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Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby BennyB on 28 Apr 2012, 11:49

It's an interesting story I'll tell, but I think everyone will find it familiar in your surroundings, or in your life...

(for lazy readers scroll down, to the "conclusion" part :twisted: )

So as many of you know, dubstep and wicked D'n'B tunes became "mainstream", or getting popular among young audience, and wicked electro rythms and dubstep patterns are appearing in hit club tracks...

So this is fashion... But you know playing house, and electro is still the main style on parties, exspecially in Hungary.

My story begins with a friend and basicly a college of mine, because we are the member of the same Univerity Studio.
His style is dubstep, D'n'B, sometimes breakbeat, and strange styles of alternative electro stuff...
We got a pretty good opportunity, to fill a venue with university students on a wednesday night (that is the main party day for us).
And my friend/college decided to make a series of wicked electro parties.
His last one was last week, and the big place was empty...

Only about 20 people turned up whole night, and boss closed the party at 2 o'clock...

What did he go wrong: On his first party he played along 2 electro DJ-s occasionaly droppong in dubstep and D'n'B, and spinning up the crowd... was very nice... place was full.
But this time he was alone playing only his your style, which I hardly found it "dancable".
And he didn't mix well, track choice is poor, and stuff...

If I make a party, I make it house, electro, and mixing in dubestep, and wicked electro but not all the time. I'll move with the fashion, playing club music along on these parties so I satisfy everyone in the club, including the stuff, and the Boss.
The place is full, and I get the oportunity to express myself.
And most of all, I'm starting to find my style of music playing, to have my own, not just being a "club-worm DJ" all the time.

Conclusion:

1) So if you are into a music style and that is not the most popular, when you gig, you have to think up the whole thing and take the best out of it, but don't let you loved style, to overtake a party.

2) You have to be a good DJ to achive that, and sometimes dropping in these are quite difficult, but If you can do it, you are satisfied, and everyone is happy.

3) If you really want to make a whole party around you style make sure you consult, and promo to a manager that is not familiar with that, and advertise weeks ahead, so you can gather the few people that likes that music

And if boss says "WTF you just did, don't play this anymore!" you can come up with "I just wanted to try something, that can move the crowd more, but if you say no than no more :twisted: ".
So experiment, but be prapared, think your transitions through, so good things can come, and old rusty managers can say "That was good" in the end.
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby Blackbrook on 28 Apr 2012, 17:41

DzsoniB wrote:Conclusion:

1) So if you are into a music style and that is not the most popular, when you gig, you have to think up the whole thing and take the best out of it, but don't let you loved style, to overtake a party.


The main reasond while gigging got hard for me! I love my style but do not change it for being able to play in clubs. I have my radio show through which I express myself. I know that there are people out there who like it and that is enough for me.

DzsoniB wrote:2) You have to be a good DJ to achive that, and sometimes dropping in these are quite difficult, but If you can do it, you are satisfied, and everyone is happy.


I agree with you that this is difficult but if you are able to play at a label night and the label is famous for your style this is the best you can get.
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby daniel clark on 28 Apr 2012, 18:33

:cool: :cool: being one with a varied and widespead taste,,what music that moves you it what you feel, trying to be a good musician ,and dee jay to express ourselves then it is up to our creative talents to express /present our music in a way that people that are not familiar with it might enjoy it and realise that even thought the track might be from a genre that their not acoustomed to they like the song :biggrin: grew up in the disco era and watched music taste change and move to different genre and styles,,and will see them move on in the future,
:idea: the underlining mission of a deejay is to get the people who come out to enjoy what you do,enjoy the music,and go home happy its up to you to learn how to move them the way you want it to go :idea:
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby BennyB on 28 Apr 2012, 19:03

daniel clark wrote: :idea: the underlining mission of a deejay is to get the people who come out to enjoy what you do,enjoy the music,and go home happy its up to you to learn how to move them the way you want it to go :idea:


Exactly :!:

BTW I also have wide taste for music.

But I like challenging styles, that have some beauty to mix into other popular songs.
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby KevMaverick on 29 Apr 2012, 02:43

I'm a party DJ, and I have to play the whole range! Absolutely everything - oldies/soul/motown/disco/pop/house/rock/reggae....EVERYTHING!!

You just have to 'read' the audience. It's hard, but possible! :biggrin:
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby daniel clark on 29 Apr 2012, 02:48

KevMaverick wrote:
You just have to 'read' the audience. It's hard, but possible! :biggrin:

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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby KevMaverick on 29 Apr 2012, 02:55

Sometimes you get the older folk dancing to new tunes, and the younger ones dancing to the oldies! That's when it gets weird! LOL!

Some of the older folk can really MOVE!!! :mrgreen:
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby BennyB on 29 Apr 2012, 09:23

KevMaverick wrote:I'm a party DJ, and I have to play the whole range! Absolutely everything - oldies/soul/motown/disco/pop/house/rock/reggae....EVERYTHING!!

You just have to 'read' the audience. It's hard, but possible! :biggrin:


The problem is that in Hungary mixed style party making is very-very rare. clubs are going around one style, mostly house, and only play that, sometimes clubs have different rooms for styles, like in one room there is karaoke, in the other retro, and in the other disco, but there is no way to play mixed styles.

So that is why I have to do desparate dicisons :)
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Re: Playing your style while moving with fashions

Postby Activated Soundwave on 15 May 2012, 11:34

The motto i have always lived by is to do your own thing,Obviousley you have to bare in mind the Style for the venue/night you are playing, but their is always room for mixing things up, if djs dare take that risk_that is what the turntable became known for and on into the computer DJ Realm we have progressed too.
I bare in mind the style/genra for the night i would play,but always try to work my set, so its the best it can possibley be, in a sense of fitting in, but being diffferent enough to stand out, its a compromise that more so will depend on how you piece your set together with your DJ skillset,that is all- its on your talent and expressing that, i think why in the past some djs stand out others do not, if you dont find your own balance with what is expected for the night you play, then you are doomed to be the same ole same.

as oakenfold says take them on a journey,always been my thoughts too. It can never be an epic journey if you as a listner knows how its going to go,oh! its another track the same as the last oh! its that big top 20 track that i heard every other DJ play, you as the DJ should be in control.
Forget playing for the crowd, this is a point for others to debate as usual,But its patronising to think a DJ is going to play a night known for a set type of music and drop in a track that will not work,that is only becuase a DJ is a bad DJ who can not work a set, so personally i think that debate is pointless, but yet on many a forum, its led to big argumental debates, but it is quite simple in my eyes,Do they think that if the pied piper of hamlen,was to reveal his bag of trick they would have followed,Its the awe of the music,they where led,so in this case not the DJ following trends, he leads, you should lead.
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