warm up sets

[death on a stick]

I'd be in the same boat as loving hard techno, but compromise is necessary. I'd had too many warm up dj's "do their own thing" and wreck a night by not upstaging the main act, but just being LOUDER than them.

I don't think compromise is necessary, and would never compromise myself. I just think that DJs shouldn't be so narrow minded that they feel that by playing anything other than one thing they are compromising. There's a world of good music out there, to only want to play one narrow sub-genre is idiotic.

[jonnyspeed]

What the **** is this?
Make no compromises!!! Play your thing whenever you play and whoever is playing after/before you.
If it does not fit into the context it is promoter's fault and not yours!

word! I wanna hear the thumping from outside from when the door open. As obviously from this tread others have the opinion that you should tone it down

[death on a stick]

You've completely missed the point of what Buttman was saying.

[Buttman]

What the **** is this?
Make no compromises!!! Play your thing whenever you play and whoever is playing after/before you.
If it does not fit into the context it is promoter's fault and not yours

So if you were booked to play a warm up set you'd turn up and play a set of hard banging techno the same as if you were playing at 3am? That's not a lack of compromise, that's a lack of sense.

Well I guess all the crowds out there are lucky as I do not ever play hard techno.

And anyway.. I guess some of us just want to DJ while others want to make a statement of some kind.

[death on a stick]

Well I guess all the crowds out there are lucky as I do not ever play hard techno.

And anyway.. I guess some of us just want to DJ while others want to make a statement of some kind.

Your Re-Emerging mix consists almost entirely of what I'd call hard techno. I'm seperating hard techno from idiotic banging garbage here, see? If you agreed to play a warm up set at a party I was going to and you played a set like that, I'd assume you were deficient in some capacity.

And I don't believe for a second that you fall into the category of those who "just want to DJ".

[Tiptoe]

as i've discovered through choosing my records for the set a lot of things i would class as warm up stuff was not concidered as warm up stuff. But i guess it is just a matter of taste

[death on a stick]

as i've discovered through choosing my records for the set a lot of things i would class as warm up stuff was not concidered as warm up stuff. But i guess it is just a matter of taste

Personally, most stuff I saw in your list I'd consider to be quite hard and not at all appropriate for a warm up set, more of a peak time, but as has been said it really depends what you're warming up to and as a punter I don't go to nights that are based around music that does nothing but bang bang bang. If the night is going to be mainly furious banging at high bpm, then you could say a set of that material would be suitable for warming up towards that.

[h.a.r.d.s.i.g.n.a.l]

who you are opening for is the most important thing....what is their style and choose records that will compliment them.

i remember one of my first times of dj'ing, i was billed as hard house on the flyer but because of the crowd, i changed up and started playing hard techno. well the guy that came on after me was billed as techno and so he got all pissed off at me cuz i was stealing some of his thunder and he came up and unceremoniously cut me off 10 minutes early....plus the promoter never hired me again...

so opening "properly" is totally important. it'll establish relationships that you need down the road as much as it a chance to show the crowd how dope your record collection is.

[Stella Boy]

who you are opening for is the most important thing....what is their style and choose records that will compliment them.

Fully agree with that, seeing as he's warming up the proceedings just before me.
I'm on after you Tiptoe mate ;)

[jonnyspeed]

funny this topic. I was talking about this with a friend and got out some tunes that I thought were toned down and which were banging it out. He reaction to me starting with some Emersion and Djax-up-beats tunes was like "****in' eh I wouldn't play anything that hard" and he left the room at Drumcode.

One man's down tempo tech is another man 'noise bleed'...play to the crowd - always - and frankly if there ain't no punters you really do have the bum slot.

[daviec]

funny this topic. I was talking about this with a friend and got out some tunes that I thought were toned down and which were banging it out. He reaction to me starting with some Emersion and Djax-up-beats tunes was like "****' eh I wouldn't play anything that hard" and he left the room at Drumcode.

One man's down tempo tech is another man 'noise bleed'...play to the crowd - always - and frankly if there ain't no punters you really do have the bum slot.

:clap:

Yep, totally agree. I've seen me pruposely take what I would consider candy floss techno to a gig as I was playing an earlier set, only to find folk coming up and say I was too hard :lol: In fact a favorite request from peeple when I'm playing is "have you got anything dancey?"

What the fuck. How can you not dance to this shit. **** off!

And getting the "no punters" slot is a killer. Totally wrecks you.

[Tiptoe]

won't be empty there will be a good few of my lot there at the start to watch me banging it out anyway so as long as they enjoy it thats what matters.

[Orange]

first gig,

relax have fun.

choices makes you you

sure, practice your set cause it'll give you confidence going in

if you feel the groove, like, maybe half way through, and you feel like charting unexpected territory, then mix it up and play em like you feel em

give your best,

have fun ;)

[tioneb]

Well I guess all the crowds out there are lucky as I do not ever play hard techno.

And anyway.. I guess some of us just want to DJ while others want to make a statement of some kind.

Your Re-Emerging mix consists almost entirely of what I'd call hard techno. I'm seperating hard techno from idiotic banging garbage here, see? If you agreed to play a warm up set at a party I was going to and you played a set like that, I'd assume you were deficient in some capacity.

And I don't believe for a second that you fall into the category of those who "just want to DJ".

here i agree with mister death on a stick.. thats not becasue you dont spin wittenkind, or wilson styled techno taht you dont spin hard .... damn , yeah re-emerging is definitely hard techno, whatever you prefer calling it dark / experimental.

not to sound so dissing to mika,i of course know he can play deeper stuff ...

[jonnyspeed]

oh **** it - follow there advise - whack on some Abba and follow it with a bit of Beyonce that should be inoffensive and then there won't be any arguemnt about whether you are mental for daring to put something hard on.

I am really starting to disagree with the comments on this thread...

[death on a stick]

Is there something wrong with you?

[Col]

hahaha....how i love this forum.

[Tiptoe]

for me personally its got nothing to do with daring to play hard. I am playing the 1st set of the night. Rui East and Chris Finke are the main people and with all due respect to them if i played a set of the stuff i normally play my set would be the hardest by far(going by what i have heard before). The guy who's night it is, is a good mate of mine and i wouldn't do that to him cos it would make me look like a prick to him and the dj's playing after me. Am not saying there is anything wrong with playing a hard set 1st as long as it continues in the same manner but this night won't so there is no point me doing it

[serox]

thinking the same thing. I prefer to play hard techno / hardcore, if you get booked for a early slot I sometimes think I might just play what I like and hope someone feels that and then might get booked for some harder/later slots. if your there on a early slow and you try to play slow/house/funky stuff then people might just think that's what your into and you wont get the slots you really want? end of the day I want to play music I like and hope others like it too.