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  • March 15, 2014 at 10:40 am #2011030
    Marco Solo
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    Is there any particular style of music they like? If so, play the exact opposite. Works every time. Especially when they’re drunk 🙂

    March 15, 2014 at 4:02 pm #2011051
    DJPatrick
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    they seem to enjoy a lot of the same music that my target market enjoys; songs like Dark Horse, Drunk In Love, the Wobble, Turn Down For What. When I tell them that I don’t play Jeezy, Yo Gotti, Gucci Mane, et. al. they tend to get really negative, but they still don’t leave! they hang around the bathroom hallway and harass girls (nobody feels sexy when they have to pee, idiots). what’s worse is if I try the old “play country till they leave” technique then all the people I want to stay leave as well.

    I was hoping someone has dealt with this before and developed a formula that incorporates cross-over r&b but doesn’t attract trashy people. any help would be nice!

    March 16, 2014 at 4:11 am #2011118
    Alex Moschopoulos
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    I agree with Marco. You might want to turn up the sophistication of the music.

    The rest is on the owners and security. Charge a cover to keep the bums out. Be selective at the door. Enforce “proper attire”. Kick out sloppy drunks.

    March 17, 2014 at 5:26 am #2011270
    Lamid45G
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    Play some heavy duty EDM stuff, mainly trance, prog house, house anything with no vocal, southern part of the US tend to dislike these type of tunes,

    And as D-Jam points out is rest on the club owner/manager, at least let them know the problem, if they not aware of it already, get other crews to support your story

    March 17, 2014 at 11:44 am #2011321
    DJ Vintage
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    Primarily your job as a DJ is to make sure that the music you play is -generally- aimed at and suitable for the target crowd. Within any crowd there are “black sheep”. Those will have to be taken care off by the rest of the organisation (door, management, etx.).

    Only if you are not getting in the target crowd should you consider changing the overall musical “signature” of the place, imho.

    So, know the kind of crowd you want in the house and make sure they enjoy themselves. Then leave the rest to the other folks. You have a big enough responsibility as it is already 🙂 .

    Greetinx.

    March 18, 2014 at 3:27 am #2011673
    DJPatrick
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    This bar is kind of funny. The owner hangs out with the guests nearly every night. He has a very “Yes Man” mentality, which is fun; but it also attracts a lot of people who abuse his generosity. It’s a very nice venue (the pay is nice too!) which is why it’s really easy for the free-loaders and brown-baggers to scare off our target clientele. Truthfully, the owner attracts majority of the people I’m trying to keep out; so asking security and management for help is out of the question (cover charge and dress code are also off the table). The bar staff has asked me to help eliminate the trashy people because they don’t tip and they scare off the people who do spend money.

    I’ve instituted a formula of playing a track with a lead female vocal every 3 songs (not Nicki Minaj, more like Britney Spears) and it seems to work pretty well. Being in the South, I’ve never had much luck with EDM. I can push about 1-2 electro-house tracks an hour, any more than that and the floor clears out (it’s not a very big room). Any suggestions for female vocal EDM would be great. Songs we’re already using with success include Diplo’s remix of “Sweet Nothing”, Rihanna’s “S&M”, Britney Spears’ “Work Bitch”, and Ellie Goulding’s “Need Your Love” et. al.

    I’ll be checking the playlist forum later for further recommendations, but I welcome anything you guys have to offer in the meantime. I’ll keep you all updated with the progress of this formula. Thanks for your help!!

    March 18, 2014 at 8:04 am #2011713
    Marco Solo
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    You don’t have to play country until they leave, you can try to find something that they don’t like, but the rest does. What about Vocal Trance? Make it a bit more feminine. Like Andy Moor’s Faces, Headstrong’s The Truth (David West Progressive), Jon ‘O Callaghan’s classical Big Sky, stuff like that. Or Prog House like Daddy’s Groove’s Stellar, almost any track by Calvin Harris or Joe T Vanelli’s Get it On (Summerlove).
    I’m not really familiar with anything top 40 (although I do like Chris Cab’s Liar Liar), so I can’t help you with that.

    March 18, 2014 at 8:10 am #2011719
    Lamid45G
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    I agreed with Marco,
    Since “Southern” more into some heavy-duty southern rock (or whatever they called it), playin some smooth, mellow ( the more mellow the more better) vocal trance is the way to go

    Choke them out with any vocal female trance by Armin, ATB, PVD

    March 20, 2014 at 11:07 am #2012818
    Alchemy432
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    That is bad man, not much you can do when the event organizers don’t want the same things out of the experience that you do. I’ve been a part of an event crew before, and while I enjoyed it at the time, things changed quickly and I’m honestly glad to have it all behind me.

    Hopefully you will see some of the change you desire, or have the opportunity to branch out to different venues or something similar and get some good things come your way from doing so.

    Can I suggest this website for acapella’s http://www.deejayportal.com/, free signup, free download of acapellas, a little eq & fx can usually make them decent enough to use in a mix. They have pop from the last 3 decades and current top 40 acapella’s and a massive collection in general.

    Just thought that may be a way for you to play more of what you enjoy, whilst still pleasing the target crowd, beatmap the acapella, set your cues, drop it over anything, trap, dubstep, dnb, techno, house, psy, trance, whatever. The crowd won’t know its not a remix of their favourite songs, and I reckon it’d be a pretty good feeling if people came up to ya asking what a remix was they liked; that you had made yourself on the fly.

    Hope that helps,
    Peace!

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