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  • #43997
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    @ to a DJ … highly personal I think. Many DJ’s probably will answer flow I am guessing.
    @ as a DJ … music selection imho. No amount of flow will reverse the ill effects of bad music selection. Very good music selection means lots of forgiveness if the flow isn’t 100%.

    I don’t think the audience remembers the flow … the remember the emotion … created by the right music at the right moment.

    Just my usual 2 cents.

    Greetinx,
    C.

    #44004
    Lamid45G
    Participant

    Music Selection >> Flow …
    If you selected wrong music for the wrong crowd, flow doesn’t matter
    You play country music in front of the hip-hop crowd, all your country music is flow like a river in heaven, BUT, ya know ? no one cares its just a wrong music !

    #44013
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I think Chuck nailed it.

    #44092
    Maximlee
    Blocked

    Seen seth troxler in DC 10 in Ibiza on monday night tues morning… and his flow was all over the place but the tunes were spot on… he gpt so carried away in parts that he even messed up a few mixs but guess what no one cared there was no boos at all cau he was playing a awesome set and the fact he was having a good time in the box was making the crowd get into the mix more.

    P.s DC 10 is he best club in the world…. best crowd i have ever witnessed…so up for getting lost in the music and having a good time

    #44474
    DJ Elroy
    Member

    You can only get so far if you don’t master both.

    Music selection is important for the obvious reasons, and flow is more subtle.

    I think it also depends on your crowd, the venue, and the time you play. Flow is a lot more important to an opening act than a headliner that can get away with playing all hits with little direction.

    #44486
    Branden
    Participant

    My take on it, is that DJ’s are typically playing for drunk people anyways, so flow isn’t as important. But rather, the selection.

    #44538
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Branden, post: 44643, member: 14465 wrote: My take on it, is that DJ’s are typically playing for drunk people anyways, so flow isn’t as important. But rather, the selection.

    My young padawan you have not yet felt the force of a drunk music enthusiast I guess.
    If the flow you not have, the force might hit you hard… his actions might arouse the force of others and damaged your image will be.
    Never diss people that are drunk, not each of them is beyond thinking, most guest actually are just “slight drunk”.

    Of course this is different if you only DJ students parties and they hit the cliché that each of them is so drunk they do not remember their own name.

    #44541
    Branden
    Participant

    Terry_42, post: 44695, member: 1843 wrote: My young padawan you have not yet felt the force of a drunk music enthusiast I guess.
    If the flow you not have, the force might hit you hard… his actions might arouse the force of others and damaged your image will be.
    Never diss people that are drunk, not each of them is beyond thinking, most guest actually are just “slight drunk”.

    Of course this is different if you only DJ students parties and they hit the cliché that each of them is so drunk they do not remember their own name.

    I never said flow wasn’t important, I just said music selection is more important.

    #44544
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I was not countering that as I agree, I just did not like to dismiss guests to a club as “drunks” and hence unable to enjoy some aspects of DJing.

    #44560

    Of course many factor will take part when you DJ on a gig. Music Selection is very important if you KNOW the place and the type of crowd. That’s obvious.
    For me flow is deciding, it shows the personality of DJ and unleashes the soul of performer. It differs everything. Many people mix the same songs but IN DIFFERENT manner and that’s the point.

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