So I'm definitely interested in DJing as a hobby and to-be-profession next year. Met up with Jester and he showed me some fucking awesome stuff and oh my god, if I thought I was keen before...
SOOO... When I picture myself behind a table with a laptop and a S4 and all the gear and whatnot, I definitely picture the most insane light show ever and a crowd that is having such a good time dancing to my awesome music that they wanna do it until they collapse! Now I know that with performing at house parties and what not, the energy levels in the music have to start off low while people are arriving, and get progressively higher while people begin drinking, and then finally hit the roof when it's getting later into the night and everyone just wants to dance their asses off. (Of course learning last night to drop the energy every 5 or 6 songs so people can get drinks. Learned that last night ;D)
But I feel my track and music collection and knowledge is a bit lacking. I visit beatport and see lots of cool tracks that I can imagine being played in the beginning stages of parties, but still finding it hard to track down those intense 'dance until you fucking break something' tracks.
I mean like, 'mainstream' music is typically what's played at the house parties that I've been to, and there are plenty of those type of pop songs that everyone just loves to sing and dance to. Those are the kinds of songs that I'd consider sing-along/medium energy, sing-along/high energy if you know what I mean. like Taio Cruz, Katy Perry, Kesha, Kylie Minogue etc. I'm after tracks that are mostly instrumental that have extremely high energy parts to them that are around the typical 'mainstream' music BPM.
Something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKoftX6EeY (is soft in parts but the main parts are stuff that I know would make people go INSANE on the dance floor...)
But I'm having trouble finding songs that are like that, with all of the insane dance-your-ass-off beats and all.
I think my style when I get my gear together will be mostly mixing mainstream songs together with 'non-mainstream' instrumental DJ-specific tracks like the example above. People will be able to both sing and dance to songs they're bound to know, and at the same time be able to feel the full force of the superior instrumentals in the more behind-the-scenes stuff.
Yeeeeeeeeeah.
So that's the stuff I'm after. If anyone can name the specific genres/artists/songs that you know fit the description, or websites I can go specifically to find these specific types of tracks, that would be epic!
Thanks, ElmoNZ.
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