J-Zed

Steelo, post: 22765, member: 1368 wrote: There’s plenty of great electro out there…it just seems the terrible stuff is whats big at the moment.

Haha, terrible stuff is always big. Just the terrible stuff changes 😛
I like some electro though, usually the more melodic stuff. Pryda – Madderferries is absolutely killer.

I got all my music pretty well sorted so it’s very easy to pick things up on the fly, as well as a star rating to tell me how intense a track is. In addition to this though, I also create a seperate playlist with everything I’d like to play that night plus an extra hour or so of music. That playlist would be my main go to, the genre breakdown lists are more for last minute changes that can be done quickly.

Tripl3 is actually pretty cool, I dig it.
Just go with something that makes YOU happy and since it describes something that happened in your life it actually has meaning. Just like for me, J.Z. are my initials and my 99 problems are that Jay-Z is taken.

I find the easiest way for me is to put some 30 tracks into a playlist, that would be my main goto list for my mix. There’s no actual order, they are just tracks I would like to use and I won’t even go through them all.

I find it makes it easier because there’s more than I need, but everything I may want is in one place. Also since there is no set list 1, 2, 3 the mix actually ends up having proper flow. I also use the star ratings to describe a song’s intensity, that also gives me the ability to mix tracks that flow together quickly.

When it comes to clubs for me I like simplicty. Loud techno and tech house until past sunrise on Sunday morning. Take a dark, smaller room club with simple lighting and cheap drinks. When all the extra elements to the party start flowing, it’s unstopable.

Though realistically to make money, I’d do exactly what D-Jam posted.

IMO, it’s just a trend. Right now mainstream music is more like it was back in the 80s, everything is flashy and neon. Give it a few years and it will change again, it’s just a cycle.

As for “Could Richie Hawtin, the one dissenting voice in the Wall Street Journal article, possibly have been right when he said that it will be the big money spinners who draw the next generation of kids to the cooler side of electronic music”
I keep saying this, he’s 100% right. The people who actually want more out of music will make their way out of the pop world and into the underground, the rest will move onto whatever the next big thing in pop is. No big deal

Put it in the signature of your profile for every forum you’re on to start.
If you have a mixcloud, soundcloud then have it posted on there.
Post it to your actual facebook page every now and then.
Join FB groups, post in there and get known.
Meet people, tell them about it, have your friends try doing a bit of promoting for you too.

I’m sure others will have better ideas, that stuff is pretty basic.