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  • January 23, 2013 at 3:18 pm #35511
    Daryl Northrop
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    Some crowds just love deep house all night, and that’s cool. If that’s the niche of the club, then so be it. However, if you are feeling that you must play music that gets boring to you, then DJ’ing might feel like a dull job after a while. Just sayin….

    Personally, I would vary the sub-genre’s a bit for a multi-hour house set. Mix deep house with tech-house, some old school house (late 80’s early 90’s), soulful house, nu-disco, and even a pinch of more upbeat electro-house for “height of the night” peaking. That way, you keep it fresh for the crowd and more entertaining for you to play.

    Hope this help! 🙂

    January 23, 2013 at 3:34 pm #35512
    Gilman
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    Daryl Northrop, post: 35667, member: 2350 wrote: Some crowds just love deep house all night, and that’s cool. If that’s the niche of the club, then so be it. However, if you are feeling that you must play music that gets boring to you, then DJ’ing might feel like a dull job after a while. Just sayin….

    Personally, I would vary the sub-genre’s a bit for a multi-hour house set. Mix deep house with tech-house, some old school house (late 80’s early 90’s), soulful house, nu-disco, and even a pinch of more upbeat electro-house for “height of the night” peaking. That way, you keep it fresh for the crowd and more entertaining for you to play.

    Hope this help! 🙂

    I absolutely agree about playing genres which I don’t like. I would never do that. And usually when I try playing I vary the genres. And I always start with deep house. But the thing is when I listen to separate deep house tracks in beatport charts, it gets boring after 15-20 mnutes, when I try playing it (just fx here and there and transitions) it gets boring, but when I hear the music in the club I kinda like it and think that DJ is the one making deep house sound more interesting. I want to learn some tricks.

    January 23, 2013 at 3:41 pm #35513
    Daryl Northrop
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    I get what you are saying. Experienced deep house dj’s (which I am not, at all) do incredible layering work that is an artform all to itself. I would suggest going on youtube and searching for “deep house layering” or “deep house mixing tutorial.” Lots of devotees out there who love to break it down for you.

    January 23, 2013 at 4:55 pm #35521
    adit
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    not to patronize you but please don’t trust beatport’s genre labeling at all. maybe 75% of stuff labeled deep house are not deep house.

    January 24, 2013 at 8:21 am #35577
    backtothefront
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    adit, post: 35677, member: 2099 wrote: not to patronize you but please don’t trust beatport’s genre labeling at all. maybe 75% of stuff labeled deep house are not deep house.

    Agree with this, try Traxsource, for me it’s the best site for Deep/Soulful House music.

    Also OP, don’t fall in to the trap of thinking that with DJing you should always be busy, tweaking fx, mixing in and out every couple of minutes etc, especially with Deep House – it would be too disjointed. Subtle layering and gentler transitions and raise the energy levels over a longer time period. As someone else said above, house heads will lap this up and appreciate the nuances of the mixing 🙂

    On a wider point, I’ve noticed a general trend in the last few years of DJ’s thinking they need to be constantly hard at it, I suspect this is partly down to the Youtube 10min mixes of manic button bashing/fx/cutting tracks, which although impressive, it is completely different to a club environment in my opinion. I guess it all depends on the club/crowd/country possibly too.

    January 24, 2013 at 11:45 am #35600
    Gilman
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    backtothefront, post: 35733, member: 1433 wrote: Subtle layering and gentler transitions and raise the energy levels over a longer time period.

    What you mean by subtle layering. And how can the energy levels be raised while playing deep house? I know DJs manage to raise it, but I have no clue how. The genre itself and the tracks are usually so relaxed.

    January 24, 2013 at 4:51 pm #35623
    Mohamed Kamal
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    I wrote a detailed blog post here on DDJT on how to create your own uniue style. I’m a deep house DJ and all these techniques helped me shape my sound. Just go to mixcloud and analyze live DJ sets by popular DJs. Blog post here http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2012/09/5-ways-to-develop-your-unique-djing-style/

    Also, no need to reinvent the wheel. Just go to mixcloud and analyze live DJ sets of popular deep house DJs. You’ll understand why DJs play what they play
    Here’s a set by Quentin Harris
    http://www.mixcloud.com/EastVillage/quentin-harris-ev001/

    A note about genres on different music market places – Deep house on beatport is influenced by minimal/nu-disco/electro sounds. While deep house on Traxsource is influenced by funk, disco, jazz and some r&b. It’s all great music!

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