From: heikki@enalahyysalo.fi
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 09:35:49 CEST
>Olaf Molenveld wrote:
> she answered "it's stevie wonder" and all of a
> sudden they started to dance! jeez.....it seems they cannot appreciate the
> music itself anymore these days...it all has to be labeled for them...that
> was really saddening...
too true. we'we been having these 'raw'-nights with rare funk, soul and
dancefloor jazz music policy here in turku, finland. we'we consciosly
decided not to play more than one or two generally known tracks (in common
audience sense, funk and soul heads know their tracks) per night. so, this
one guy comes out of the crowded sweaty dancefloor to the deejay booth and
requests: 'oi, mate! play some proper funk we all know! play james brown!'
the track that IS playing is 'get up, get into it, get involved' by a
certain j.b. ... well, i guess all you've gotta do is try harder..
good thing is, the venue i deejay regularly at, dynamo, has got an audience
mostly open to anything, so i don't 'suffer' too many hit music requests. it
has been worse in some other places.
heikki kiviluoto | turku soul mafia
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