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Soul Good Top 10 (November 2004) | 24 comments (24 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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by crispian on Sun Dec 5th, 2004 at 01:00:19 PM CST
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That's a really interesting point Jon. I've seen many, many tunes which Bill has really enjoyed and rinsed knowing that at some point these tunes are going to hit big. It's enjoyable to me to see a crowd's reaction to a tune which has that appeal, but they don't yet know what it is.

My personal opinion is that once these tunes hit, you shouldn't play them anymore. Once every DJ knows that they work, there's just no point. All you're going to end up doing is rinsing someone out, or getting rinsed yourself. Like last night, someone played 'Flashdance' right before Bill's set. Then the next guy dropped it straight afterwards. Now should the second guy have been hanging around two hours before his set to make sure nobody played his tunes? Probably not. But should he have been able to guess that someone's already played one of the biggest tunes?

In my opinion there's two areas of focus for DJs in terms of picking tunes - concentrating on what's big now and watching what's coming in next and getting prepared. In reality every DJ has elements of both, and it's up to you to work out what your own ratio is. Just don't be surprised when you drop 'The BOMB record'(tm) and get a strange reaction from the crowd - they may have just heard it an hour ago.

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Soul Good Top 10 (November 2004) | 24 comments (24 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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