Mix/Change/alter up my set, So it's not boring

3 or 4 tracks is a lot – that’s about 10-15 mins of music. If you are just using 15 min mini-playlists and chopping and changing between them then it is probably fairly easy for your audience to start to spot patterns from week to week – something that you never want to happen as they then start listening for it rather than enjoying their night.

A suggestion could be to simply delete all your mini-playlists and start them afresh. I personally don’t use any playlists at all – other than if I am doing background music (as a mobile DJ) – but my sets are all unique and respond to the audience rather than being too scientific over the mixing (indeed – I don’t mix tracks through each other as the people I DJ to actually don’t like it)

A solution could be that you start doing what a few other people on here have done- which is instead of using mini-playlists, simply tag (maybe use the comment field?) each track in your collection with a couple of tracks that it mixes well with. This means that the tree-like structure of where you can go splits every track rather than every 3 tracks. This means that you will avoid repeating tracks in the same order more than just occasionally.

An example could be as follows:

Your current method:

LIST 1
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3 (TO LIST 2/3)
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6

Wheras the other method could give you:

Start
Track 1 (To Track 2/3)
Track 3 (To Track 2/4)
Track 2 (To Track 5/6)
Track 6 (To Track 4/5)
Track 5 (To Track 4/7)
Track 4 (To Track 2/7)

OR it would look like this:

Track 1 (To Track 2/3)
Track 2 (To Track 5/6)
Track 5 (To Track 4/7)
Track 7 (To Track 1/6)
Track 6 (To Track 4/5)
Track 4 (To Track 2/7)
etc..

Does that make sense?? So you have the same tracks but many more ways of ordering them, which mixes up your sets..

Hope that helps,

bob6397

I used to build in a few “anchor moments” in the nights (played 6 nights a week and 6 hours a night). There would be the “official start of the night (11pm – place opened at 9pm), had a special light show thingie at midnight and one more at 1:30pm. I could either move into that anchor or move out of it with whatever genre I liked. The anchor became somewhat of a standalone thing and people would expect that. So depending on how the evening was developing, I’d pick the things to move from or to with regard to the upcoming anchors.

Hope that made sense.

Maybe make some of your own edits of those tracks you have to play but he’s asking you to change or perhaps look for some alternative mixes of those tracks to change it up a bit?

I’ve no experience in this area but it does sound very formulaic.