Hi, apologies if this topic has been done previously, but I just wanted to get a few views on this question.

Was recently DJing and although I played a set that included records that I have not heard played out over recent years, In fact some that I have not heard out for many years, none were what I would call obscure or really rare.

A couple of times the dance floor cleared and a couple of times there were only a few people dancing. Someone has commented that when this happened I should have changed the record half way through, I assume for something that I knew would fill the floor.

My question is if you are a DJ do you change a record part way through because no one/ or few people are dancing, or if you are a dancer and do not know/like the record would you expect the record to be changed half way through.

I replied with my thoughts to the comments made, but I would just be interested to read what others think.

I look forward to your comments, Thanks Jimmy

I think this sums up the differences here, i.e. what people think a DJ is.

To other people (me included) a DJ is somebody who is going to play tunes they have personally chosen and believe will get people dancing. It might not always work but it is their personality and choice of tunes that make the set and the DJ and what makes people turn up to hear them play a set - they wouldn't really know exactly what they were going to get until they listened and that is the attraction.

A D.J’s identity! — Well put that man.

All the best,

Len

Edited October 22, 201212 yr by LEN

You either get it or you don't

Get what?

All the best,

Len

Edited October 22, 201212 yr by LEN

EVERYONE loved oldies night at Wigan . Fact

I preferred it to the normal night by the end but that was over thirty years ago. I've been on the scene all that time and if I'd just kept listening to those oldies I'd be in a nut house by now.

Some time during those thirty years a DJ has played a record that nobody has heard before and cleared the floor, but then stuck with it and it is now one of the oldies that is being danced to today.

my point was that the young lad is dedicated , sincere , knows his stuff but he is poor , the rich lad can become a dj with the click of his fingers but does that make him a better budding dj ? ?

Edited October 22, 201212 yr by gordon russell