Combien de temps à l’avance faut-il préparer sa playlist ?

Il n’y a pas de date limite, et c’est tout l’intérêt de votre espace privé : vous importez votre playlist ou déposez vos titres au fil des mois, dès la signature. Nous faisons le point ensemble environ un mois avant la date, lors du rendez-vous de préparation. Un couple qui commence six mois avant arrive toujours plus serein qu’un couple qui s’y met en trois soirées.

Faut-il vous donner la liste complète des musiques de la soirée ?

Ce n’est pas nécessaire. Une vingtaine de titres indispensables et une dizaine d’interdits me suffisent largement. Une soirée se construit autant en lisant la salle sur le moment qu’en suivant une liste préparée à l’avance.

Et si un titre que nous aimons ne fonctionne pas sur une piste de danse ?

Je vous le dis franchement, et je vous propose une alternative — souvent une autre version du même morceau. Certains morceaux magnifiques à écouter ne sont simplement pas faits pour une piste de danse — et beaucoup existent en version remixée que vous ne connaissez pas encore.

Peut-on vous demander un montage ou un medley personnalisé ?

Oui, c’est inclus. Ouverture de bal, medley surprise, mix pour un flashmob : je le monte à partir des titres que vous déposez dans votre espace privé. C’est même l’un des usages les plus fréquents.

Faut-il installer une application ? Est-ce que c’est payant ?

Non, et c’est gratuit : c’est un simple lien privé, qui s’ouvre dans le navigateur de votre téléphone ou de votre ordinateur, sans compte à créer. Il n’y a que vous deux et moi, et c’est inclus dans toutes mes formules mariage.

Est-ce que ce service est réservé aux mariages ?

Non. L’espace privé est inclus dans toutes mes formules mariage, et je l’ouvre aussi pour les anniversaires et les soirées d’entreprise dès que la préparation musicale le justifie.

Planning the playlist for your wedding or your birthday

The moment-by-moment guide, written by a DJ who has played more than a hundred parties in the Gironde. How many tracks to plan, which ones, at what moment — and how to forget nothing.

You probably already have a dozen songs in mind. The problem is never not knowing what to listen to: it is remembering them on the day you have to make a list. A track crosses your mind in the car, another at a wedding you are invited to, a third that your mother reminds you of on the phone — and three months later, nothing.

This page gives you the method I use with every couple I work with, and the list of moments nobody thinks about until it is too late.

Your private LexPlay space, open from the moment you book

As soon as we work together, I open a private online space, just for the two of you and me. Nothing to install, no account to create: a simple link that opens on your phone as well as on your computer.

You import your Spotify, Apple Music or Deezer playlist in one click, or add your tracks over the months, as they come to you. You organise them by moment, mark your must-plays ★ and your do-not-plays, and prepare the running order of the big day hour by hour. I review everything: I tell you whether a track works at that point in the evening, suggest alternatives, and prepare the edits. No more scattered emails, no more “what did we say for the entrance into the room?”.

📥 Playlist import
💒 Non-religious ceremony
🥂 Cocktail hour
🍽️ Dinner
🎉 Party and end of the night
⭐ Your must-plays
🚫 Do-not-play list
🕐 Running order of the big day
📋 Practical information

Importing a playlist, organising by moment, previews to listen to: the demonstration in 23 seconds.

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Wedding playlist: moment by moment

A wedding day is not one playlist. It is eight or nine different moods that follow one another, and each one calls for something different. Here is how I break them down.

The non-religious ceremony

3 to 5 tracks · instrumental or soft vocals

Three moments to cover: the couple’s entrance, one or two passages during the readings, and the exit. It is the only moment of the day when the music is listened to for its own sake, with no conversation over it — so the choice really matters.

What works: acoustic or piano-and-voice versions of a track that is personal to you. They carry the emotion without drowning out the celebrant’s words.

💡 Plan a track longer than necessary for the entrance. An aisle always takes longer to walk than you imagine, and music that cuts off before you arrive breaks the moment.

A cocktail hour that dances even before dinner.

Behind the decks from the cocktail onwards — and it shows.

