DJ How to Keep the Vibe on the Dance Floor Its All in How You Make the Folders!

0:00 First of all, the tune you're listening to is from Slap Funk Recording

Alright, first of all, the tune you're listening to is from Slap Funk Recordings. It's from the album Raw Joints No. 4. So, you're getting your playlists together, you're going out tomorrow night, you've got your folders, you're all hooked up and good to go. But, let's imagine this. Let's imagine the dance floor's bubbling. And when I say bubbling, I mean there's this euphoria on the dance floor. It's something that you can't buy, it's just there. Whether it be 10 people or 100 people, they're there. You've got them by the balls and you don't want to let them go. You're searching for another track to play and you can't find it. And before you know it, the track that has got them up there finishes, you bring in another tune from the same folder, it's gone.

1:13 It's because your folders are not based on feeling

So what happened? Now maybe the folder that you were using was house, so it's all house music. Maybe it was disco, maybe it was funk, maybe it was R&B, maybe it was drum and bass, techno, trance or just some cheesy, horrible Top 40 pop music. But, the dance floor failed. Why? It's because your folders are not based on feeling. So, now I give lessons via either Skype or Facebook. They're private lessons, they're one-to-one and they can range me from teaching you how to beat match, to phrase mixing, to key mixing, to even information on how to be a mobile DJ. Now again, I do not give any personal information away. I explained to him as I'm going to explain to you now. What I want you to do is look at your music and open up new folders. Keep the ones you've got, keep them, okay? There's nothing wrong with them.

But open up new ones, copy and paste. You can have two copies of each track on, it doesn't matter. What you do is you picture in your mind a euphoric feeling and you listen to the tracks. Does it give you that euphoric, whoa! Put it in the euphoric feeling folder. Listen to the next one, it makes you feel maybe a bit sad. Put it in the sad folder. Then the next one makes you feel happy. Put it in the happy folder and so on. So this really, this video is individual to you, it's personal to you. It's very, very personal.

2:43 For example, Proclaimers 500 Miles

Because what you're doing is you're choosing tracks that give you, you that feeling. No one else, you. But when I say no one else, when you then take those tracks and open up that folder you will be giving the people the feeling of euphoria based on your knowledge of the music. So for example, Proclaimers 500 Miles. You know? That tune just goes bang! Bang! Sweet Child O' Mine. Bang! Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley. Bang! Little Richard Tutti Frutti. Bang! Lulu Shout. Bang! Need I go on? So really what we're doing here is, okay those are old school tunes but let's say you want a laid back folder. That laid back folder doesn't just have to be R&B and soul it could be any genre or style of music that you feel gives you that feeling of laid backness.

So in a nutshell, make up new folders and base those folders not on genres of music but on the feeling it gives you. So when you get to that height of the night when people are booming and going nuts open that folder and you know you can go bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Chuck them out there and of course they're gonna keep the euphoria. It's not as simple as that because you've still got to mix in key. You've still got to make sure those tracks match in key but at least if you do get to the time of the night where the dance floor is full and say they're digging the soul music they're digging the mellow kind of vibe then you can open up your mellow vibe folder and carry on that flow. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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