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Beyond the DJ Booth
When the Planner Disappears: DJ Stories and Boundaries That Work
The dance floor is finally open and the planner vanishes. In this episode of Beyond the DJ Booth, Brian B and Joe Bunn pull back the curtain on a trend that can make or break an event: vendors leaving before peak moments hit.
Joe vents, Brian offers fixes, and together they build a simple system for smoother weddings and private events - clear pre-dance expectations, quick text check-ins for logistic cues, and a friendly nudge for planners to stick around long enough to see the floor build. It’s not about hovering; it’s about protecting the couple’s experience and preventing the dreaded “he said, she said” after the night ends.
From there, Brian recaps a relentless triple-gig weekend that tested his resilience - complete with a Turo cancellation, a hijacked Uber ride, and a seatmate who warned of seizures at takeoff. The takeaway isn’t chaos; it’s control. You’ll learn backup rental strategies, smart time buffers, and the minimalist travel kit that saves your night when plans fall apart.
Then comes the soundtrack. They share their go-to vibey cocktail-hour toolkit - mid-tempo grooves that keep guests nodding without drowning conversation. Expect a Curtis Mayfield classic, a Leon Bridges and Odesza moment, an Afrobeats flip, and edits that glide perfectly into open format. You’ll even hear how they program corporate holiday parties, balancing subtle seasonal cues with energy that feels natural, not forced.
The episode closes with a reminder: every vendor at an event contributes to the experience. Boundaries aren’t barriers, they’re collaboration tools.
If you’re a working DJ, planner, or event pro, this one’s packed with lessons that’ll tighten your systems and elevate your events.
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What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast with your two hosts, Joe Bun and my boy, Brian B. What's up, Brian B. Dude, we got a power pack show today. Power pack.
SPEAKER_06:Power pack. Jesus. Lots of things this this show. Okay. Let's go to our first segment. Off the record. Oh boy, right out of the gate. Out of the gate.
SPEAKER_01:Uh off the record. Let me talk my sugar honey ice tea. They throw a shade while I'm sipping on this ice tea. Don't care if you hate or like me. You know why? Cause that's just how I see. I'm gon' say what I want to say. Time to rant and ready. Get out the way.
SPEAKER_04:Jesus, man. You already got me fired up about this.
SPEAKER_06:So go ahead. Let's let's let's talk about it. What's on your mind?
SPEAKER_04:I don't get this whole. I don't, I, I'm, I mean, listen, man, I I'll stir the pot a little bit. And and let me start. I'll start with the good parts. I love working with professional wedding planners. And and I would say 90 plus percent of the weddings that I personally do have a professional planner. Let me clarify what that is. That is somebody that has been doing it, has done a bunch of weddings, has a website, Instagram presents, knows how to make a timeline, knows how to do a layout, uh, knows how to, you know, talk to me, talk to their clients. Like they're good at this. Not somebody's cousin, not somebody's aunt. Yeah. I haven't seen that in a long time. But I don't understand this movement of disappearing, let's call it at the end of dinner. Like the dance, song one, out of the building. Where the fuck did you go? Like sometimes never coming back. I have I don't see them again.
SPEAKER_06:Wow. I mean, they do an Irish exit, they're not even saying goodbye.
SPEAKER_04:I think they're on the property, but where are they? And you have them on text. Yeah, I guess I could do that. But I mean, think about now you're in prime dance time. I mean, I don't really pull out my phone during prime dance. I usually don't, but if it's hard. Like what we do is harder than we make it look. We can agree on that. I agree. Yeah. And yeah, I could probably say, Saquon, go go find him or her. But I mean, I it's like normally something easy, like, uh, where are the lights? Or, you know, what are we really ending at 1045? Or should we should we speak to her and end early? Or, you know, are you guys out there ready with the sparklers? Or when are we bringing in the glow sticks? Or I mean there are countless things that I need to know. Now, do I expect them to stand right there beside me and watch everything? No, but it does lead me to my next point. I've worked with planners before the open dancing starts and they are gone. And I'm like, man, I've been waiting to work with you. At least let me show you what the fuck I do. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I want you to see me play. I want you to see how this show is different. Right. I want you to see how the crowd reacts. I want you to see all these lights and cool things that I brought and the CO2. I want you to get a clip. I want you to tag Joe Bun. I want you to tag Bun DJ Co. If you disappear for the entire open dancing, two, two and a half hours, you you've really missed the show.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it just doesn't make sense because then what if the client says something about uh well, you know, scheduling or the way you played, and then the the the the planner was never there, so they don't they never saw anything. So they're just taking it on face value. So then it's like, you know, he he he said she said, you know, when something goes wrong, just don't get it, man.
SPEAKER_04:I I mean do you have any comment on this? Are you are you seeing that in Florida? Are you seeing that with these these high-end planners that you work with?
