my way of dealing w/the "knucklehead element" is to explain to them that
first off, i don't have the tune they're requesting (generally true) and
that "...it's not what i'm doing tonight." most often for me, the
offending tune is usually some sort of hiphop tune, so i can get out of
"what do you *mean* you don't have ***?" by explaining i'm not a hiphop
dj, although i occasionally play some hiphop. mentioning that i'm an
acid-jazz dj usually does the trick--cuz they haven't figured out what
acid-jazz *is* after all these years...
A friend was relating what he considered to be one of the
best pieces of advice given to him for club dj's: Always
have one line which is basically hooked up to nothing.
That way, when some idiot comes along complaining that the
bass is too strong, or volume is to low, or whatever, you
can twiddle knobs on that channel 'til the cows come home
in order to please the guy, but not really affect anything
else. Problem solved. I've never tried it, but it seems
like a pretty sound idea to me.
an easier way of doing that, would be to "fake them out" by either
pretending to turn stuff up/down, or to do the exact opposite, and then
adjust it back to where it was previously--people almost never notice
that you've gone back to the same level...
Currently can't get enough of these tracks:
Ananda Project - Colours
100% Pure Poison - Windy C
Schmoov - Destinations
that "windy c" track is *so dope*!! i first discovered it on a
rare-groove comp as the "break" from "trippin'" by dj bmf (what up
orlando??!!).
-t
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