Thanks for the reply! I was definitely over-thinking it, I had a ball.
They were silver CDJs with the very basic bar-like waveform, 850s perhaps? They had a USB slot. But luckily for me, someone had left an XDJ-RX controller in the booth so I used that, which is as close to modern CDJs as I know and the mixer even has the same effects as the DJM900, so it was easy in that sense. I also Rekordbox’d my tunes and I am literally wondering why I’ve never done that before!
I ended up warming up for about 3 hours, 9-midnight, half of that to an almost empty room and played largely mellow, deep house records and it was probably about right, before throwing down some more techy house stuff as people were entering.
The main DJ was very good and the crowd were amazing, really into it and we really partied along with them. I played another half hour at peak time and my little set absolutely ignited the place, then we played a few back to back. We got shut down at 3am and were getting chanted at “one more song!” and everyone coming up to us asking for Facebook/Soundcloud. Easily the most fun I’ve had behind the decks.
I recorded it but I must not have set it up right as sadly it’s a squawky mess.
tl;dr: smashed it, loved every minute of it, going back in 2 weeks to play again.
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