Every wedding has a moment where the room decides whether it is going to dance or go and find its coat. Getting that right is less about the playlist than about the person watching the floor, and it is the thing Rhythm and Beats DJ Services has built its offer around. The Melbourne business is run by Kevin, who works as DJ Kev, under a line that doubles as the whole pitch: "Your Music, Your Style, Your Event."
It covers three markets — weddings, corporate functions and private parties — across Melbourne and the surrounding regions, taking in metropolitan venues and the Yarra Valley. The music leans R&B, hip hop, Latin and commercial, and the service extends past the night itself into mixtapes, live sets and curated playlists.
The wedding packages
Weddings are the part of the business with fixed, published pricing, which is more transparency than this category usually offers. Three tiers are listed. Essential Coverage, at $1,750, buys up to four hours of reception coverage with premium sound, wireless microphones and basic dance floor lighting.
Complete Experience, at $2,150, stretches to five hours and adds upgraded dance floor lighting, wireless uplighting for the room, a live recording of the DJ mix and optional MC duties. Premium All Day, at $2,500, brings the ceremony into scope as well, covering up to six hours across the day with the same inclusions.
What sits underneath all three is the planning apparatus, and this is where the operation is more organised than the average one-person DJ business. Every package includes personalised music and timeline planning, an interactive event portal, a 1:1 consultation, and timeline coordination with the venue and other vendors. Guests can request songs on the night by scanning a QR code. Travel and setup are in the price. Extra hours, dry ice and low fog, and additional PA can be added.
Corporate and parties
Away from weddings the pricing turns bespoke. Corporate work is quoted in a $1000 to $2000 range and covers awards nights, product launches, end-of-year parties, team-building days, networking nights, black-tie galas and conferences. Quotes move on duration, venue and setup, the event type, how much lighting and effect work is wanted, and whether MC services or extra performers are involved.
Private parties run on the same custom basis, in a $750 to $2000 range — birthdays, anniversaries, holiday parties and, as the site puts it, "any other celebration you can think of", with themed events handled through the playlist and the lighting. The site describes his experience as a party DJ as spanning "several years and countless incredible events", which is as specific as it gets on tenure.
A 5.0 across 46 reviews
On the public scorecard the business does well. Its Easy Weddings listing carries a 5.0 rating from 46 reviews, and the recurring theme in them is not the gear but the judgement — the read of the room, the willingness to bend a plan when the floor tells you something different. One reviewer, Sarah G., wrote: "He read the room perfectly and kept the dance floor full all night."
The business's own reviews page displays a 5.0 as well, though without a review count attached, and the testimonials there run without reviewer names. Read them together and the same qualities keep surfacing: communication before the night, flexibility during it, and MC work that holds a room together between the music.
Two things are worth noting for anyone comparing. The site claims features rather than awards — inclusion in Wedding Diaries' Top Wedding DJs listings for 2023 to 2025, and a feature by Vogue Ballroom — which is a different thing from an industry award, and it is fair to read it as such. And 46 reviews is a moderate sample; strong, but not the volume of a decade-old operation.
How booking works
The process is three steps and deliberately unfussy: confirm the date is available, sit down for a consultation about music and preferences, then hand over the timeline coordination with the venue and vendors for the day itself. For couples who have spent months being asked to make decisions, a supplier who takes some off the list has an obvious appeal.
In the end, the business is not really selling four hours of music. It is selling someone standing at the edge of the floor deciding what plays next based on what the room is actually doing — and, on the evidence of the reviews, doing that part well.
