crowds are used to hearing certain kinds of music or styles of music. Also it depends on your location that you're playing the music. Now I have plenty of music for a certain crowd that I would play for that certain crowd. Stuff that when I have to play I know that's a crowd that is used to a DJ only playing certain songs. Anything outside of that and they would be lost.
Now the crowd who comes to hear the DJs play at the Handball Court don't want to hear a DJ playing the same old tired stuff they have heard a DJ play over and over and over again and again. That's the deep underground house music crowd. They are open and expect a DJ to play stuff that not every DJ has played. In other words they are very open minded. I love playing for that kind of crowd when I can. That other crowd bores me to death but it's not about me. It's about what the crowd wants. I just have to remember when it comes to what I call a boring crowd act like I'm having a good time playing that music.
We do music festivals all the time.
People come to these public places specifically to be at the festival...
because the festival is promoted, along with the schedule of the bands performing.
If you have a show on the handball court of a public park...on some random Sunday afternoon...
you have no idea what kind of crowd will show up.
Most likely, they were at the park for some other reason,
heard the music and wandered over to see what was going on.
I'm sure that MOST of them did NOT come there specifically to see you play.
(or, to hear any specific kind of music)
And trust me, if you are doing a (huge) music event in a public space...
most of the people will want to hear the same old tired songs that ever DJ plays.
You're not going to make any friends by playing songs they don't know.
Also, how can "the same old tired stuff" be the same as "underground" house music?
