Frequently AskedQuestions

Packages run from $2,500 (Corporate Mixer) to $4,500 (Corporate Premier), each covering up to four hours. Packages run from $2,500 to $4,500. Lighting is quoted separately. What moves the number is hours on site, the size of the room, how many wireless microphones the program needs, and the date — December and Saturday evenings carry the most demand.Read the full guide

We run 3 packages: Corporate Mixer ($2,500), Corporate Celebration ($3,500), Corporate Premier ($4,500). Every one includes Up to four hours, with wireless microphones and sound coverage confirmed against the venue. Available as add-ons: extended hours, cocktail hour coverage, second sound zone, early setup / idle time, additional microphones.Read the full guide

Most December company parties are the Corporate Celebration at $3,500: music programmed from guest arrival through dancing, with microphones for a toast or short program. A smaller party with no formal program fits the Corporate Mixer; a gala with a full awards program and clients in the room is the Corporate Premier.Read the full guide

Because the person booking a company event usually needs a number they can forward to whoever signs off, and often needs three written quotes to get approval. A page with no price cannot enter that comparison. Publishing the packages also means the quote you get matches the site.Read the full guide

By the package. Preparation, setup and breakdown are fixed costs whether the event is two hours or four, which is why an hourly rate misleads. Running past the scheduled finish is an add-on, agreed on the night.Read the full guide

No. Lighting is an add-on quoted separately from the DJ packages. Small Venue Lighting add from $450 for the booth and dance area in smaller rooms; room up-lighting and moving fixtures are quoted against the room once we know its size and what is already installed.Read the full guide

With us, none that are hidden: extended hours, a second sound zone, early setup, extra microphones and lighting are all listed as add-ons and quoted before you sign. What people forget is what the venue charges — loading fees, parking, a house AV technician — which are the venue’s costs, not ours.Read the full guide

A deposit secures the date and the balance is due closer to the event. We can invoice in a form your accounts payable team can process and can work a schedule around a fiscal calendar. We accept the usual business payment methods.Read the full guide

Three to six months is comfortable for most corporate events and private parties, and six to twelve months is safer for a fixed date that cannot move. December holiday-party dates in the first three weeks of the month go earliest, and Saturday evenings go first in any month. We hold dates on much shorter notice when they are open, so send the date and we will tell you the same day.Read the full guide

Usually not. The dates that run out are the Fridays and Saturdays in the second and third weeks of December; early-December and midweek dates stay open much longer and are often the better party. If it is November, a Wednesday is very possible and a Friday is worth asking about.Read the full guide

The date, the venue, and roughly how many people. From that we can confirm whether the date is open, which package fits, and what the venue is going to need from us. A rough program and start and end time help but are not required to check availability.

Within 24 hours, usually the same day. Checking a date does not commit you to anything; a date is held only when you confirm.

About thirty minutes, usually two to four weeks out. We go through the timeline, the room, who is speaking and when, names we need to pronounce, the do-not-play list, and who your venue or AV contact is. You leave with a written timeline and we leave with everything we need to prepare.Read the full guide

Yes. We can supply a W-9, a certificate of insurance, a written quote against a published package, and an invoice in the form your accounts payable team needs. Tell us early what the process requires and we will get the paperwork moving before the date gets close.Read the full guide

When the date is open, yes. Short notice does not change the price or the preparation; it compresses the planning call and the paperwork, so have the venue contact and the program ready when you get in touch.

Sound is included in every package: our own professional system scaled to your venue, with setup, sound check and breakdown handled by us, and wireless microphones for the program. If the venue requires its house system we patch into it. Volume for dinner is set from the far table, not from the booth.Read the full guide

A DJ runs the music. An MC, or host, runs the room and holds the microphone for the length of the event. What we do on the microphone is light mic work: introductions, announcements, calling the room to dinner, opening the dance floor, and the cues that keep a timeline moving. If your event needs a dedicated host or emcee, hire one — we work alongside them and take their cues.Read the full guide

Live musicians; Staging, rentals or full production; Event planning or day-of coordination; Full MC or host services beyond light mic work. JN handles music, sound and DJ performance, working alongside your planner, venue and AV team. If you need any of those, we will tell you so early and we work alongside whoever supplies them. Photo booths are coming soon as a separate service — see our photo booth rental page for the early-access list.Read the full guide

No. We take corporate events and private celebrations — company parties, launches, galas, milestone birthdays, anniversaries, retirements. It keeps the calendar and the preparation focused on the rooms we are best in.

Redundancy, not troubleshooting in front of your guests. We travel with a spare controller, a spare mixer, spare cabling and a spare microphone, so a failed component is swapped rather than diagnosed. Music plays from local drives, never a streaming service, so venue Wi-Fi has no effect on the room.Read the full guide

A qualified replacement is arranged and briefed from the same timeline and preparation. It has not happened in fourteen years of events, and the contingency exists so that it never has to be improvised.

Often, with a second sound zone: an extra set of speakers fed from the same booth for a cocktail space, terrace or overflow room. That gives the second room music, not a second DJ. Two spaces that both need a dance floor at the same time is a two-DJ job, and we will say so.Read the full guide

We have played for Bloomingdale's, Gucci, Nordstrom, Sephora, Victoria's Secret, Tito's Handmade Vodka, US Open, New York University, Mount Sinai, Banco Santander, Nike, Adidas, Adobe, Hilton, Macy's, MongoDB, MCM, Neiman Marcus, Parfums de Marly and Initio Parfums Privés, some booked directly and some through a venue or agency. That work runs from product launches, conferences and sales kickoffs to holiday parties, galas and in-store events across New York City and New Jersey.

