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AdamTrace · ACAS4U Phreakazoid

What genre's do you prefer to play?
What genre's do you like mixing up?
Do you ever play outside your preferred genre's?

and last but not least, am i the only one who likes to have a break from my genre of choice and play a set entirely composed of something else?

for example.....

I usually play upfront/big room house/electro a la Mark Knight, Copyright, Sucker DJ's, but i also like to drop some breaks, or some uptempo hiphop/funk a la Missy, Sean Paul etc.

I also enjoy spinning ol skool hip hop/funk on a weekly basis instead of my usual 6-7 dance gigs. I try and feature stuff like Beastie Boys, Digital Underground, Zapp & Roger etc. and make people reminisce about the tracks that represent yesteryear.......

discuss......

2GS · ACAS4U - a full PHAT 11/10!

I play mostly house and/or hip-hop, but I like to mix in stuff that's in a similar tempo that might cross genres. This could include playing uptempo country in a disco house set, adult contemporary rock in a downtempo set, or drum n bass (half-time of course) in a hip-hop set. I group my tracks by bpm instead of traditional genres. I don't care for purist sets of any kind.

My favorite genres to cross in are mid-to-late 90s dance pop (a la Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage) and mid 90s alternative rock.

And Adamtrance, you are not alone in wanting to break free from your main genre. That's why Armand Van Helden made Sampleslayer: Enter The Meatmarket. Variety is the spice of life, dude.

Seanza · ACAS4U Shareowner

Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop to Hip-Hop
Sometymez the occasional funk or house track but nothing completed or anywhere near good enuff to post on here lol.

Peace

DJ Val · Chief Moderator

I'm a true Funky & Tribal House babe. I do however enjoy mixing the odd bit of trance. I must say though I brefer the trance from the days of Delerium's - Silence etc., that era.
Having said that many months ago I was tempted to experiment with laying a Hip Hop vocal on a Funky House track. As they say snooze you loose, as it's being done quite alot lately.
I think I may try something like adding a verse or break from a calssic classical from perhaps Mozart or Vilvaldi, wierd or what ?

Vickylicious · Arh baby, ACAS4U's gotta hold on me.

Have played genre crossing sets many time. Then it's mostly House and Hip Hop. But I like to throw in some disco classics or maybe a old school hip hop track (I really prefer those to todays tracks, they are so funky!).

Playing something like Kurtis Blow - The Breaks are a lot of fun to say the least Smilie_PDT

But the most fun sets for me is when I can stick to funky/electro house.

Seanza · ACAS4U Shareowner

a dont think av seen any of your hip hop work in the forum Vickylicious, any linkz or anything to them?

Peace

Vickylicious · Arh baby, ACAS4U's gotta hold on me.

Seanza · ACAS4U Shareowner

neo24 · ACAS4U Rookie now off the mark

being from the boogie down i never played much but hip hop but i am a big house and tech fan so when i started playing clubs in manhattain thats wat i would play and now that i live in san fran i just play everythin and mash them all up.. hip hop on tech beats, underground on old skool beats .. and it's all good

dj pugsla · No longer the Rookie

well i like to mix hip-hop,,r&b,,old skool,,reagge,,& a lil house,,& a dash of pop

DJILLWIL · No longer the Rookie

What genre's do you prefer to play? Rap, R&B, Hip Hop & Da Old School.
What genre's do you like mixing up? All of The Above.
Do you ever play outside your preferred genre's? Evil or Very Mad

If I don't have to NO

Juggernaut · Moderator

i'm a sucker for all sorts...i'll mix between house and trance to breaks to dnb with hip-hop/rnb mixed in...and if i feel creative, old reggae and ragga tracks.

My main areas are Electro house, Breaks and Drum n bass (or atleast that's what i play on fridays)

flexmartin · ACAS4U Referral Ambassador

In my school years it was all about HipHop. After school was when Madchester happened so it was the bands, the Acid and that kind of scene. When I bought 1210's I became a Detroit Tech vinyl snob and nothing else would do.

Nowadays I still buy Detroit, + other deep tech and also reggae, which I rediscovered through the basicchannel labels. But I don't play it all together, unless it's at a mates house party. I would love to hear some refreshing HipHop sounds but I haven't taken the time to discover it. I used to be anti-lyrics of any kind, now i prefer lyrics and songs.

It's the DJ's job to find stuff that is good and that the majority of the audience may not know. Or present something in a different way. If that means mixing up the genres then absolutely ... do it!!

Ages ago, at a small intimate gig, I heard Jeff Mills drop track 1 from Liquid Swords (WuTan) in the middle of a characteristicly fast techno set ... wicked.

M

Plattitude · Moderator

very interesting thread!!

personally, started wit hiphop but began soon to integrate dancehall (wit Sean Paul and Mr Vegas 'Hot Gal' and Chaka Demus 'Murder She Wrote')
honestly, i was surprised that people liked it..
other way round worked as well: dancehall-night with 'chart' hiphop like 'I got five on it', dre or kris kross 'jump', even michael jackson can work in this context..

started to work with an electro-dj, mostly scratchin, but played more commercial 'black music' as well as reggae-nights.
can't choose the crowd and i don't wanna play against them, though i still have some principles, which i throw away at the one of ma best friends wedding some weeks ago...(and not really the first time.
but as i'm more and more into producin/recording, especially the last year, i don't have the time to play that much)

saw dj premier playin a complete hit-set from biggie to destiny's child, breakin with some heavy guitar-tracks and blowin the crowd away with it.

for me, djing is a mixture of givin people stuff they are used to to party and bringin 'suprises' in whenever it goes.

remixes/bootlegs are one of the greatest ways to do exactly that.
mixin originals with remixes is one of favourites..

saw dj illvibe from german dancehall-band 'Seeed' just mixin *nstrumentals and acapellas - fast enough to let it look like remixes, just with two turntables..
good aim for 2007...

djastonish1047 · No longer the Rookie

I play a mixture of everything and anything that i can be creative with....

davefj · Special Member

Over the years I have DJed a lot of everything from Techno, Speed Garage and Big Beat to Rock, Indie and Metal and back again.

I don't have a specific style that I prefer DJing as good tunes are good tunes whatever style it is and I have fun playing out.

At present I am spending alot of my DJing time mixing Indie/Alt with itself as well as with House, Breaks and Hip Hop. I also love to drop a bit of DnB into the mix as well.

This spawned my interest in the whole Mash Up/Bootleg scene and thus kick started my own Remixing and Bootleg thing (one of my remixes is in the DnB section of the board - it's a remix of the Cure's "Love Cats").

For examples of my tunes check the myspace link in my signiture Smilie_PDT

dilettante · ACAS4U Rookie now off the mark

I definitely think the traditional genre boundaries of dance music, and music at large will continue to blur over the course of the next decade thanks to technology and programs like Ableton Live. Initially a house and techno DJ, I've begun to expand my repertoire after going from vinyl and CDJs to a Macbook Pro running Live 5 (now 6). The sonic possiblities when working with computers in a live performance setting really is mind-blowing!

AdamTrace · ACAS4U Phreakazoid

some interesting responses! good to see that there is a wide musical appreciation across the board...

I wonder, not many of you have answered the question i was really interested in....

What do you love to play outside of your genre of choice? i'm talking about one night where you can play anything, where you'd have all the tunes supplied to you, in the environment of your choice, as long as it isn't your regular thing.

For Me, i'd say it would have to be something like Mark Farina style stuff, aka mushroom jazz or whatever it's called.... real downtempo stuff thats funky but not clubby....

Thoughts?

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