If a DJ set was a picture, what would it look like

0:00 You have these ideas sometimes and you think, oh well I do anyway

Alright folks, you know what it's like. You have these ideas sometimes and you think, oh well I do anyway. Right quick, I've got to write it down. So it was relatively early in the morning but I thought why not just do the video anyway. This video is on about a set. Now then, first of all it's got nothing to do with contradictory comments. I must say this is a complete, total and utter idea that has got nothing to do with any comments from any other videos. So I hope you'll bear that in mind. Anyway, you look here, you can see H, T and S. Now of course these are only three examples. H is for house, T is for techno, S is for soul. H for house in squares, T for techno, triangles, S for soul in the circles. There's no specific reason for shapes and letters in shapes etc. But imagine that's a record collection and all of the records are all over the place.

1:59 All of the music may fit together nicely

And that's my record collection. It's all over the place, believe me. Now then, if we say look at something like this, this is the first picture. You can see here, imagine this is a set and the DJ is playing his house music. And there it is, and this is his set here. However long it is, doesn't really matter. And then, at the end of his set, it looks like this. Now then, the reason the shapes, or should I say shapes, the sizes... Thank you for watching. And that DJ is painting a picture, OK? It may be structured. It may work. All of the music may fit together nicely. But if you took that as a picture, there's not much to look at. It's just house continually. Now then, all of a sudden now, OK, you've got this guy here who's going to do a set. And what he does in his set, which is in this box, he maybe starts off with some house and then plays a bit of techno.

He plays a bit of soul, bit of techno, bit of soul, loads of soul, techno, soul, bit more house, soul, soul, bit more techno. Continually filling in this box. Now then, first of all I must say it would be very difficult for a club DJ to do this kind of thing because nine times out of ten a club DJ, a good club DJ, in clubs you'll only have specifically drum and bass, soul, R&B, house, okay? Pub or a mobile DJ, someone like that. This is what they have to do. They've still got to make a set. They still have to have a nice set, a nice collaboration of music. But they have to fit it in the time allocated. Now then, if I continued, let's say, putting these in... Let's get a pen. OK, so we've got another house set here. House and then maybe another few techno songs. And then another house set.

3:31 Even though the structure is good, and for a nightclub, that's what pe

And a bit of soul, house, techno, techno and maybe finish off with a couple of soul tracks. Now then, maybe the set is all over the place, but if you looked at that now, that box with those squares, circles and triangles in, even though the pictures are a bit dodgy, it's something more interesting to look at. It's got, you know, you would spend more time Looking at that, as opposed to looking at that, that just looks like a brick wall. Even though the structure is good, and for a nightclub, that's what people want. In a nightclub, if you go into an R&B nightclub, if you all of a sudden played a techno track, they'd throw you out. And vice exactly the same if you went into a drum and bass club, and all of a sudden you played a house tune, the crowd would think, get him off.

In a pub situation, a small club, a mobile, if you continually played house all night, they'd boot you out. If you continually played techno or trance, you could even class these circles as top 40 material. Here we have a structure. It's all built around this structure, this set, this like three or four hours that say a mobile DJ's got to work or a club DJ or whatever. But you have a picture. Here we have a nice picture and this is what I'm talking about, OK? So, again, it's like I said about loving all music. Now then, something very important here. There was a guy, I think it's pronounced Sowenoa, I think it's spelled S-O-W-E-R-O-N-E-R. Now then, what he said was basically this. That Fugees track was awesome. I usually mix techno, but I'm thinking about adding some drum and bass to the collection.

Now, I hope you can see where I'm coming from, ladies and gentlemen, simply because, you know, if you like music, you should like all music. What I want you to do, if you've got the money, again, it's buying the stuff, but think about just investing in other formats of music. Because, believe me, it'll broaden and open your mind. I hope I've been a help and made sense here. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Cheers.

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