ayo DJTT
I played out for the 2nd real time last night, high school crowd of about 300 or so. I play EDM -- everything from minimal, tribal house, dubstep, the works. I was one of 2 DJs for the night, each playing for an hour and a half. The event people booked me knowing what I play, which when I play out is mostly dubstep/glitch hop/electro house/DnB. I prepared some choons, and because of my experience the last time I played at a high school party I threw in a lot of hip-hop, managing to not compromise my music tastes -- stuff I can get into -- outkast, diplo-produced hophop, tupac, Odd Future.
I played a pretty seamless set, with no technical errors except for a couple mistakes. obviously no one cared because from what I could tell, all they wanted to hear was our dear, lyrically-challenged friend, mr. Lil Wayne. People didn't hate my set -- luckily the hip hop I knowingly threw in appeased them (they didn't even bite on the outkast, tupac, or odd future), they didn't even not like it, but all the black girls were trying to get me to play more, and I quote, "booty poppin shit." Some peeps were dancing but most were being blobs on the floor, and towards the end of my set, I had a bunch of girls on the stage and I said what the fuck, and just smashed Ludacris - How Low on the rear end of the track i was playing, and people went ballistic. I'm talking girls screaming and cheering, everybody grinding, i kid you not. After that I had time for one last track and scrapped Kill The Noise's Dying and just mixed into Look at Me Now, exact same result. a LOT more people were having a good time, and I did some hands in the air stuff and felt good, I let the track run out, did my thing on the mic, and the next DJ (who was absolute shit technically and musically, again not kidding) dropped right into lil wayne (literally - Faded) and I grabbed my equipment and pretty much escaped.
Now the team (who are not kids) that put on this event loved me, I was professional and had a great time, they were happy with my set but kind of wished I had played to the crowd more. I got paid and they want to book me for another party in a couple weeks, I said I'll have to get back to you on that.
Now the way I see it I have three choices.
One, I can say yes, load up on lil wayne and go be a hero at the next party and have a ballin time.
Two, I can say yes, make the same compromises I made this time in terms of music, while still managing to play a little good music, and have a mediocre time.
Or I can just say no.
Thoughts? Fire away, don't hold back.
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