Punters interacting with the DJ while they're live..

[AlexJ]

I'm in two minds about this, personally i like just letting the DJ do their thing and trust them to play the right stuff for the crowd when I'm out.. that also means I pick the place I head to.

The other side to this is when DJing a polite punter may let me know what direction the mix should go in to get the crowd going.

however in alot of cases you probably (and i say probably) spend more time around the music than they do (they also dont know what music you actually have ready to play).

if you cant work out on your own what would be best direction to mix, probably in wrong job. granted if is only a small cround this doesnt really apply.

[Kodiak]

In my neck of the woods there is only 2 places and they compete for who is more shit than the other. They both play the same commercial shit. The few times they play something interesting the crowd usually loves it. But then they drop back to the normal crap.

Or the opposite happens. You get a big fish in an extremely small pond playing their own thing that not a lot of people are interested in.

Maybe this should go in the general whinge thread?

[Gandy]

in all fairness the clubs kind of dictate the music they have to play, as you are probably aware we have a very "unique" crowd of patrons that go to reef/bojays, so its either rnb/commerical or patrons get shitty = patrons leaving venue = no revenue for club

i can honestly and wholeheartdly say wizza is a technical machine, amazing theory knowledge, and benny is pretty good too (from bojays)

have been out of the club scene nearly 2 years now, never got into the reef (was the blue room when i was club fiending)

[Gandy]

plus you gotta appreciate they do the entire night, 9pm till close. Its an entire different skillset knowing what to play, when to play, who to play it too, when you have to do the entire show. Both there song selection and knowledge is amazing. (wizza and benny)

Best thing that ever happened to me was coming runner up in one of the bojays dj comps and having the responsibility of running an entire night myself. Yeah sure i could smash out a banging 1 hr guest set while eveyones already peeling, but having to do the entire night and knowing all music from all genres to cater your crowd, totally different ball game (which i failed at hardcore, was lucky to have backup)

Bojays Dj booths are also very open to the public, so every weekend they have to deal with wankers coming up requesting gay shit all the time and the booth always being packed, not the easiest thing to have to do either

[GREMM1S]

Im lost now where was all this bojays bit?

[Gandy]

Im lost now where was all this bojays bit?

drc1 is from the same town as me, bojangles is one of the clubs he is referencing in his post, often called bojays

[Mitch]

Yer I used to dj a whole night at a club. It's a lot tougher song selection wise than smashing an hour set, but when you pull it off it can be a good night

[russell]

Yer I used to dj a whole night at a club. It's a lot tougher song selection wise than smashing an hour set, but when you pull it off it can be a good night

I find an hour to be way to short a time to do anything properly. you need about 3 hours minimum.

[GREMM1S]

Depends on crowd, club and genre.

I used to do a 6pm to 12ish funky/tech house set for suits on george street, so much harder you need to build and hold momentum without going too commerial all hard.

Definitely the hardest gigs are all night ones. Hats off to guys who do it every week much prefer the 1-2 hour slots now unless im mixing trance or good heavy stuff.

[russell]

so much harder you need to build and hold momentum without going too commerial all hard.

not much chance of me going commercial at all....

[Mitch]

so much harder you need to build and hold momentum without going too commerial all hard.

not much chance of me going commercial at all....

I think he means it was harder to get the crowd up and going without playing commercial music, as opposed to dropping commercial bangers all night. I found the same thing

[GREMM1S]

Yeah was a typo i meant going too commercial or hard, like for the first few hours you feel like you hold back too much, but then you dont want to play all the good stuff and have nothing later on.

Im also against playing a song twice unless it gets requested heaps.

[Mitch]

Yer I used to dj a whole night at a club. It's a lot tougher song selection wise than smashing an hour set, but when you pull it off it can be a good night

I find an hour to be way to short a time to do anything properly. you need about 3 hours minimum.

depends on the situation. If you come onto the decks at peak time for the club for an hour, you have a rough idea on what your going to play for the hour. When i was doing a whole night, when i rock up @10pm, you don't know when the club is going to get full, when people are gonna want to get up and dance, what they wanna dance to etc. Gotta create the whole atmosphere/vibe yourself, and you don't get to leave the decks to get down on the d-floor and see what the vibe is down there. Gotta read the whole night from the booth. As opposed to being down in the crowd and feeling the vibe, then jumping up in the booth for an hour or two.

[dflux4]

Just have a stick in the booth and wak crumts that get out of line.... Problem

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[djrhysj]

Depends a lot on their attitude. Usually rowdy assholes that demand me to play shit, I just tell em sarcastically I have a strict set of tracks to play, but if people are generally patient, and polite about their request, then I try to play it for them unless its something outrageously inappropriate for the time/crowd.

[Pending]

The only time I go in/near the DJ booth is when I know the DJ unless I'm going to tell them they are doing a great job

[mattus123]

^I was only just thinking this

I could never imagine myself getting up to a DJ booth and asking them to play some song, like what gives me the right? kinda seems a bit.... self centered?

[GREMM1S]

Its the way people approach it, i will request tracks especially of im drunk or living the goog life, i just type aby chance of 'song name', i

Never ask for anything out of genre or inappropriate, just a track i might really like. Most people however do it like assholes.

[mattus123]

yea fair enough

i think moral of story is if your gonna make a request, do it nicely

[djrhysj]

i requested the dj on the weekend at Bar 36 inside the Star to play atom, he literally dropped it straight away and the punters went nuts

[GREMM1S]

Haha epic

[mattus123]

thats cause it was a good request

io had some chick requesting all RnB shit last night. i told her i didnt have any RnB.. nek minute shes in the DJ booth flicking through my CD wallet and getting in teh way. most frustrating thing ever

[GREMM1S]

Just get security when they touch your shit man they kick them straight out, i cant stand people touching my stuff

[Duz]

should have flopped out your dong, that's the only reason chicks should be in the booth.

[SolDios]

should have flopped out your dong, that's the only reason chicks should be in the booth.