SPEAKER_06:I do, but it's uh destination events.
SPEAKER_04:You don't seem triggered.
SPEAKER_06:I well, because they they they come back. Mine come back. Okay. I would say that for a destination event.
SPEAKER_04:Just walk me through like, okay, ladies and gent gentlemen, the dance floors open September and then what? And then well, you played 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes?
SPEAKER_06:No, probably toward most of the night they're gone. And and and for destination weddings, where what they're doing is a couple things.
SPEAKER_04:One, they're taking all the gifts to the room. Okay, hold on, time out, because I want to defend them. I realize they're not, you know, sitting in the house eating bonbons or something. I get that. They are doing shit, but like you even if you send the assistant back, hey, are y'all good? Right. Like, are y'all good? And and listen, I'm not expecting them to bring me a a drink or a treat or you know, give me a piece of cake. Like, no, I don't I'm not saying that from that base level. I'm saying there are normally things that I I need that I don't know how to do or that Saquon can't do, right, that are schedule related or logistics related that I need a quick check-in.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_04:And again, I would love for them to see minutes of peak dancing. Like, oh shit, like, yeah, we don't hear these edits all the time. Sure. Oh wow, these lights do look different than than a gig bar.
SPEAKER_06:I'm not getting that what you're getting. A full disappearance. A full disappearance. I'm getting them coming back the last 15, 20 minutes saying, hey, whether it's hey, can you make a last call announcement or which I'm not doing. Oh, which yeah. Uh or number two, like, hey, uh, you know, this is a noise ordinance location. We have to be done right at whatever, just a reminder, or hey, this is where you need to go. It is kind of tough though, because even if they're there, like uh the last this last wedding, they did do the sparklers. They're like, we're walking him down the she's giving me like literally instructions in my ear as I'm mixing. Right. And I'm like, this needs to be covered like way ahead of time. I don't have time to talk about this right now. Like, I'm trying to like in this party already. Yeah. So for me, I don't want them around from that standpoint of like giving me that kind of instructions. Now that's why I ask if they're on text with me or with you, because for me, that's how I'm communicating. Hey, I'm on my second to last song. Better be ready with the with the sparklers, right?
SPEAKER_04:Stand ready, right?
SPEAKER_06:Because I'm announcing it regardless. Okay, so that's kind of how I do it.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, to be fair, then that's a good tip for me.
SPEAKER_06:But I do like the idea of them seeing your set if you've never worked with them a thousand percent. I I mean But I think you could you could set yourself up by saying, Hey, listen, we haven't worked together in a while. If you said it early, I would love for you to watch the first 15, 20 minutes just to see how I kind of get everybody going and what that what a Joe Bunn show looks like. You know what I mean? You're right. I mean, I'll I'll okay. You shouldn't have to, but I'm just saying, I'll take some accountability.
SPEAKER_04:I'll take some accountability. Yeah, it definitely happened last week. I mean, and I I just was kind of disappointed. I was like, because I liked working with her, the design was gorgeous, you know, like all the and it was it was that super small wedding I was telling you about 46 people, and right I dude, I got them going. Yeah, you know what I mean? And and by the way, and I didn't say this in the YouTube video I made on that. Somebody made a great point. The next day I went to the coffee shop, and the guy, I go every Sunday, and the guy goes, How was last night? He just knows what I do, and that it's October. And I was like, dude, it was crazy. It was only 46 people. And I was like, But dude, they turned up. And he goes, You know what it is? And I said, No, and he goes, They all know each other. Yeah, there's none of that peripheral extra 100 people, your parents' friends. These people were all already friends, so they feel 100% cup uh confident and comfortable dropping down, putting their hands on the ground and twerking, which was going on. Yeah, like there was a lot of twerking.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_04:I don't see a lot of it. I mean, and they were good at it, like it was it was moving.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. That's amazing.
SPEAKER_04:It was, you know what I mean? Because they all knew each other, they they were all friends. Yeah. Anyway, I rant over. I I love wedding planners. Don't get me wrong, but I I do think that there is there is a disconnect for about two to three hours where I need a little bit of attention.
SPEAKER_06:I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When they now I did do one not too long ago where they literally just sat out there and didn't come in. They were literally outside the door. And I'm like, what are you doing? Like, if you're working, that's one thing. You know what I mean? But just sit out there and not do anything. Like, and it wasn't just for the dancing, it was like once they got done with the ceremony, they were off the clock almost, it felt like that's a good thing. And I'm like, at least help me dismiss tables, like anything. You know, anything. Content. I'm like, are you even doing anything for the cake? Are you helping me out with the cake? No, that's the venue. They're literally like giving everybody the responsibility, they're just sitting out there. Nah. And then the last five minutes I see them come back and they're tearing down things, you know. And I'm like, that is like kind of whack. Nah. And that's very rare for the ones I do with this. I don't see that very often.
