sounds like many of you need to hear a really good mc!!
as much as this sounds like crap, the mc's job is to motivate/inform the
crowd.
the mc should let the crowd know who's playing "it's the dj m-a-r-k-man...",
where they are (name of the club night)--believe it or not, many people may
not
know what the night is called if they came with friends or "wanted to see
what's going on in there..." the mc might also let the crowd know if
a big tune or exclusive is coming up "...oh my gosh! it's the tune of the
summer,
are you ready?" he or she can get the crowd bouncing again when the energy
has flagged
--like when your favorite tune has 32 bars of floaty strings before the amazing
bass drop. and of course the mc gets the crowd screaming & hollering for
the rewind (aka haul & pull) "who wants it, who wants it ??"
the problem is that bad/mediocre mcs keep the commentary running when they
have
nothing to say. great jungle/d&b or 2-step garage mcs are often *not* on
the mic if
there's nothing going on worthy of comment--that was one of the things that
really
impressed me about mc gq (although i think he's got a horrid alias--but he
probably
thinks t-bird is even more stupid...) btw, he's on the vocal mix of "138
trek"...
-t
At 05:34 PM 8/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>yeah, dont get me wrong, this really used to bug
>me when i'd go hear goldie or bukem dj, but it is part
>of the event, the flava, the whatever. it even
>bugged me when i used to go to Twice as Nice where
>some of this started back in 97/98...
>maybe i learned to tune it out & focus on the bass &
>move so much to the music, i mentally turned it off
>or it just became like another element of the track
>
>
>
>At 9:40 am -0400 10/8/01, zach wrote:
>>On 8/10/01 6:14 AM, "heikki kiviluoto" <heikki@enalahyysalo.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> on 10.8.2001 09:53, nethed at nethed@ninjatune.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> way back in the
>>>> 70's and early 80's some of the Northern Soul dj's used to pause
>>>> between each 7", wait for the applause and announce the record.
>>
>>It is one thing to announce a record and play it.. another to go one talking
>>throughout the whole track about how good it is, and that we are in
>>*whatever city,* and that zippy zippy zee zigga zow zow zee.. and so forth.
>>
>>Zach.
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