Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

[tribalcho]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

I can't say I have ever bought into that 'Controlling The Night' or 'Reading The Crowd' nonsence. At the end of the day they are pretty much going to play the same records that they intended on playing before they even set foot in the club. There could be slight differences, like paying a festival for 90 minutes to 3 hours at MOS or even 6 hours somewhere like The Bomb to 200 people. But not that much.

That's because you probably never played in front of other people..Trust me i thought the way you do before my first night at a club - i will play whatever i planned and so on and so on..only 20 minutes later i had to change my playlist couse noone at the club responded to my deep house tracks i was playing because the DJ before me warmed up with some groovey tech house tracks..so i went more peaktime-ish and everything was again ok.. you know you have to ''read'' the crowd - that's one of the most important skills in the industry =)

[♫♫♫♫♫♫]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

Sounds like you played a load of tracks people didn't like, so you played a load 'crowd pleaser's . You didn't make some subtle changes that somehow got the crow moving. No rocket science in that one I'm afraid

I saw John Digweed play after Judge Jules once. John didn't do a good job of reading the crowd that night.

[Zover]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

Blatantly the DJ befores fault.

[Zover]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

I used to play my school disco. My Sisters Of Mercy records always went down a storm.

[Zover]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

That reminds me of Pete Bromley (resident at Golden), week in week out Pete would play alongside big name DJs. I recall Pete having to play after Tall Paul then before John Digweed. Pete somehow managed to make that transition from hard house to progressive house. I'm sure he didn't have to look into the crowd. I think he had a fair idea of what he was going to play, before he set foot in the venue.

[feather]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

I saw John Digweed play after Judge Jules once. John didn't do a good job of reading the crowd that night.

I would imagine crowd expectations are very different after Jules, would've been tough for Digweed to work that! I'd put Digweed on before Jules anyway

[AchtungBaby!]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

Chunky,

certainly respect your knowledge about music and all but let me tell you, this schizophrenia posting does not help you.

my 2 cents

[DIDI]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

I can't say I have ever bought into that 'Controlling The Night' or 'Reading The Crowd' nonsence. At the end of the day they are pretty much going to play the same records that they intended on playing before they even set foot in the club. There could be slight differences, like paying a festival for 90 minutes to 3 hours at MOS or even 6 hours somewhere like The Bomb to 200 people. But not that much.

I do definitely buy into the reading the crowd thing, it's one of the things I judge Djs by. These days they can take masses more music so they can choose what to play at any given time. Programming is really important, even having the same records the time that you play them is really important. 6 hour sets should definitely be very different . That is why I say there are't many good long set Djs

Nearly had the behind the curtain thing here in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago They had a screen in front of the Djs. Which was sort of Ok if they were over six foot but all we saw of Guy J was the top of his head. Pretty sure Guy wasn't happy about that according to his twitter. We couldn't see Henry Saiz's band either. I believe for the best sets the Dj has to be enjoying it as well. I think they should be included in the night.

A friend of mine went to a psy event where the Dj was just streamed onto a wall. She hated it. I'm not going to pay for that.

[nelinho]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

I can't say I have ever bought into that 'Controlling The Night' or 'Reading The Crowd' nonsence. At the end of the day they are pretty much going to play the same records that they intended on playing before they even set foot in the club. There could be slight differences, like paying a festival for 90 minutes to 3 hours at MOS or even 6 hours somewhere like The Bomb to 200 people. But not that much.

I think people can go a bit overboard with it...

[nelinho]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

What if they were playing in the club, but behind a curtain so you couldn't see them.

No. Only because they are trying to hard to state a point tjat you don't need to see the dj...

Oooh look at me i have made a point you don't need to see me to hear the music...ahh haa!! but you can't see me. I am so post modern...no, actually you are just a cunt absusing the term "artist"

That type of dj would probably take the curtain down because he would need his/her ego stroked by viewing his perceived mind control over his dance floor minions with his "musical journey".

How many enemies did I just make there?

[unkle]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

This ......

you know you have to ''read'' the crowd - that's one of the most important skills in the industry =)

[DIDI]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

^^^ Yeah, I think so

[Zover]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

I had some great nights a Turnmill's in London, at the Gallery, Elements, Release Yourself, Heavenly Social etc. you couldn't see the DJ playing there, unless you looked through a very small window in the door. It never really effected the night.

[Zover]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

Actually many times when you looked through the window the DJ would be sitting down.

[tribalcho]

Re: Would you go to a club to hear a DJ set if the DJ was DJing Remotely?

Blatantly the DJ befores fault.

No. It was my mistake and i was lucky to be able to fix it. Imagine if i was playing remotely 2 hours of deep house as i was planning without to see the reactions of the people?! DISASTER!
Chunky, if you had a good time at the club with DJs that didn't care much about the reactions of the people there - that's ok but that doesn't speak well for those DJs!

EDIT : I will give you another example with a DJ you know i really like - Danny Tenaglia - his gig in Yalta in 2008 was brilliant - he played whatever he wanted but in the way he controlled the reactions on the dancefloor like i champ! His recent gig here at Yalta was way more standart - he played his stuff and the party was good but it can't compare to the 2008 gig at all..