To Lyric or Not To Lyric?

[Mattye]

Just wondering, what does everyone recomend.

Do u play many songs with "Lyrics" in them??

Do u perposely split them up ie. not play them one after the other???

Do u only play one every so often??

[lloydc]

depends on where you're playing really

you won't get far without lyrics at a house parties/pubs/commercial type clubs

personally i'd try and split them up.

[Jaz]

I do it the other way around for party's, play song without lyrics only every so often, pop loving Teens need lyrics

[Tomy]

i stear clear off it. but i find you do need it to break things up every now and then and girls do like a sign a long.

[eggssell]

i dont mind a lyric (be it vocal house or some dude rapping or a looped hook) but find it hard to mix unless you know every start and stop of the lyric. so if i do have one with lyrics i usually mix into one without, or into instrumental of same song if i have it so i can extend the transition.

[Gandy]

i find it a lot easier to split them up, i find if i dont throw in lyrical tracks the floor gets bored because they dont know whats going on/dont know the track

[eggssell]

is that really a bother these days? i didnt know at least half the stuff kate monroe or shamus was pumping out but as long as i could get my dance on i didnt really give a shyte

[Gandy]

the teenie bopper patrons do though

[Jaz]

^ oh yep

[Mattye]

@ eggssell - yeh thats what ive been doing

i'v found it gets a bit crowded so to speak when u play a few tracks with lyrics in a row.

Edit: I'm considering somehow tagging the songs with lyrics. Can u do this in Traktor?? Or would i have to edit the song title??

[eggssell]

in comments, and what i would do is put markers where lyrics start, and maybe a marker where there is a good instrumental bit. kind of like putting stickers on your records back in the day.

ive never actually been assed though

[Skank]

man depends what sorta club your playing and the time slot but you could get a sick tech house song throw some top 40 accapella over the top of it and boomb you can play it in a commercial timeslot

[BeatLeSS]

man depends what sorta club your playing and the time slot but you could get a sick tech house song throw some top 40 accapella over the top of it and boomb you can play it in a commercial timeslot

I just came in my pants at this idea. Going to apply that in practice.

[Jaz]

get a tissue before you touch your gear Beatless

[LabRat]

i tend to play most tunes these days with some form of lyrics in them

[BeatLeSS]

I find lyrics give something for the masses to focus on and relate with together. Even if you don't know them in the middle of a club noone is going to hear you shout them anyway, so mumble away!

Gotta be right into your music (Like most of us are haha) to really enjoy the changes/phrasing of pure music - for average punters it's subconscious so they don't realise it's happening.