Don't get trapped in your playlist

I’m feeling rather stagnant at the moment.

Not so much that I don’t have new tunes to use. Just that I’ve been testing some of my core destroyers that I know oh so well in different forms mixed together to different audiences and colleagues. My colleagues can give me feedback about how that particular re-arrangement went, and the great unwashed can give me feedback on if I’m correctly blowing their minds or not.

That’s all well and good, but I just feel stuck in a rut. I suppose it’s normal to fall into a funk or get lazy every once in awhile.

I guess I’ve just been playing it safe until I have a better handle on some of my newer songs and getting them to transition between genres at the right point.

Hee Won Jung, post: 32931, member: 948 wrote: I build my sets on a per night basis…utilizing what i know of the evening and building my set accordingly.

I am a bit of a Beatport/DJtrax junkie and always look for that hidden gem that i dont have in my library of music.

I try to keep my main song library around 1000-2000 tracks and just add and remove when i have time.

I dont care what anyone says the best sets are planned.. granted it takes a resident of some kinda to play a planned set… as the crowd know your vibe. Cau if you prastise a mix again and again u get it to a point were the transition is seamless. there is loads of talk about reading the crowd etc etc but i think a great dj takes the crowd were he/she want to take them. Im a massive fan of sasha and and see him about 5times a year… one out of them five times he just turns up and is locked in and destroys the building… people are crying and bouncing of the walls. There is simply no question about it he has got alot tunes he loves over the previos months and prastised a set and delivered it. Now as i said before you need a certain connection with ure crowd to to this… be it a resident or in sasha case fans that love him whatever he does.

Hee Won Jung, post: 33281, member: 948 wrote: Kinda confused here…dont know if u are agreeing or disagreeing with me lol…I do always build my sets…but i always have other tracks if shit doesnt go the way i want it to….Being a resident is fine cuz people come to expect your sound…but what happens when ur a Guest DJ…like a Guest DJ in a top40 club in a different city? when all you play is underground?

Well it can got 1 of 2 ways…you bang your stuff out and people go ape shit….or you realize that its not working at all and be ready to jump to top 40 remixes.

why would to take a gig in a top 40 club?