Worries about party music

[AllDay]

Let me say welcome to the forum...

If the crowd you are playing for is the high school/college crowd... the most music exposure most of them are going to get is radio, top 40 and indie bands. So play tunes that are popular on the radio, if its a band try to find a house remix of a track.

The common listener connects to music via the vocals, so it is best to stick to tracks with vocals in them. Because it can get a little repetitive especially if you're blasting electro house. Play all kinds of genres. Hip Hop always gets em going though.

I played a 5 hour set on Friday at my residency. Alot of house headz but we also get some overflow from the big top 40 club across the street. I played this track and the place WENT NUTS! I wanted to share it with you, play it at the party i guarantee things will get bent...

If you want to find more tracks like it. we used to call this "Jackin house", but now i guess its called "Future Bass"

It may be future house.. but definitely not future bass haha.

Thats an entirely different genre.

[johney]

future house, black music...

ffs

[William Gibson]

since this is now the second time...


WTF is "Black music"?

[soundinmotiondj]

a girl is doing her birthday party

Play whatever keeps the girls happy and dancing...everything else will just work itself out.

Ask the birthday girl what her favorite music/artists/genres/songs are. Sprinkle those songs into your set. In this setting, I approach DJing as a "service" not an "art." Play for the people who are actually there.

[deebom]

I approach DJing as a "service" not an "art." Play for the people who are actually there.

This. No ones that interested in you or what you like and most DJs don't realise this. It may sound harsh but they just want to party and sing songs they like. Drop a few of your favorites if you feel they could have some appeal, but play for the crowd. I don't know about America, but over here I would play whatever Kiss FM are currently playing, with few big tunes from the last few years.
Give them what they want and others will be asking if you can do their parties too.