SPEAKER_04:I I don't know, man. It there's a little bit of a disconnect right there. Uh that that's it.
SPEAKER_06:But you're seeing it more and more, or it's just regularly.
SPEAKER_04:It seems pretty regular. Interesting. It seems pretty regular. And I I just I I don't know. And and maybe it maybe I should say something. Maybe I should, you know, get the text number. Maybe I I don't know. I mean, maybe I could do better.
SPEAKER_06:But you know, it it's a good sign if it's somebody new that you probably don't want to work with them. Right? Yeah. Like maybe I it's a good way to see how they are in their natural habitat. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And you're like, wow, this isn't really somebody that I want to be getting business from. Right? You know, I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04:Anyway, rant over.
SPEAKER_06:Let's move into the gear corner.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, something more positive. The gear's here. The gear. The gear is here. Is here is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.
SPEAKER_06:So at this point, I don't know what I've all I've showed. You know what I mean? I gotta get our VA to like make a list. That's on my to-do list because I don't know what we've covered, what we haven't. So that's a good point. One of the two pieces I'm gonna share today may have already been shared on a previous episode. I'm hoping not. But we're going into hygiene. We've done this over a year now, right? 13. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:We started in September, I think.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I think the first episode came out on my birthday last year.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So that was September 25th.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, hygiene.
SPEAKER_06:So if I miss if I've mess mentioned this before, I'm mentioning a game because I use it so much. It's that good. Damn. So do you um I don't know. I'm getting older. The the teeth are kind of kind of going apart. I gotta try to bring them together. So food is getting stuck. Oh, yeah. I hate that. Yeah. And I never used to. All of a sudden, it's like this new thing I'm dealing with. So I carry floss with me everywhere. Oh. But the standard floss, you know, the Gillette style.
SPEAKER_04:I hate that shit. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:You've tried these before. Not good.
SPEAKER_04:No.
SPEAKER_06:So this is the premium. This is the premium. This is called cocoa floss. All right. Coco floss. We hadn't thought about this. Okay, we haven't? No. You need to try it. Pull one out. There you go.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah. Oh wait, wait.
SPEAKER_06:So it's still uh still a thing, but just I want you to A, notice how smooth. And B, there's actually a little flavor to it.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:And let me know. Let me hit a little slight.
SPEAKER_04:I thought it was gonna be like the picks. You don't like the picks.
SPEAKER_06:I don't like the picks. Why? I don't know. Transportation. Maybe. Maybe. But is it just glide on there?
SPEAKER_04:My teeth are real tight.
SPEAKER_06:Okay. But do you feel like it glide? That's one thing the reason I don't like these. Is because this hurts my teeth, because I do have some that are kind of tight in there. Uh-huh. But this is very, you know. I see what you're saying. It's like better quality of string. And it's I don't know how to describe it. It's just really good.$9.99 is the cost for this one thing. So it is a little bit more expensive than your average whatever. But cocoa floss, and they come in different color uh different flavors. Do you taste that? I do.
SPEAKER_04:Oh. I didn't go full session.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, I don't want to gross people out too much. But well, speaking of grossing people out, I'm not gonna do it. But have you seen this little bad boy? I don't even want to know what that is. So your breath scraper. Tongue scraper. Yeah. My wife said you should get one of these because it'll make your breath better. Not like in general, but just like if you're talking with the general public, sure. I'm like, I don't know, man. I'm not gonna be carrying this thing around. But it's literally like, and I'm not gonna do it. So don't I'll spare you all on this. But basically, it has these like little tongs that you do, and then this little thing here scrapes your tongue.
SPEAKER_04:You put that all the way back on the back of your tongue.
SPEAKER_06:On the back of your tongue, pull it forward, and then you just wash it with soap and water. And so allegedly it's very sanitary. Are you supposed to do it every day? Uh, I mean you can, but I bring it with me to the gigs.
SPEAKER_04:I see your tongue fully extended. No, you don't have to do that. I'm being serious. Look how short my tongue is. I'm look from you're seeing me from side.
SPEAKER_06:What are we doing here?
SPEAKER_04:This is like an actual, I think uh like a human defect. Look how this is my tongue fully extended. Look right now. That's fully extended to the point where it's hitting the back of my teeth. I'm gonna show you again. Let me see yours fully extended. That's long.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, that's what they say.
SPEAKER_04:That's crazy.
SPEAKER_06:But this thing has a case with it too. Yeah. And if you like, I was shocked how I could definitely tell a difference in like that stuff coming off. Like, I don't even know if it's just like bacteria or not just food, but I could definitely tell a difference with But you can't smell your own breath. No, I can't smell it, but I can I can feel the stuff coming off. So this thing is nine dollars and carry it in my bag. I carry this, and that's in my bag. Okay.
