I got the call from him now. There will only be adults (30+) and he said there will be very different taste in music. So I’m gonna play very “shuffled” music. He said he would like 1-3 classics from the 70s, maybe 80s. He does not want house, but any other genre is welcome.
I have prepared myself pretty good, I have actually set 3 lists: Chill songs (love songs), Disco (Danceable music), classics (swedish songs, other)
I will write at sunday morning how the gig went.
Bingo! Here’s your new list:
Dubstep
Jungle
Moombaton
Trap
DnB
You’re set 
Cover your bases. You need to be prepared for a barrage of requests at parties like this.
Now music +1 It’s works in a pinch and has just about everything.
Also, google the billboard hits for those years. Template:Hot 100 year-end charts - Wikipedia
This is the ultimate birthday track.
https://soundcloud.com/timbo21-1/happy-birthday-original-mix
The gig pretty good!
I started to play some chill music at a pretty low volume so everybody can talk and just chit-chat. Then later on when the night started to take over, I raised the volume and started playing danceable tracks. Everybody danced and I played some abba, some classics and modern dance music (they actually liked avicii, fedde le grand ALOT!). I stumbled some problems which I think is quite usuall for djs, and that’s people who is drunk. A 70 old man went to me and started accusing me for playing shit music. I pointed my finger towards the dancefloor where about 20 people danced and had fun. He went out after that.He later wanted the ABBA classics but I had already played those 2 songs he wanted. During the time I played 2 abba songs, he must of been out or just not there. Alot of drunk women danced around the dj booth too and (tried) to talk to me while I was working. This kind of things didn’t actually suprise me, for me it’s kinda natural for people to behave a bit wierd when they’re drunk. Some is fun and and talk-able when they’re drunk and some is aggressive and very annoying.
People started requesting and I think nearly everyone on the dancefloor got their song played. I had some requests on cd while some I had to take on spotify. At the end of the set, the audio coming from spotify started to slow down and crackle. So that resulted in not using spotify at the end (anyone has a idea why it became so? it didn’t happen with traktor!). I started flip out, only because I couldn’t take requests. But I kept the music playing all the time, I nearly forgot to drink some water which is important if you dj a couple of hours (7 hours for me). I really hated that the audio from spotify started to crackle and go in slow-motion (unplayable). There were all kinds of people on the dancefloor, from techno dudes till metal guys. I played final countdown and the metal guys went nuts, they started dancing like hell. Very fun gig.
So apart from that I had to skip the requests at the end, the gig went good!
Learned alot from this set, and I’m going to fix that slowmotion-crackle thing with spotify. I got 150$ from 7 hour gig, which for me is huge.
Just because they are 35 doesn’t mean they want to hear old shit.
I am 42 and I want to hear something fun new and cool.
Bring some classics but don’t play a mix of hits from 1987.
Just play some good shit and throw in some old stuff when they get drunk.
Hey congratulations! Sounds like a great gig. Personally I wouldn’t bother with spotify or things like that during a live gig - you never know how solid your internet connection is going to be and you will just get aggravated trying to stream or download every request. It’s perfectly acceptable to say “sorry, I don’t have that song, but I’ll play something else you might like” in such circumstances (and even to be less nice about it in other circumstances).
well glad you got through the night. Keep building your library so this shit doesn’t happen again. When i started out i use to take every request that came up. Big mistake hard to build a vibe when your set is so random. I know your trying to please everyone it will come with time. here’s a vid that people should watch.
