MattClarke
Interesting topic this, I think I am a good DJ but I am also my own biggest critic. I have had nights where I thought that I really sucked, to be told at the end of the night how good it was. I tend to over-analyse everything which can be a double edged sword.
I also play at commecial high street bars but to be honest all I'm concerned about is keeping the dance floor busy. I dont consider rotating the dance floor but while I'm a dance DJ at heart I do keep it commercial and mix in RnB, Dubstep, etc, along with my main genre of vocal house and commercial dance. From my experience simply playing good music and keeping the dance floor busy will also keep the venue busy and the bar take will look after itself.
Learning to read the crowd and playing accordingly while keeping to your own style for me is the way to go and I have found that once you have been resident at a venue for a while they will come to hear what you play and you will get very few requests.
Saying that you will always get people who simply 'have' to request something, anything, just so that they can have a sing that they asked for...
I also play at commecial high street bars but to be honest all I'm concerned about is keeping the dance floor busy. I dont consider rotating the dance floor but while I'm a dance DJ at heart I do keep it commercial and mix in RnB, Dubstep, etc, along with my main genre of vocal house and commercial dance. From my experience simply playing good music and keeping the dance floor busy will also keep the venue busy and the bar take will look after itself.
Learning to read the crowd and playing accordingly while keeping to your own style for me is the way to go and I have found that once you have been resident at a venue for a while they will come to hear what you play and you will get very few requests.
Saying that you will always get people who simply 'have' to request something, anything, just so that they can have a sing that they asked for...
geposted Mon 23 Jan 12 @ 1:34 pm
MAGAGAR80
In my opinion there's 3 types of good DJs
1st would be the DJ who claims to be good but really lacks the skills, this one would remind me of a singer who shows up to an audition claiming they are the best singer ever and starts singing like they have a frog stuck down their throat.
2nd is the DJ who truly is good but let's it get to their head, cannot handle the slightest of criticism or suggestions and will not work on any new skills because he thinks he is on top of his game already. This DJ reminds me of a championship team, you know the team who knows they are very good but somehow manages to loose to lesser teams and cannot repeat as champions. They no longer have that hunger to train hard to stay on top, they think they are perfect as is.
3rd would me my favorite kind of DJ, the one who never thinks he's good enough. This one practices a lot in hopes of achieving greatness, when people compliment his work he does not believe them because he is his own worst critic and he thinks he could have done better. He will go back to the studio and work harder for next time, hoping he will find that perfection he fails to find every time. He has the hunger, the drive and desire to be like the DJ described in the 2nd position but he will never be as good as him in his mind. Even if everybody thinks he is great, in this guys mind he will never be good enough.
I don't think I will ever be good, I am a perfectionist and I always find flaws in my set. I happen to think the DJs who are willing to admit they are not good are the best ones!
There's been a few times when I have been at a club and I have enjoyed the set a DJ just played, afterwards I complimented the DJ on a job well done, their responses amaze me "Oh it was ok", "It could have been better", "It was nothing special" very humble with their answers. These guys wanted perfection, to my ears it sounded perfect but to them it wasn't, I think these are the best DJs.
1st would be the DJ who claims to be good but really lacks the skills, this one would remind me of a singer who shows up to an audition claiming they are the best singer ever and starts singing like they have a frog stuck down their throat.
2nd is the DJ who truly is good but let's it get to their head, cannot handle the slightest of criticism or suggestions and will not work on any new skills because he thinks he is on top of his game already. This DJ reminds me of a championship team, you know the team who knows they are very good but somehow manages to loose to lesser teams and cannot repeat as champions. They no longer have that hunger to train hard to stay on top, they think they are perfect as is.
3rd would me my favorite kind of DJ, the one who never thinks he's good enough. This one practices a lot in hopes of achieving greatness, when people compliment his work he does not believe them because he is his own worst critic and he thinks he could have done better. He will go back to the studio and work harder for next time, hoping he will find that perfection he fails to find every time. He has the hunger, the drive and desire to be like the DJ described in the 2nd position but he will never be as good as him in his mind. Even if everybody thinks he is great, in this guys mind he will never be good enough.
I don't think I will ever be good, I am a perfectionist and I always find flaws in my set. I happen to think the DJs who are willing to admit they are not good are the best ones!
There's been a few times when I have been at a club and I have enjoyed the set a DJ just played, afterwards I complimented the DJ on a job well done, their responses amaze me "Oh it was ok", "It could have been better", "It was nothing special" very humble with their answers. These guys wanted perfection, to my ears it sounded perfect but to them it wasn't, I think these are the best DJs.
geposted Mon 23 Jan 12 @ 4:00 pm
Walter Worek
3rd would me my favorite kind of DJ, the one who never thinks he's good enough. This one practices a lot in hopes of achieving greatness, when people compliment his work he does not believe them because he is his own worst critic and he thinks he could have done better.
this describes me to a "T"
this describes me to a "T"
geposted Mon 23 Jan 12 @ 7:05 pm