SPEAKER_04:So hygiene day.
SPEAKER_06:Hygiene day. You're welcome.
SPEAKER_04:All right, let's move on. By the way, yeah, you know what? Sidebar, I think this building, when I looked it up, you this part of this building that I've been in for 10, 12 years, uh this you know how it looks old? Yeah, I thought it was a schoolhouse. It looks kind of like a schoolhouse used to look. I think it was the Department of Hygiene of 1900. Okay. Early 1900s.
SPEAKER_06:All right.
SPEAKER_04:Just maybe that ties right in.
SPEAKER_06:To hygiene day. Let's move into the story time. Let's do it. Bro, I got a story for you. Oh shit. So I did a three triple, a triple event day or triple event week weekend. Friday. I'm in Destin, Florida. Okay. The next day, I take a flight to um Boca Grande to the Boca Grande. Is it Boca Grande?
SPEAKER_04:I mean, if you were a Spanish, it would be Boca Grande, largemouth, because that's the That's what I thought. I did look it up. Boca Grande, though.
SPEAKER_06:That's how they say it, the locals. Okay, I totally biffed that.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it's okay.
SPEAKER_06:And then the third one I did one in North Carolina. Uh oh, yes, you did. Yeah. So three, I mean, I'm gonna say we were in the same state, but there's far enough where you can't drive. You get I mean, you could drive, I guess, to go to Boca Grand from Destin, but it would be about eight hours. Nah, hell no. So I flew.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So uh everything and and the weddings couldn't have been different. The first wedding, which I'm gonna get into the actual story of the weddings later. I'm not gonna do it on this episode, but I want to give you the travel aspect of this because it was a Disney wedding. That enough. What do you mean, themed? Themed. Let me just just leave that.
SPEAKER_04:Not sound like a Brian B. thing, but go on.
SPEAKER_06:The second night was an after party. Yeah. Which I actually I thought, you know, if I ever do a triple, that's the way to do it. Not three full weddings. Having something that I don't start till 11 o'clock at night. Yeah, I didn't feel the triple energy that I usually would, and where I'd be wrecked on the Sunday. Yeah. I felt great because I'm only doing that little piece there. Um, but I use something called Turo. Have you heard of Turo? Yeah, the car. It's like an Airbnb for cars.
SPEAKER_04:Uh-huh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:And in most airports, it's great because it's they literally will either pick you up.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. The guy that owns the cars.
SPEAKER_06:The guy will pick you up. Or they leave it in the short-term parking. Yeah. But at Fort Myers, which is the airport I ran into, they uh are doing a complete reno. So you gotta walk all the way around to kind of get to this. So it took me about 20 minutes to get up there. Yeah. And they usually shoot a video of like where it's located and you can see what parking space. I go up there and there's no car. Sitting there for like, you know, five or ten minutes. Finally, I message the guy through the app. I'm like, yo, where's the car? It's not here. He's like, we're having some issues with the battery. Oh we'll let you know. So I'm waiting, waiting, waiting. What was it? Porsche? No, it was like some raggedy. But you can get damn pretty much what you want on there. And the the the beauty is not only the accessibility, but also the price because you're not paying rental car insurance prices. You're not standing in that crazy ass line, you know, all that stuff. So they eventually canceled on me. The guy canceled and said, due to um, you know, not being able to get the car. And I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do? I got I'm supposed to be like headed out of here. And so uh I have to go back on the app. They refunded me immediately. So that's the good news if you ever run into this. But I'd never run into this before. So I order another one. Unfortunately, they don't have any on site, so I gotta go off site. But the other problem with the app is you have to wait at least an hour between the time you actually book it. The first time I can book it is an hour later. So I'm like, oh my gosh, I gotta sit this crazy.
SPEAKER_04:You didn't think about just go walk over to Enterprise.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was like, nah, I mean it just made sense to kind of just keep it through the app. Okay. So probably would have took about 10 minutes. Probably a good point.
SPEAKER_11:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So I go down to the the the Uber to get my ride over to the spot. This is the first time this happens to me. I'm walking over there, it's coming. I get there about you know 10 minutes later. It should have been there by then. My ride, someone is in my ride, gone, dipped, dipped, dipped in my ride. Because I'm looking, I'm like, where is this dude? I'm looking, I'm like, it says I'm in route. I'm not in route, bro. I'm like standing right here on the side. So I'm like, have you ever had that happen on an Uber? No, no, so I didn't even know how to cancel it. There's no cancel button, right? So I'm like, oh man, I don't know what to do here. So I I click the help button. And it's like, are you uh, you know, dealing with an emergency? And I'm like, I guess I am, you know? And it allowed me to cancel through an operator, basically. And I got refunded right away.
