We know how important it is for the DJ at the club to play the right combination of music to get people to the dance floor. A wrong decision can clear the floor and a series of wrong decisions can clear out a club.

Steppers have a fairly well defined group of songs they will step to which usually consists of a mix of a few standards and a few newer songs and as long as the DJ has a working knowledge of those songs they can create a playlist to work from.

Finding and introducing new songs or re-introducing an older song which may have dropped off the radar can be a challenge for a DJ who wants to keep it moving on the dance floor without clearing the floor with the wrong choice. The dedicated DJ will spend hours and hours listening to music before even adding songs to their collection and when they do they classify the song and put it in its place with the other music. That alone doesn't mean a song will be played at a set or event because there are so many variables involved.
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The discussion gets interesting because you have different crowds in stepping. You have the 'chitins' circuit' steppers (like Don Vic), you have the second generation steppers (pre-eight count and classes), and the new skool (eight count and class taught) all with very different tastes in music and all these musical needs need to be catered to.

The fact is there are very few DJ's who can cater to all of these groups at the same time and mostly it doesn't necessarily have anything with talent. Instead, it has to do with experience (added to that talent) that makes the difference. You don't see a DJ who has been spinning for less than 10 years at most of the biggest sets because there's a lack of understanding how to mix each groups music so nobody becomes disillusioned and leave the dance floor.

So who are your favorite DJ's? Who would you like to spin at your party? If 3,000 of your closest friends came to step would you want the same DJ to play for them?

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Once again inspiration strikes when seeing something completely different from the vision. This morning I saw a piece on one of the morning shows about what are being called 'Cash Mobs' which is a spinoff from the original 'flash mobs'.

Like a 'flash mob', a 'cash mob' comes together on social media... in this instance people are prompted to come together at a targeted small business where each 'mobber' comes with $20 to spend at that business. It's been quite successful and has spread to many cities in the recent past.

So, here is the idea I have. There are a lot of struggling steppers sets and parties throughout the country that could use help in the same fashion. What would happen if steppers banded together on Facebook and decided to have a 'steppers mob' where they would 'mob' a selected steppers set?

Since steppers are prolific in the sense they will go stepping at the drop of a hat this could be done weekly in larger steppers communities where several events happen on the same day. In smaller communities where there may be only a couple of sets it could be done monthly while alternating between sets.  Continued and Comment

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