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I'm booked to play one in a few weeks, and it has just dawned on me that it is the one slot that I haven't yet played. I'm kinda excited, actually!
:D
I'm kinda planning to take a lot more music than I will actually need, and just play it by ear, depending on the crowd's energy at that point in the night - probably just ease it out it waves, nudging it down with a few mini peaks here and there.
I guess its just a balancing game - not wearing out a tiring crowd, whilst maintaining some sort of momentum.
Any tips on playing a close slot from more experienced players?
base615
06-Dec-09, 09:37pm
Go deep and hypnotic FTW!
Obviously it depends on the crowd though
metaphorikal
06-Dec-09, 09:42pm
Something to keep the punters on the dancefloor, depends on the set played before you. Id imagine some big tunes mixed in with some lesser known tunes that are bangin.
Come 5 or 6 am you don;t want to be the only person in the room :lol:
Come 5 or 6 am you don;t want to be the only person in the room :lol:
Thats what I hope to avoid! :P
PS: You serious Bracko? Tried and tested FTW?
Marc Us
06-Dec-09, 10:49pm
yeah i agree with bracko, unless you at a underground party, general clubbers in sydney will need some anthems to keep them interested in that hr.
bring the anthems, drop some if the floor starts to go thin, if not keep rockin it with whatever you playing... anthems for SOS basically.
Chillin
06-Dec-09, 10:55pm
Bracko has over 29,000 posts, of course he's serious.
base615
06-Dec-09, 11:34pm
Closing sets are the best I reckon
walkdogz
06-Dec-09, 11:48pm
just play a good flowing cohesive set. get the crowd in the groove and hypnotised.
just play a good flowing cohesive set.
Well, this is what I usually aim for...so....business as usual?!
dazthedominant
07-Dec-09, 09:18am
read the crowd! at that time slot i would definantly be playing tunes that the crowd would know. if you start playing really new or unheard of tracks, the crowd wont be able to grip onto them and they'll start organising how they're getting home. don't go too hard though, you'll tire them out just as fast! it's also a nice time to pull out an old favourite that may have been forgotten along the way, that usually makes people draw energy from nowhere haha
have fun
Random_Kiwi
07-Dec-09, 09:19am
^^^ Pretty much, and yes, anthems, both new and old, remixes/bootlegs of well known older house tracks, even, dare I say it, 80's remixes, can really reignite a tiring and thinning dancefloor. Which you'll often face, even when your 3:30-close set is closing for a big named international...people get tied, the drugs wear off, they go home eventually, so you need to make sure there's still something to keep them going...and as has been mentioned, unless it's the closing set for an underground party which has a huge following of that music, lets say tech-house/techno, minimal etc, going too deep and hypnotic will bore some people off the floor.
Essentially, play to the crowd, not to yourself, without selling your soul of course...yep, bring oodles more music than you'll really need (you should always really be doing this)
slackas
07-Dec-09, 10:08am
anthems.
Isnt this what you do just before 3 (in qld) aka lockout???
just play a good flowing cohesive set. get the crowd in the groove and hypnotised.
Top answer IMO.
dazthedominant
07-Dec-09, 10:14am
theres several contributing factors in the matter (main two being the type of club and crowd it draws), but in general, i would say to be safe, just read the crowd.
why don't you re-create the set the dude before you played except with different remixes or in reverse...
i've always wanted to do that - lol
Bracko has over 29,000 posts, of course he's serious.:lol: this is awesome!
jarrardscott
07-Dec-09, 01:53pm
Smash it out, 138 bpm
Derelict
07-Dec-09, 02:56pm
If I was playing my stuff on closing slot I'd open at ~155 and close at over 200 :D
Random_Kiwi
07-Dec-09, 03:19pm
shudder
pEAkeR_hAT
07-Dec-09, 03:41pm
see sig
slackas
07-Dec-09, 03:48pm
see sig
starting at 155 unless he is hyper-pitching... not a whole lot is going to be hardstyle...
sorry to spoil your fun.... :violins:
get into the speedcore & gabber! :rock: more respectable than hardstyle imo.
slackas
07-Dec-09, 04:15pm
hmm.... incorrect use of the word 'respectable' IMO....
