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> DJing has always been about selection, and crowd reading. Splitting hairs, but there's an assumption there that you're trying to react to the audience, often
by coreymaass 10y ago
> DJing has always been about selection, and crowd reading.
Splitting hairs, but there's an assumption there that you're trying to react to the audience, often intending to please them. Coming from a background of DJ's playing "difficult" music, sometimes the audience's reaction is incidental.
- JonnieCache 10y agoHow difficult are we talking? Breakcore? Free jazz? Sound art? I reckon the trick is in pacing the set and planning your first two or three records to keep most of them on board. If people have paid to get into the venue they must be at least a little predisposed to like what you're playing, and ideally you should be able to keep people dancing against their better nature. Of course clearing the floor and then drawing them back in is always good too. If you really don't care what they think then IMO it's perhaps more into the realm of performance than DJing. It's a tricky one.
- sopooneo 10y agoThen why not play a pre-recorded mix?
- miloshadzic 10y agoBecause you're playing according to your current sentiment and not crowd pleasing.