i feel ya.

Played 4 hours on Saturday night, am trying to put together 4 hours for this coming saturday and i realise only now that I hate it all.

Yup... tryin to start fresh.

get this sometimes, especially if i gig more than 4 times per week. it only inspires me to search harder for better music though, so there is a plus side i guess!

this works (sometimes)..

don't hit review/clear.. and then next gig.. don't play any of the songs you played @ the last gig.

Thats tough... but a good idea...

Happened to me a few years ago but I still remember.
When I worked at Chauncey record store in Detroit, he told me that I would get tired of hearing music.
At the time I worked the record store for 6 days a week and DJ'd 3-4 nights a week. I was crazy about music old/new it did not matter.
I thought he was crazy.

Sure enough a few months later it hit me Music O.D.
It could have been the repetition of certain songs being played over and over on radio and in the clubs I dunno. I would get so uptight at the day job and at night while spinning.
He told me the way to cure it too.
The plan was to only listen to music when I came to work and when I spin records at night. On my way to work-no radio. When I am off work-no TV. He even suggested I turn my phone off when not working. Had to even take time off from practicing for a while. Enjoy peace and quiet for a change. I was like Huh?
It took a couple maybe 3 months but the result?
Guess what...it worked.
Good luck frost-9

This is ONE of the MANY REASONS why I don't do sets.

Freestyle baby. That's the way to go. I don't see how you can get sick of 30,000 songs.

i save all of my tracklistings, and have a rule of never to start of end a set with the same songs. the middle bit you have no option but to play all the current club bangers.

got a tip though, get a residency somewhere on a quiet night, like say a tuesday, where you're just providing background music/vibes, that way you're under no pressure to get a dancefloor going and can really concentrate on music that you haven't heard before or explored. and its great prep for future nights.

I HATE MUSIC!!!!!
Actually, its the stuff that is killing me. If I ever meet Soldier Boy I swear I'm going to mush him so hard that he's going to fall backward.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term "Mushing" it is when you grab someone by the face and push them backwards. LOL

When this happens, I start going back looking for throw backs.
Works every time.

Amen Sixxx!! Preach On.

DJ Silk...ROTFL
that shi*t was hella funny

i do radio and i get sick of the music quick. i spin on air 3 hours every saturday night so stuff gets old quick.

It depends on the context.

When practicing at home, I'm constantly searching for new ways to program tired old songs so that they don't sound old and tired anymore. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes the results are amusingly silly. :D

When programming on-the-fly at the club, I often find that the perfect record to program at a certain point will be a song that I'm totally sick of. I'll mix into it, the crowd will absolutely love it, and it will feel fresh and exciting to me because of the way it's programmed and because the crowd is enjoying it so much.

I suppose the other remedy for this problem is to only play music that you really really love, and to stay away from genres that are chock-full of boring, repetitive crap in the first place.

he has a problem if the music he really loves is chock-full of boring, repetitive crap then

I know how everyone is feeling. I've been finding myself listening to NPR news and shit like that in my car lately.

"Welcome to Fresh Air, I'm Terri Gross".

Sometimes I learn something.

time to go b-side shopping (a term we used to use when we still used actual vinyl).

sets are for big time djs.

I've never made a set..except for recording. freestyle is the only way

I like to dig in the crates for old classics I used to love, I mostly listen to hip-hop, so I just pulled out some Gangstarr,AZ,O.C., Organized Konfusion,...etc. I'm constantly on the lookout for new music, just found some bangers on 8thwonder last night. I also love to give the underground artists a chance. Right now it's J-live and 334 Mobb for me.

Who is "He"...?

I honestly wish I could spin freestyle all the time.. My life would be a whole lot easier.

Or any DJ who's not a resident somewhere. Cause, sets would get old VERY quickly.

... I mean, look at DJ AM. I know a few people who've told me... "I know what he's gonna play next" lol

hater

This is the main reason fishr, marvel and myself started our monthly... we wanted a night where we just have fun and play what WE want... we didn't get requests... people got down to everything we threw at em

I became a Tom Lykis fan because of something like that - no music - just Talk radio while I was in the car about 5 years ago. It does work.

Also change genres...

I went from House/Techno to Hip House to R&B/Rap and am trying to come full circle back to House again (along with the R&B and Rap).

Yeah I don't blame you. Just take a break, go looking for more good music, ask around, and be real open to all kinds of music.

Personally, for me, finding out more about old school hiphop and educating myself gets me refreshed. I'll go through periods of being into newer club songs, then go through a period of loving old school stuff. Plus, there's some new stuff I like once I look hard enough, so the music is always endless.

Ha, more like a realist.

That's what i do Sixxx. I Dj every Saturday night hip hop here in Iraq and i never plan shit. I might grab a couple of new tracks i want to play in the night, but mostly freestyle. It's better cause the crowd is always different, so what worked last week might get you booed this week. Plus it keeps the crowd guessing cause they know you going to bring it everytime. It's never good for a patron to say what you're going to play next once you get into your "Safe Set"

problem is, I can't imagine playing freestyle to the soulja boy generation. I have nothing in common with people that have an affinity for that crap.

when I play house, it's strictly spur of the moment.. what works works. I think when you're going to spin freestyle.. it's hugely helpful when you actually like what you're playing.

