Ever experienced your mixtapes 'backfiring' at you?

It happens all the time,specially to me.And to be honest every time it happens i don’t bother trying to convince them.I just make a point of noting that the mixtape was suppose to show some of my skill and my own personality as a DJ and not my music collection,which usualy is enough to make them feel like morons for assuming.After that i just say Assumption is the mother of all ef ups.Other then pointing that out and then noting my favorite line i make no real attempts to convince people of stuff.

How I see it if your mixtape would have been a mix of just popular hits then it wouldn’t have been a real showcase of your skills as a DJ. So sounds more like bad judgment on their end…..the sad effects of commercialism(main stream music).

I agree with Black Rag.. still, a person that has spent the time in learning how to mix properly will utilize the software better.. I think. And Hope! Its like a chef, right. You never make complicated dishes unless you can master the basics.

To go back to the issue, I let my mixtapes reflect what I would be playing, pretty much no matter what. I have gotten offers to play at parties, but they wanted a certain style of music. I thanked them, but turned the gigs down. They have to look for a different DJ. I play my style of music, thats it! I do this for the music I love, so I don’t really compromise on that…

In that case, going back to the mixtape issue, the person in question should then have mixtapes reflecting anything and everything he/she would be willing to play!

For me, I think if you start compromising on the style you play, your identity as a DJ might get watered down or confused… I mean, say someone sees you at a party playing the music that you love and the crowd really connects! Then you get a different gig, but the people throwing the party wants you to play Top 40 hits, or whatever.

There could be a situation where people would want to go, in order to see you play! But then you play all this other music and the connection is lost forever!

I think you know where I am going with this. I understand that as a person living off from being a DJ it is tempting to take all paying gigs that you can. But in my world at least, I would rather stay true to the style/music, hopefully get a small following, keep getting gigs and get paid that way. It is more difficult, but at least you are clear about who you are, the music you play, and people will not get confused.

I should add that I don’t listen to a broad range of music myself… Well, I actually do, but I like particular artists and bands, not genres. hard to explain. I’m very particular, lets just say, so there is a lot of stuff I could never make myself listen to, let alone play 😀

This is true 😀 But you might finding yourself taking requests for Black eyed peas and Beyonce and thinking: “what the f*** am I doing” hahaha