How Do You Program Your Techno Sets?

[BritishMurderBoy]

speeling nevr waz mie strong point

[zaalmoetlos]

depends on the time i play but if it's late I try to start off with an explosion to get attention and after that I tend to go up and down if you do your eq-ing right a softer record needn't sound less hard then the previous one and if you only play hard records after a while it's not hard anymore... And i try not to play too predictible because for me this becomes tiresome. I find it very important to vary in kicks, for me it's boring to listen to the same kind of kick too long.

[Skarabex]

HARD all the time!!!

[djlukas]

i dont have many records that arent hard...

i always try felling what the dancefloor wants to listen but if i fell they can handle it i just spin as hard as i can... i usually spin most of the time real hard... i go down a bit just when i see that people really need a break...

Lukas

How do you program your techno sets?

All my sets always go up and up.. As an example, my techno last week set started with tech-house stuff, worked into Ben Sims, then Primate, then tribal Patrick Skoog stuff then just keep going harder. Micheal Burkat, Lars, then us, then Glenn, then Alex K Katz then the Liberator style for the last 15 minutes to get everyone avin it.

Everyone has their own style though. Post your style here!

:D

[Philth]

i like to start fairly hard for the first 1/4 of the set, then bring it down and with some more quirky/funky tracks to keep peoples attention, then slowly increase it until the end of my set, making it really pound by the end.

however, it also depends on who is playing after me... if they don't play that hard of music, i might try and bring it down a bit a the end for him/her so it's not that drastic of a change b/t dj's...

that's my style.... very interesting thread.

[audioinjection]

"How do you program your techno sets?"

I start hard and end kinda soft, like w/ Kanzleramt stuff (Kowalski). Kanzleramt kicks ass!

[Xtraction]

Lately I've been capping off my sets w/ one of the submissions Logo sides...........man those vocals are the best on 5 or AARGH, YEAH!!!!


Tr3v0r

[Xtraction]

No....Really I just sit there grabbin' my ass with a locked groove runnin'. Then, when the crowd starts to really get into it, I kill the non-mix and rip one into the mic, smashh the tables, and puke on myself. This is a typical 1 hour set.....one of the better ones.

Tr3v0r

[MARKEG]

i wouldn't be suprised at all trev

[Orange]

I like to choose a few mint tracks to open a set up and send out the signal. Ideally, following this, I aim to grab 'em as I feel 'em.

[professor]

i usually beat the snot-out-it from the get, and go through 30 or 40 records and hour.
i like tricks and C. Young styled turntablisms, and smooth mix/blend only when i get tired.
i like to play an outrageously chill track or two somewhere in the middle, then off again with the beat'n.
generally I have no "programmed sets." rather i like to see what the place/crowd wants, then let'em have it. Been known to speed techno to 45 al'of'a sudden and mix a couple hard jungle tracks quick like just to peel heads back...
dunno, that's what i've always liked about techno, so versitile, no need to wait for the 8measure, just drop it, and see where you go.

[death on a stick]

I tend to start with a good record and then play more good records till it's the end of my set. A fairly simple technique I find, I think many DJs could benefit from adopting this technique. Good records are so much better than all the bad records that many DJs seem to play, don't you think? It doesn't matter too much to me what's happened before my set, I'll blend into what comes before then break it down and create a new start point.

[Col]

And how do you define a good record from a bad record? one mans good record is another mans bad record and viceaversa!

[Esox Lucius]

good point col.

[death on a stick]

yes, very good. :lol:

[MikeDust]

i'm starting with cool stuff like vigorito and so on, goin over to faster "tribalistic" techno like stuff from beyer, sims, redhead, bailey then i switch to harder techno stuff - wilson, kremer, liebing, stigmata, sneo, shama and and and .... sometimes i mix "electroid" tracks between the tribalistic and hard stuff, like vitalic, into it... the people go somewhat crazy, you won't believe. just like last saturday in eastern germany *g* i don't play hard stuff all the time, a good mixture of all, that's the best, and the crowd's gonna love ya 4 life :)

mike 8)

[mayzee]

Personally I like playing long sets... really long sets... anything under 2 hours is just too little to really explore the sound, I've got 3 decks and a cycloops, which combined with the effects on the DJM600 means I've got much much more flexibility in what I can do with the sound... I don't like just playing records, any old fool can do that

I tend to mix in a bit of everything... tech, house, breaks, electro.. whatever'll fit.. you can't just keep hammering out 4 to the floor stuff.. its too much, and to be honest it gets 'kin boring after a while, banging loop followed by banging loop... but wheres the groove gone..?

