RE: Funki Porcini/UB&O....is it a crime???

From: nethed (nethed@ninjatune.net)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 09:37:53 CEST

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    Willy..
    I wont be the cocktail hour warmup dj for vadim in dublin (altho i'd
    love to come over there again). i didnt hear props back from him, but
    the bar staff loved it! i also dragged out a lot of hip hop related
    breaks but i was
    playing on a hot night in london while people werre milling outside.

    years ago i used to play to 'b&t' commercial crowds on friday nite
    where i managed to develop a crowd pleasing formula of 50% what the
    crowd wants to hear and 50% of what i want to play & although I never
    became a B illboard
    100 dj I was under pressure to play new records from record companies
    who I got free tunes from. I only played what I liked & what fit
    with my personality and the crowd.

    After having been in dj retirement for many years, I will now only
    play what I like and prefer not to be under pressure to work the
    crowd - they feel like shaking out to some james brown along with me
    - cool. They wanna talk boozey &
    sit & schmoozy that's cool too.

    Having heard Funki at Xen Cargo a few months back, I know he shares a
    bit of my tude about djing versus going out and doing a live show. I
    really wish I made
    it to Dublin, as I've never heard Up Bustle & Out DJ. And I can
    appreciate that you have a certain expectation of what someone will
    be like as a DJ when you've heard their albums but FP & UB&O I think
    relish in the unexpected.
    Wagon Christ & Amon Tobin - that's a totally different kind of DJ set...

    And DJ Vadim is different every time I've seen him - last year lotta
    old breaks - this year it was all fresh outta the box.

    Netbod not sending anything but lurve

    >
    > BTW, you're not going to be supporting DJ Vadim when he plays Dublin
    >in October are you? If so, guess who wont be there to check out the warm up
    >act?
    >
    >
    > Willy
    >



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