SPEAKER_11:Right away, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:But then I gotta wait another 10 minutes for another Uber to show up, and it takes me to this guy's house to pick up this car. Usually it's at a parking lot or it is sometimes somebody's house. So I'm there early. And then I feel like a total creeper because I'm literally standing outside by his mailbox, you know, going, yo, man. And I'm it's not ready yet. So finally the guy, I message him like, hey man, just so you know, I'm standing outside your house, you know, just waiting. Uh there's nowhere else for me to go, and it's blazing hot. It's like in Florida, Florida.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So the guy comes out, he's like, Man, do you want a chair? I'll at least got a chair for you. And I'm like, nah, man. He's like, My wife went to go gas it up, do all the things. Okay, no big deal. So get the car, go do the gig. Gig's great. It was actually one of my favorite gigs I've done all year. Build it. Next day.
SPEAKER_04:Hold on, pause there. Because I did you you use one of Malik's guys, Johnny Rich, for the gear. Incredible guy. Johnny, Johnny Rich is getting married in a week or two. And and I met him when I went to Malik's party there.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, yeah, you can tell me that.
SPEAKER_04:And we hit it off, and he I was invited to his wedding, and I have a show. But I was going to go to Johnny Rich's wedding. Look at this text he sent me yesterday. Out of the blue. Yesterday, Tuesday. I'm not gonna lie, Brian B crushed that after party. I said, bro, he is a nasty DJ. And he goes, he really is. I was honestly blown away. Wow. Just out of the blue. That's crazy. Yeah, props. Nice guy. He was so nice. Johnny Rich is great, dude. Shout out Johnny Rich. Shout out Johnny Rich.
SPEAKER_06:So the next day, I gotta be in North Carolina to do this wedding. So I'm at 6 a.m. on the flight, took Breeze Airways, which is brand new. One more, can I get one more?
SPEAKER_04:Did you go to my favorite restaurant? The Temp? No, I had no time. Oh, Johnny Rich went.
SPEAKER_06:He went. He did tell me he went.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, anyway. Go ahead. Sorry.
SPEAKER_06:So I take Breeze Airways and it's direct, bro. My flight leaves at 6. You messaged me on Sunday morning. I don't know why you were up this early, but I'm at home at 7.50. From Fort Myers. From Fort Myers in my house. I know. That's how quick it was. Yeah. I'm like, this is beautiful.
SPEAKER_04:But it only flies a couple days a week.
SPEAKER_06:A couple days a week. Yeah. And there was probably 50 people on that plane. Uh out of 130 that I could see. That's amazing. So I don't know how long that route's gonna last. Right, right. But I will say, I get there. There's I'm in first class because there's really not a first class. It's kind of a high premium for is what I call it.
SPEAKER_04:I've been on it, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So there's a girl sitting next to me, she's gotta be 65 years old. She puts her hand on my on my leg right before we start off. She goes, uh, young man. Is that a good sign? She goes, I just have to uh forewarn you that um I'm prone to seizures. Oh man. And I haven't flown since my last episode. So I want to let you know that if I have one, just roll me on my side.
SPEAKER_04:Bro, you can this can't be real, dude.
SPEAKER_06:I have a hundred, I've never had that happen to me, first of all.
SPEAKER_04:Six in the morning, you've gotten maybe 30 minutes of sleep, probably. If that. If that.
SPEAKER_06:And I'm like, have you let 510? No. You might want to let somebody uh let somebody that has some training note? Right. Like, how you don't have a doctor's note? What is happening? And more importantly, the thing I kept thinking was like, let's say she has an episode halfway there. What if they have to turn back?
SPEAKER_04:Oh, geez. Because I'm cooked. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Because I'm like, this is the only fight out on this airline for this one day. And you have a wedding. And I have a wedding. I can't have this happen. So uh the whole time I'm just like so nervous, like she's gonna have an episode. And next to me, the that premium seating, no one's sitting in. So I got this close to be like, should I just move on over, or is that just a jerk move to let her just like roll over?
SPEAKER_04:No, no, no, no. You had to you had to help.
SPEAKER_06:I put on the neck pillow. Yeah, I'm out. I'm like, I if this happens, I'm not paying attention.
SPEAKER_04:So very possibly she seized out and sees him though.
SPEAKER_06:He's asleep. But we get there. Thank God we get through it. But I'm like, dude, this is just like I you can't make this stuff up.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that's that's wild.
SPEAKER_06:So, anyways, I I I as soon as we landed, I was like, hey, everything good? I'm like, congrats, you made it.
SPEAKER_04:He wakes, he wakes up, acts like he cares.
