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July 10, 2012 at 2:44 pm #1007468

DJ Yaka
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May not exactly be cheese……But It should NEVER be played…….any justin bieber!!!!!! 🙂

July 10, 2012 at 7:25 pm #1007477

Hee Won Jung
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Any version of Levels

July 10, 2012 at 10:02 pm #1007481

ellgieff
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No. There is _no_ music that should never be played.

There’s lots of stuff I don’t like, and am unlikely to play, but I refuse to limit my own creativity with blanket rules. Even for almost humour.

Because it’s _almost_ funny to hate on Bieber, or Avicii.

July 11, 2012 at 1:07 am #1007488

Steelo
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Hee Won Jung, post: 23507, member: 948 wrote: Any version of Levels

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July 11, 2012 at 8:04 am #1007499

DJ Yaka
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jokes aside, ellgieff is 100% right….. thier will always be a time and a place for any song/tune doesn’t matter how cheesey it may be

July 11, 2012 at 8:12 am #1007501

Steelo
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I guess it depends on what type of DJ you are. If you’re not a commercial DJ (nothing wrong with that by the way – its just not for me) then there’s a line you must draw about how cheesy you will go. I’d much rather drop an underground bomb that gets the dancefloor pumping that whore myself out to playing some cheddar.

July 11, 2012 at 9:40 pm #1007539

dj flyer
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Rednex – Cotton eye Joe
Justin Beaver
Avicii
SHM
The chickin dance
YMCA
Iron Maiden
…and like a thousen more…..

July 12, 2012 at 1:22 am #1007549

TheReturn
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whatever helps you sleep at night

July 14, 2012 at 12:44 pm #1007698

Phil Morse
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I would walk out rather than play line dancing music.

July 14, 2012 at 3:06 pm #1007730

Todd Oddity
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dj flyer, post: 23573, member: 329 wrote: The chickin dance

You know, you’d think that, yet somehow I managed to end a hip-hop set with the Chicken Dance a couple months back… Granted, it was just me and some barstaff left (failed event that never really materialised) AND we may have all consumed copious amounts of alcohol first. But we all got up on the bar and danced like idiots and made a complete and through mess of the place.

And this basically proves that despite what anyone else here might say (joking or serious), there is nothing that is off limits. Some things won’t fit with some events and should probably be avoided, but if your crowd will enjoy something, don’t not play it just because you’ve limited yourself with a bunch of silly rules in your mind.

July 19, 2012 at 2:49 pm #1008128

Hee Won Jung
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Steelo, post: 23533, member: 1368 wrote: I guess it depends on what type of DJ you are. If you’re not a commercial DJ (nothing wrong with that by the way – its just not for me) then there’s a line you must draw about how cheesy you will go. I’d much rather drop an underground bomb that gets the dancefloor pumping that whore myself out to playing some cheddar.

Agree 100X

Ive said it probably a ton of times on this forums…but lets be honest here…any DJ can grab all the latest songs and choons and make everyone dance because they know the tracks….but really anyone can do this…Its finding the gems that no one knows about that you can really tear the roof off and make people go ballistic.

Do you want to be that DJ that plays the same tracks as 1/2 the DJs in your city? Or are you willing to spend the copious amounts of time sifting through blog sites, soundcloud and other musical resources to find that track that no one else has.

July 19, 2012 at 8:31 pm #1008184

D-Jam
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Is it bad that I’ve honestly never heard Levels?

July 19, 2012 at 8:35 pm #1008185

Hee Won Jung
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you have heard levels…but it probably wasnt “Levels” it was Flor Rida – Good Feeling…which is esentially a vocal version of levels

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July 19, 2012 at 9:16 pm #1008196

D-Jam
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I just listened to Flo Rida and Levels.

It’s catchy. I can see why mainstream folk like it. Me personally, I honestly have not followed any of this poppy electro David Guetta-influenced stuff. You could play a whole set of the most popular tunes to me and I probably could ID maybe 1 or 2 tracks.

Maybe I just have the luxury of avoiding all the recent pop crap because I’m not actively playing in clubs. 🙂

July 19, 2012 at 11:55 pm #1008215

Steelo
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Hee Won Jung, post: 24184, member: 948 wrote: Agree 100X

Ive said it probably a ton of times on this forums…but lets be honest here…any DJ can grab all the latest songs and choons and make everyone dance because they know the tracks….but really anyone can do this…Its finding the gems that no one knows about that you can really tear the roof off and make people go ballistic.

Do you want to be that DJ that plays the same tracks as 1/2 the DJs in your city? Or are you willing to spend the copious amounts of time sifting through blog sites, soundcloud and other musical resources to find that track that no one else has.

On the DJTT blog they coined the DJs who do this as having “Levels Syndrome”. Feel free to use that one…I have been.
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