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Mar 27, 06
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What do you think?
What do you think of DJs that play many styles and not just one? Does it work against them or for them?
One of our acts, Grant Stetski, is an electronic music DJ. His favorite styles to play are jungle, breaks and speed garage. He plays everything else as well and has big psy-trance and house collections but lately 90% of the gigs he is booked for are Hip Hop shows. He hates hip hop but it's really hard to turn down an extra $800CDN a week. The hip hop has also landed him clothing sponsorships and monthly magazine ads for his sponsor company. The clothing company, Rush Style, asked him to put together a top 40 Hip Hop mix that they could mass produce and give out with their clothing. He did so and the CD is technically great (33 tracks in 68 minutes) but does not represent what he usually plays or likes at all. The amount of press alone was worth him mixing the CD but... We can't decide if we should add this CD to his website or not as we are afraid it could put off electronic music promoters, (the people we want booking him.) What do you think? If you saw a DJs website with 6 really good electronic music CDs of different styles and one hip hop CD would it put you off? I would never have thought so before but a record store owner, whose opinion I really respect, told me that he thought it would be a bad move. One plus side I could see from it, is it would attract all the people that like hip hop to his site for downloading and then they would download other CDs, hopefully converting them to the gospel of electronic! Actually, this is already working. Your 2 cents? 
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Mar 27, 06
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it's a bit of a fine line... you don't want to be known too much as a top40 dj, but at the same time, if your bread and butter is that style... one does have to eat and all...
I say throw it up there with an explanation or something... Sounds like Grant has quite a following out east and if people are going to start attending his shows to see him he could experiment with trying to drop both styles for his sets - getting some good transitions and sneaking some of the music he likes into the mix or something. Guys like Z-Trip or Mike Relm make a living and have tons of respect playing all different genres and they play all styles in a single set.
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Mar 28, 06
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^^^ i wouldn't say that relm and z trip play 'all styles' more like they play no style in particular. as to the question... name one dj that is a list status that plays a set of breaks here, a dnb set there....etc
it doesn't happen, and would be really hard to pull off i think.
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Mar 28, 06
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no, but there various a-list dj's that play breaks and dnb in one set. naysaying wont get you anywhere. i say do it.
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Mar 28, 06
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iv been playing more of a mash up of late esp on my radio shows. also been feelin sets by djs like Matt The Alien and producers like Kraddy who play a mix of good music in there sets.
str8 up one genre sets/shows are good but can get a bit boaring esp when most of the djs in that genre are playing the same big tracks. id say just go for it and put up more mixes, if anything it shows a wide taste in music. Last edited by dangamouse; Mar 28, 06 at 05:48 AM.
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Mar 28, 06
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Kraddy is ill, son.
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