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I've been listening to EDM (mostly progressive, deep, bigroom and electro house) for years at least few hours daily, but mainly live sets, rarely single tracks. This lead to having around 900 live sets, radio shows, promo mixes etc. in my top collection. It happens that I'll be in charge for music playback in few upcoming private parties (DJ) and now I have serious problem since I can't just play my favorite set since not all attendants prefer such style of music (+ they will have their own music requests). I will therefore have to play more mixed, commercial style (David Guetta, Inna, R.I.O., Avicii, DJ Antoine, Kid Massive, Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, pop artists etc.) which is popular in more commercial clubs and local stations. In other words, music that most people are familiar with and is appropriate for partying and dancing (old hits got to be included as well).

So, could anyone please point me into right direction where to get such playlists and music collections? I would also really appreciate if someone could share me his playlists or list of mp3 collection - this can be done within seconds with program like this, which automatically generates .txt file: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/File-List-Maker.shtml

Thanks a lot in advance!
 
Posted Thu 03 Jul 14 @ 11:14 am
You can browse through some of these set lists here, http://virtualdjradio.com/djsets/

If you see tracks you need you can click on the title and be directed to locations to purchase and download the track.
 
Thanks, but I have no idea which one includes tracks I mentioned in my first post and there seems to be a lot of sets, so it would be really hard to listen so many of them.
 
Come on, I'm sure there are some kind and generous people here?
 
You mentioned no tracks in particular only a handful of artists/producers. I directed you to a website that has DJ's from around the world sharing their set lists. If you look around that site you can find charts for the most played tracks, an archive of set lists and a nice search tool that allows you to find purchase/download sites for the tracks you would like to check out.
You will have to put in the work to find the tracks you want. Just dumping my tracks into a text file will not help you, I have tens of thousands of tracks. And then it is only a text file, you will still have to search the internet for the tracks. The VDJRadio site has some tools to make your task easier, but you will have to do the work. Hit me up with a PM if you would like some guidance navigating the site and using the features available.
Good luck,
T
 
TD has hit the nail on the head.

Nobody can give you their musical knowledge. You have to learn it yourself.

Even if 100 DJs gave you lists, when you play the parties then the guests could request music which isn't on any of those lists...

You can't plan in advance what songs the guests will want. You work on the fly, going by dance floor reactions and requests.
 
I'm aware that getting my own playlist is the ideal scenario, but I'm really not listening much to mainstream/radio music, but rather EDM (progressive and electro house mainly), so it's really hard to find good music which would satisfy most of party attendants, but I know what most of them usually listen to and would be satisfied with. Sure, taking music requests and adjusting music style is one point of view, but if the music is good in the first place, it gets much easier (at least that's my prediction).

So none of you have music arranged to folders based on genre, popularity (top 100 etc.)? You actually have all music in folder and you simply know it so good that you can quickly load anything that comes to your mind?

I know that I will have to buy/download music if someone will provide playlists, but that's obviously the effort I will have to take (unless someone is interested in trading for large collection of sets).

Anyway, here are some tracks that I had in mind so you'll know better what I'm looking for:

DJ Antoine vs. Mad Mark - Crazy World
Jack Holiday & Mike Candys - The Riddle Anthem
Zedd - Find You ft. Matthew Koma, Miriam Bryant
Serebro - MiMiMi
Calvin Harris - Summer
Alesso - If I lose myself
Bob Sinclar - Cinderella
PH Electro - Run Away
David Guetta - Shot Me Down (feat. Skylar Grey)
Duck Sauce - It's You
Contiez Feat. Treyy G - Trumpsta (Djuro Remix)
David Guetta - Bad (feat. Vassy)
Pulsedriver - Cambodia (Topmodelz Edit)
Kuedon - Bang La Decks
Alien Cut & Dino Brown Vivian B - Partytime
R.I.O. - Living In Stereo
Springlove - Porque te vas
INNA - Cola Song

But any other genre would probably also fit,as long as there are top hits in it (especially older ones which most people know). That's probably the most important factor. I won't be DJ'ing regularly in local club to play new promo stuff, but only few times on birthday and graduation party so hits are the most important here imho.
 
groovindj wrote :
TD has hit the nail on the head.

Nobody can give you their musical knowledge. You have to learn it yourself.

Even if 100 DJs gave you lists, when you play the parties then the guests could request music which isn't on any of those lists...

You can't plan in advance what songs the guests will want. You work on the fly, going by dance floor reactions and requests.



Absolutely! Don't underestimate instincts plus experience.
 
What I do 2 weeks before the party is i call the person who is throwing the party and ask him what kind of music he wants, because pretty much they all listen to the same thing, then ill put a play list together of the all there music and have another playlist of my own, then i practice it...Now clubs i go into alot of clubs and see whats playing, but mostly you can go on top playing billboards and see which songs are popular. thats how i do it, or if i hear a song i like then i remix it up or look for a mp3 pool, or google for a remix song.....
 
 
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but I'm really not listening much to mainstream/radio music


Unfortunately this is going to be your problem you'll have to diversify your music tastes to mainstream/middle of the road music listening if your going to play to this type of audience, it will get easier for you as you gain experience and yes experienced DJ's go out to gigs all the time without playlists and "read the room", look at your audience age groups, in the case of venues clubs/bars etc you should all ready know what type of music they aim at and if you don't it is quite easy to have a chat with management and ask what type of music they want to hear.

Play a few background tracks look for the audience reaction, are they tapping their feet, moving their butts, generally getting into the music, all good little pointers to "reading the room"

Starting out does mean a lot of work for guys who do not have a large music collection or are playing outside of their comfort zone, but every gig is an experience that can be used at countless future shows... main thing is you go out and enjoy yourself, this will come across to your audience and your already half way there... good luck.
 


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