hahahaha, that’s just plain bad! 
i sometimes like cutting a house set short to drop in an original hip hop track. hi pass filter on and i spin it up or down to the house track speed, then hard cut or spin down the house track and reset all values on hip hop track. Kinda sounds like a big hiss then boom boom wacka wacka boom
If someone asks for a shit track and I don’t have it then I’ll tell them I don’t have it because it’s a shit track. Although if they request a decent song that fits with my set then I’ll definitely play it for them.
Every Saturday night without fail at this bar I play at I get asked to play R&B. Now don’t get me wrong, I like R&B and HipHop but Saturdays are a house night so I play house. I do have quite a few house mixes of R&B/HipHop tracks so I try to play these as much as I can to please the crowd so everyone wins.
One of my favourite requests is when someone asks you to “play track number 4 off CD2 of The Ministry Of Sound Clubbers Guide to 2010”… Not only do I not know what track 4 on CD2 of the 2010 Clubbers Guide is but neither do they. Serioulsy?
To top that off it’s always awesome when someone knows the artist & title of a track, you don’t have it, they offer to go get the CD from their car for you to play it, you tell them they can go to their car and listen to it while they drive home 
Siged
I usually say let me look for it it might take a while cuz i have a lot of music if i cant find it ill play something around that same genre, even if I do have it, this allows you that extra space and time to work up to it or just say you dont have it even if you do and them play it in your set and then look for the person who requested it make eye contact smile and point, you know that i got you covered smile and point they will smile, nod, or even lift their glasses tword you, if its a horible song i usually announce over the mic that it is a special request and say who requested it and point to the person, play the song and if it gets booed change it quickly so they will be put on the spot for it instead of you and second they wont request anymore songs if they do just explain what happened with their last request when you played it
Just tell them to give you the MP3 written on a piece of paper. Any paper would do.
or you could wear this
my plan for this kind of stuff is:
“hey, ill see if i can work it in, but generally i dont take requests. do you want to hear a random jumble of songs, or a solid set that you can keep a groove to? so i cant guarantee youll hear your track.”
maybe throw in “but why font you and your friends/ group stick around for a while longer, i might squeeze it in” if its a song that might actually work a few tracks later
try not to say it like a dick though. then it takes a whole new smart-ass meaning
i always get request to play tooted and booted and chacaron
+1
hahahaha
“What? what are you saying? I can’t hear you. Talk to the hand!” Or maybe we could get like a sex-doll and say “hey talk to her!”
I understand why you try to squeeze a music to make someone happy but let’s be straight with it. A dj is an artist, otherwise you could just do a playlist and hit play. You should be taking attention to the dancefloor but still taking attention to yourself. You’re playing your music not theirs, that’s why you were called to play that exact night.
If the request fits on what you’re trying to do on your set, sure why not but if it doesn’t it’ll just ruin your experience. Djs are about public experiences right? Otherwise what is your difference from the other ones?
Once I had a girl coming to me like 10 times and saying “hey, put this one” after saying 9 times that I don’t have it or “just wait a little longer and i’ll get it” I just said “look… do you want to take my place?” she left unhappy but I don’t really care. 1 in 100.
Other time a club manager asked me to change from minimal to brazilian music to which I replied “you asked me to come here and play my music if you don’t want it well, just get someone else here no problems with that”. He understood, later that night other guy went into to the booth but you shouldn’t be mad about that. You were playing your music, it wasn’t fit, that’s all.
disagree.
i would call what ean says a white lie, for the sake of keeping everyone happy for the moment, because thats what its all about in the club when the booze is flowing. that exact moment, which the person who asked u for that song probably forgot about next morning.
Or even better, say usually I’d charge a tenner but for you I’ll do it for free 
If i ve played it, i say so. If i haven’t got it, i say so. if it doesn’t go with the style/genre, i say so. But i love it most whenever i’ve said: " No i won’t play it cuz that song is s**t and i don’t like it, im sure even the artist who released it hates it too"