Yeah iv noticed the sets gettin shorter.. i think 1 and a half hours to 2 is a better timescale to look at for a set.. maybe warm up sets could be 1 hour to leave the extra time for the 'main' djs to play a bit longer or somethin?!

seems like it's getting to how it is at most drum and bass ngihts that i go to where everyone is on for an hour, getting as many djs as possible in.

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Chris_Hutchinson said:

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CreamyC said:

Personally DJ's doing a 3 hour extravaganza bores me to tears, you can find me asleep in the corner somewhere.

 

if thats the case, the dj playing hasnt done their job very well....

 

Lets hope you dont do a 3 hour marathon then.

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Tony.P said:

Seems like DJs are getting shorter and shorter these days.

 

 

there is still lots of room in willow the chinchilla's cage Phil you know you want to

 

will have to meet my new housemate sometime!

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Chris_Hutchinson said:

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CreamyC said:

Personally DJ's doing a 3 hour extravaganza bores me to tears, you can find me asleep in the corner somewhere.

 

if thats the case, the dj playing hasnt done their job very well....

 

Lets hope you dont do a 3 hour marathon then.

 

I would be offended but you aint ever heard me play so

what a lot of other people have said. i think it's to do with trying to fit as many big names as poss.

 

which i think is total and complete bullshit, and it's one thing which kept me from going to the HHA b4 last.

 

quantity not quality apparently?!

 

club promotors: "they'll be so [censored] off their heads they won't care" - I'll bet you.

 

1:30 as an absolute minimum, 2 hours pref. 3 hours great.

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James said:

..and its even more of a piss take when you've got to go back-to-back with someone - so you get to play like what, 5/6 records? great.

how do u think sasha feels he does a 3 hour set and hes only played 4 records

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CreamyC said:

Personally DJ's doing a 3 hour extravaganza bores me to tears, you can find me asleep in the corner somewhere.

 

only in hardhouse it does

 

a 3 hour techno or prog set really does take you on a jurney.

it only really seems to be in hardhouse that the DJs are booked w/o thought of the music. and theres a good reason for this, it doesnt matter how many DJs or how few you have in hardhouse nower days, 99% of them will spin the same 5 records ne way.

 

If hardhouse DJs tryed experimenting a little more then promotors would be willing to give them more time. hardhouse club nights such as superfish give its residents 2 hours and the residents really did some creative things in that time. frantic only needs an hour per DJ as the DJs seem to have no imagination

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yppaH_rM said:

frantic only needs an hour per DJ as the DJs seem to have no imagination

 

Total bollox Laurence, it is not the dj who ask's for an hour, it is the promoter who books for an hour!! & im sure all the HH dj's all over the world mould be made up to the eyeballs to know the yppaH_rM thinks they have NO IMAGINATION!!!

I can't comment on Frantic, but I agree that loads of hard house DJs are completely unimaginative. That's because it is the most bandwagon-jumped dance genre of the last few years.

 

I'm not saying all hard house DJs are [censored], but a disproportionate number do play all the same tunes. My mate who is a hard house / techno promoter says 95% of the mix CD demos he gets contain the same old Nukleuz / Tidy tunes. Now it should be the job of promoters to filter out the [censored] DJs, but that fact is, lots of clubbers out there lap up the same old [censored]!

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liquideyes said:

I'm not saying all hard house DJs are [censored], but a disproportionate number do play all the same tunes. My mate who is a hard house / techno promoter says 95% of the mix CD demos he gets contain the same old Nukleuz / Tidy tunes.

 

biggest critiscm of my mixes is that there havent been enough 'obvious' tunes on them.... maybe I should just play tidy and nukleuz to get bookings then play what I want when I get em

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yppaH_rM said:

frantic only needs an hour per DJ as the DJs seem to have no imagination

 

Total bollox Laurence, it is not the dj who ask's for an hour,

 

never said the DJs do ask for an hour. i'm only said that i havnt heard many DJs that play their sets much different from an hours set to 2 hours. its still the same tunes. infact sometimes i dont even notice the change in style when a new DJ come one

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liquideyes said:

I'm not saying all hard house DJs are [censored], but a disproportionate number do play all the same tunes. My mate who is a hard house / techno promoter says 95% of the mix CD demos he gets contain the same old Nukleuz / Tidy tunes.

 

biggest critiscm of my mixes is that there havent been enough 'obvious' tunes on them....

 

ignore them! your playing a style thats unique to you and if and when you make it, you'll be reconised for it.

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Chris_Hutchinson said:

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liquideyes said:

I'm not saying all hard house DJs are [censored], but a disproportionate number do play all the same tunes. My mate who is a hard house / techno promoter says 95% of the mix CD demos he gets contain the same old Nukleuz / Tidy tunes.

 

biggest critiscm of my mixes is that there havent been enough 'obvious' tunes on them....

 

ignore them! your playing a style thats unique to you and if and when you make it, you'll be reconised for it.

 

If I dont make it, can I blame you then for making me 'stick by my guns'