[Official Playlist from DJ!] Music played at regionals.

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by dubious elise

I guess that wasn't exactly what I expected. I know for a fact that I have heard far more music from the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, and Metallica. Did the DJ say how strictly they are required to stay on that list?

From what I heard they are to stay as close to that list as possible but allowed some lee way if needed but they must preview the songs into their headphones to insure no profanity is audible. And of course Special Requests are allowed (at least at those regionals where the DJ was in reach of the teams - Majority of which are posted at or by the scoring table) =)

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by KTorak

Now where is the super secret Awards music file? lol.

probably where the awards is - I can't give too much information on this only b/c I have been behind the scenes in which most of everything is visible, the awards music from all I can say is random. and is not played by the DJ. So that just leaves the AV Crew / other means -----> Highly Secretive Shhhhhhh =)

[the_short1]

well i thought i had last years Awards music list on my school drive from last year but i just looked and nope..

but i did find this on my school drive.. i totally didnt know i had it..modified date: may 15th 2005. it apears to be the complete list of music from 2005? or maybe just a handmade list of songs one person heard? i have no clue but i know it first music.

cricketsnorth.com/kevin/music_playlist(2005).xls

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by KTorak

Now where is the super secret Awards music file? lol.

I'm sure if you were musically intellectual, you could compose the list yourself since they play the same songs for the same awards at every event per year.

You just have to actually know the songs. I know like.. 90-95% of them.

I could come up with this list at The Championship event if I remember.

[Swan217]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I'm sure if you were musically intellectual, you could compose the list yourself since they play the same songs for the same awards at every event per year.

You just have to actually know the songs. I know like.. 90-95% of them.

I could come up with this list at The Championship event if I remember.

Elgin, KTorak: See my whitepaper.

As a follow up to my earlier post:

Originally Posted by Dan Swando

There seems to be a huge gap between DJ's such as the one at VCU which played a bunch of terrible music vs the one at UCF who felt overly restricted by the playlist vs the one at Detroit who kicked butt, but was overly repetitive as well.

I talked with the DJ at Toronto, who's been doing the Canadian Regionals for 5 years. He's pretty much left alone, because he knows what he's doing and is obviously experienced enough to not be force fed a playlist. From what I heard, it is up to the individual regional committees to enforce "The List." Talk to your regional directors for more information.

My new pet project for the summer is to get my DJing whitepaper cleaned up and approved by the men upstairs so it can become a guide for new DJ's instead of "The List," which is IMHO rediculously restrictive.

[cbale2000]

Personally I like the music better last year, I think it was timed better too, either that or the DJs were better last year.

[Jay W.]

Different DJs, different styles.

At UCF, they DJ was very limited. He ended up playing the same songs (some that really shouldn't be played more than once) over and over, and it just got old. However, at Palmetto, the music was excellent. There was a mix of everything, not just a variation on one genre. I like it when you can go from played Mix-A-Lots "Baby Got Back" one minute, to Tim McGraws "I like it, I love it."

[cbale2000]

At Toronto they played the "Numa" song twice..... but only the first 30 seconds of it...... I don't know about you but it's like... criminal, to only play the first 30 seconds of the "numa" song!

[Spammy Badame]

Originally Posted by Jay W.

Different DJs, different styles.

At UCF, they DJ was very limited. He ended up playing the same songs (some that really shouldn't be played more than once) over and over, and it just got old. However, at Palmetto, the music was excellent. There was a mix of everything, not just a variation on one genre. I like it when you can go from played Mix-A-Lots "Baby Got Back" one minute, to Tim McGraws "I like it, I love it."

I agree, at UCF I counted him playing Queen's We Will Rock You I think 14 times in the same day. Eventually I started getting annoyed and covering my ears. It was so hard to tune it out tho. And I liked Palmetto's DJ too!

[SamC]

Where do DJ's get the actual music files without spending a fortune and without illegally downloading them?

[Dan Petrovic]

What they need is some good ol' fashion Liquid Tension Experiment.

How can you NOT like 100% Instrumental Prog rock?

[Jeremytice]

Thanks for the list!

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by SamSofa330

Where do DJ's get the actual music files without spending a fortune and without illegally downloading them?

Your first option was correct, they spend fortunes to buy the CDs of the music. Most will not download music, as the quality of the compressed audio (such as AAC or MP3) on such services as iTunes is no where near the quality of of CDs. On iPods and other similar consumer devices the difference in quality may not be noticible, but at high volumes and on nice audio equipment, the difference between downloaded music and CDs is like night and day.

[Kakashi]

I love how I find this list 2 days after our team hosts an FLL event.