Video Set Lists - Bar/Club

In 2010, Ambient DJ unleashed its move into music video mixing. This move was largely inspired by appreciating the huge entertainment value from a video dance party set at past International Disc Jockey Expos in Atlantic City, where we enjoyed surreal sets by the likes of VJ Rooney G and DVDJ Unique. I have also followed with great interest the activities of VJ Tom Laroc, currently based out of Miami, and who practices his craft at a very high level. Ambient DJ stocks a collection of over 5,000 music videos, but listed below are some of the current favorites separated by genre.

For those of you seeking to kick off your Memorial Day Weekend right, come on out to Brewsters Lounge in East Windsor, NJ on Friday night, May 28, 2010, to enjoy a video dance party with myself, VJ Jagged, along with my partner in crime, Ambient DJ mixologist DJ Iron Mike!

Song	Artist	Genre
Rad Anthem	Rad Omen	Electronic
Dance 4 Life	Tiesto	Electronic
Radio Crash	Ferry Corsten	Electronic
I Remember	DeadMau5 & Kaskade	Electronic
Better, Stronger, Harder, Faster	Daft Punk	Electronic
Jungle Drums	Modwheel	Electronic
She Came Along	Sharam & Kid Cudi	Electronic
Soldier of Love	Sade	RNB
Sex Therapy	Robin Thicke	RNB
Baby Don't Go	Fabolous	RNB
Can't Believe It	T-Pain, Lil Wayne	RNB
Love Come Down	P. Diddy	RNB
Forever Young	Jay-Z, f/Mr. Hudson	RNB
Million Dollar Bill	Whitney Houston	RNB
Successful	Lloyd	RNB
Jungle Love	The Time	80s
Love Bizarre	Sheila E.	80s
I'm Looking for a New Love	Jody Watley	80s
White Wedding	Billy Idol	80s
Der Komissar	After the Fire	80s
Rock with You	Michael Jackson	80s
Like a Virgin	Madonna	80s
Don't You Want Me	Human League	80s
Billie Jean	Electric Avenue	80s
Oh Sheila	Ready for the World	80s
Drop It Low	Chris Brown/Ester Dean	Hip Hop
Took the Night	Chelley	Hip Hop
Blame It	Jamie Foxx, T-Pain	Hip Hop
Bedrock	Lloyd and Friends	Hip Hop
OMG	Usher & Will I Am	Hip Hop
Southern Hospitality	Ludacris	Hip Hop
Heartless	Kanye West	Hip Hop
Rude Boy	Rihanna	Hip Hop
Get Like Me	David Banner f/Chris Brown	Hip Hop
Have a Baby By Me	50 Cent f/Ne-Yo	Hip Hop
How Low	Ludacris	Hip Hop
I Wanna Rock	Snoop Dogg	Hip Hop
Carry Out	Timbaland	Hip Hop
Return of the Mack	Mark Morrison	90s
Too Close	Next	90s
The Humpty Dance	Digital Underground	90s
The Power	Snap	90s
Mr. Wendal	Arrested Development	90s
Push It	Salt-n-Pepa	90s
Make the World Go Round	Sandy B.	90s
Poison	Bell Biv Devoe	90s
You Got What I Need	Biz Markie	90s
Take You Home	Lisa Lisa	90s
I'm in the House	Steve Aoki	Pop/Club/Electro
3	Britney Spears	Pop/Club/Electro
One Love	David Guetta & Estelle	Pop/Club/Electro
Freak (Disco Fries RMX)	Estelle	Pop/Club/Electro
Don't Be a Douchebag	Jump Smokers	Pop/Club/Electro
Shots	LMFAO, Lil Jon	Pop/Club/Electro
Feel It	Three-Six Mafia & Tiesto	Pop/Club/Electro
Poker Face	Lady Gaga	Pop/Club/Electro
Video Phone	Lady Gaga & Beyonce	Pop/Club/Electro
Dirty Pictures	Taio Cruz & Ke$ha	Pop/Club/Electro
Imma Be	Black Eyed Peas	Pop/Club/Electro
Drums in the Club	DJ Russ Harris	Pop/Club/Electro
PATT with Diddy	Sharam and Diddy	Pop/Club/Electro
Jam Rock	Damian Gong Marley	Reggae
Come Around	Collie Budz	Reggae
Ting-a-Ling	Shabba Ranks	Reggae
Murder She Wrote	Chaka Demus	Reggae
Youths dem Cold	Ritchie Spice	Reggae
Last Night Gully	Mavado	Reggae
No Games	Serani	Reggae
Dutty Wine	Tony Matterhorn	Reggae
All Summer Long	Kid Rock	Rock
Hey Soul Sister	Train	Rock
Lights	Journey	Rock
Start Me Up	The Rolling Stones	Rock
Love in an Elevator	Aerosmith	Rock
Rappers Delight	Sugarhill Gang	70s/Disco
Ladies Night	Kool & the Gang	70s/Disco
I'm Your Boogie Man	K.C. & Sunshine Band	70s/Disco
Stomp	Brothers Johnson	70s/Disco
I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	70s/Disco
Rie Llora	Celia Cruz	Salsa
Pegate		Reggaeton
Shorty Shorty		Bachata

Bloomberg Corporate Gala

This evening, Ambient DJ had the pleasure of providing music and audio-visual services for the Bloomberg's Skillman, NJ campus at its annual Employee Awards event. This was our second year working the event. Whereas last year's theme was the Rainforest, this year's theme was beach and boardwalk.

