How do I do a warm up set when I only play my own productions?

[djgstefan]

How did the promoter find out about you? Does he knows your style? If so, just go ahead to do play your stuff.

Sometimes I work with promotors that book DJs or artist without knowing how they play. They just book them because they are famous. I always tell the DJs and artist just do their stuff anyway. It teaches the promotor to listen before booking :-D

[jjjjuan]

This is my opinion but almost every DJ I know thinks the same. A warm up should entertain the people and keep the audience on the dancefloor while every body gets to the club but leting the main DJ a lot of "space" to play around with the intensity of the night to his will, if you play only intense music you are limiting his options, and also you have to keep in mind that a dancefloor cant be to a 100% intensity level all night long because it just get boring and tiring, a warm up should be made to let the main set shine. And last but not least, you are getting paid to do a job, not to show your music, the promoter and the audience doesn't care if you are playing your music or not, during the warm up the only thing they care is listening to a good warm up, what you use to get that job done is up to you.

It's a very thin line because you must not play boring music but you have to keep the intensity to a healthy level, in my opinion, a proper warm up is way more difficult to do than a main set. If you are not wiling to play someone else's music and you don't have warm up music of your own I would turn down the offer.

[engie]

a friend knows the promoter and got me the gig. but ok, judging by the replies on this thread, I have turned down the offer to warm up. thanks everyone.

[astromech]

How did the promoter find out about you? Does he knows your style? If so, just go ahead to do play your stuff.

Sometimes I work with promotors that book DJs or artist without knowing how they play. They just book them because they are famous. I always tell the DJs and artist just do their stuff anyway. It teaches the promotor to listen before booking :-D

This is a good point.

[keithace]

a friend knows the promoter and got me the gig. but ok, judging by the replies on this thread, I have turned down the offer to warm up. thanks everyone.

what was your biggest reason for turning down the gig?

It's easy to destroy your reputation before you get one. (in all walks of life)

[daviedavedave]

I'm not sure I'd have turned down any work playing out before being huge tbh. How hard can it be to find 15 techno tracks that's don't blow the roof off but are still great?

[zestoi]

if it was me i'd have mixed some of my own tracks with other tracks. i don't see the point in only playing my own stuff.

edit: unless theyre only there to here you and youre playing live ofc

[engie]

I'm not sure I'd have turned down any work playing out before being huge tbh. How hard can it be to find 15 techno tracks that's don't blow the roof off but are still great?

what was your biggest reason for turning down the gig?

It's easy to destroy your reputation before you get one. (in all walks of life)

if it was me i'd have mixed some of my own tracks with other tracks. i don't see the point in only playing my own stuff.

edit: unless theyre only there to here you and youre playing live ofc

the way i setup my ableton project is almost a live show. the tracks i produced are split into many clips with separate "b-side"/"c-side" clips so I can take some of the songs in a different direction if needed. lots of effects are wired up to specific songs as well.

i wasn't sure what to do if i shelved that project and mixed 12 techno songs together in ableton live instead. i know that most people probably wouldn't care, but i'm not that type of performer that waits in between songs. i always have to be doing/triggering something.

[the_bastet]

Bruv. When you are booked to play your original material, play however you feel comfortable. Rock the fuck out of it and have a good time.

[keithace]

the way i setup my ableton project is almost a live show. the tracks i produced are split into many clips with separate "b-side"/"c-side" clips so I can take some of the songs in a different direction if needed. lots of effects are wired up to specific songs as well.

i wasn't sure what to do if i shelved that project and mixed 12 techno songs together in ableton live instead. i know that most people probably wouldn't care, but i'm not that type of performer that waits in between songs. i always have to be doing/triggering something.

you couldn't do a hybrid set? Warm up slots are usually an hour and a half to two hours. Sometimes three. Could you have played your own stuff for that long?

A warm up slot is just that. You are expected to keep people engaged without over shadowing the headliner.