Bracko has over 29,000 posts, of course he's serious.
damn straight fecker....
nah... to be honest i like close sets, much like opening sets i think you can get away with what you want to play more than other slots, and you don't really need to be 'somewhere' when you finish (but it's not like DJ's really care about that these days anyway).
i usually slip in a couple of huge tracks so those still charging can jump around and be idiots when the club is slightly less empty.
p.s. lockouts don't exist in God's country ;)
quantum8
07-Dec-09, 07:29pm
get into the speedcore & gabber! :rock: more respectable than hardstyle imo.
cause there's many dancefloors that fill up when hearing these sounds...
:lol:
Thanks for the tips guys - I don't really play 'anthems' per se - but I might pull out a few forgotton 'classics' that never fail.
;)
Yep, just gauge the crowd, and play off of their energy. Got it!
Plus, I play two (related) genres at quite different BPMS - so I have some real latitude as to how I respond to the crowd's energy.
Funkedub
07-Dec-09, 08:05pm
what genre are you mixing mute?
I'd be inclined to throw in some classics - let's face it, anyone left at that time is going to be kinda loose/pissed/trashy etc, so classics will be loved by all.
apart from that, go deep ... for the same reasons above.
Or of the genre allows, get nasty ... if it's funky breaks, you play tuff jungle ... if it's dubstep, bust out the breakcore ... if it's house, throw in some hard acid.
Something to keep the punters on the dancefloor, depends on the set played before you. Id imagine some big tunes mixed in with some lesser known tunes that are bangin.
Come 5 or 6 am you don;t want to be the only person in the room :lol:
I played after Martin Roth a few months ago and at 4:30am the people on the dance were literally friends, a couple of randoms and the bar staff.. The bar staff did a great job manning the bar that night, and I was paid to play till 4:30 anyway, and it was great to see them having time off and getting into the tunes :thumb:
Closing sets are the best I reckon
I prefer warm up sets... I love the challenge of them, and I love playing lesser known tunes, and warm up sets are hard to come by with Brissy trance DJs
starting at 155 unless he is hyper-pitching... not a whole lot is going to be hardstyle...
sorry to spoil your fun.... :violins:
It was still funny either way
Plus, I play two (related) genres at quite different BPMS - so I have some real latitude as to how I respond to the crowd's energy.
Not TWO genres :-0
divid3d
08-Dec-09, 03:13am
If I was playing my stuff on closing slot I'd open at ~155 and close at over 200 :D
and it would be rad :-D
richcur
08-Dec-09, 03:04pm
It's also a great time to whip out that papermache'd mouse-head one's been working on in the garage for festival season...
quantum8
08-Dec-09, 03:40pm
It's also a great time to whip out that papermache'd mouse-head one's been working on in the garage for festival season...
RTFM is now richmau5? :nooo:
Derelict
08-Dec-09, 05:33pm
cause there's many dancefloors that fill up when hearing these sounds...
:lol:
Just cause there aren't 500 dickheads without a clue in the world as to what the current track name that is playing, and are just there because of the "scene" filling the dance floor, does not make the music of any lower quality.
I'd rather have 20 people thoroughly devoted to the music rocking to my tunes than 500 clueless fuckwits.
Tristan W
08-Dec-09, 05:52pm
I hear ya passion ..... But 1. Spicy was joking about playing gabber and 2. There a varying opinions to whether gabber is actually classed as music or not
Derelict
08-Dec-09, 06:14pm
I hear ya passion ..... But 1. Spicy was joking about playing gabber and 2. There a varying opinions to whether gabber is actually classed as music or not
It has beats and rhythm, therefore it's music.
3. I don't care whether he was joking or not, point still stands :)
divid3d
08-Dec-09, 06:51pm
music is:
- an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
- the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
just because you don't like or understand a genre of music, doesn't mean it isn't music :P
Funkedub
08-Dec-09, 07:40pm
It has beats and rhythm, therefore it's music.
:stroke:
like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZT7huhbamA
quantum8
08-Dec-09, 08:58pm
Just cause there aren't 500 dickheads without a clue in the world as to what the current track name that is playing, and are just there because of the "scene" filling the dance floor, does not make the music of any lower quality.
I'd rather have 20 people thoroughly devoted to the music rocking to my tunes than 500 clueless fuckwits.
true that, i used to love the stuff back in the day but still never saw more than 5 ppl on the floor at this time of night for these styles
SonicDistortion
11-Dec-09, 03:51pm
If I was playing my stuff on closing slot I'd open at ~155 and close at over 200 :D
I will be doing this tonight, will report back on my misfortunes.
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