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Jul 28, 06
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shortage of dj's?
what's with the classifieds looking for opening djs?
used to be that every promoter had at least 10 "wanna-be-friends-so-i-can-open-sometime" hangin off their every move.. is there really a shortage of openers? strange no? 
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Actualy to 'open' is probly one of the most challenging things for a DJ to do in a sence. Face it newbie dj's who are usualy stuck opening dont know how to actualy 'open' up the room.
I remember trying to get my first open gig at the Red Room. Nicky was so hard on me... cant be higher then 125 bpms, deep house, nothin banging... ONE CHANCE! I spent months collecting more "open" tunes and watching other DJ's and how they open a room. It's so easy to jump up and down to your latest banging track, but to slowy persway ppl on the dance floor and not burn them out before the next DJ is a whole diffrent ball game. Ill never foget getting one DJ who opened for me and was playing banging house at +8!!! It sucked for me becuase I struggled to bring the crowed back down before I brought in my hit tracks. If you want to get on a djs nice side... open for them proper. Other then that my only other guess is the big wave of DJ's from 2000-2002 are sick of opening and think there too good for it :p
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Msg me if you are interested
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At a rave, you've gotta get people going... theoretically you're supposed to set the tone for the whole show and you've got to be careful about it. If you're pounding the banging techno at 10pm, I'm sorry, but nobody is freaking going to dance. They're gonna sit there and wince at how they're not nearly high enough for this music, and then if the next DJ doesn't build on top of it, the entire atmosphere of the party is going to be brought right down when the next DJ hits the decks. Fuck, I remember tagging for one show where the guy who graciously let me join him in his DJ slot (the second stage I was supposed to play at ended up getting scrapped) was opening by trying to flatten the audience... by the end of the set I think we had about 60 people on the dancefloor and about 2 of whom were dancing... and then when the next DJ came on and played a bunch of experimental/downtempo stuff, the whole crowd was just dumbfounded... like, finally they were just getting into the groove of it and bam.... Boards of Canada..... For a clubnight, it's the same... Mainly because the core crowd of your club doesn't really show up until at the very earliest 11, usually not till 11:30 or midnight. The only people that are really kicking around the club are people who wanna socialize more than dance, and people that are kind of wandering the club circuit looking for a good place to spend the evening. In either case, if you try to flatten a non-dancing room with hands-in-the-air 3am-oh-fuck-we're-high tracks, they're just gonna leave. One of the reasons I like bringing out my hip hop records is because, as a newb (only been playing out just over a year) I get a lot of opening slots... and hip-hop works pretty well because it's fun, it's upbeat but at the same time it's still smooth/soft enough to build from. I'm not necessarily a good hip-hop dj (actually, I downright suck at hip-hop) but at least I can pick up a crowd with it, and if the crowd is enjoying it, then the DJ has done his/her job. Last edited by ebbomega; Jul 29, 06 at 02:16 AM.
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if there's anything i can't stand is the newbies playing primetime bangers (regardless of the genre) at 10pm. Which is why i never understood why most promoters give the opening slot to the newbies. Most bedroom djs don't have the experience to realize that they shouldn't be playing what they want to hear but rather they should be playing what the people wants to hear - which at opening most certainly isn't the hard shit...
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507 seashell drive Delta B.C. V4L-2K9.. It is for Our Club Night at Cyber Night Club on Mondays..starting August 21st..we are now taking bookings for sept.
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i hope you dont have me down for too early a spot.. i dont even HAVE any 'opening' or filler tracks.. :S
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dig a little deeper and look beyond the "dancefloor smasher" and you'll actually find some great music.
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The fact that you keep pushing this whole pm-or-send-us-a-demo (it's not like I can't find that information in the other thread) makes this sound more and more like a used car sales pitch. You're not winning any points in the trust department.
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