general term. Sorry but with all the definitions of dance genres techno has been my goto descriptor. Again this place does play electronic music made by computers that you can dance to. A Saturday night brings in all kinds so they play top 40, but on other nights they mix it up. These are the nights I'm going for.
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MrPeanut posted:I'm using techno as a general term. Sorry but with all the definitions of dance genres techno has been my goto descriptor.
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Apr 8, 2009 05:32
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Yeah just call it dance music if you need to be general. It annoys me when people make up their own vernacular and then are confused when no one knows what theyre talking about
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Apr 8, 2009 05:39
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To be fair, a lot of people outside the EDM scene refer to all EDM (or more narrowly, all 4-beat EDM) as "techno". However, we are not outside the EDM scene right now.
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Quincy Smallvoice posted:thank you I thought about doing it too. Glad to see I'm not the only one vanilla slimfast fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Oct 20, 2010 |
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Apr 8, 2009 06:51
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vanilla slimfast posted:lol. I thought about doing it too. Glad to see I'm not the only one next paycheck I am so buying you a loving avatar gift cert.
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Apr 8, 2009 08:12
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boy golly, sure lovin' this slapfight over the word techo! why do any of you care what it called? also, if someone called what i play EDM, i'd be pretty mad.
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Apr 8, 2009 12:39
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Caus when talking about music it helps to have an agreed upon vocabulary so this discussion doesnt come up every ten seconds. EDM is stupid. Dance music or even house should be enough
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Apr 8, 2009 15:52
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Terrible Horse posted:Caus when talking about music it helps to have an agreed upon vocabulary so this discussion doesnt come up every ten seconds. EDM is stupid. Dance music or even house should be enough House, just like techno, is a specific genre of dance music. You wouldn't go around calling all dance music jungle or dubstep would you? I know it's a bit pedantic but honestly these different genres have unique identities and histories
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Apr 8, 2009 16:24
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vanilla slimfast posted:I know it's a bit pedantic but honestly these different genres have unique identities and histories
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Terrible Horse posted:Caus when talking about music it helps to have an agreed upon vocabulary so this discussion doesnt come up every ten seconds. EDM is stupid. Dance music or even house should be enough why is "electronic dance music" bad? it's one of the better blanket terms out there, far more acceptable than "techno" and "electronica" at least
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^ I dont think thats bad, I just think "EDM", as in saying the letters, sounds kinda lame. Also that terms so broad that its almost meaningless. Better than techno though. Whats up man havent seen you around in a while.vanilla slimfast posted:House, just like techno, is a specific genre of dance music. You wouldn't go around calling all dance music jungle or dubstep would you? Yeah I know, and I refer to stuff by its correct name. It all came from house though, so for the 'techno' guy who cant be bothered to learn the terms, you could do worse than house as a catch-all term. Agree that Djs should be snobs. If a mix has more than like 3 tunes I've heard before I'm probably not interested. Terrible Horse fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Apr 8, 2009 |
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haha 'edm' as it stands definitely has a lame connotation to it, and i guess the term has become sort of meaningless (is modern top 40 hip-hop/Justin Timberlake/MIA electronic dance music? your call) but for DJs who like to mix lots of genres, its a good descriptor (i.e. "I'm an electronic music DJ, I'm not going to play any hip-hop") i've been pretty good, just finishing up my last quarter of school, DJing at house parties and frats (who actually are pretty down with our brand of music these days) and the like. hopefully i'll have a new mix up sometime soon. how about you? btw, i don't really know what the consensus on pete tong's essential mix is around here these days, but you should really check out tiga's new mix. really cool blend of techno and electro (or whatever you want to call it)
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Cool, I'll check it out. I dont listen to much electro these days but Tiga's usually pretty fun. Listening to a lot of dubstep and berghain style techno these days :\ no hooks, no vocals that dont sound like ghosts, etc
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Terrible Horse posted:no hooks, no vocals that dont sound like ghosts
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Two things - I say "techno" when talking about dance music as a whole when talking to average people who aren't really into the whole thing, cause that's what they say and it's easier to just go along with that. Second - Just how malleable are average bar crowds? I've never played at one but I feel like if you start out with something that will make people dance, you might be able to guide them a bit. The house music I play is pretty (really) poppy, so might I be able to get away with it if I say, start with Snoop Dogg Millionaire, then dubstep for a little, then into pop crookers/bloody beetroots/steve aoki kind of music? Or do people not want to ever stray outside the usual tempo range?
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Xposted with phiz, because well - there's two dj threads. This is my phiz mix, all electro bangers  GET IT HERE http://www.zshare.net/audio/583458652a80134f/ Dan Sera - Italiofuker (LAZRtag Remix) Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls (Zodiac Cartel Remix) Fake Blood - MARS Little Boots - Meddle (AC Slater & DJ Skeet Skeet Remix) Breakdown - Sweat Sound Factory - Understand This Groove (Tommie Sunshine & Barletta Edit) LAZRtag - Work Is Play (DJ Barletta Boom Blast Fix) Mightyfools - Hey Babe (Electric Soulside Remix) Lorene Drive - Showing Bones (True Psuedo Remix) http://www.zshare.net/audio/583458652a80134f/ Enjoy! edit: serato, tech 12s and a ttm56
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Altoidss posted:Just how malleable are average bar crowds? I've never played at one but I feel like if you start out with something that will make people dance, you might be able to guide them a bit. The house music I play is pretty (really) poppy, so might I be able to get away with it if I say, start with Snoop Dogg Millionaire, then dubstep for a little, then into pop crookers/bloody beetroots/steve aoki kind of music? Or do people not want to ever stray outside the usual tempo range? And tempo and pacing really doesn't matter at all. I've watched dudes just rewind and bounce between totally different tracks without anyone on the floor batting an eye. This works especially well with hip hop. But really, this is all part of reading a room. You'll know when all everyone wants to hear is Shake Ya rear end and Juicy. e: I may be too harsh, because I've been able to get away with playing Daft Punk and Justice and Digitalism and all those acts that were still hot when I still played out. Really, all you have to do is sell the girls. If they're feeling it, the guys will. ManoliIsFat fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 8, 2009 |
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