DJ Advise. When is a toon an Old toon?

[00soundwave00]

Ahh dude your too much!!! haha!

[adam917]

That is SO true indeed. Nice kitty cat you have there too. :)

[DjNarda]

I agree, St. Germain (Live Jazz, for example) still goes down a treat!

[TranceHS]

Nice closet ! ;)

[THjelm]

I'd just like to agree with some of the other comments... In my experience, a track that is well recognised (and liked, of course) by the audience tends to get much better reactions than a new one.

My last experience of this was when attending Infected Mushroom's tour promoting their new album. The new tracks were good, but old favourites were the ones really driving people crazy!

[StaffRecordPlayer]

Xactly what I think.

I now came on the taste of old Kerri chandler tracks from back in the 80s ... but for me its new...

And the other thing I like about those tracks: People whore slightly older, they will maybe remember the track, coz it hasnt been played for yrs !

Back to tha raw :D

[syndrome86]

200% truth in it. I know a lot of fools who categorize music old/new and it makes me s!ck.

Does it really matter? Not at all but it says the whole truth about you - leave the music alone. Like "malmodude" wrote: "good music is timeless"

Cheers :)

[ABoyCalledThomas]

0:23 - 0:27 Hahha!! Laughed my pants off :p Gotta love that :p

[mooki01]

i have that quilt cover =O =D

[danhatechav]

when we talk about....shit lol

[evers91]

dropping a well known "old" track will get some of the best reactions if you mix it properly.

[DJChrisMack]

awesome haha

[Persianbmw94]

lol not on drugs.... XD ROFL

[malmodude]

I don really care about how old a song is. to me good music is timeless.

[h3lmet]

....good man :)

[wkdcc]

i think djs should worry about wether a track is good or not, rather than age.

[MixyGenius]

hahaha i love u man! :))

[djgarykay]

Kit It Up , Lmaoo (8)

[Igneous01]

great vid and solid advice, its not about new music, its about good music overall

[restless42]

Haha crazy but cool

[theillestboYee]

I 100% agree. A DJ isn't praised based on how "new" his record collection is, but rather how creative he utilizes the decades of modern-day music.

[emptySsex]

drunk from the music :P

[emptySsex]

you are drunk :D

[dirtydogdiscos]

You sure your not on drugs, LOL. nah awsome video i see were you are coming from and i do that at parties sometimes

(nice cat)

[WOG2NV]

great viiddd

[cvsgtr643]

music never gets old i believe, music is art and it is ment to last forever, take a look at the gr8 classical composers from the 1700 1800 Beethoven , Albinoni , Bach , Mozart ,basically every musician in history has left his or her mark, and its still the same, a good tune lasts forever , i actually love playing tunes from different years on my sets as long as its a really good tune , its age is irrelevant :D

cheers

[ellaskins]

word! j

[SpikeyHeadProduction]

i thought the tatoo on your right arm was a swatsika for a minute XD phew!~

[DJMotorola]

Hence the phrase, "Oldies but goodies". I would personally create remixes just to spice up the original mix if and when I use them during sets, to make the track sound even newer than the "new" track. That's just my two cents.

[luis61961944]

haha yeah rigth ur not on drugs lol

[MartyHITD]

yeah, you sure ur not on drugs lol

[djdave1988]

Very True J.! In the Philly area they, are played out with-in a week! The radio stations (not to knock on them) Over play the songs, and when we the DJ's play those song at a gig the some of the guests say "That Song Is Played Out!" you can't please everyone But as long as the person who is "paying" is happy, Play on! P & E!

[bacardioverdose]

I agree with J on this one. I work for a club and one of the biggest crowd reactions is when we bring back a older toon that people did not hear for a while. The familiarity of the song gets people on the dance floor really fast.

On the other hand you have the newer songs that are just over done, and played way too often. In my opinion these are the songs that people are considering old because they are tired of hearing it already.

[rossycee08]

Kitty Jump!

[mechwarreir2]

what about daft punk songs? and "harder better faster stronger?" Too many DJs use that XD

[djgezzy]

hahaa cats can fly after all

[djpaulmichael]

perfect eg is the benny basinni tune otherside. tiesto played it at vic park the other week .its been out a wile but not played for a wile what a tune c h e c k it out.

[batinburg]

*the tracks first. The punters are just as much likely to hear the tracks for the first time as the DJ is.

Obviously depends on the DJ and genre, but I love to take the latest tracks and then drop some mid-late 90's/early 2000's house in between them. Anything newer than that still has the overplayed/"I'm sick of this track" effect (to me)

[batinburg]

Bit of a tough one this one. If you're playing in a club environment then I think the punters are expecting to hear the latest tracks, not only that if they're proper clubbers then they'd have already heard tracks over & over again that would only have been released 1-2months ago.

The other aspect is that most tracks now are built to formula and quickly loose their appeal doubled with the fact that with services such as Beaport & Trackitdown it's not only the dj now that gets to hear *tbc

[VVooDz]

I'm assuming this video is geared to the club DJ and maybe even more in particular 'specialist' rooms and not the main floor. Unfortunately I feel DJ's get trapped into needing the latest, most obscure tracks that have a good rhythm because the audience are also trained into thinking that if the track is mainstream then it's uncool.

Drop a reworked 80's pop hit or an old Skool choone and J is right and I think some of you will be surprised how much further it will lift your set.

[DJoutput2002]

that why we call each other dj it dose't matter what old or new toon's we love the music and are job is make ppl happy when we mix some time new is not better

[rangerp4RS]

Kitty jump! Good advise tho!

[liaschinko]

BIG j stil to mutch a gud man and jouke )))

[directsound]

Nice video.... I do that all the time I play an old song and people think it is new because they never heard it before

thanks DJ Mikey Mike

[rockdrummer1226]

lol jump kitty.

[to6ko19]

everything new is a well forgotten something from the past

[Marilyn22]

wooooo mate!

what have u been taking?

pass the shit the left!

hahaha

i agree, also i think it is the old classics that allot of the times gets people really cooking on the dance floor.

right BBQ time, its roasting out side :-D

[vampstriss]

if the people move to it and love it... then whats old about it ... nothing

[roryhoymusic]

To me, tracks never age. When I sent out a mix to a friend, I even played a 60's track (Substitute by The Who).

[onesound69]

totally agree. i walked into a record shop one time, approached the clerk there and asked if he had so-and-so. he looked at me as if i was out of my mind and said "dude that's ooooollllddd". still to this day i don't understand why some ppl can be so anal about it. perhaps it's his easy access to so much new music that leaves him spoiled, bored to bits?

[onesound69]

the music in question at the time was only 6 months old btw.

[KBClublife]

Very true mate, good songs are timeless!

[craigk2000]

its always good to stick an old classic in your set, I hate djs that think you can only play the latest big tunes

[FrankyLeeJones]

it was the same with the C'est beau la bourgeoisie by Discobitch. It was released in France and the UK in summer 2008. and I bought it from beatport. Noone new the song and many people didn't lie it if i showed it them. But one year later they released it in germany and evrybody here loved the song because it was pushed in the media quiet hard. For me it was already old.

[dreadnought1275]

HAHAHA... kitty jump! what kind of weed do you get over in the UK?

[GingerDeano]

i play tracks from late 80's early 90's

[ClearDynamik]

awesome vid, love the cat =) ...and such a true statement there! good that you bring it in the minds of us again!

cheers mate

tom

[Grenozh]

wait a minute, did you steal that hat from mr mechanic?

[MadayTwentySeven]

LOL @ first 20 seconds

[basslover201]

t kitty ... kitty jump lol

[crashbrad]

nice tatt