Your style

by Katie
(Oregon)

The best thing about the digital age is that it has freed DJs from the financial limitations that buying records used to hold us to. When buying vinyl, I could never afford to buy all the tracks I wanted to play, so you end up buying records that all fit into one genre. But now you can buy MP3s from 5 different styles and figure out how to make it work, and thereby making your own sound. This is I think how I best like to construct my sets. By buying and playing music that is all over the place but making it work, you get the feel of how to work with the crowd and take a set in many different places – a very useful tool for the opening slots. And by digging through tons of music every week, you find all these peaktime gems at the same time that are not played out but can really rock a crowd and those get saved for the headlining slots.
.
So the key is really to just buy what you love and never play a track that you dont love. If you love every track you play, people can read into that and get into it that much more. A diverse music collection is never a bad thing, because you never know what you’re getting yourself into with some of these gigs, no matter what the promoter tells you.

Wedding Favors