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

From: Dr. Axel Barcelo Aspeitia -- Investigador (abarcelo@minerva.filosoficas.unam.mx)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 18:34:22 CEST

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    Sorry about the language barrier, but what is 'b&t', as in 'b&t commercial
    nights'?

    merci

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    On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, nethed wrote:

    > 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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