Is my crowd stupid?
Had my first big gig in some kind of bar/club-thing, it went very very well, and i was very excited. Everybody said i was mixing good and stuff, then somebody said ‘liked how you mixed Bruno’s Lazy Song’, i just played the DJ Newklear mash-up. Now i am doubting, do these guys think i remix this shit live? I btw DID told them i just used a mash-up!
Yup, and (mostly) if you tell them it wasn’t you they say that you are a really bad DJ
Solution: explain the diffrence between producing an DJ-ing
Result: they’ll think that a DJ is useless
bahahahaha that’s why I want to do both
I do my own mashups live =D
I do sausage, mash and gravy.
mmmmm bangers and mash 
not everyone is a total music nerd or knows exactly what it is djs do.
Amen to that.
Otherwise clubs would just be full of people telling each other how differently they would have done the last mix or “he should play blah blah next”… no-one would be dancing and no-one would be trying to get into the pants of the boy/girl stood next to them.
Thank god for people that just wanna hear some tunes and have a dance.
They make my life a damn sight easier and more pleasurable.
Then again some people are pretty stupid
scamo
I mash-up live too sometimes, but when i play a perfectly produced remix of some song, why does everybody think i am a great DJ, while i don’t remix it live? Ofcourse not everybody knows what a DJ does live, but creating entire new songs on-the-go? I always say what i did when people ask, but they don’t actually get it i think
Crowd don’t need/want to know what and how you do so… you don’t need to know how they cooked a cake to enjoy it huh?
No ofcourse not, but if i tell them how much i enjoyed how they growed the sugarcanes they used to make the sugar that is in the cake… Would be kinda strange right?
“Ignorance is bliss”
Explaining to this guy the difference between a mashup and a remix and wether or not you did it live probably wasn’t the best approach. What you should have done is said thanks, give me your email and I can let you know where to get the track. Now you’ve connected with him and made him feel special instead of confusing him with the nuances of what we do. More importantly though now you have the email adress of someone who likes the music you play.
be lucky they didn’t ask what that “sync” button was for…
99% of people at clubs don’t know what a DJ is doing. That doesn’t make them “stupid” though; they’re not DJs and don’t really have any reason to know.
This ^^
If someone praises your set/tracks always smile, say thanks and remember you just got yourself another fan
Everybody I have talked to about djing (who isn’t a DJ) seems to think that we are supposed to be cutting tracks in and out every 5 seconds and making new remix songs on the fly for the whole set. I try to explain to them every time how hard that is to do that much mixing and make it actually sound good and how much planning and stuff goes into just one set… By the time I am done explaining there minds are elsewhere like a goldfish.
yup
and if they’re at the club every weekend, the odds of them being stupid are multiplied!
keywee ftw
cake metaphors, nice.