SPEAKER_06:Anyways, made it to the wedding. Wedding was great, but dude, travel, you said that wedding was super low-key, though, right? 30 people. I'll explain that one on another episode. But yeah, anyways, I just say this for people who think that the travel life is luxury. Like, there's always stuff that happens, and you have to be just able to maneuver the punches. These two things that three things never happened to me.
SPEAKER_04:Right the Turo, the Uber, yeah, and some crazy lady that's got some kind of condition within like 12 hours, yeah, 18 hours.
SPEAKER_06:Like, what is going on?
SPEAKER_04:Wow. Good shit, good shit. Let's hit the music. Okay. Oh, we're talking about music in this episode, too.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:This is a you're right.
SPEAKER_06:Power pack, baby.
SPEAKER_04:Power pack.
SPEAKER_06:So we're talking about um, I kinda came up with a category this time. It's of of like cocktail music that is more vibey. That's not your traditional fanks and atra stuff, but stuff that's kind of I'm not saying you have to play edits, but just like cool versions of stuff that you're like, I'm actually almost dancing, but I'm not. Like it kind of has that turn to it.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I I get that. And um, yeah, the my choices, I would I would play sometimes a corporate doors open, or when I can see that like the crowd is more progressive or cool, I guess, or yes.
SPEAKER_06:That was kind of the word where I was going with it.
SPEAKER_04:And I think maybe three of the four or five of mine are at the actual radio version. That's great. The actual song.
SPEAKER_06:So we're gonna put this on our Patreon because these are some edits, uh, at least some of the ones I'm sharing, it'll be on a PDF, not on Spotify. So we'll do a PDF listing of these tracks. Right.
SPEAKER_04:Do you want to talk through your first one? Um, yeah. Do you do you know what is labeled as Saquon?
SPEAKER_05:Just because uh Cross the Room.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so uh Across the Room Odessa with Leon Bridges. Ooh, is this new? Uh no, it's been out for a while. Uh, you you'll as soon I love Odessa. Yeah, I love I love Bridges, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh it's been out for a minute. Yeah, give it a give it a whirl. You don't play this? No, yeah, here we go.
SPEAKER_07:Long hair crossed the room. Baby, she got that glow. So it never goes electronic or does it dance on me real slow? Even going for about two hours, and I don't even know what it is.
SPEAKER_10:So baby, please reveal the calling.
SPEAKER_04:I feel like I'm I should quit right now. Let it rap for just a fucking fuck you in. Yeah, that's nice. Bro, I feel I almost want to quit because I'm like, I've I pulled something that you don't pull and you like it. I can tell you like it.
SPEAKER_06:That's a good one. That's a good one. Should I quit? Not yet. Not yet. No, you said uh the McDermott guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think the list? Yeah. The one you gave me on that one. A couple of them. Okay. The Radiohead. Yeah, yeah. You like that one? Yeah. Okay. That one was a good one, too.
SPEAKER_04:I know what I'm doing. Barely.
SPEAKER_06:Uh so this is another one of mine that's a regular version, no edit. But I just don't feel like a lot of DJs are playing it. And it's a great one to open dinner with, but it could also be for cocktails, too. It's uh Curtis Mayfield, man. Move on up.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_06:You playing this? It just got that.
SPEAKER_04:Those horns are just yes, the Kanye thing.
SPEAKER_06:Yep. Yeah, yeah. But I don't feel like anybody plays this much. But people know this track, bro. Even though it's a deep cut, like people are like, they know the at least the artist. You know, but it's it's a good tempo in 128, 130.
SPEAKER_04:I feel like it's oh, I walk in on to a party like that, right? Pull up a good spot like an extra fly. Kanye would say.
SPEAKER_06:What's your second one?
SPEAKER_04:Uh, what have I got it labeled as my friend? Oh, yeah. Literally Neo, Miss Independent. Oh, it's a great song. It's a great song, and I just I don't, and this is just the OG version. Just give a little sample. I think most people know the song, but I I feel like it doesn't get utilized very quickly. It's not a dance. You know how I use this?
SPEAKER_06:Could be, I guess. If you run into something about it, I use the instrumental for in-between toasters.
SPEAKER_12:I can't figure it out, it's something about her.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, great song. All right, so this is the song um by Benson Boone. Beautiful Things. Yeah. Are you playing the original of that?
SPEAKER_04:I always play some edit if people want it. Okay. So this one I've been using.
SPEAKER_06:I think you can get it on Club Killers.
SPEAKER_04:I had stuff by version five. Oh, he's got great stuff. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Editor, something like that. Anyway, this one's uh great. It's got some horns in it too, which I always love horns. So great for a cocktail hour. Baselines, groovy, build it. I'm gonna let it ride for a second so you can get the horns. But a good tempo, too. Like 120. But people think I love it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I like this better than the original. I do too.
SPEAKER_09:But I'm all these things, kickers.
