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Everything we have learned across more than 500 events – song lists, running orders and the mistakes you do not have to make yourself.

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Music & song lists

The 26 most reliable dance floor fillers

Some songs fill a room on their own. Not because they are new or especially good, but because almost everyone knows them and nobody feels awkward danc…

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Music & song lists

Songs that almost never work at a celebration

Everyone writes about songs that work. The more useful list is the other one: tracks couples put on their wishlist again and again that still slow the…

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Decades

The 80s on the dance floor: what still works

The 80s are the safest decade at a mixed celebration. The music is old enough for the parents to go with it, and so present through films and playlist…

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Decades

90s party: Eurodance, hip-hop and what pulls

Anyone between thirty and forty-five today had their first club night in the 90s. You can see it on the dance floor immediately: with no other decade …

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Decades

The 2000s: the decade that is coming back

For a long time the 2000s were the decade nobody talked about. That has turned around: anyone in their mid-twenties today knows this music from an old…

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Decades

The 2010s: the EDM boom and what survived it

Few decades have aged as quickly as the 2010s. At the same time, some of the most dependable party songs ever come from this period. The difference is…

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Decades

The 2020s: using current hits properly

Current songs are the hardest material at a mixed celebration. They reach the younger guests instantly and leave most of the rest blank. You still can…

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Planning

What does a DJ cost? What the price is actually made of

The honest answer is an uncomfortable one: it depends. Not as an evasion, but because two entirely different jobs hide behind the words a DJ. One is s…

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Planning

Booking a DJ: when, how, and how to spot a good one

Booking a DJ sounds like one step and is really four: ask, compare, talk, confirm. The third is the one most often skipped and the one that matters mo…

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Planning

A DJ for the company party: why it runs differently

A company party is the hardest event we play. Not because of the equipment, but because of the starting position: the guests did not choose to be here…

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Planning

A DJ for a birthday: what changes at 30, 50 and 60

At a wedding most guests are between 25 and 45. At a sixtieth, the granddaughter, the colleague and the brother-in-law are at the same table, and all …

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