Genre-Benders

[varven]

I searched but didn't find any post from the past relevant to this so here goes....

Everyone obviously has different influences and different tastes...
but how many of you actively play more than 1 genre in a professional capacity..
I.E. how many of you do gigs say in prog house and dnb and hip hop or something like that?

How many of you stick to only 1 genre mainly but use others for influences when practicing or similar?

Looking forward to hearing what all you kids do....

[Funkedub]

I play a few different things ... either at separate gigs or in the one set.

I've done a reasonable amount of house parties as well as 4 hour stints at cocktail bars and in these situations you have to switch it up and around. Hip hop, funk, soul, reggae, house, breaks, jungle and sundry other things all get to feature at some stage.

Over the years i've played at techno lawn parties, doofs on the beach, chilled bars, rowdy bars, various club events (usually breaks) and too many house parties to recall.

I'm getting gigs at dubstep gigs at the moment, but that's not to say i play a set composed entirely of that genre.

I'm a self confessed genre whore and pretty much wouldn't have it any other way. I could never bring myself to limit myself to one genre ... good music comes from all genres (except hard styles/trance/house).

Part of this is exploring the roots of some styles as much as adamantly pursuing what ever is shit hot this season, and as a result i end up traveling back and forth through genres and sounds and seldom being content sticking to one genre or sound.

[seth111]

I play Prog House with influences from techno, i would play more genre's as i like almost all EDM except for hardstyle lol.........It all really comes down to money and how much i can spend on music, if i could afford too i would branch out to more genre's but alas, i can't :(

[ratticus]

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they call me the genre spanner...

[Dub DeLay]

"I was a single genre man until I became possesed by the Spirit of Jazz"

joke... I have always had many genres, despite what some people seem to think.

[brendanClay]

Same here.

My club gigs mainly involve electro house, given the crowd for whom I play.

Our radio show however; features anything from breaks, electro house, progressive house (and breaks), dubstep, drum 'n' bass, even the odd spot of minimal.

I think gone are the days where most DJs play only the one style. I would attribute this mainly to the increased accessibility of (digital) music nowadays.

If you're paying around $3.00 a tune, as opposed to $20.00, it's far easily to justify purchasing other styles of music in which you take an interest.

[Peakin Pecan]

i originally started out playing hard trance/hardstyle, but the only gigs that were available were pretty much commercial electro house, so i developed my electro collection and ended up falling in love with prog house as a result :love:

my prefered style would prob be a proggy/electro fusion, which i find to be a very enjoyable combo. as far as combining different styles in sets, i think a set that ranges from from proggy, tech and electro sounds into faster prog trance then harder trance could sound quite good. Gareth Emery's 08 EM is a good example... love that mix!!

:thumb:

[brendanClay]

I started playing hard trance, circa 2002.

I remember the days when the only tracks heard in a club were the latest ten records released at Onestop that Tuesday! :lol:

[Peakin Pecan]

^^^ haha really? i had to wait till 2003 to go clubbing, and even then it took me a couple of yrs to understand harder music. i miss the golden era of hard trance. used to love matrix vs shadower sets and mixes... :love:

so im guessing ur a fan of the digital revolution then??

[brendanClay]

Definitely.

As much as I love(d) playing vinyl, the convenience of buying and playing digital music simply cannot be ignored, in my opinion.

I used to struggle quite a bit hosting on internet radio show trying to play new music every week, when only playing vinyl - especially as a student! You can bet that a fair few B-sides were featured! ;)

[Random_Kiwi]

I play a BPM Window - anything good from any genre which fits into that window is fair game!

[varven]

I play a BPM Window - anything good from any genre which fits into that window is fair game!
Is that at a venue you're a resident at or house parties or ?

[Random_Kiwi]

Just at home/house parties really...no residencies, but when I played out here I move around through genres, but not extremes like dub to house to DnB...anything on/around the 130 BPM mark is fair game...keeps things open enough from house to tech to prog to breaks to electro to techno to minimal etc

Love a good breakbeat over a 4/4, and the reverse when a breakbeat is winding down and you slam in a solid techno 4/4 = awesome!

I've always been a fan of people playing more than one set sound, even though a lot of these sounds are similar

Prog is my main love, but even a whole night of only that gets boring

[Marc Us]

i have 2 folders...

1 folder is house... soulful, UK garage & west coast jackin & some main room stuff

other folder i just call non-house, contains funk/soul/disco/lounge, party breaks, beats & grooves from 90bpm-130bpm

i predom play from the house folder the most (most gigs are house), but at least 1gig a week ill get to play the non-house folder so its great.

i need/enjoy a break from the constant 4/4.

[Funkedub]

anything on/around the 130 BPM mark is fair game


serious question ... but why limit yourself to a tempo range?

[Random_Kiwi]

I'll play slower if want to/required, I'll play faster want to/required...but with the main genres I follow, everything tends to work around that speed...only time I'd got much faster is if playing breaks/techno set...will go slower if playing house/minimal or a warm up prog/tech-house set

So it's not so much a conscious decision to play at that range, more that what I play comes at about that range or it's the tempo I like plaing at.

Really though it's anything from 120bpm to 135bpm depending on the genres being played at the time