How To Warm Up A Hard House Club Properly...

What would you play?

depending on the event I would play 132bpm up to about 142/145bpm nothing to hard just keep the groove going, get people shaking their butts.

glazby hostile...standard.

Paul Glazby - Hostile (Pendulum Remix) 

tech house then techno (spektre, tom hades, axel karakasis sorta stuff) then warm up hard house

DFWM at +8

fck that shit for a laugh

Untidy Dubs, Ross Homson/Rhomtec, James Devlin stuff

In reverse.

DFWM at -8

Set it on fire, that would warm it up

seriously though anything by the likes of Ross Homson, Hi Freak1c, Base Graffiti, James Devlin, Rob Crawshaw, Knuckleheadz, Max Tailwind, Jon Bw, Amp Attack & also some old Karim B-sides on DNB

90's Tripoli Trax

160bpm thrap right from 9pm.

(Sadly I have seen shit like this actually happen.)

bit of tech house heading into some james devlin type stuff with some tearly tripoli style bits thrown in

How does Hard Style befor Hard House grab you  I walked out

 Love it! Can't even imagine how rubbish that would sound 

Came here in the hope of seeing someone had posted a heater, was satisfied.

Pretty much.

Sounds good to me

I usually just bring a CD with '8-Bit Boogie' on it & play that over & over.

Depends on the club and who is on after you. A proper warm-up only works if the line-up as a whole works fluidly.

I wasn't condoning playing 8-Bit Boogie over and over with that comment.

It depends on the club. If it's a large club/event aimed at a wide array of people then just start slow (140bpm) and go from there. I have played at smaller scale clubs/random rooms (albeit not hardhouse per say) where you must bang it out at 160bpm+ minimum unless you want a empty dance floor and be booed/heckled and have skin heads rush the stage demanding Deathchant and Mokum  I must admit there is nothing worse than being hyped up buzzing your tits off and the dj is playing funky house.

BAWOP 8 - start as you mean to go on. I played a NYE party once and cause I turned up first I was on first playing Hard House, unfortunately for the geezer after me he was playing house music (I didn't know this at the time) it went from me at about 155bpm, to about 125 - 135 bpm. talk about a downer. It felt like the bottom fell out. It then took ages for him to build it back up.

It was an outdoor event so people were trying to keep warm by dancing

Nah. Just knock it back to the beginning dude 

As if anything you've done outside my studio is worthy Venks :P

I usually just bring a CD with 'Gotta Believe' on it & play that over & over.

140-145 finish. And it would really depend what kind of night is was to how I would play I think.

I would love to get the chance to do warm up sets, so much ace material about

tell sam townend then as he is saying no-one warms up hardhouse nights properly, so maybe you could show them how it is done Lucy

140 - 146 old tripoli, ross homson, james devlin, chris comben stuff... 

and even that will be questionable if you engineered it Jon Bint Whacker

this

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHusRb6xow

id like to think im not bad at playing warm up material! from listening to sams warm up mix, i could probably branch out a little more and use house or techno tracks to mix it up a little, but if anyone needs someone for warm up let me know 

Whne that happens the vibe of the place dies and the drugs start wareing off

A bit of Barry White, Luther Vandross, a bottle of wine & some candles, that gets me going nicely

Genuis 

Smooth!