Beatportal blogged propably one of the best DJ related posts in a long long time today.
Swedish DJ Joel Mull tell the world his take on the matter, and manages to be right on point.
How to warm up a dancefloor
Beatportal blogged propably one of the best DJ related posts in a long long time today.
Swedish DJ Joel Mull tell the world his take on the matter, and manages to be right on point.
How to warm up a dancefloor on Beatportal.
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There are many good points in the article, but also a couple of WTFs.
“I always prepare my first 5 or 6 mixes before a set.”
There’s absolutely NO REASON for shit like this if you know what you’re doing and remember what’s in your record bag (or harddrive, whatever). Why not to make a polished mix of these tracks at home then? a warm-up set for a warm-up set. Yeah, right…
“There’s nothing worse than turning up to spin, and the warm up DJ is slamming out big tracks, or tracks that you were going to play.”
Wrong. There’s nothing worse than a dj who has not enough tracks to play a unique set, and who’s set can be spoiled by playing “tracks that belong to him/her”. The warm-up dj who plays these “big tunes” is not the biggest problem in this case at all.
“Some warm up DJs make the mistake of playing the hits of the headliner, which is just plain annoying.”
Some headliner DJs make the mistake of being ass-licked jukeboxes (actually quite many of them). Do I have to tell what’s annoying?
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1) “I always prepare my first 5 or 6 mixes before a set.”
I’ve done both, checking couple of first tracks of the set beforehand, on the decks or just on my mind. If there’s something hectic happening before opening the doors for the public It really soothes me down when I already know which tracks I’m going to play first.
On the other hand, I’ve played perfect sets, though I haven’t known the opening track at the point I have climbed to the stage.
“Some warm up DJs make the mistake of playing the hits of the headliner, which is just plain annoying.”
To be honest, if the warmup DJ ends up playing the tracks of headliner, he/she is plain stupid. Who cares who plays the hot track of the moment, if it’s not headliner’s own track. The headliner has moral right to play out his own tracks, that’s why (some or most) people are coming to check the artist.
Regarding this, and the term you used - ass-licked jukeboxes - I know it can be a drag for a DJ to be expected to play a certain hit at the gigs every single night (Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia being a perfect example).
“There’s nothing worse than turning up to spin, and the warm up DJ is slamming out big tracks, or tracks that you were going to play.”
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“There’s nothing worse than a dj who has not enough tracks to play a unique set, and who’s set can be spoiled by playing “tracks that belong to him/her”.But then again, there’s a possibility the warmup DJ’s have no clear idea what the headliner is going to play. This happened in near past.
Jon O’Bir was headlining in Finland, the b2b before his set was ending at 136-138 bpm uplifting trance. The guys before him had no idea that Jon is spinning mostly 130+ material these days, and has only few records in 138bpm tempo range.
That was a set Jon won’t forget easily.
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