Originally Posted by
rth_discos
My work is 95% weddings.
I prefer to choose the music based on what I think will work best next for the crowd - not what 'mixes' well.
Once I start to look at what mixes well, then I'm stuck with a certain bmp range, and as for the also mixing 'in key', it starts to really limit the number of songs that you can play next.
I fear that following something like Mixed In Key, whilst your first few gigs might produce a very different order of songs to anything you've done before, you'd soon find your self limited to the same few sequences of music, due to the limited options available.
I can totally get this for club work, but at a wedding, there's times where I intentionally want to rotate the dancefloor, and a big change between genre/tempo/style etc can help this happen. So I purposefully use songs that don't work well together to get people off the dancefloor, and that invites others who weren't dancing on to the dancefloor.