First live performance, need advice?

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First live performance, need advice?

Hey guys, did my first live performance at a local club. Roughly a thousand people, and I had the booth for half n hour. Was mostly House, electro house.

Lots of people requested dubstep but all I had was a Skrillex remix and a Ghosts’n’stuff remix on me at the time. The crowd was dancing, but what can I improve on here? I recorded the set thru Audacity so excuse the quality. Thanks :slight_smile:

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Congrats on the gig but I have to ask, do you really take requests when playing to a 1000 people?

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Not really. It was my first ‘big’ gig i guess, but there were A LOT of people asking for some dubstep or Skrillex. So i thru in a dance remix of one of his songs, didn’t want to stop the flow of the set by going in a totally different path.

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Bump, any feedback?:open_mouth:

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congrats!

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Great Job overall :slight_smile: What gear were you using?

Could you post your set list please? I’m really digging some of the tracks you used.

P.S I have my first big gig on sunday for 30 mins also!

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Get a lot more music outside of whatever genre it is you spin. A lot more.

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In reference to requests I would just like to recommend looking up g.g. allin. Ha he can teach you alot about responding to a crowd…

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I wish I was old enough to appreciate him

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open with a song that people know, but have a good intro that you mix up and drop it.
i like using the song “hello” with a nice intro beatmashing it delaying it and dropping it.
hooks the people and u can branch off some stuff. i like your mix dude!

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Thanks guys for all the appreciation and feed back!!! Even more thanks advice!

As for my setup, it’s all Ableton.

APC 20 is like my mixer/motherbase :stuck_out_tongue:
MPD26 is for triggering effects and EQ
Kontrol X1 is for looping and effects aswell.

And the lpd responds as a tini weeni monome to upscale some of the beats and play with the song in some sense. If you know what a monome is you know what I’m talking about, if not then look it up :stuck_out_tongue:.

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track list please?

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OH you were doing a DJ SET. i was baffled by how you were taking requests during a LIVE set…
just a distinction in terminology that tripped me up. I find your setup to be rather creative, i dig it.