We play in an underground club quite often and I love the way that DJ's are free to play in their own individual way / style of music (no requests) and not the conventional push and play, any requests type style of playing.
The regular crowd love technical mixing and have a great understanding of the effort put into some mixes. It is the only club in my local town which every night provides top quality music on a sound system rated by big artists as one of the best systems they have ever played on
Anyone can push play, but it takes skill to produce something that will inspire people to feel the music and leave at the end of the night thinking that they want to listen to more of that style of music.
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I know there's been a lot of topics and discussions about taking requests but honestly when you start taking requests it usually turns you into a push play DJ and it SUCKS. I'm now completely against requests unless it fits in with what i'm playing. It just ruins your flow and takes you out of the moment. Also is it just me or are the people who make the requests always the ones who are never dancing.
I totally feel your pain bro. Sadly it tends to be more consistent and sometimes even pay better... ;'(
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even witht eh whole "push play" ha;lf the game is KNOWING what to play next, where to take the crowd. you can still do interesting transitions with rock, jazz, honestly anything. if you know hte music, where its going, what key songs are in, you cna usually get em to cooperate pretty well
I don't get why a DJ would play a style of music they do not like.
I mean surely the crowd will see the fake smile...or boredom in his eyes?
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Sounds like my kinda place! A good sound system makes one hell of a difference. Let me guess . . . . Funktion one rig?
Out of interest, what styles of music does your club play and which of those styles seems the most popular?
Yup, I do. I think this infects the crowd too. When I see this there usually isnt many on the dancefloor &/ the flow is all over the shop so no-one can get in the groove properly.
You dont need to be a DJ to see peoples reactions to music.
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