He Can't Mix, But He Rocked the House?

He’s not even worthy of doing weddings, giving proper DJ’s a bad name.
You need to ask your friend who paid him the 300 bucks why because I have no idea hahaha

I’d say he was having the luckiest night ever!!!….. Recently, I played a local bar last time out and technically mixed my ass off. Nuttin’ but crickets and requests for nothing but hair cut bands from the 80’s and 90’s. OMG, I suddenly was reminded why I stopped djing in the first place. I tried bring a downtown club atmosphere to the burbs to no avail. Despite the sweet blends. Anyhoo.. I’ll bet sooner or later that is not gonna fly with a more eclectic crowd another gig for the dude your talking about. Again, luckiest dj ever. Repeating tracks however it totally dirty pool. Or bad form. Thus, technically a craptacular dj. Don’t feel slighted or surprised at all. There are sheep everywhere.

He didn’t ”rock the house,” Diplo or Pretty Lights or Ingrosso or whoever produced the tracks he was playing did. I can’t tell me how many times I’ve been told ”yo man, your beats are awesome” or ”nice work on this track”…… so many times I’ve had to say ”This one isn’t my production, I’ll drop mine next if you are curious” and suddenly I get looks as if I’m some sort of imposter (then again, I always avoid top 40s and nobody outside of other DJs/partyheads can usually identify a r3hab or deorro track).

Honestly, I’d suggest all DJs take up the art of production (or controllerism) as well…… outside of turntablism, DJing as an art is pretty much dead. I’d start working on/dropping original mash-ups/remixes first (with a MPC/ launchpad/ push / etc. hooked up to your kit), then go from there. 2 CDJs and a mixer or a mixtrack and a laptop w/ no production work just won’t turn heads (at least not in DC). DJs are literally a dime a dozen, it seems like every other household has a mixtrack somewhere these days……. but performers, those are rare.

When you hear the word ‘Crowd Pleaser’, that’s what every DJ should be.

People think that you have to be this all technical astute mixer with loads of effects and stuff to pull a crowd. The main thing at the heart of DJaying and will always be till the day we die is the music , in other words, the tracks.

Once you have the right tracks, you can rock any crowd mixing or not, repeating or not. The key is crowd reading and knowing your audience.

I respect this chap cos he got the formula right and the party goers in this case confirmed it

Just my two cents

The way I’ve come to understand crowds is that they won’t care how the next song is brought it. They only care what that next song is. While i would never play like the guy did in your story, that’s how it was before mixers were a thing that everyone had. It would be the guy with a turntable, a microphone, and the most records doing your wedding.