Dr. Nadon
05-09-2012, 07:08 PM
Hey guys, I got a gig tomorrow night and I am aware I tend to have a problem when mixing, and I was hoping for some advice to help me fix it.
First of all I am a pretty mainstream DJ, meaning I mix mostly top 40, old hip hop, old dance music (from the 90s), all time classics and stuff. I love house/electro house way too much (this is what got me into DJing in the first place), and I now know (I learned the hard way :P) that most people don't love house and electro as much as I do. Since I wanted to learn how to mix for people and read a crowd, I ended up mixing for general parties (not EDM) made of people aged around 20-30.
Now, I did mix in clubs and my tomorrow gig is also in a club. I tend to like club gigs because it allows me (if the feeling is right and the crowd is ready, of course) to pump some electro.
My problem is: Once I begin mixing electro, the energy is so high that I feel unable to switch to another low-energy genre of music. It seems I must always go up and up, feeling that if I switch to a smoother genre, it will ruin the mood. It's like once I step into electro territory, there's no going back. At the same time, I cannot keep the energy rising forever, as the only kind of music with that kind of energy is electro, and I know people tend to get bored if I keep to electro and leave the dance floor little by little. So then I realize I have to switch genre and do it, but as I felt it kills the mood. I just cannot "get out" of electro smoothly.
Electro/house/maybe even trance are the only genres with which I have this problem. Maybe it's because I like them too much that once I begin mixing them, I get lost in the mix and can't snap out of it, I don't know.
Seriously, do anyone have any idea of what I'm talking about? Or even had some kind of related feeling at some point? How did you deal with it? What did you do?
Reading my post, it feels like a pretty stupid (or weird) question, but really I'm looking for some advice/help.
Thanks guys!
First of all I am a pretty mainstream DJ, meaning I mix mostly top 40, old hip hop, old dance music (from the 90s), all time classics and stuff. I love house/electro house way too much (this is what got me into DJing in the first place), and I now know (I learned the hard way :P) that most people don't love house and electro as much as I do. Since I wanted to learn how to mix for people and read a crowd, I ended up mixing for general parties (not EDM) made of people aged around 20-30.
Now, I did mix in clubs and my tomorrow gig is also in a club. I tend to like club gigs because it allows me (if the feeling is right and the crowd is ready, of course) to pump some electro.
My problem is: Once I begin mixing electro, the energy is so high that I feel unable to switch to another low-energy genre of music. It seems I must always go up and up, feeling that if I switch to a smoother genre, it will ruin the mood. It's like once I step into electro territory, there's no going back. At the same time, I cannot keep the energy rising forever, as the only kind of music with that kind of energy is electro, and I know people tend to get bored if I keep to electro and leave the dance floor little by little. So then I realize I have to switch genre and do it, but as I felt it kills the mood. I just cannot "get out" of electro smoothly.
Electro/house/maybe even trance are the only genres with which I have this problem. Maybe it's because I like them too much that once I begin mixing them, I get lost in the mix and can't snap out of it, I don't know.
Seriously, do anyone have any idea of what I'm talking about? Or even had some kind of related feeling at some point? How did you deal with it? What did you do?
Reading my post, it feels like a pretty stupid (or weird) question, but really I'm looking for some advice/help.
Thanks guys!