SPEAKER_06:Ready for some horns? Hold on, letter I. I'm gonna faded it out. Okay, there's some horns in there too. A little bit later on the turn. What do you got for number three?
SPEAKER_04:Um, what have I got that labeled as, my guy? Oh, yeah, nothing like the real thing. Marvin Gay, Tammy Terrell, but the uh Mr. Collip Hart remix. I'm gonna nervous now. I think you'll like it. Go ahead, drop that.
SPEAKER_08:Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby. Ain't nothing like the real thing. No, no. Ain't nothing like the real thing.
SPEAKER_06:Interesting. Yeah, it's gotta be the right crowd for this one. Yeah, but it kind of grew up like this. It's got that two thousand product.
SPEAKER_08:Look at KMC. A couple of people.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, yeah. I would probably edit out that turn section and go right to that. Oh, the from her? From the beginning and to her doing it of the sets.
SPEAKER_04:I'll let you chop it up and resend it to me. Yeah, I'll do it.
SPEAKER_06:I'll do it. All right. My third one here is uh the song Ordinary, Alex Warren.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, another huge song, right? Massive.
SPEAKER_06:This is the Flamingo Cartel remix.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. Don't know that guy. Me either.
SPEAKER_06:Just rides. Yeah. Great for a cocktail hour. So if they don't have this on their dancing list, I'll still play it anyway. Just so they know, hey, I'm fresh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:You know, I love today.
SPEAKER_06:Would you play between the dance? Oh, I've played a bunch. Yeah. Not this version. Oh, you got more aggressive ones.
SPEAKER_04:It's just like rides. I love that. Isn't that a good one? Fucking great. Damn you, good boy. I got one more, I think, right? I think I only have one. Starboy, okay. Don't look any further edit, which is the same.
SPEAKER_12:Who is that?
SPEAKER_04:Um it was like Dennis Edwards. It's an old soul song, but it's the sample from Get Money Junior Mafia. Oh. Yeah, this rides. You've heard me play this same song. Kind of like a Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, you love that sample, right? I think I've heard them say that before, but I love it. I don't play it enough. I think you've heard me play this before like a monster.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it does. Yeah, because they counter like I don't know a lot about flexible. I had to look them up. I'm like, I know just like talking money.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, like that. Alright. This is uh kind of in right now, the whole Afrobeat vibe. Yeah. So this is just the way you are, Bruno Mars. Okay. The Caesar Castilla, I think.
SPEAKER_04:I got I've got I've got a lot of his edit.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, this is his Afrobeat version. Okay. I kind of like it. It's it's 120-ish, and you can go a lot of different places with it. Okay. I wouldn't be, yeah, well, listen to it.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, her eyes, her eyes make the stars look like the night shining. Her hair, her hair falls perfectly without her trying.
SPEAKER_06:It's there, but it's not gonna be over the top.
SPEAKER_03:And I tell her every day.
SPEAKER_06:Like, heightened area, you know? This kind of stuff that's better. Yeah, at our conference. I use this with a saxophone. So it gave them a lot of room to kind of like on the sacks. But just stays there, doesn't go too deep into anything. Yeah. The bass is different. Dude, I got two more for you. Damn, okay. Our boy, DJ Grant.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. That's my boy. Shout out DJ Grant from Raleigh, North Carolina.
SPEAKER_06:This is Higher Love Steve Winwood. I think it's time to bring that one back, the OG.
SPEAKER_04:I I personally like that better than the Kaigo.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. So this is versus just in case. Is it Jaheem? Jaheem? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:This goes off every cocktail. It's 100 beats per minute. Okay. It's solid. You don't know it's coming. That's a good one, right?
SPEAKER_04:I'm about to take Grant right now. Yeah, good.
SPEAKER_06:You can even fit it into a dinner set. Yeah. But cocktail hour, people are like losing their mind. What is this? Is it all singing?
SPEAKER_04:Good, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:And it doesn't really, I mean, that's about as aggressive as it is. Yeah, right, right.
SPEAKER_04:That's where it goes.
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_04:Damn.
SPEAKER_06:All right, one last one. Okay. This one I think I've sent you to you. So my new guy, I'm on this new editor that I'm absolutely loving. His name is Touch of Funk. Okay. Shout out DJ Shine, Jeff Mater, for introducing me to this dude. Um, this is yacht Rocky. So it takes the ace song, How Long.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, I know that song.
SPEAKER_06:But with uh Whitney Houston's I'm Every Woman. And I played this uh for Tara. She's like, you gotta start playing this one. She loved it. She was like singing it. So I played it because I was like, if she's singing to this, yeah, then I know a lot of the girls will. That's right. So check this out. And it does both in it. Okay. I made an edit with this intro because it didn't have the intro before. Oh, you added this. Boost it up a little bit. It is. You gotta hear how he brings the pace.
