So the wife is dragging me through the shopping mall right now. We just walked into Guess Jeans and there is a DJ spinning house music with a pretty nice setup including a MBP w/ serato, two cdj 1000s and a Stanton mixer. The music is loud enough where you have to raise your voice to talk to the salesperson (sucks for them, they are probably damaging their ears while working at a clothing store).
Anyways I couldn’t help but laugh at this situation. I mean the guy needs to make a living but from what I can tell he spends most of his time flirting with the girls and folds clothes out of boredom. Occasionally he will walk over to his laptop throw his headphones around his neck while cueing up the next song. So here I am (wearing my midi fighter tshirt ) thinking WTF? Does this happen anywhere else? I wonder how much this guy makes? And of course… does be take requests?
Metropark does this, we have one @ the mall down in Dallas. It’s sick there though, they only allow vinyl from what I can tell… The DJ’s kill it there too.
i live in Miami and have done gigs at the mall. Most of the Guess stores have a DJ booth set up. I know the few I went to in NYC all had DJ set up. Down here, stores in the mall will have DJ’s for either big sales, events, release of a new line, etc. Easy gigs, and always fun.
Yeah my mate has DJd in a local clothes shop. Its a kinda high street Skate store, not too commercial but not exactly a proper skate shop.
I thought it was pretty cool. He played funk and stuff.
Selfridges (big kinda semi-posh store) in Manchester has a DJ playing a lot but he just plays crap obvious Hed-Kandi house to people paying £300 for Evisu Jeans and tacky Ed Hardy crap. Knob Heads.
The first Jack & Jones store I saw here in Montreal had a proper DJ counter when it opened. I am not a mall rat, so only once did I see a guy spinning (while walking past). Sound level was normal for a store in a mall with an open front. Last time I walked by, the set-up was gone and the look of the store had been overhauled.
The thing that really stuck out was not the DJ but the live mannequins in front of the store. They would stand out in front, almost in the isle, and every half hour or so go in and change! They too are gone, alas…
The mall DJ gig would seem a bit of a waste, as it is really just a human jukebox (does not fir in my books as a proper selector).
Now that id love to see. Proper Soundsystem with your old timers playing. Selector, Operator and DJ. No fucker doing any shopping just chilling and sitting around in a swanky store… shop assistant confused as fuck wondering why it takes 3 people to play one record.
I DJed at diesel in NY a while ago. It’s an easy chill gig, and I always had people come up to me to say they liked what they heard. It’s a good way to get people outside of your regular crowd interested in your stuff and maybe out to a party.
Nordstrom has a DJ setup here, from the looks of it, it was a numark battle pak, but i’ve never seen anyone using it. My friend said he saw a DJ spinning during christmas time though. Metropark, in the same mall, has a really nice setup with a high end denon club mixer and cdjs as well as 1200s.
yeah I’ve seen this at the metro park in Vegas and Irvine, also in a few other “trendy” boutiques around socal.. i think it’s becoming the norm.. last Christmas season when I was in NY they had a DJ at the big Macy’s on Broadway spinning on one of the levels.
From the two metro parks I’ve been to, they run cdj-1000’s on this awesome metal table, i even took a pic when i saw it. This is the metro park at the spectrum in Irvine, CA. DJM-400, 2x CDJ-1000, 2x technic 1200s
i’ve dj’ed for Bebe twice before XD. my girlfriend works there part time and they asked me to do it. i thought it was fun! no one really cares about the music, most people are just like, “whoaaaaa they have a DJ!!1!” lol, women who brought their children had a good shopping day–some of the kids interested in the gear lol.
i played indie dance/nu disco mostly (which, according to some of the employees, is usually what is on the store radio most of the time lol). i seriously thought about playing Warp 1977 a couple of times when some snobby woman asked me to play some tiesto or something lol.
Ive play at a girls clothing store during the summer and special events at the mall. It brings people in, and also attracts hater dj’s…opps! ::runs for the door::
If you think about it, a clothing store is (in most cases) open longer than a club is - so you get more hours of work in a clothing store. I don’t really think its something to hate, its all experience under the belt, you get longer hours which is more practice. Also in some cases i can see how it lets some people dj full time professionally, some of these people might also have a residency somewhere - a lot of the time people need a second job to hold down that sort of work, but if you can also dj in one of these stores and get some decent hours in you wont have to have the second job.
I’ve also noticed these stores are filled with hot girls working at them.. so play music all day, get paid, attractive co-workers, easy promotion. I’m sold.
Ohhh, I see the light. I guess I’m just ignorant since I’ve never seen this before (I don’t go to guess, bebe, ect. all that often). And the fact that it wasn’t that busy in the store, it just didn’t make sense from the store’s POV to pay someone to do it. But now I see how its a good way to promote yourself while making some dough. And just to clarify, I wasn’t hating on the DJ (JesC ). Just confused on the situation, making it a WTF moment for me.
i use to spin at the skatestore i was at from time to time love it! cause i don´t have to care about shoes, shirts and short´n´stuff and dj. 8 hours is a long time so i end up spinning every kind of music i know except for volksmusik (wich is kind of traditional german music). everyone should try to get one of those gigs, cause they are fun and u can prove to urself beeing able to spin longer than 2-3 hours without getting bored
) thinking WTF? Does this happen anywhere else? I wonder how much this guy makes? And of course… does be take requests? 