The cocktail hour

1 h 30 to 2 h · background music… or already dancing

I am behind the decks from the cocktail hour, not only from the evening onwards. Most of the time the music stays in the background: your guests get together, discover the venue, talk. It is the longest moment of the day, and the one couples think about least.

But some groups are frankly festive — and when I feel it coming, I do not hold back. It regularly happens that I get people dancing during the cocktail hour. The floor fills up before dinner, and those are often the days people remember most.

What works: soul, vocal jazz, bossa nova, acoustic pop or gentle covers of well-known tracks to set the mood — then more rhythmic tracks as soon as the first guests start to move.

💡 Nothing is set in stone: your cocktail hour can stay quiet or become the first highlight of the day. I decide by reading your crowd in the moment — and that is precisely the difference between a DJ present at the decks and a playlist running on its own.

Evening version: guard of honour and cold sparklers.

Reception version: the room standing, sparklers in hand.

The entrance into the room

1 track · energetic, 2 to 3 minutes

Your first appearance in front of everyone gathered together. And with me, nobody watches it sitting down: I get the room on its feet on the mic and form a guard of honour, so that you walk in among your guests rather than in front of them. You do not cross a silent room, you walk into an ovation.

So the track must start strong — no forty-second intro — and last long enough for you to walk the length of the guard of honour.

What works: a track with rhythm from the very first second, or a cult song the room recognises in three notes and claps along to — the effect is even stronger when everyone is already standing.

💡 Test it at home by walking down the hallway: if you feel good on it, it is the right one. And tell me if you prefer a more understated entrance — I always offer the guard of honour, but I never impose it.

The dinner

2 to 3 h · lounge, then a gradual build

At the table, I start with lounge and above all tracks everyone knows, but in violin or piano versions. That is what works best during a meal: you recognise the melody without thinking about it, you hum along, and conversations carry on quietly over it.

Then we build gently course by course. By the time dessert arrives, the mood should already make people want to get up.

What works: instrumental covers of well-known tracks, lounge, mellow soul — then a gradual shift towards more rhythmic tracks, with no abrupt break between the starter and dessert.

💡 This is the ideal moment for a music quiz by tables. Twenty minutes during the meal, and the ice is broken between the two families even before the dance floor.

With low-lying fog: the dance floor becomes a cloud.

Without effects: the dance, the fairy lights, nothing else.

The first dance

1 track, sometimes a medley · the most-watched moment

The only moment when every eye and every phone is pointed at you. A classic slow dance, a rehearsed choreography or a surprise medley: all three work, provided they have been rehearsed.

What works: a slow song you know by heart, or a medley that switches after a minute to something festive to bring everyone onto the floor.

💡 A medley that strings together three or four excerpts always works, but it is prepared beforehand: I edit it for you from the tracks you add to your private space.

Jets of cold sparklers framing the dance floor at a wedding in the Gironde — Cold sparklers as the cake arrives: no flame, permitted indoors.

The arrival of the wedding cake, framed by two jets of cold sparklers.

The cake music

1 track · spectacular

The arrival of the cake is a moment of theatre. The music should be big, a little solemn or downright festive depending on your style.

What works: a track that builds in power, synchronised with the waiters’ entrance into the room.

💡 This is where cold sparklers come into their own — it is often the photo everyone keeps.

The bouquet toss and the saucisson toss

1 track per toss · funny and upbeat

Two playful moments, two different pieces of music. And yes, the saucisson toss: we are in the South-West, and it is a moment that always gets a laugh.

What works: for the bouquet, a catchy pop track the singles know. For the saucisson, something bold and a little absurd — the comic effect does half the work.

💡 Plan both, even if you are hesitating. Prepared music beats a thirty-second silence while everyone waits.

Packed dance floor at a wedding hosted by DJ Lexvolution in the Gironde — The part I do not fully prepare in advance — and that is deliberate.

The dance party

4 to 6 h · this is my home turf

This is the part I do not fully prepare in advance, and that is deliberate. I read the room and adapt live — who is on the floor, who is hesitating at the edge, which generation is starting to drift away.

