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Do you prefer listening to a dj set that contains multiple tracks or do you prefer listening to a single track?

Self-compiled CD-R's are my fetish.

Sets. Listening to single tracks is boring

Some of both - usually sets but when a track really stands out I'll get it and listen to it by itself. But I discover such tracks by listening to lots of sets.

I still listen to my 20+ year old DJ sets and love them still. But I do like certain tracks and listen to the complete track sometimes. There are some in my all time favorite list and they deserve to be listened to in their entirety.

Sets

One reason that I like to go back and listen to the original tracks by themselves is so that I can appreciate the mixing in the sets - when the DJ is really good its hard to tell where one track ended and another began, especially when you've never heard the tracks on their own.

A good set is a great thing - ie. a dj who really knows what they're doing creates a journey of it and has a very tightly synergistic set of tunes that build one off the other or soften to a resting point one after the other. I still have some sets from years ago, even as early as the late 90's, that I'll play just because they were so well put together.

When I buy individual tunes though I tend toward the epic stuff - which out of a standard good set it might be my top two or three. Some tunes are built as risers, ie. the whole tune feels like its meant to build up the track in front of it - I tend not to buy those, and one of these days perhaps I should try making one just to assert some discipline over myself.

I really agree with what you're saying.

I also have some sets that are old now but just have great track selection and/or mixing and are just so well put together, it transcends the fact that the individual tracks might be dated.

If I were an aspiring DJ I would be trying to buy a lot of tracks that don't stand out per se, but are solid. Sets can't just be one huge tune after another, they need to rise and fall, peak and valley to be interesting. Otherwise you tend to get into "Cheese Trance" and that sort of thing, which I think a lot of Mix CD's from the late 90's and early 2000's by people who I'd mostly consider to be lesser DJ's ended up being. The type of DJ I would aspire to be (if I had the talent for it) would be one to put in a few stand out tracks at appropriate moments, and build towards them.

I think a lot of those inbetween tracks as well are hidden gems, ie. they aren't the easiest things to find. Seems like the record shops around us, particularly back when my friends were playing live a lot, had either grand-stand tunes or really bleh stuff, good bridge material took hours of being there weekly. On-line availability makes it a lot easier at least these days.

either is fine. as long as it all sounds really GOOD!