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