I like to start off with *really* deep stuff if I can... to be honest I prefer playing warm up sets cos you can get away with playing loads of different stuff...

probably the easiest way to say how my sets go (ish) is to stick up tracklistings from the last CDs I recorded, one on two decks, one on 3 decks

(2 decks)
1. 2 dollar egg - Reptil - i220
2. Ricardo Villalobos & Sensefiction – Tommorov Cocktail – Perlon
3. John Thomas – Talking Machine (DBX & Cabanne mix) – Logistic
4. Fym & S-Max - Bloom – 430 West
5. Michael Mayer – Speaker – Kompakt
6. Ricardo Villalobos – Ioda – Playhouse
7. Reinhard Voight – Supertiel – Kompakt
8. FC Kahuna – Machine Says Yes (Wink remix) – City Rockers
9. Love Destination – Love Destination (G-Flame & Mr G Remix) – Intec
10. Metro Area – Orange Alert (DFA remix) - Source
11. Billy Dallessandro – EFX - Resopal
12. Kowalski & Hostettler – Optometry - Kanzleramt
13. Jedi Knights – Solina - Smugg & Eurhythmics – Sweet dreams (Are made of this) - RCA
14. Marco Carola – Get Down – Zenit
15. Heiko Laux – Silent Bass – Kanzleramt
16. Altitude – Consterner – Blue
17. Technasia – Evergreen (Technasia remix) – Technasia
18. Human League – All I Ever Wanted (Alter Ego remix) – Klang
19. Leon Roberts – In the Hole (Wink Remix) – Shaboom
20. Thor – Aliens Don’t Boogie - Missile

(3 deck)
1. Sender Berlin – JR-300 – UnGleich
2. Funk D’Void –Diabla (SLS mix) – Soma
3. Bryan Zentz – Bushido – Intec
4. Angel de Castro bahia de santander – costa esmerelda
5. John Thomas – Blackstage (octave one mix) - Logistic
6. Jeff Mills – Alarms – purposemaker
7. Jeff Mills - the deep – Purposemaker
8. Jeff Mills – Call of the Wild – purposemaker
9. John Thomas – blackstage (roots mix) – Sino
10. SLS – salsa lesson (stanny franssen mix) – SLS
11. Deetron - velocity – Phont
12. Jaime Anderson – can’t stop – artform
13. Gaetek – chapter 7 (A) - southsoul
14. Bando – corrupt policeman– Superbra
15. Cave - we so krazy – Ingoma
16. Rino Cerrone – Optical Way (advent mix) – relentless
17. User – through the looking glass - extra length
18. liebing – next try (sims mix) - CLR
19. Geoff White – duck and cover ep (tejada rmx) - cytrax
20. Scan X – The Soul – Fcomm
21. Liebing – analogon EP(rachmad mix) – CLR
22. Mike Dearborn – Solution (smith & selway mix) – Tronic
23. Hardcell & Johan bacto – create & distort pt 2 - devils choice
24. Stockholm LTD 001 (B)
25. The Youngsters – Confidential Music – Fcomm
26. Eric Krakeroy - dummies – tsunami
27. Adam Beyer – A2 (lost & found ep)- conform
28. Alexander Kowalski – truck Volume (Turn it up to 10) – Cocoon
29. Tony Rios – Ritmo Total (gecko Mix) – danza Electronic
30. Speedy J – Krekc – Novamute
31. Kari Lekebusch – ursprung – H.prod
32. Heiko Laux – falling – U-Turn
33. Plastikman – Lodgikal Nonsense - Novamute

[Xtraction]

OK...... \I chahnged my set. Now, it's just 2 pieces of sandpaper for three hours, or as long as the needles can handle it!!!!!!!!!!!!