Help on first gig

[DJ Descendent]

Thanks Man.

Honestly? Just play like you would at home, but pay attention to the crowd and see what they are feeding off of and digging. If you find people aren't dancing? Switching it up is never a bad option.

Come prepared with a BIG setlist. I usually have 100 songs per hour of mixing I plan on doing. Have your friend have his own separate playlist of his own stuff as well.

I recently did a tag-team set with one of my best friends. He's been mixing for a long while now, but we used my equipment. He had a portable hard-drive and we used Serato with vinyl. Loaded all of his tracks on his computer, analyzed them with Serato, ran them through mixed-in-key (as I try and mix harmonically) and then made him a playlist in iTunes with his selection. Loaded it in Serato along side my playlists, and good to go. Went perfectly and one of the best nights I've had out in awhile, even though there weren't many people. But spinning to a crowd with your friends? What a great feeling. Playing those tracks you love on a big system? ADDICTING.

Just have a blast with it!

[DJ Descendent]

Hey so I took what you had said into consideration and did realize the headline act is a DJ scratch battle between two Hip-Hop DJs so I'm now planning on Trap cause its close to it enough that I could easily get away with it and also I could now and then throw in some Dubstep because of the BPM similarities

you're doing dubstep?
may the force be with you, that stuff doesn't fly out here.. get pulled off the decks faster than anything if the venue isn't used to it

[DJMichaelHavok]

^ awesome, yeah man that one guy was named Househead or something, dropping dubstep modstep tripstep groovestep etc etc at a place that isn't geared for it is like throwing dice on your career early on.

im guilty of trying to expand peoples music outlook constantly (sneaking in oldschool 90s trance etc) slowly ease into that kinda stuff and stick to what people can bump and grind to early on.

thats how you get rebooked and gain residency at places

[DJ Descendent]

Yeah so uhh I guess my mom says no now so the gig is canceled. all because its a sunday -_-