Uberduck Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 After reading the article about Oakey it started me thinkng about the different DJ's and how they start their set. In that article it states that Oakey told the Cream promoter to get Adam Sheridan to crank the BPM down to 130. That is just so pretentious and arrogant. It really wound me up. Oakey has always been renound for stopping the previous DJ's record to 'announce' his entrance to the club. To ask A.Sheridan to drop the BPM by so much is just so rude. How on earth could he do this and make it sound good? Also can you imagine A.Sheridans style trance played at 130BPM? It'd be a total yawnfest. Now when I went to the Slinky event in Portsmouth a month ago every DJ stopped the previous DJ's last track by means of a power-down or spinback. For me this just kills the moment and is plain unnecessary. You could still announce the 'new DJ' by talking over his record on the mic. Personally if I was following a DJ I'd just follow on from his last track. If I wanted to up the BPM then I'd do so during the set. If there is to be such a huge drop in BPM then surely that'd mean that the two DJ's shouldn't really be playing one after the other. Can you imagine bopping away to Adam Sheridan only to have the record stopped and then commenced with some slow as snails Oakey style trance. It'd be interesting to see what the people that play out on this board do. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 I think its a case os stupid scheduling, okaie shouldntve been in the lineup after such a bosh fest simply if he wasnt prepared to continue you, to drop down real slow after 140 bpm madness would definately kill the moment and make a laod of people no doubt bugger off completely i reckon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 If I am not mistaken, Oakenfold also used to turn the motor off on the turntable of the previous DJs set before he started, so the vinyl wound down slowly like a power cut... bit arrogant in my opinion, like saying "this tune is crap" and destroying it. It might work quite well in a club environment, just a bit arrogant though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonman Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 personally i just beatmix it in my record from the previous dj's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 On occasion it's perfectly fine for the DJ to begin their set with an intro track, I've seen it done many times & it can work, however it's always best to allow the previous DJ to completely finish what they're doing. Let their track play out to a finish or wait until they're done & then slow it down. At the Gods x-mas parties Armin has followed on from Jules a number of times & being as Jules is hammering it out he's allowed Jules' track to completely finish before strting off his own set with an intro track. It worked well in that instance as Armin started off a little deeper & slower than Jules was playing. It also served as a way for the crowd to give a huge cheer to Jules & then the Armin chants started. People at the bar came rushing over & Armin kicked off his set. Personally when playing out I've always mixed in directly from the previous DJs track, I'm no super-star (yet ) so just carried on the flow of things. It's simple enough to change the bpm once you're off & running. DJs following on from me have varied, on each occasion except once they've mixed in from my closing track, the only exception was when I played ES back in April when Jonas did a 'power down' type effect on my last track as he wanted to play a new intro track he'd made especially for opening his sets, nice thing was he even asked me if it was ok! what was I gona say 'no sorry mate, you mix in from my track, who do you think you are' haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 ... the only exception was when I played ES back in April when Jonas did a 'power down' type effect on my last track as he wanted to play a new intro track he'd made especially for opening his sets, nice thing was he even asked me if it was ok! what was I gona say 'no sorry mate, you mix in from my track, who do you think you are' haha You should have dismissed him, saying "I'm not really a talking DJ" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aza Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 LOL - quality there from Quadrant (that infamous quote )! Tom that's decent of the DJ - that's prob the best thing to do IMO - if you gonna do something just have a quick word the DJ before you and take it from. That is though, assuming your not doing anything stupid and it is in the best interest for your audience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 LOL - quality there from Quadrant (that infamous quote )!Tom that's decent of the DJ - that's prob the best thing to do IMO - if you gonna do something just have a quick word the DJ before you and take it from. That is though, assuming your not doing anything stupid and it is in the best interest for your audience Yeh he was a really nice guy, I thought that was mightily courteous of him. It can cause a little bit of an issue if the previous guy is playing something totally different to what you wana play, but I guess thats the art, being able to manourve things into your style. As Steve will testify when I played for Digitized the guy before me finished with Above & Beyond 'Good For Me' so I had to up the ante straight off, slight inconveniance but managed to drop the bpm a little & just played a little more trancey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 Testified I must say when the guy before was hammering it out so early on, and knowing Tom's style, I wasn't too sure where the night was going. I think you coped with it pretty well, Tom, and whee you found all those vocal tracks from, I'lll never know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 Testified I must say when the guy before was hammering it out so early on, and knowing Tom's style, I wasn't too sure where the night was going. I think you coped with it pretty well, Tom, and whee you found all those vocal tracks from, I'lll never know I think that set contained more vocal tracks than any other I've ever done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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