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FringeTRONICS – Building your own Scene, we're almost there

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  • February 27, 2014 at 7:28 am #2007135
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Good to see you picked up the tips from DDJT and ran with them! Thanks for sharing the experience.

    I find it special and wonderful that not only did you succeed in finding a like-minded person with the same kind of drive to make something happening, but that this person, apparently, fits you in the task department as well. You seem to be able to split the workload evenly over the various tasks.

    Keep it up and keep us up to date of your progress!

    Maybe post a pic or two of you at the “wheel” with a house full of people in front of you?

    Greetinx.

    February 27, 2014 at 8:51 am #2007158
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Very nice! Glad to hear things are working out.

    February 28, 2014 at 8:24 pm #2007374
    Alex Moschopoulos
    Participant

    Smart. Keep it going and watch a scene grow…and you with it.

    Eventually if you’re drawing a crowd you’ll see other clubs/promoters wanting FringeTRONICS in their venue.

    March 5, 2014 at 1:44 pm #2008387
    Isaiah Furrow
    Participant

    I live in N. Idaho, in a county of about 9000 people, we don’t even have a stoplight, so any “scene” is going to have to be at least partly my doing. I am working on it and working to get my foot in the door at a few local bars, and also looking into other ways to help get things going… Keep shining folks, Moonshadow

    March 5, 2014 at 3:51 pm #2008412
    Daryl Northrop
    Participant

    Bravo!!!! Even in larger cities (I’m in the DC area) – we have to do the same thing that you are doing.

    March 5, 2014 at 10:48 pm #2008503
    Alex Moschopoulos
    Participant

    I live in N. Idaho, in a county of about 9000 people, we don’t even have a stoplight, so any “scene” is going to have to be at least partly my doing. I am working on it and working to get my foot in the door at a few local bars, and also looking into other ways to help get things going… Keep shining folks, Moonshadow

    What kind of scene would you like to build?

    Forget any difficulties or obstacles…in an ideal world, what kind of a scene would you want for your area?

    March 7, 2014 at 7:28 am #2008790
    Isaiah Furrow
    Participant

    Well, what I envision, as an eventual goal, is that the folks around will know that on most any weekend, there will be some sort of music at one of the local bars. They have bands from time to time, and also once in a while there is an event with a DJ. What I’ve seen here lately, is lacking the kind of feeling you get when you go to a club in a bigger city. What I want to bring to my small local community, is just that, the club feeling/atmosphere. I think I’m on my way to doing so. I have started out with a decent lighting setup, and plan to add a few more elements as time goes on, and more uplighting. I want to be able to come in, and turn our local bars into a small nightclub for the evening, whether I’m playing rock or top40 and EDM. Eventually, my hope is that one of the local venues will let me do a “club night” once a month, where I come in, set up a full on lighting rig, and play dance club type music, a mix of hip-hop, top-40, and some EDM mixed in there too. Most of the time, I will likely bring a more basic lighting setup, and I will be playing more country, rock (classic to alt/grunge). Part of why I’m doing this, is to help the people in my community have a good time, to make their birthdays, wedding receptions, and other special occasions more memorable. I also want to get the nightlife going and give the people more of a reason to come out and enjoy themselves on a Friday or Saturday night. I love all kinds of music, anything upbeat, so I enjoy playing anything from oldies, classic rock, and newer rock, all the way to dubstep. I also am hoping to be able to set up gigs where I will work with small bands, and get them gigs in local bars where I could help with sound and lighting to enhance their normal show. Looking into wireless DMX uplighting, small PA mixer like I would need for multiple mics or when working with a band. Not sure if this even answered you question to tell you the truth D-Jam, but let me know or ask away if you have more detailed questions. Keep shining folks….. Moonshadow

    March 7, 2014 at 5:55 pm #2008935
    Alex Moschopoulos
    Participant

    It sounds like you want a more mainstream kind of appeal…which is fine.

    My suggestion would be to invoke the Vegas vibe. With that in mind though, you’ll need to turn up the elegance ideology. That means pushing for proper attire and getting bottle service happening.

    Another approach would be more hipster. Play a good mix of tunes, dive into the more “indie” sounds, and keep things laid back and fun…relaxed as well.

    It sounds like your current scene is more “dive bar”, “country bar”, or “road house” in terms of vibe. Am I correct?

    March 7, 2014 at 10:32 pm #2009002
    Isaiah Furrow
    Participant

    To Naor…. best wishes with what you’re doing… Hope for updates…
    D-Jam, as to not clog up this thread with my own posts, I will make a thread of my own… hope to hear from you there…
    Keep shining folks……… Moonshadow

    April 18, 2014 at 11:35 am #2023787
    SwaggaBack
    Participant

    Naor,

    I think that waiting for almost five minutes to bring in a beat is too long.

    April 18, 2014 at 12:16 pm #2023790
    Naor
    Participant

    Hi SwaggaBack,

    Thanks for your comment!
    I guess your talking about the first track that I opened my set with. I didn’t mentioned it above but that was actually the first hour from my warm-up set.
    I tend to agree with you, and five minutes are a bit to long before you bring in the kick, but in this case I can rememebr
    this tune playing in my head all week, and I really never had the oppertunity to play it out.
    So, since that was my warm-up set in order to get into the mood I played that long intro track, cause it just felt right at that moment, and we’re talking about that specific time when it’s just you and the dancefloor, the doors just opened and people we’re just starting to arrive about half an hour later.

    That’s why I really love playing warm-up set, you get the chance to play tracks you like in a really good sound system, it help me to get into the mood, and from that point I’m in a different zone of my own. Enjoying every track, watching the people get inside, the place starting to fill up, and feelin the vibe that you created first for yourself and than for your crowd.

    If I wasn’t opening that night and the place was already packed I guess I would choose a lot shorter track to open my set with around a minute or two max.
    During the set I also like to experiment with breaks, not too long though, but long enough to contribute to the general vibe, change a genre or just trying to mix some loops on the fly like I did around 23:00 minutes in my set, where I took a loop from the end of one track, put a little delay, mixed another track above, and a cut from a what sound like “breaking news” repoert, which I have on one of my Vinyls.

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