Interested to know how many Dj's here program their sets, and how many just wing it. Ive been playing out now for maybe a year and gigs are becoming more regular. I tend to spend a lot of preparation in programming my sets.
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Interested to know how many Dj's here program their sets, and how many just wing it. Ive been playing out now for maybe a year and gigs are becoming more regular. I tend to spend a lot of preparation in programming my sets.
Unless it's reeeeally important, I much prefer to mix...
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Originally Posted by fullenglishpint
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Originally Posted by weltraumpapst
I wing it - I have a few transistions I've stumbled across that work particularly well, so I might use them every once in a while.
If you entirely preprogram your set and don't/can't vary it you might as well press play on iTunes and sit at the bar all night ...
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Originally Posted by Sherlock Ohms
thats the point.. a few of my friends do exactly this. preplan every track in a set, writing a playlist and just play the exact same set over and over again.. i find this rather boring..
I always program a set, i rarely end up following it though - especially once substances are consumed.
I find myself programming as i play quite often as i like to play full tracks so i have quite a bit of time, usually 3-5 tracks ahead of myself.
I pick out songs I want to play that night, but I don't have any specific order I'll play them.
I also have 2-5 song mixes that I've practiced a lot that I'll play at some points during my set, but they'll be added in on the fly with no real planning beforehand.
on the fly x3
I do prepare the set a few days before the gig, and print the playlist on paper.
Then when in the gig i do change on the fly ondepending on whats happening on the dancefloor.
My style is very "eclectic", so when im improvising a lot, and start fearing to get lost, i take the sheet of paper from my pocket and default to the original idea..