A friend of mine and I are looking at running our own catch-all EDM night (Trance, House, Industrial, PsyTrance, Electro, etc.) and just try and throw something fun for people to come and dance to where they aren’t gonna know what they are going to hear.
I was wondering how many DJs in one night, on one floor, is ideal for your club going, and DJ going experience? Of course I’d love to have more time to spin, and splitting the night two ways would be a good time for all involved, but to have a guest DJ would be enjoyable too.
As a quick aside, I’m spinning tomorrow night with 5 other DJs. I think I’m spinning for an hour, MAYBE an hour and 15 minutes. I’m going to go nuts with all the fucking ego’s in that booth.
Anyways, I’m asking more for the mindset of the dance floor than to the “I love spinning all night long”. Would you, at your parties, rather have two or three DJs, or four or five or 15? What say you?
it’s all about the crowd at that point. if you’re going to have all those different genres, will the genre-specific crowd be there at that point to support that sound? i wouldn’t assume you’d be constantly cross-pollinating genres (psy trance into industrial into house into pill popping rave)?
We’re doing a gig tomorrow night and there’s 4 of us from 10-5. We’re all sharing the warmup cos no one wants to do it and then we get an hour and half each. Fuck anything less tbh.
Can’t believe that you get a lot of tracks played repeatedly, it rarely happens with us. What do you play?
Honestly if I went to a club to here someone play house I won’t stick around if someone starts playing epic trance or some other type of music I don’t care for .
But would you leave if you hear house and epic trance in the same set, being mixed in and out?
Chilly, I’d like to be able to do that, cause I have started to develop genre ADD and like mixing hard trance with industrial with psytrance with powernoise with house… and it works really interestingly and gives cool energy builds and drops. But I do understand that people might not be into that shrug and we are a service industry so it’s not what I want, right?
But I don’t think it would be a constant cross-polinating, instead moving in progressions (spinning Trance and slowly moving into Industrial and then pushing into Powernoise and phasing into PsyTrance) to keep the energy moving and changing.
Here in NYC most nights start at 10 and go until 4AM. If we got a really cool place we might be able to push the start to 9PM, but the close would almost always be 4.
So in 6 hours you’d think 3 or 4 DJs at most, then? I’d say 3 but I’m just looking for opinions of the people I respect
4 DJs would be 4 90 minute sets, 3 would be either 6 1 hour sets split up or 3 2 hour sets. I was thinking three DJs, have the two residents do the first two and last two and have the guest do the middle 2.
I’m a fan of mixing different styles as long as the tracks are top notch . But I do know it could loose alot of you’re regular club goers . But with that much time if you get a venue thats willing to let you experiment for 1 or 2 months I’d say go for it .
Once you have an established event, I’ve seen places that have billed a DJ Clash: DJ A vs. DJ B. Established Favorite versus The Newcomer is a good story to use.
Rules are one or two tracks each in turn with the crowd judging the results. It gives DJs the chance to bring out old classics and drop new monsters, and also show off skills of mixing out of and over someone else’s tracks.
If you get the crowd joining in and cheering their favorites, it can be a good event, but you need eye contact between the DJ booth and the crowd.
Anymore than that, I think the DJs get lazy and stop paying attention like they should.
You end up with superstars that don’t show up until their set starts, and leave right after. People who ignore the dancefloor/club till it’s time to go on, etc. I’ve had plenty of DJs who just can’t be bothered to keep their head in the game all night. The less DJs the easier it is for them to stay alert though.
Raves/houseparties/festivals/etc: 4-8 depending on the length.
I like the music to evolve throughout the evening.
Holy fuck man, clubs here dont really get started till like 2am. Earliest about 1am. No one even shows up till at the earliest 11pm. Gigs usually crank till about 5am and run through till 7am close.
We usually have about 4 DJs playing a night. 1 Open 10-12, 1 from 12-1, main set 1-3, then probably 1 or 2 after that til close. But it really depends on the type of gig. So many variations. Have had gigs with 4 DJs on stage B2B etc.
