Memorable things asked of you while DJ-ing a party…
Memorable things asked of you while DJ-ing a party…
dont know if we have one of these threads yet…but i will start…
i have two…
i was playing an 80s party…rockin some De La Soul…she comes up and ask “can me and my boyfriend hear some hip hop”…i pointed to the speakers and told her “whats this?”…she said “we want to hear some current hip hop”…i leaned over and told her “you do realize this is an 80s party?”…dumb B!tch…
and
“hey man…where’s the ice?”…not sure if he meant for his drink or some crystal meth…(shrugs)…
at the end of a dnb party a bunch of house head clubbers made it to the club and wanted some house music. It was 7am and the club owners already asked to wind it down. They were obviously rolling… and they kept coming up asking for house… then one tried to act cool and says.. come on give us some 4/4 kick drums. Reached into the crate and gave them a gabber rinse out, started it on 33… and they got that x revive all happy… then I hit 45… and the rest was the perfect ending/last song
i was asked to play some radio head at an electro party…the best part was him telling me how to mix it:
“hey man, can you play some tiesto, slow it down a bit and throw some sped up radiohead lyrics over it.”
i told him i would do it just to get him out of my face (he was being super pushy and touch with me).
some girl asked for some lil wayne the same night. if the bar was empty and no one were dancing, i would play whatever would make them dance, but it was friggin packed. =/
This just happened. A first timer. Never happened to me before. a dude came up to me after my set. He asked me if me and my girl would like to have a threesome with him. He´s been serious. Than started creeping after my chick… WTF?
I had to leave the booth during my set to show him his boundaries if you get what i mean. I´m still thinking about other ways to react then violence? But i tried talking him down, didnt work.
both at the same gig, a breakbeat-themed night, mind you. wow, just… wow.
I gave the tiesto guy a look that said “get the fuck out or I’ll kill you with a spoon”. he understood. the scooter guy, however, was more persistent, so I put on modeselektor’s “hyper hyper” remix - but then the guy actually dared to come back and complain that it wasn’t the original…
this close to going postal.
but then there’s things that make you smile when you think back… at one of my recent gigs I was blessed with a beautiful crowd that just went apeshit over dnb. at some moment I decided to get into a liquid-ish vibe to make the girls happy for a change… soon as I did, however, all of a sudden this half-naked chick (it was insanely hot, people stripped down to their underwear; if I hadn’t brought my big-ass fan, I probably would’ve dehydrated and collapsed - no shit) jumps up onto my table, basically slamming her tits into my face, and yells “HARDER!! MORE EVIL BASS!! RAAAR!!!”.
grin. backspin. techstep. frenzy. then the cops closed us down, but damn was it awesome.
Me and my two mates were doing a weekly for the longest time, it was a contemporary house and techno night. Really deep and heady stuff and we had a decent following and the crowd was always for up it and knowledgeable as well. But this one night when I was playing this girl who I’ve never seen came up and asked if we were going to play any “trance, like you know Tiesto, Paul van Dyke or Armin van Buuren”.
I was so flabbergasted I didn’t even reply, just stared at her with this dumbfound look on my face and just kept on playing. Never saw her again after that. Should have know though, as he was dressed as a total candy raver from the 90’s = /
As for a good one, happened recently actually. Got invited to play at a weekly party that’s been going on for a number of years now on a Friday night. They are trying to get more into the techier/technoish side of house now and as such are asking a number of different DJ’s to come play (they usually do some really deep and soulful stuff). I was actually headlining the night so I had a ways to go before I was on. The two guys before me did a really good job, good music and good mixing but no groove. It was almost a bit too techy I’d say for a crowd that’s use to more deep house stuff.
By the time I go on the dance floor is empty and a lot of people are just hanging out outside smoking and drinking. I get on, and start working my brand of deep and techy, but groovy house. I’ve been drinking so I’m just dancing and rocking out by myself on the stage. And before I know it the crowd is coming back and and dancing. Everyone was coming up and saying they were enjoying the tune and were loving how much fun I was having more than anything else. Some random dude actually came up to me and gave me a big bear hug and said I saved his night. Best compliment ever. It’s nights like those that keep me going and make me want to keep DJing.
So this one time when i was doing the club gig thing the son of the owner (newly appointed entrainment manager.. wtf?) came up to me with a list of songs and a wallet of CD’s.
He said:
“I only want you to play songs off this list and these CD’s” (im not kidding, he actually said this)
Well, i was dj’ing at a friends party, the guests liked my music. But then all of a sudden, some had decided they didn’t like House anymore or something.
So this guys comes up to me and asks: “Do you have Six Feet Under - TNT ?”, i was shocked :O. But me, as a fan of AC/DC said: “AC/DC version is much better!”. But the smartass said: “Ur a DJ, you also use other peoples songs”.
I was staring at my Traktor for like 2 minutes until my deck began to flash, the 30 second warning…
DJing a house party, mostly my friends, im past the warm up stage and everyones drunk and dancing (if im doing a bpm build up, were getting a song or two into the 110s-120s). Then a girl comes up and requests dubstep.
I’ve tried saying I don’t have any, I’ve tried saying ok in a minute, I’ve even tried saying I don’t play dubstep. But dubstep girls are persistant people! anyways, for the only two times ive actually taken their request- the room clears and people stop dancing. I mean a room full of 50 plus people will all of a sudden stop dancing. As if they all put their hands in the middle of a big circle of people and said “BREAK!”.
On the upside, people generally loved my music choices until the dubstep came in. I even had a girl i didnt know come up and say “your DJing was amazing! until that bitch bothered you to play that crap”
I should just get a shirt that says “Don’t ask me to play shit”
