Then go through which tracks work withe each-other, in tonality or energy, if they have some sort Toggle through music you like and want to play for others, put em in a pile. There's plenty of same-y DJs out there, the world doesn't really want more. The mark of a good DJ is good taste and the willingness to forge their own style. DJing is about a relationship with people and that moment in time, and often spontaneous can be the perfect thing to do. I just ad-libbed from the various folders of stuff I had on the USB keys I'd brought with me. It was prepared as chill dub techno for a morning set, but I had a decent-sized floor that I filled and gave them another round of dancing and filled it back up. Mind you, the last set I played I decided to scrap within the first tune on the dancefloor.
Combined with the Preparation crate for pulling out records to work towards over the course of a few songs, and it's a great workflow. When I have my whole traktor library with me, it's easy to play for hours without planning ahead because I can rapidly find the exact song I'm thinking of (but cannot remember the name) or a quick subset of songs that are likely to fit with what's presently going. The key to my method is how I organize everything so that it can be searched and recalled quickly. I never plan beyond the first 3 tracks (which I do only because I need to adjust to the monitors, room sound, previous DJs unplugging from the mixer, etc) It also generally reflects new stuff that I've been buying. This is chosen based around a theme that develops from picking a few keystone songs, and their neighbours, or good bridges between those themes/styles. Then I create a playlist of 3-4x the actual timeslot's worth of musical material. To plan a set I always think of the time, location and mood at which it will be played. I use iTunes (still) because a reasonably convenient alternative hasn't shown up for me (and I'm used to it). As a result, I've always been very specific about genres and their relationships, but since music interbreeds so much it was more suitable to use a web 2.0 technique to classify music. I come from an evolutionary biology background, where we are all insane about methods and systems for classifying minute differences.
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