We were engaged by Eggsotic Events (www.eggsoticevents.com), operated by the talented designer Egils Matisse and his wife Shelley. Team Eggsotic transformed Bloomberg's business offices into a magical environment full of sandcastles, beach balls, lobster traps and blue skies! In addition, Eggsotic provided various other lighting effects, including uplighting.

Ambient DJ covered three zones:

1) The auditorium, where the Awards ceremony was held. Specifically, we provided sound inside the auditorium, as well as a satellite speaker for the office area outside of the auditorium. In addition to providing wireless mics for the three presenters, we played theme-based songs as winners were announced;

2) Cafeteria. DJ Spinz had a dedicated DJ booth where he spun a variety of beach-themed music, and well as his dancefloor staples! It was hard for Chris to concentrate with the nearby food stations full of fragrant high-end seafood!

3) Main stage under the tent - Egils built a marvelous stage and backdrop, where I set up my DJ booth. I backlit my Facied facade with alternating blue and green Chauvet Rain 56 LED par cans. Surf videos featuring big wave riding in exotic locales were run on a big screen using rear projection. To the dancefoor itself, I applied the American DJ H20 effect, producing a shimmering aquatic surface. Throughout the evening, I spun a mixure of Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Springsteen, reggae, soca, calypso and steel drums.. followed by contemporay pop and club artists such as Rihanna and Lady Gaga for dancing. The hottest dance set of the evening was a Latin set, which even drew some of the service staff to the floor!

Importantly, the high-profile Awards show flowed smoothly, with no glitches. Bloomberg's employees enjoyed the pursuant party action. I spontaneously added an Employee Award for Best Dancer, which went to Mr. Don Huff, who was the first to hit the dancefloor and the last to leave!

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Awards Dinner

This evening I had the pleasure of DJing the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Awards banquet. Students and faculty from both the Piscataway and Camden campuses were in attendance. Congratulations to the students for their upcoming commencement! The banquet was held this year at the Westin at Forrestal Village in Princeton, NJ. Former locations for the event include The Imperia in Somerset, and the Hyatt, New Brunswick. This was my sixth year in a row to play music for this fine event!

I provided music for the outdoors cocktail hour (what a beautiful day it was), and for the dinner banquet in the Westin's largest ballroom. For the numerous awards, I played short excerpts as guests walked up to collect their prize, sticking primarily to classical and movie themes. During dinner, I played the Dean's and professors' preferred Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and Chris Botti, as well as some piano music. Once dessert was completed, the lights were dimmed and I quickly built up a dancefloor. Key tracks included Nothin' on You (B.o.B.), Snake Charmer (DJ Rekha mix), Carry Out (Timbaland & Timberlake), and You are the Best Thing (Ray LaMontagne).

Importantly, I debuted my new Facied facade. This product is a four-panel facade with white lycra paneling that can be backlit using LED par cans, for a dazzling, South Beach-style effect! (see photos below). I backlit the Facied in alternating blue and red, and then used uplighting for the back wall, using blue. For more information about the Facied facade, visit Steve Cie's blog at http://www.stevecie.com/blog/?tag=facied The crafstmanship is amazing, and Steve Cie will treat you right!

Cranbury School Drug Free Fair

On Saturday May 8, 2010, I had the pleasure of DJing/Emceeing the 20th Annual Drug Free Fair at the Cranbury School. The theme this year was "iTune Out Drugs." The mission of the Drug Free Fair is "to extend the health education of the students of Cranbury School beyond the classroom, and into the larger community by providing them with a social/educational opportunity to engage in activities and dialog about healthy, safe and 'Drug Free' living."

I awoke to overcast skies and while driving over, it started to rain. The organizers decided to wait out the rain, and amazingly it cleared up and turned into a beautiful sunny day. Hundreds of town residents came out to support this great cause. The Committee did a great job organzing a variety of fun and educational events. Some of the exhibitors and activities:

(1) Helicopter landing by the U.S. National Guard. Then the kids were able to look inside the cockpit of this sleek bird;

(2) Impaired driving simulator (licensed and permitted drivers were able to drive golf carts while wearing goggles);

(3) Mercer County Sheriffs Office - offering gun lock safety information, and the Middesex County Sheriffs Office offering child fingerprinting;

(4) Appearance by Miss New Jersey 2009, Ashley Shaffer (http://www.missnewjersey.net) , who was signing autographs at the Fitness Zone (of East Windsor) stand (http://www.njg-fitnesszone.com).

(5) Vintage T-Shirt modeling show - kids wore shirts from prior year's Drug Free fairs. I Emceed the show, reading the themes of prior years. Miss New Jersey modeled the 2010 shirt!

