What's your trick for getting people to dance?

Yea also I have a Hi-Vis vest with my Dj name and website so its a lot easier for the ladies to identify who to have sex with 😉

Play tracks for girls first. Get the girls dancing and the blokes will follow. Something with a vocal, maybe a little bit commercial will do it.

Okay I do not mix Commercial, what I mix is: Hardstyle, Hardtrance, Trance and some Dubstep.

To me a DJ Creates a Show!

Now I am in the right venue, ( a Nightclub with one room) with a crowd which loves Hardstyle:

Hardstyle can be mixed from 145 BPM’s to 165 BPM’s as a general rule.

Here I am in the DJ Booth with a crowd which has danced hard who need a rest. I know I will be mixing a Set which lasts one hour, so I have my Set ready (12 tracks to be safe):

The first track would be an Introduction, as an example: Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra (145 BPM’s)
Now the crowd will wonder what’s going on when they hear Classical and their attention is Directed towards the DJ Booth.
Pausing they hear the 1234 Reverse-Bass oriented Hardstyle Beat being mixed into the Classical Tune being mixed perfectly into the last one minute, realising it’s flowing into a well known tune.

Now that should get their feet tapping and them moving.

Now it’s time for you to Imagine what happen unless the crowd are brain-dead.

Now a big skill for a DJ is to be able to use ones imagination.

Comments please?

DJ 2 Cut, post: 29863, member: 1112 wrote: Hopefully not too much longer!

It won’t. Look at Call Me Maybe. I had 30 people a night asking for it just 2 months ago. I’ve gone at least a month without anyone asking for it.

At my gig, people don’t dance. It’s just not that kind of place. They sit, stare at the TV’s or play pool. Chicks hang out on the deck but I’m stuck being inside. I can’t even see the people who are most likely to react so it can get nerve racking.

However, just like one of the dudes above me said 90bpm old school hip hop is the most effective at getting a response.

When I’m doing a warm up set that’s getting close to coming to an end for the next dj, sometimes I like doing a breakdown that still has a beat but without bass that lasts 1.5-2min. After the bass is gone for so long, when the it finally comes back in people get excited! Over the breakdown as well I’ll increase the tempo a bit as well. That will be done on one of the last 2-3 tracks to get people on the floor for the next guy. It works sometimes better than others, still working on perfecting it.

I spray the room with Happy Gas.