How do you structure your set?

[DJ Corbzy]

Mark has started a topic in ye old techno forum about how they structure there sets. Might as well touch upon it here.

So how do you lot like to structure your sets. I have never played out before, but If I did, I would probably start with something on sirup, reef, then move onto above the sky maybe, then a few overdose/pulse tunes and finish with a Jay Walker, Jon The Baptist, The Elite or Fast Floor tune, a nice humming english tune. :D

[DJ IKON]

I always tend to start at a nice steady pace (maybe a bit of tough proggressive if im in the right mood) and then just build the set right up! I try and make sure that each tune flows nicely into each other and that every track is a bit more energetic than the last, to keep the energy flowing right thru the set, and I tend to finish quite fast!

[djstride]

what i tend to do is go in as hard as i can and see if they bleed too soon, in which case tone it down. if they can hack it i keep it up.

haha - could be seen as not very crowd friendly i guess but when it works its class. and promoters get me for free so they can shove it.... :wink:

bwhahaha :twisted:

[Carl]

Corbzy : I like to start of with some System F / Ferry Corsten / Lost witness melodic fluffiness , and work my way through Drizzly and Above the sky style trancers before pushin into the Fog area/cases/shogun/massive/ boundries until at the end, I turn of the decks and smack out some area 51 Gabba techno to sort out the men from the boys ....... :shock:


Only joking :lol: :roll:

[edk]

yeah i like my mixes to have a story. a begining, a middle and an end. i like to start with a nice techno builder, then on to a uk style (fastfloor, jay walker) a nice floaty trance number " german" bit of bouncin harstyle, before getting dirty :twisted: :twisted:

if every thing stays the same pace, i find things get boring, variety is the spice of life after all. :D

[Voorheez]

It really does depend on a number of things, what's been played before, what time I am on, what I think the crowd want.
I could never really say i'd like to do one certain thing, but in an ideal world I like to keep it nice and hard to begin with then take it trancey toward the latter stages, then take it super-hard to end.

[Adrian A]

If I played out start of with something like Technomachine: this is trance and keep it in that kind of style for abit gradually gettin harder, three quater way tunes would be something like mindcontroller: mindcontroller 2003 and end on a tune like Pychic judgement brainwashin mix :thumbs up:

[Hakka.]

I personally prefer to go from harder edge to a more uplifting one or vice versa. Problem with me is that I'm very much a fan of the tracks which are quite hard yet still uplifting so it's about keeping a healthy balance I think with your tracks and preferabbly going somewhere with your set so it has a "journey" of some sort feel to it.

[cree]

For a mix tape I tend to start a bit light and uplifting, then getting tougher and allot more driving and acidier. Howver I do like to drop an anthem halfway through, and hopefully fininsh hard and uplifting.

[MARKEG]

my favorite trance sets always start with bonzai stuff and just get harder and harder and harder. i just love it when you get it flowing so beautifully that you end up with ppl almost climbing the wallls for the last few tracks. and perhaps a nice uplifting one to finish of course :wink:

[Carl]

Mark you have had me climbing the walls (and even the ceiling) on a few occasions. :D

[DJ Backlash]

I always start as hard as possible,normally tracid traxx or even Nukleuz,play it real dark then drop an explosive uplifter,99.9% the crowd go mental,thats if everyones up for it,then i normally finish of on Gas europe style :twisted:

[nickyblueeyes]

for a live mix i start with summin fairly hard i'm quite into trance generators stuff at the mo then build up with sum hard trance maybe brit stuff ending in all out tech trance normally the italian stuff
but for a mix tape i would open with a rememberable track and just build up gettin harder