I think what djaleksei said on here was great advice for people in my predicament.. while I'll never stop looking for new and better music, I think it's a great idea to both start and finish with completely different sets and never follow any kind of pattern, but when the bitches start whining about Kanye, and Lupe, and whatever asshole put out an album last week, that they won't care about 3 weeks from now, it's time to rock the 'tried and tested' tracks.

That's not to advocate playing the same tracks in the same order, but when you have a room full of hard-to-please people that only like songs that are new (simply because they are new, not because they're good).. it helps to have a rough set structure that you can work with. It's not like when comedians go on stage, or when rappers battle, they don't have some kind of plan. In an ideal world, we'd all be able to spin freestyle all the time, but unfortunately, most people are not nearly as open minded about music that we'd like.

problem is, I can't imagine playing freestyle to the soulja boy generation. I have nothing in common with people that have an affinity for that crap.

when I play house, it's strictly spur of the moment.. what works works. I think when you're going to spin freestyle.. it's hugely helpful when you actually like what you're playing.

I think what djaleksei said on here was great advice for people in my predicament.. while I'll never stop looking for new and better music, I think it's a great idea to both start and finish with completely different sets and never follow any kind of pattern, but when the bitches start whining about Kanye, and Lupe, and whatever asshole put out an album last week, that they won't care about 3 weeks from now, it's time to rock the 'tried and tested' tracks.

That's not to advocate playing the same tracks in the same order, but when you have a room full of hard-to-please people that only like songs that are new (simply because they are new, not because they're good).. it helps to have a rough set structure that you can work with. It's not like when comedians go on stage, or when rappers battle, they don't have some kind of plan. In an ideal world, we'd all be able to spin freestyle all the time, but unfortunately, most people are not nearly as open minded about music that we'd like.

I have to agree with you Frost-9 about this generation of party goers. Just cause they got the leak of so so album off *********** that doesn't me You suck cause you don't have it. The Net can work for you are against you sometimes. Most of the time it cause songs to be old before their time. And MTV doesn't help when they show the same video's over and over again. Radio is no better. How the hell the Live at 5 mix is the same as the guy that comes on at 9. Then when they come to the club they want to hear the same stuff over and over again.

auughhh.... Fuck it.. I'm going to just start saying "YAAHHH TRICK YAAAHH"

I do every set "Free style".
But giging 3 times a week...Takes it toll...I find myself listening to alot of talk radio @ the crib and in the car...LMAO..


Helps me get my mind off music.

lol. I don't even listen to the radio anymore. Most of the time is an odd CD or some classic hip hop.

How do I keep up? Charts. Ear on the street. Stuff like that.

Who is "He"...?
ask anybody from Detroit...

One of the better known Mom/Pop record store owners in Detroit
Held down the corner of 6 Mile/Evergreen for over 33 yrs.
If you are not from the area he probably won't mean a hill of beans to you.
I just used him as a reference.
The point was something like DJ Art P.P. said:
"I became a Tom Lykis fan because of something like that - no music - just Talk radio while I was in the car about 5 years ago. It does work."

lol @ spinning in Iraq.... they had a dj battle at our FOB in Iraq. I envied the people who had the time to do stuff like that.

also...I have been listening to talk radio for almost 10 yrs, started with howard stern, then to kramer & twitch and dominski & doyle in detroit, to tom lykis, to opie and anthony on xm.

relaxes ur head from music. and if I do listen to music on the radio, its usually classic rock stations

Hats off to any DJ spinning in Iraq

The US and the UK got DJs out there doing there thing for OUR troops ( dont agree with the whole middle east thing though BOOO to that BUT )

Dun say spinning in a War zone!!!!

RESPECT FELLAS

Word...You cats in Iraq and bases around the world...

Keep doing your thing...Your fellow Brother and sista DJ's appreciate you rockin dem crowds, Wherever they might be.

That's what's up.

I think he's a soldier who is also a DJ spinning in Iraq.

The military wouldn't allow a dj to come out and spin in Iraq for some big troop party. When I was there, we had one guy who actually came out to Iraq, on our FOB....Toby Keith. I wasn't actually on any missions during his "mini concert" but I sure as hell didn't go. I think I was playing Halo with an M4

No im not in the military anymore. Im a contractor out here on Taji, that hoped to contiue on with my craft. I was just blessed enough that the MWR supported me in doing so. So to answer your question I use to be a NCO Non-Commisioned officer.

Thanks for the support check the myspace page www.myspace.com

+ 1 on that mi amigo... I really don't listen to the radio and I'm trying to familiarize myself with the 30+ thousand tracks I've downloaded over the years...

Aaaah. MWR. I'm familiar with that.

So you're making bank pretty much.....

I thought about going back as a contractor. Make decent money, get a nice hooch, always nice weather, and the "FEW" hto military chicks that are hurtin for some meat. What else can you ask for?

... but then you decided to smooch off the gf. :P

I thought those were the same thing around these parts lol :p