![]() Without “reading” the crowd and responding to their needs in the moment, some DJs will quickly lose their attention or at worst, clear the dance floor. ![]() SAY HELLO TO THE CROWDĬonditions on the dance floor change from night to night and from minute to minute, so coming into a set with a fully planned and rehearsed set could be a hit or a total flop. If solid preparation is creating amazing results, then who cares how you get there? If your sets feel flat and don’t connect with the crowd – that’s a sure sign you need to improvise more. Will planning the set cheat you or your audience out of a magic night? Instead of offering a yes or no answer, I would ask you: With so many other grey areas in digital DJing, it’s really hard to say what is a technology shortcut and a quality compromise. Would it be better to engineer great moments and plan incredible mixes in advance or does that strip the moments of their unexpected charm? But how many of them organically occur in a night? Not that many. These are the moments that DJs chase after. The crowd, the songs, and the moment all synchronize to create an unexpected result that gives everyone shivers. We all know the magic moments when everything comes together perfectly. Today we address the question: is planning cheating, and if not- how can I do it effectively? Most of you probably sit somewhere in the middle. “How do you plan your DJ sets? Is planning my DJ sets cheating?” There’s a spectrum of DJ preparation that ranges from total improvisation in the moment to completely pre-defined and recorded sets. Several people have asked me an important question in the past month.
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