Originally Posted by
wavespeech
This, is boring, but this, is an EDM 'concert', where the crowd stare at the 'DJ/Artist' like he or she is doing something amazing. They're not there for the long ride.
Most modern mainstream EDM tunes are just the same drop twice, they're just shit tunes. Unfortunately there's so much about now that finding and choosing good tunes is very hard and time consuming. And then if you have a mainstream crowd they wouldn't appreciate it anyway. For them just play the same tune for an hour and twiddle and twitch those knobs an each break or drop so it sounds different, they'll not know the difference.
And don't forget to make some spurious letters with your fingers in the air like you've gotten some kind of palsy from phaser and filter RSI. Proper love that shit they do.
It's all about the crowd you want to play to, and what you like and educating them into what they should be liking. You're the DJ, control that crowd and teach them.
There's nothing wrong with that, especially in a club where you're in it for the night, to lose yourself in the music.
This doesn't go down too well on youtube or the 'net etc. Because folks want to dip in, have a quick look and listen, dip out to the next online vid or mix.
You are. You find your style and the crowd that like your style and choice will follow you and you'll be playing to the right crowd.
Genre is a factor though, different genres favour different mixing and transition styles, but there's no reason you can't mix them up.
Eee when I were a lad, we didn't even know where the DJ was in a room, we shared the night with friends and strangers, one style would mix into another, we'd get lost in a hour of long transitions and teases of choice prog classics before the mixes got quicker, the tunes a little faster, the breaks more frequent and the DJ had taken us to techno heaven, then we'd be trance'd away to house heaven where we'd hear some joyous vocal house and we'd leave loving the new friends who were once strangers. Ahhh, I'm an old git.
You're driving, take them on a magical mystery tour.
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