MintyCondition Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I got my first gig coming up in under a week. It is at my school athletics carnival with over 600 people there. Me and my mate are going to be DJing for the entire day, from about 9 all the way to 15. 6 hours straight non stop. We have already developed a track list. It is my first gig so I want some suggestions or cool ideas on what we can do there. My friend has got experience already, but I need some tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo123 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 take requests i guess.. old songs fro teachers and mixture of songs for the kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrxfiend Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Take way more tunes than you think you'll need! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MintyCondition Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 The age group is 15 and up. We are also planning to just play festival (electronic) songs throughout the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Some notes on tracks:-Being a school event, need to be careful with language in tracks-Have a lot more music than you need-Have a wide variety of music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREMM1S Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 No swearing, commercial and oldies/classics will be a must i think.Sadly i dare say you will be providing background music for an event like this, still potential to pick up other gigs and contacts if you play some cool music though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MintyCondition Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Any suggestions how to play a track that's explicit, and how to "filter" the swearing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolDios Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Radio edits, or drop a low pass filter on it.Generally just stay away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I would advise to just play songs that don't have swearing in them to start with - such as clean radio edits as Sol suggested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREMM1S Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 You can get away with the odd swear ive done it by accident when you cant even remember what songs have swearing, stay away from the lil waynes, lil jons etc as they are going to be profanity ridden and lack musical quality anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo123 Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 You can get away with the odd swear ive done it by accident when you cant even remember what songs have swearing, stay away from the lil waynes, lil jons etc as they are going to be profanity ridden and lack musical quality anyway.ahhaha true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattus123 Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 The age group is 15 and up. We are also planning to just play festival (electronic) songs throughout the day.at that age u gotta remember not everyone wants to hear festival music. If its a carnival there iwll be parents and teachers who will want to hear something a bit more old schoolthis means youll be mixing a shit load of genres from rock to house, pop to jazz.id probably try split the crowd up into 3 or 4 groups of differing genres and play to all of them... maybe 4 songs per group or something like that?As have been mentioned before, this will most likely be background music, so id advise to stock up on tech/deep mixed in with pop classics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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