DJ Set intros
So, what do people do for these? Anything special, or just a track with a decent intro (eg. not just beats).
my dnb intros: power puff girls theme song and a clip from an amen break mini documentary where he says ‘…this is what it sounds like plays the break here, i play it again plays it again’ i put the snt part on loop and bring in the song
dubstep: torques and twist (i think thats the name)- dubstep hotline
killer intro on that song
depends on the kind of music that night.
if its a dubstep night, well 
this song is a fuking TUNE
hahaha i just looked that song up on youtube and that is an amazing intro 
for a party i used juicy pen - Dj ozi. it was a housey kinda night so it was a fun intro 
maybe it’s just me, but i think intros are generally corny.
if you’re a big dj that people are anticipating, then it’s cool. but often when i hear local djs do intros it sounds conceited. imo
my dj drops! 
I’ve got a couple - there’s a specific one for my radio show (CtrL:Alt:TheBeat) that a mate of mine made,
I also made one myself from a 1940’s US version of the Sherlock Holmes radio show which had an intro from an old school radio announcer, with some tweaks using a text to voice program - “This adventure in the life of Sherlock Ohms goes out to our men and women overseas via shortwaves and also by the Armed Forces Radio network”
Sweeeeeet
i use the intros only for recorded mixes*
Last time i used an intro…it was from the Pendulum album.
“off the boat and into the jungle…”
It was at an outdoor Psytrance party. The nighttime sounds in that intro sounded HEAVY on the Turbo Sound Rig.
I like to do this kinda thing…for special gigs…BIG ones!
This Saturday I plan on using Mustard Pimps - Gold otherwise it really comes down to the party itself. If its themed or not, who is playing etc… I like to be a bit cheeky in the selections.
I have a track on my hard drive labelled “We Were in the Dark”. I used it on all my recorded mixes as an intro. Looked everywhere to try and find what it is. It’s a narrative of some guy with a deep voice speaking, says something along the lines of:
“There was this stranger,
Came into our town,
He was tall, dark and had eyes that could look down into the bottom of you
One night he got us all together in the auditorium
And there he was on the main stage
Then
Out of his tallness came the chanting
First as a whisper
We could hardly hear it
But before we knew it, he’d got us
We were pulled into his trance
Bringing us all up to a savage crescendo
And taking us to what can only be described as
Ecstacy”
Last few lines are wrong, but it’s something similar. It’s quite dark and about a minute long. When it reaches the line “came the chanting” I begin my first track quietly in the background with no bass, fading it up slowly in the background. I time it so that after the word ecstacy, there a fraction of a pause of quietness, roll the bass up and drop in the kick of the first track.
Pretentious d!ck may be, but always works a treat. No idea what the track is though!
@Bunfold: I think that song is either Trapped by Dark Oscillators or Ruin the Dark by DvK…
If it’s just the narrative alone that would be crazy good.
I like to start a mix either with interesting audio samples (could be from songs or shows) or some relatively low energy stuff.
hot.
i sample interesting quotes from movies and tv. nothing too crazy.
It is just the narrative. Listened to the songs you suggested, and it seems they sampled this narrative for them songs, rather than the other way around as it’s a 2 anda half minute mini story-kind of narrative.
Sounds good though!
Yeah. I’ve done that in the past. If I don’t use the above example, I tend to use Keanue Reeves’ speech from the end of the first Matrix film as my intro:
“I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… you’re afraid of “insert DJ name in an edit of it”. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”
And there’s a natural build up in the background to where the Rage Against the Machine track “Wake Up” kicks in on the soundtrack, so I just use that and drop the kick of my own track in instead of the Rage Against the Machine one.
I sometimes use this (Tell me where every soundbite is from and you win a virtual cookie ):
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/74312632/file.html
But from time to time, when I really feel like it, I also use this wonderful track from the VENTURE BROS soundtrack:
But to be honest, most of the time I don’t use any intros, except when I record a mix.