DJ @ the Mall?

[Shane]

yeah I've seen this at the metro park in Vegas and Irvine, also in a few other "trendy" boutiques around socal.. i think it's becoming the norm.. last Christmas season when I was in NY they had a DJ at the big Macy's on Broadway spinning on one of the levels.

From the two metro parks I've been to, they run cdj-1000's on this awesome metal table, i even took a pic when i saw it. This is the metro park at the spectrum in Irvine, CA. DJM-400, 2x CDJ-1000, 2x technic 1200s

[BestLegsinHD]

i've dj'ed for Bebe twice before XD. my girlfriend works there part time and they asked me to do it. i thought it was fun! no one really cares about the music, most people are just like, "whoaaaaa they have a DJ!!1!" lol, women who brought their children had a good shopping day--some of the kids interested in the gear lol.

i played indie dance/nu disco mostly (which, according to some of the employees, is usually what is on the store radio most of the time lol). i seriously thought about playing Warp 1977 a couple of times when some snobby woman asked me to play some tiesto or something lol.

"No one tells DJ Request what to play."

[JesC]

Ive play at a girls clothing store during the summer and special events at the mall. It brings people in, and also attracts hater dj's...opps! ::runs for the door::

[BentoSan]

If you think about it, a clothing store is (in most cases) open longer than a club is - so you get more hours of work in a clothing store. I don't really think its something to hate, its all experience under the belt, you get longer hours which is more practice. Also in some cases i can see how it lets some people dj full time professionally, some of these people might also have a residency somewhere - a lot of the time people need a second job to hold down that sort of work, but if you can also dj in one of these stores and get some decent hours in you wont have to have the second job.

So dont be so quick to hate

[Shane]

I've also noticed these stores are filled with hot girls working at them.. so play music all day, get paid, attractive co-workers, easy promotion. I'm sold.

[Shane Says]

Ohhh, I see the light. I guess I'm just ignorant since I've never seen this before (I don't go to guess, bebe, ect. all that often). And the fact that it wasn't that busy in the store, it just didn't make sense from the store's POV to pay someone to do it. But now I see how its a good way to promote yourself while making some dough. And just to clarify, I wasn't hating on the DJ (JesC ). Just confused on the situation, making it a WTF moment for me.

[BestLegsinHD]

psssh, it was a WTF moment for me too, and i was the DJ!

[Ed Paris]

i use to spin at the skatestore i was at from time to time love it! cause i don´t have to care about shoes, shirts and short´n´stuff and dj. 8 hours is a long time so i end up spinning every kind of music i know except for volksmusik (wich is kind of traditional german music). everyone should try to get one of those gigs, cause they are fun and u can prove to urself beeing able to spin longer than 2-3 hours without getting bored