Does it piss you off when a "DJ"…

Phil Morse, post: 16416, member: 2 wrote: Fascinating thread…

Why so, in your opinion? 😉

i know exactly what your talking about. all of the nightclubs where i live the djs use a computer program called nightlife. they pretty much just que the tracks up and the computer automatically cross-fades the end of one song with the intro of another.

I would agree with someone who previously posted(after all the reading I forgot…) that it’s actually about where you Dj.
If you are in a location with mainly commercial music 85%(wild guess somehow) wont give a c**p about how you mix the tracks, they just wanna hear the next song they know and go like ” WOOOOOOOOOOOO THAT TRAAACK! YEAH SHES A SEXY BITCH A SEXY BITCH” …
If you go to a location with for ex. Tech-House or Minimal Techno chances are VERY high that people wont come back again if the Dj is the “I got a fancy laptop with iTunes and Winamp on it” type because they often fade into a kind of trance (if it is due to drugs or the music itself it doesn’t matter) they will absolutely hate it when the beat goes dududum dududum cuz it’s not in sync at all, they are thrown out of the trance. And even if they don’t go into the trance and are very aware of their surroundings they actually care if the tracks blend in nicely since in that genera alotta tracks are unknown, meaning they have to be presented in a good way(ok if it is a Dustin Zahn – Stranger to Stability (Len Faki Remix at the right time people probly wont care cuz tracks like that are KICK-ASS…^^), and in order to do that you need to be a good Dj capable of having a certain progression in your set. I don’t know about the USA but in Germany the Deep-house scene is growing, and alota clubs try to have a “Deep-house night” sometime, but also a lot of em fail epicly because the Djs they hired wasn’t capable of getting the right twist into the sets, making ppl sway to the beat they present by the track, making them cry for the next drop. And again, if you suck you wont get it done at all not by any possible means…

So there is a factor of how good you Dj, and also if the music fits the location you have chosen

cheers

EDIT: for instance the track Dapayk & Padberg – Khes could be such a killer, but it coould also be wasted if not set up properly by some other tracks…
btw in the track they somehow mock how commercial music oftenly works^^

Wow, that’s unpredictable… You’d actually think they are happy and grateful that you have filled the place up since more guests mean more money!..-.-
I would’ve been pissed 2, but I’d try to keep it down and think to myself “ok… there actually are dumb bar owners…-.-“

Did you get any reply from the management?

Here’s my two cents: The owner of my residency runs into DJs and friends of DJs just like you all the time. All promising to rock the house. And what does she tell them? “I already have a DJ.” The only time I don’t DJ is during a Latin event, a Latino DJ does that. I’m with D-Jam (as usual), many people in that spot may not have a problem with “No Talent”. In fact, he’s doing exactly what I started out with, iTunes. The reason I went Virtual DJ? I wanted to look legit. In my humble opinion, your first approach was the wrong approach. Think about it this way. You have a DJ everyone seems to be happy with. Then somebody comes along and says they have skills. So what is this person trying to say? Your DJ sucks and he or she thinks their better? That comes off as looking cocky and insulting to the owner’s business decisions. Your second approach was the right one. I did just that. I approached a bar that didn’t have a DJ.