x

follow on post to the wot genre do you play

Home 2023 › Forums › The DJ Booth › follow on post to the wot genre do you play

Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • February 5, 2012 at 12:44 am #14172
    synthet1c
    Member

    Mixing anything is easy when you have done it for a bit, but would I do a performance of tracks I didn’t like? never, 99.8% of a dj’s job is to select good music and you can’t do that if you dont first like the music… eg can I mix hardstyle? hells yes, but can I mix it well? hells no, why… cause I think it sounds like garbage these days.

    February 5, 2012 at 12:50 am #14173
    Paul Hill
    Participant

    my point.its the love of the music that drives us guys.if you dont love football you dont go and buy a football strip.plus you wud have problems getting into the psychy of the crowd-knowing wot they want.with trance i know when to crank it up and bring it back down

    February 5, 2012 at 3:22 am #14184
    eros
    Member

    Track selection and knowing your music is the most important thing. That process for me takes hours every week, going through new tracks and re-discovering old ones and how I can incorporate it all into a set. I can easily do that for trance/progressive/tribal as that’s what I love and grew up with, but no way in hell I could do it for say dubstep. I still have respect for all forms of music as I know the effort & passion that goes into it but also recognise my limitations. I can’t DJ something that I don’t personally listen to.

    February 5, 2012 at 10:11 am #14195
    softcore
    Member

    Guys, I have to comment a bit on your views before it gets nasty lol.

    I understand where you are coming from and I myself do not mix genres that I dont like. But I have an everyday job – totally irrelivant to mixing, DJing, producing.

    BUT this is not a subject of right or wrong – its not a subject of being a “sell out” or not. Lets put it this way – if you have two starving kids, a rent to pay and you are a proffesional DJ, if DJing is your WORK, and you play techno stuff but you are offered a wedding ceremony djing I bet you ‘ll go and play. If not, you wont be a DJ for too long – you ‘ll be a broke homeless fellah.

    Its all nice and cool and idealistic to be primarily an “artist” but always remember that not all people have this luxury!
    Personally, I repeat, I am strict about what I play on my DJsets but I have utter respect for anyone trying to earn their living and I wouldnt blame them if that meant total compromise of their personal preferences – happens to my work all the time, good thing is I dont earn my living from music so I dont compromise in that.

    😉

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The forum ‘The DJ Booth’ is closed to new topics and replies.