What works: what I want from you is your must-plays and your do-not-plays. The rest I build according to what is really happening in the room.

💡 The tracks that move you and the ones that get a room on its feet are not always the same — and both have their place in the evening. My role is to find the right moment for each.

Birthday playlist: it depends on the age

For a birthday there are no set moments as at a wedding. What changes everything is the age of the person being celebrated and that of the guests. The same playlist that is a hit at a 30th will empty the floor at a 60th, and vice versa.

18th and 20th birthdays

homogeneous crowd · high volume

Everyone is the same age with the same references: it is the simplest case. The repertoire is current, the floor fills up early and never empties.

What works: the releases of the last two years, rap, afrobeat, electro. And two or three tracks from secondary school for the nostalgia effect.

💡 The only real risk is the volume and the neighbours. If the venue has a sound limiter, better to know before than during.

30th and 40th birthdays

the widest audience · unapologetic nostalgia

This is the age at which nostalgia works best. Your guests want to hear again what they listened to at twenty, and they want to sing it loud.

What works: the hits of the 2000s and 2010s, RnB, dancehall, and the French classics that get the whole room singing.

💡 Many of your guests will have come with children. A gentler first hour lets everyone stay, then the party really starts when the little ones leave.

50th and 60th birthdays

two generations in the room

You will have your friends and your children, sometimes your parents. The challenge is not finding tracks, it is making three repertoires coexist without anyone leaving the floor.

What works: disco, funk, French pop, 70s and 80s rock — and modern remixes of those same tracks so that the younger ones follow.

💡 This is exactly where the remix makes the difference: you recognise the melody, you sing, and the current beat keeps the young ones on the floor.

Surprise parties

1 decisive track

Everything rests on the moment the person walks into the room. You need a track that starts on the second, and total silence just before.

What works: a track that means something to them, or a party classic everyone sings along to from the first note.

💡 The silence before is as important as the music. I cut everything, I wait, and I hit play at the exact moment they walk through the door.

The do-not-play list: the most useful list of all

It is often the part couples fill in the fastest, and by far the most precious for me. A track that reminds someone of an ex, the song from a recent funeral, the tune a guest cannot stand: I cannot guess it, but I can avoid it if I know.

The “Do not play” list in your private space is exactly for that. You drop a track in without having to explain why, and I remove it from the evening for good.

How many tracks should you give me?

Fewer than you think. Around twenty must-plays and a dozen do-not-plays are enough for me to build a whole evening. Beyond that, you spend a lot of time for a very similar result: a lively party is largely built in the moment, according to what is really happening in the room.

What I want from you is what I cannot guess: the tracks that matter to you, your do-not-plays, and the moments you want to mark. The rest is my job.

Frequently asked questions about musical preparation

How far in advance should we prepare our playlist?

There is no deadline, and that is the whole point of your private space: you import your playlist or add your tracks over the months, from the moment you sign. We take stock together about a month before the date, at the preparation meeting. A couple who start six months ahead always arrive calmer than a couple who do it all in three evenings.

Do we need to give you the complete list of music for the evening?

It is not necessary. Around twenty must-play tracks and a dozen do-not-plays are more than enough. A party is built as much by reading the room in the moment as by following a list prepared in advance.

What if a track we love does not work on a dance floor?

I tell you frankly, and I suggest an alternative — often another version of the same track. Some tracks that are magnificent to listen to are simply not made for a dance floor — and many exist in remixed versions you do not know yet.

Can we ask you for a custom edit or medley?

Yes, it is included. First dance, surprise medley, mix for a flash mob: I edit it from the tracks you add to your private space. It is actually one of the most frequent uses.

Do we need to install an app? Is it paid?

No, and it is free: it is a simple private link that opens in the browser of your phone or computer, with no account to create. There is only the two of you and me, and it is included in all my wedding packages.

Is this service reserved for weddings?

No. The private space is included in all my wedding packages, and I also open it for birthdays and corporate parties whenever the musical preparation warrants it.

We start with your date

First check that I am free, then we talk music. Your private space opens from the moment you sign, and you have all the remaining months to fill it at your own pace.