(6) Appearance by Cranbury Volunteer Fire and First Aid squad, where they showed the "Jaws of Life" used to extricate drivers from accidents (often caused by drugs and alcohol);

(7) Huge rock climbing wall brought out by the National Guard;

(8) Appearance by Princeton High School cheerleaders who performed some cheers!

(9) Live band performance by a duo that included a Cranbury School teacher, Sean Cox, who played a relaxing set of acoustic rock covers such as done by the Goo Goo Dolls. As the DJ, I spun a variety of upbeat pop, disco and dance music, with a few line dances thrown in for good measure;

(10) Custom bead-bracelet booth operated by the Cranbury School PTO;

(11) For the grand finale, East Coast Martial Arts Institute of East Windsor (http://www.ecmai.com) had numerous star students perform various feats of agility and strength. For the grand finale, Jason Reilly kicked through a thick stack of wooden boards, and then punched through a cinderblock!

Those guests who gathered the requisite information received free t-shirts.

The big takeaway from this event was that drugs and alcohol ruin lives. While playing a Michael Jackson track, I thought to myself, "what a shame" that this talented artist was taken out of his prime. Drugs and alcohol can suck you in and pull you down slowly, and it's hard to escape once you're in their grasp. I hope that this lesson was not lost on the youth in attendance at yesterday's Drug Free Fair.

Theta Phi Alpha Sorority Formal (TCNJ) - Setlist

On April 30, 2010, DJ Jagged of Ambient DJ spun music to an enthusiastic and packed dancefloor. The event was held at Michael's Restaurant and Lounge in Morrisville, PA from 8 PM - 12 PM. I opened the dancefloor in earnest from 8:45 PM, and it didn't let up all night.

Highlighted in red were the super potent hit songs of the night!

A few of the sorority's special songs include "Piece of My Heart" - Janice Joplin and "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine. They also sang their sorority song towards the end of the evening.

What a great party!

Take It Easy - The Eagles

Ventura Highway - America

Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan

Do It Again - Steely Dan

What A Fool Believes -Michael McDonald GUESTS ARRIVE........

Oh - Ciara

Miss Independent - Ne-Yo

My Chick Bad - Ludacris f/Nicki Minaj

My Drink N' My 2 Step -Cassidy f/Swizz Beatz

Obsessed ( Remix ) - Mariah Carey

Make Me Better - Fabolous

Flashing Lights - Kanye West

Bartender-T Pain

Soldier Of Love - Sade

Haven't You Met Me Yet - Michael Buble

Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti

Smile - Lily Allen

Rehab - Amy Winehouse w/Jay-Z

Run It! - Chris Brown

Electric Feel - MGMT

Hey, Soul Sister - Train

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

Need You Now (Jason Nevins RMX) - Lady Antebellum

Venice - Chris Botti

Bulletproof (Dave Audé Cherry Mix) - LaRoux

On 75th Brazil Street - Pitbull

Glamorous - Fergie

I Wanna Rock - Snoopp Dog

Carry Out (Main) - Timbaland

Rude Boy (DJ Scooter Reggae Remix) - Rihanna

Everytime We Touch - Cascada

Telephone Mash-up - Lady Gaga vs. Metallica

Sexy Chick (Featuring Akon) - David Guetta

Freak (Disco Fries Remix) - Estelle

The Perculator - Kajmere

Mr. Jones - Counting Crows

Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin

Hero - Enrique Iglesias

Dare - Gorillaz

Cupid Shuffle - Cupid

Shark In The Water - V.V. Brown

Lollipop (Rmx) - Lil Wayne and Kanye West

Oye Mi Canto - NORE & Co.

Rakata - Wisin y Yandel

Go Girl - Pitbull w/Trina and Young Boss

Get Low - Lil Jon'

Get Low [Merengue Mix]

3 (Lyric Warning) - Britney Spears

Jai Ho - A.R. Rahman

Summertime - Kenny Chesney

Paper Planes -MIA

Swagga Like Us - T.I. and Jay-Z

Baby By Me - 50 Cent and Ne-Yo

Tik Tok (Fred Falke Radio Edit) - Ke$ha

Paparazzi [Moto Blanco Remix) - Lady Gaga

The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson

Gimme More - Britney Spears

Like A Virgin - Madonna

Swing - Savage

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

Stanky Leg - G-Spot

Freek-a-leek - Petey Pablo

Nothin' On You - B.O.B.

Bedrock - Young Money f/Lloyd

Electric Boogie - Marcia Griffiths

I Remember - Deadmau5 f/Kaskade

Just Dance (HCCR's Bambossa) - Lady Gaga

Hotel Room Service - Pitbull

Shots - LMFAO f/Lil Jon

I'm On A Boat - Lonely Boys f/T-Pain

Killing In The Name - Rage Against the Machine

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

OMG - Usher

Whatever You Like - T.I.

I Can Transform Ya - Chris Brown

How Low Can You Go - Ludacris f/Shawnna

Forever - Drake & Company

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey

Ambient DJ - Teen Dance Video Promo

Most of our high school/college clients want a hot dance mix, loud music, flashing lights and a packed dance floor. Here's what Ambient DJ delivers towards those goals!