resindency!

[takeabath]

play whatever you want, but keep it as broad as possible at first, and pepper your own desires with those of the crowd.

glad to see there are some other canadians on board with the digital thing. Not that i'm all over the city or anything, but i'm definitely one of the only regular dj's in halifax that is playing strictly with midi, and not with ableton. i assume hamilton is also a serato run town.

MGMT - kids (soulwax remix) always fills the floor, even when competing with last call.

[JesC]

My 1st question would be...who is going to promote this night? Is it going to be inhouse, where the owner is going to get a street team litter the city clubs with flyers to the new club or are they going to bring in a promoter to help? Or do they expect you to promote it? You need to know these things to know what the crowd is going to be coming in.

Sorry if I threw a wrench into this, but I would be stoked to be a resident dj, but I would want to know who Im playing for.

[midian]

I just got a residency confirmed for a clubnight every friday. (thegardenclub.co.nz) Woo!!

The best thing about it is.... Its a Dubstep Club Night! Fuck yeah! So I basically can play what I want (within reason). Makes it easier on the DJ side of things. The thing is I'm also going to be doing the promotion for the night, so its going to be some hard work O_o on that side to get people in.

IMO 'genre'-themed nights can be good like that beacuse people know what to expect and you dont have to fuck around as much finding what style people want to hear, perhaps you should propose something like this for an Indi type night as you said that seems to do well?

[Jester]

Word midian. when we started i was in a similar predicament. hmm should i play crap remixes or should i just go hard? In the end i decided i'm in it for the love not to be a jukebox so came to a bit of a compromise, and i think i came up with a good format for the night. I will play 1 repeat 1 cheesey remix pretty much at the start and half an hour of reasonably accessible tunes, then i start my proper set at 11 ish, when the crowd has built up to about 50-100 and a few drinks have gone down. My "town set" gets progressively phatter as the night goes on and by the time my brother goes on at 1 ish, the crowd is total putty in our hands, and the last few times has been totally packed out (something like 300-350 upstairs, and 100 ish downstairs)
Obviously ya gotta have a few backup tunes just in case but basically do what ya want they'll either like it or not dude. peace