The worst flop...

[MPathy]

On a trip to Prague a few years ago, a mate blagged me onto the decks in a pretty large club (no idea what it was called now) telling them i was some badass UK DJ, the guys there were playing tech-house and said yeah come up and mix a couple of tunes - I grabbed a random record, mixed it in perfectly... only to then temporarily forget my sense of left and right and take the needle off the tune I'd just mixed in, plunging the club into silence.

u shoulda started singing down the mic "who likes short shorts?!" amidst the silence. works every time.

Fucking LOL!!!

[sc0tty]

Not played in a club but...

After starting my set at a house party I stood on the speaker cables and pulled them out, not realising because I had my headphones on I carried on bopping about trying to mix the next tune in whilst everyone else just stood there starring at me in sillence

[NilsFG]

What about high profile djs? Anyone witnessed any disasters?

Skream getting too drunk to do a half-decent mix.

[amick]

Seen almost every high profile DJ cock up but a good DJ can hide their mistakes...

[the wiggle baron]

Absoloute classic is nailing a mix, getting it just to the point where the tune coming in is about to drop or whatever...and whack the volume down on the wrong channel

Once played on a system where the monitors were fucked, and there was literally a good half second/second delay between the mixer and the speakers. I mix mostly with feeling the kick or whatever of the tune being mixed out of too, so spent a good while with these "perfectly in time" mixes that on the other side of the speakers were just galloping perfectly...until i gave up and just edge rolled classics

[dopocc]

worst thing to do is sport the "i fucked up face". just roll thru with confidence as if that mega clang is a contemporary left field form of mixing that plebs simply dont know about.

best quote on mixing

[knivez]

turned up the wrong channel......not a pretty site

[MikeE]

Using serato and loading to the wrong deck.. while its playing.

Damn keyboard shortcuts.

[pkay]

in like 2002 i threw up because i ate a bunch of vicodin and got drunk on top of it.... mopped off my mouth and finished mixing the records like a pro. Still quite embarassing that I tossed my lunch during a set.

[honey-d]

The lesson I've learned so far is drugs + playing out = bad

[batrobin]

hitting the cue button on the wrong cd

[bolsty]

Not played in a club but...

After starting my set at a house party I stood on the speaker cables and pulled them out, not realising because I had my headphones on I carried on bopping about trying to mix the next tune in whilst everyone else just stood there starring at me in sillence

haha, i can so easily picture the blank looks on people's faces while the dj is still getting into it.. classic

[Acre]

i ejected the wrong CDJ at a night i was doing, i wasn't even on the decks it was the next DJ luckily he was allready mixing in the next tune in so their wasn't complete silence but i completely fucked up his mix

[solphy]

accidentally disconnecting the usb from 16bit's serato at the end of their set

hitting the thru button in scratch live when the control record is on the deck...and the other way around: switching thru off when a vinyl is playing. Both resulting in very unpleasant noise.

serato offers you a whole new range of possible fuckups

[The Ranger]

serato offers you a whole new range of possible fuckups

i know what you mean. especially with the new efx.

[MPathy]

I must say alot of these flops are to do with cds or serato....

[Wolverine]

Using serato and loading to the wrong deck.. while its playing.

Damn keyboard shortcuts.

theres a setting to lock the deck thats playing to avoid this

[grillis]

Never played outside my own house, but I'd say the worst I've done was when I first got my decks and my first few records on the same day.. complete newbie at the time and I also proceeded to get extremely high before I tried them out... anyway at some point I noticed that the record I had just mixed out of looked extremely thick sitting on the platter, proceeded by a loud 'FUCK!' when I realized it was actually two vinyls on top of each otherl!! I spent a good 30 seconds shitting my pants thinking I had scratched the shit out of both vinyls before realizing I had only played the track from the beginning with absolutely no cueing.. felt like a tool but the vinyls were fine.