Yes, and for corporate work it is the default. We play clean radio edits and will not drop an explicit version unless you ask for one. Before the event we agree the tone for each part of the night and a do-not-play list. If the event is being filmed, or there are clients, press or families in the room, tell us and we build around it.Read the full guide

Open format: we rotate eras and genres rather than settling into one, so the room is never more than a few songs from something that is theirs. The floor is read live — who moves first, who sits down — and the plan changes when the room tells us to.Read the full guide

That is your call, made before the event. Some clients want open requests, some want us to hold to the plan, most want requests filtered against the tone and the do-not-play list. Either way, a request that breaks the room does not get played just because it was asked for.Read the full guide

We supply and check the wireless microphones, bring the music down on cue when a speaker steps up and back up when they finish, and can play walk-up music for award winners if you want it. Send the run of show and the names in advance; that is what makes forty awards move at pace.Read the full guide

Yes. A New Jersey or New York workforce usually is one, and the set is built to move between Latin, Caribbean, South Asian, Afrobeats and American pop without splitting the room into camps. Announcements can be made in two languages as light mic work.Read the full guide

Conversation level, measured at the far table. The rule is that two people across a table should not have to raise their voices. It lifts only when the program is over and the room has told us it wants to dance.Read the full guide

Specific songs, artists, and themes you want kept out, plus anything sensitive for your company or your audience. Two lines of context helps more than a long list. A short please-play list is just as useful.Read the full guide

Because a room full of people is not the place to depend on venue Wi-Fi, an ad break, or a service that cannot be mixed. We play from local files on redundant drives, which lets us control key, tempo and transitions and means the music does not stop when the network does.Read the full guide

By planning the last twenty minutes, not the last song. The venue curfew sets the hard stop; we wind the floor down rather than cutting it, make the announcements you need made, and agree in advance who can authorise overtime if the room refuses to leave.Read the full guide

About ninety minutes to two hours from the moment we reach the room, and roughly an hour to break down. In Manhattan the real variable is building access — freight elevator windows, dock scheduling, COI approval — and we confirm those with the venue ahead of the date.Read the full guide

Yes, and some venues require it. We patch into the house system and bring our own playback and microphones. Where the venue allows it we bring our own speakers, which usually sound better for dancing than ceiling speakers designed for background music.Read the full guide

A booth roughly six by four feet plus two speaker stands, near power and with a clear line of sight to the floor. We fit into restaurant private rooms and boardrooms; what we need to know in advance is where the power is and where the speeches will happen.Read the full guide

Yes. We need weather cover for the equipment — a tent or canopy — confirmed power, and a rain plan agreed before the day. Sound carries differently outdoors and we size the system for open air rather than for a room.Read the full guide

Rooftops are where the open-format habit came from: eleven years of nightly sets at a Manhattan rooftop. Wind, sound limits, power runs and weather cover are the things to settle early, and we settle them with the venue directly.Read the full guide

We work across New Jersey and the five boroughs. North Jersey country clubs and corporate campuses, Brooklyn and Queens warehouse venues, Manhattan hotels and museums are all regular rooms. Tell us the venue and we will tell you what its load-in is like.Read the full guide

Yes, with a few questions answered first: which circuits the outlets are on, whether building management has rules about hours and noise, and how the security desk handles load-in. Offices are usually quieter rooms than people expect and the sound gets sized accordingly.Read the full guide

A short tech rider: power needs, footprint, load-in window, whether we are patching into the house system, the table we need, our certificate of insurance and a contact number. Venues that have it in advance rarely have questions on the day.Read the full guide

Yes. We carry commercial general liability insurance year-round and issue a certificate of insurance to your venue at no charge, with the additional-insured wording the venue specifies. Ask for it when you sign rather than the week of; venues want it weeks before load-in.Read the full guide

That the venue — often the building owner and the operator, named exactly — is listed on our certificate so their coverage is not the first line if something happens. It is the detail venues most often reject a COI over. Send us the exact entity names the venue gives you and we issue it correctly the first time.Read the full guide

The date, hours and venue; the package and add-ons; deposit and balance timing; the overtime arrangement; what happens with weather for outdoor events; the backup arrangement; and that a certificate of insurance will be issued. Ours says all of that. This is general information, not legal advice.Read the full guide

Yes. A W-9, a written quote against a published package, and an invoice in the format your accounts payable team needs are standard. If your procurement process has a vendor form, send it with the inquiry and we will return it with the quote.

It is set out in the contract you sign, and it depends on how far out the cancellation is and whether the date can be rebooked. Ask before you sign and we will walk you through it plainly rather than have you find it in the small print.

Venues that host events generally hold the performance licenses that cover music played on their premises, and we play from legally purchased music. This is a general answer and not legal advice; if your event is in an unusual space, ask the venue what their license covers.Read the full guide

Yes — milestone birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, graduations, and private holiday parties. The same packages apply, starting at $2,500, and the preparation is the same: a planning call, a timeline, a do-not-play list, and sound sized to the room.Read the full guide

Yes. Home parties come down to power, space and neighbors: which circuits the outlets are on, where the booth fits, and what time the music needs to come down. Backyards need weather cover for the equipment. We go through all of it before the date.Read the full guide

The same way we handle a company room aged 24 to 64: rotate eras, read who moves first, and use the songs that cross generations to keep the floor together. The guest of honor’s music leads; everyone else’s gets its turn.Read the full guide

Yes. The reveal is a cue like any other: we coordinate the arrival with whoever is bringing the guest of honor, hold the room quiet, and have the first song ready to go the moment the door opens.Read the full guide