Me thinks it will take more than a 10 minute journey from Orange, NJ ..If there are, Mixy hasn't found them yet.
Me thinks it will take more than a 10 minute journey from Orange, NJ ..If there are, Mixy hasn't found them yet.
Mix, based on what you write here, it actually DOES appear that you can't play much of anything else. You constantly talk about how you hate this and hate that or as above, "how boring" it is. The reality is if you want to be a part of standard mobile DJing, you have to suck it up, learn other types of music, and come off as being at least semi-knowledgeable to clients. If you CAN'T do that, then quit complaining about a lack of opportunities and either broaden your knowledge about other music genres (lord knows I had to do that with Country and Rap/Hip-Hop) .. enough so you don't have to pull in someone else every event .. OR .. focus ONLY on what you do know, but that will require covering much more territory if you want mre than 1 gig a year.Let me say this. I wanted this topic to discuss what you do and not focus on someone else. My true passion is deep underground house music. That's I heard a lot of in Club Zanzibar. That's my passion. Now that doesn't mean I can't play other things such as what we call standard stuff. For me it's boring but I can do it. It's about what the client and their guest want. If it's the corny standard stuff, just got to put my game face on and do my job.
When I get lucky to have a crowd that doesn't want to hear just the standard stuff and is open minded, that helps me with fuel I need to keep doing what I love.
When I get lucky to have a crowd...
I said it correctly. There are crowds that if you play the same old stuff every other DJs and are not creative they will boo you and never want you back. Steve we do more than 1 event a year. It's just that we're in this plandemic and it has a lot of DJs either not doing hardly any events or just quitting the business. Steve reread what I said. At times I do suck it up and as I said I put my game face on. I make like I'm having a good time for the client and the crowds benefit. What I learned to do is if I'm the DJ for an event, just do my job to the best of my ability to see to it that the client and their guests have a good time. Just pay me.I had the Twitter-Gestapo filter the following post for accuracy and the only words that came back accurate were:
BTW, you do have a special ability to set em nicely.
Let me say this. I wanted this topic to discuss what you do and not focus on someone else. My true passion is deep underground house music. That's I heard a lot of in Club Zanzibar. That's my passion. Now that doesn't mean I can't play other things such as what we call standard stuff. For me it's boring but I can do it. It's about what the client and their guest want. If it's the corny standard stuff, just got to put my game face on and do my job.
When I get lucky to have a crowd that doesn't want to hear just the standard stuff and is open minded, that helps me with fuel I need to keep doing what I love.
Mix, based on what you write here, it actually DOES appear that you can't play much of anything else. You constantly talk about how you hate this and hate that or as above, "how boring" it is. The reality is if you want to be a part of standard mobile DJing, you have to suck it up, learn other types of music, and come off as being at least semi-knowledgeable to clients. If you CAN'T do that, then quit complaining about a lack of opportunities and either broaden your knowledge about other music genres (lord knows I had to do that with Country and Rap/Hip-Hop) .. enough so you don't have to pull in someone else every event .. OR .. focus ONLY on what you do know, but that will require covering much more territory if you want mre than 1 gig a year.
I get that and I agree. It's just a refreshing break when you get to do an event that it's music you, the client and their guests enjoy. That makes the event for me feel like I'm just doing my job. Please do remember there a certain clients and crowds that just having some knowledge of a certain style of music will not be good enough. You have to really be on top of your game or they won't enjoy you.This could be part of your challenge.
I’m very passionate about the music I listen to. It has NOTHING to do with the music I play at events. I get no fuel from playing a song that I happen to listen to when I’m listening to music. I get “fuel” from seeing people having a great time, not from people that happne to listen to the same music I do.
Back in the day, it may have made things easier because I knew some of those songs better, but today, I know typically what songs work with what audiences and when....and I have my music that I listen to.
Enjoy your deep tracks whenever you want. Focus on the crowd at gigs
I don't recall a single gig where you came here and said "Didn't need my partner today .. played some House, some Rock, some Country .. even a little Jazz while people were eating!!". In fact, the ONLY artists you mention playing, and how everyone (all 10) in the audience tells you how you should be a superstar DJ, are little known NJ based old House/Soul singers ... period ...I said it correctly. There are crowds that if you play the same old stuff every other DJs and are not creative they will boo you and never want you back. Steve we do more than 1 event a year. It's just that we're in this plandemic and it has a lot of DJs either not doing hardly any events or just quitting the business. Steve reread what I said. At times I do suck it up and as I said I put my game face on. I make like I'm having a good time for the client and the crowds benefit. What I learned to do is if I'm the DJ for an event, just do my job to the best of my ability to see to it that the client and their guests have a good time. Just pay me.
You are welcome.Rox.
I learned more about you in those few paragraphs..
than I have in 12 years on this site.
Thanks for sharing!
Let me say this. I wanted this topic to discuss what you do and not focus on someone else. My true passion is deep underground house music. That's I heard a lot of in Club Zanzibar. That's my passion. Now that doesn't mean I can't play other things such as what we call standard stuff. For me it's boring but I can do it. It's about what the client and their guest want. If it's the corny standard stuff, just got to put my game face on and do my job.
When I get lucky to have a crowd that doesn't want to hear just the standard stuff and is open minded, that helps me with fuel I need to keep doing what I love.
Dramacho,
(Details upon request)
When I'm on the radio, I'm playing country music.
What station are you on Brendan?