What makes a good DJ set?
In your opinion, what makes a good DJ Set?
Song Selection, Beat-matching, Scratching,etc etc?
For me? Introducing me to new tunes to add to my repertoire. But if I’m listening for pleasure instead of finding new songs, then a good set is one that has good track selection, nice blends, a good energy flow, some nice technical skills, and the ability to surprise me.
Song selection by far. Playing the right tracks at the right time. Raising and lowering the energy properly. Sending your audience on a journey. Not playing nothing but bangers. Mixing the unfumiliar with the familiar and introducing your audience to some new sounds. Not playing nothing but Beatport’s top 100. Just a few things that come to mind.
Lasers, strobes, dancers, drinks and, of course, correct use of the cross-fader.
The more drinks, the less everything else matters…except maybe the dancers 
All of those things could make a dj set good (in their own way).
Good is quite subjective.
Unpredictability
Selection/Delivery
It depends on if I’m dancing or not. If I’m on the dance floor then it’s all about energy, if you play hard hitters for three hours straight, I’ll go til I pass out! If I’m not dancing, I love to pick apart a djs mixing style, so technicality and transitions, sampling, discrete use of effects, etc., are good then.
1 - Song Selection (danceable or not)
2 - The Blends
3 - Smoothness (can’t be dropping tracks in out of no where)
4 -Style (anything extra the DJ does in a mix that doesn’t disrupt the flow of the crowd)
A good DJ set is easy: it’s just a set composed of good music, that hasn’t been ruined by the DJ.
A great DJ set: that’s a bit more ephemeral and probably more subjective.
Mau5head’s, trampolines, cake etc…
lol - I get them but where’s the cake etc… come from 
A good DJ set can be a couple of different things to me.
I’m sometimes asked to critique mixes and I say that they’re good, even though I’d never listen to them again. So in that instance, “good” means that it’s competently put together, but the tunes are not to my taste.
I have other mixes that I listen to for pleasure that I consider good because of the track selection, but not “great” because the mixing is just run of the mill blends.
I think it’s a tough thing to define really. It is possible to objectively say “that scratching is rubbish”, or “your mix is full of trainwrecks” which would make a mix bad, but when it comes to the music, if I went solely on what I like to define whether something is good or bad then 99% of EDM mixes would be bad because I don’t like 99% of EDM, but clearly that’s not the case (only 98.9% of them are bad really 
).
I believe that was a jab at Aoki.
your set must be mixed in key for it to be considered good…
Perfectly phrased!!
Yes sir
[quote=“keithace, post:16, topic:51829, username:keithace”]
your set must be mixed in key for it to be considered good…
[/quote]Not really. Sometimes bringing in a tune that’s out of key can create one of those unpredictable experiences that sends tingles up your spine if executed correctly.