Silent discos - who's done one?

[Karlos Santos]

Oh its easy to tell who is listening to which DJ.

You get a set of headphones so you can hear what the other guy is playing but wearing at the same time as your own headphone can get confusing. Wearing both sets at the same time is fun.

Those of you doubting the phenomenon of Silent Disco's, trust me people go MENTAL at them but its just not the same experience for the DJ... all you get to hear is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo3D6...eature=related

[lethal_pizzle]

I've done a silent cinema before. Halloween was the film, playing warped Italo Disco on channel 2. Not sure how it went down...

[fullenglishpint]

What you genre are you going up against..?

The other guy's supposed to be playing cheese and top 40. Everyone I talk to about it sober says 'oh, so you're playing the proper music then', but I know that after a few drinks it's going to be hard to tempt them away from mister fucking brightside.

[MaxOne]

Play bangers all night long.

Ive done loads of Silent Disco's.
It is simply a singing competition (usually) and people want to hear songs they know so they can chant along in each others faces.

Ive done it them with one other DJ and ive done them with 2 other DJ's.

One time i was doing Indie and the other guy was doing dance and I ripped him apart by simply playing a load of songs that everyone knows the words to.
People at Silent Discos love singing.

Another time i was doing dubstep,electro,D&B and one guy was doing rock/metal and another was doing Cheesey Pop. Apart from a few head-nodders the most people were dancing to a mix of the other guys cus they were playing fun music. Nothing much funny about the genres i was playing.

Mixing without a monitor is not my favourite way of DJing but if your tracks are gridded its easy with Traktor. Its just REEEEEEAAAALLLLLYYYY boring cus you spend most of the nite talking to the other DJ's and other clubbers that are taking a break.
People stand around talking and EVERYONE gets the words wrong to the biggest tunes.

I have to get drunk to DJ and enjoy a Silent Disco these days.

What you genre are you going up against..?

+1

Singalong all the way. I'll often dj just in my cans anyway at home so i find it easy to do. Just fading between master and cue and make sure you switch to full master as soon as you're in the mix.

Even if you're playing "proper" music make it fun and remixes of stuff people know.

When I did one i dropped this and it smashed it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnuESiOt_yQ

[lethal_pizzle]

mister fucking brightside.

nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah... iiiii neeeevveeeer... lol

[DjZzeless]

Crazy, never heard of this.........its different!

[JSerena]

I have done silent disco before, but not as a DJ though. It is amazing. You have 2 channels with different kind of music so you can choose or just change the channel according to the song. It is great fun because everybody is just dancing to the music that is playing in their headphones and nobody cares how do you move or anything.I highly recommend to try it

[Ashigari]

I was at one in Zürich right outside of the university, because of some laws they couldn't put up a real PA system...was amazing! insane view over the city and some nice sound

only 1 channel as well

[fullenglishpint]

@JSerena, you shouldn't have those ads in your signature.

[Paco Loco]

I think having more than one channel is a pretty dumb idea. To me the appeal of this is having a party at a time and/or location where you couldn't otherwise have one.