SPEAKER_00:I have cast a spell, secret shooting too. It's a special food.
SPEAKER_06:It's been going off like a blast. Damn.
SPEAKER_08:Has this been going on?
SPEAKER_06:And then it goes back into the verse of not his, but of Whitney's. So it goes back and forth.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I used to love that song, dude. A great song. My parents wrote out of that. They might have had the album.
SPEAKER_06:So we'll put the whole list on Patreon. A couple more that we didn't list on here that I'll have on that list.
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SPEAKER_04:What else? Question of the day. Question of the day.
SPEAKER_06:My boy, you know Marty? I do. He does message me every now and then. Whenever I do the shorts here. When I do the shorts post about you, he always is cracking up about that stuff.
SPEAKER_04:Uh shout out Marty Nightingale. I have a corporate holiday party in December. 400 people in a wide range. For these kinds of events, do you guys approach dance music the same or different than weddings? Cheers, he says. And he gave it to us through Instagram.
SPEAKER_06:Which is a great way to get it to us.
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SPEAKER_06:I mean, obviously you've got different age ranges. Probably, you know, is gonna feel different than a wedding 90% of the time. Just because of of the the that dynamic in itself. So you're probably gonna play a little bit more, you know, some of the kitty. You're gonna play the K-pop right now, you know what I mean? Um I would say the only thing really differently. No, but it is still a corporate holiday. Corporate okay. So it's still in a wide age range, so maybe not kids.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I I would say it would be 25 to 65. Got it. If I had to guess. Again, like it's Deloitte or something. I I'm just making this up.
SPEAKER_06:The biggest difference is gonna be during dinner, I think, not necessarily during dance.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So I'm gonna play less love songs.
SPEAKER_04:That I was literally about to say the same thing. Yeah, yep.
SPEAKER_06:That's pretty pretty much the only thing. As far as cock, you know, I do like actually we mentioned him a couple episodes ago, but uh Bobby Morgenstein. Yeah, he still has a solid jazzy holiday record that I still use to this day. Really? Yeah. Okay, shout out Bobby Morgenstein again. It's just jazzy. Yeah, it doesn't feel out of style because it's it's still like uh holds up. Holds up. And it's it's not old jazz, it's like new jazz. I don't play it the entire cocktail hour, but that's how I'll infuse holiday music into the like the cocktail space or even no words, no words, all instrumental, right? Right. And it's great. But outside of that, um, I mean, what else are you doing differently? I I'm not really, man. Yeah, I play it very much the same.
SPEAKER_04:Same. I'm gonna work through different genres. I'm going to um if I see, you know, one group uh of age group, I guess, is responding more so, I'll probably cheat towards that.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:If I start getting requests, I'm I mean, you're gonna get more requests. I'll take more requests, especially from 400 people.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:But I mean Are you playing any holiday music during dancing? No, absolutely not. No Mariah Carey. No, and even during like cocktail hour and dinner, I keep it to like very minimum. Right. Because I feel like by the time these parties have come around, they've been here all month. They've d not all month. Christmas music will start in it is October the 16th today. It'll start November 1st.
SPEAKER_06:I don't know if he still does it.
SPEAKER_04:In fact, one of the FM stations here changes over for a week. Two months. Yeah. Over two months. Nothing but Christmas music.
SPEAKER_06:I don't know if he still does it, but our boy Jason Clock will when it's the first day of fall, yeah, he's blaring it already. Yeah. Like he's proud of it. I'm like, I mean, I get it. If you like it, but like I can't do it for four months.
SPEAKER_04:No, no, no. I don't I don't like it. I I've never really liked Christmas music. I mean, yeah, I love Christmas. I love the the the spirit of it, I love the way it makes people happy, but I've never really been into Christmas music. Yeah. There are the the very few songs that I that I like.
SPEAKER_06:That's that's that's where I always seem to lean. That was the time when I would always buy new records, though. Any Christmas releases, uh-huh, I was buying five or six CDs at the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Every year. Because the new people would cover Justin Bieber, like all the different people would be covering these things. Right. That's when I would load up on actual albums. But now, you know, you don't need to.
SPEAKER_04:No, you definitely don't. No. Not a big Christmas music fan. I'd play it the same, man. Yeah. Don't overthink it. Um, you know, if they get requests from the employees in advance, that sometimes helps. Yeah. Um they could start either a you know, Google Doc or a Spotify, you know, collaborative list or something like that. If you want a starting point, I would ask for that. Let's wrap it. Dude, great episode. Want to shout out again DJ Event Planner, our sponsor, DJEventplanner.com. It is how we keep track of all of our shows and send out automated emails, contracts, and even has a portal for the clients to be able to log in and do some planning. So check them out, dj eventplanner.com, and we will see you guys back here next week. Later, guys.
