Re: [acid-jazz] Funny requests, was -- 21st century urban music observation.)

From: heikki@enalahyysalo.fi
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 08:14:18 CEST

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    > eric maag:
    >
    > "Can you play something I can dance to?" It was a 5/8 afrobeat that was on,
    > too complex.

    two years back, when playing ('little' louie vega feat. arnold jarvis - life
    goes on) in dynamo, turku, finland:
    "can you stop playing that techno bullshit and put somethin i can dance to
    instead, like the doors?"

    > velanche stewart:
    > I was spinning at a house party for the first time, playing some deep
    > house music.
    >
    > One guy comes up to me and gives me his Violent Femmes vinyl to play a
    > favorite song off of it ("Bitchin' Camaro," I think, was the song).
    >
    > Another guy comes up to me and says "Hey...I have some hip-hop in my car
    > if you want me to get it."

    this happened saturady 10th august, at blanko, turku, finland:

    me and my partner in crime dj kongo were spinning, i.e. i was smoking a
    cigar in the dj booth and having a pause while mr. kongo was cueing in a
    record. suddenly this bloke comes up and puts a megadeth cd in my hand,
    saying: ' my mate's having a stag night and we just need to hear track
    number three! does it interfere with your artistic vision?' by the time we
    were spinning deep funk.

    > vwlanche again:
    > Life can be tough for a budding DJ, ya know?

    too damn true. some three years back when i was spinning quite a many
    saturday nights at dynamo, turku (again! ok, i don't have a life do i?)
    there was this nice regular customer (a girl) who was constantly requesting
    britpop, oasis, blur, suede and the like. (nothing against britpop, except
    oasis - the most boring live band in the world IMO) ok, the babe had every
    night the same pattern: the first request was at punctually 15 past eleven,
    about five minutes since i started, a very polite one. but if you didn't
    play the music she demanded, no doubt she would come back again within half
    an hour, a bit drunk. and the pattern went on. at normal nights she demanded
    - the demands were one by one more rude and drunk - at least five times. and
    if you had not answered to her calls to play ever-lovely liam g. imitating a
    sheep-herd she sent her boyfriend (quite a big bloke indeed) with the
    following demand: 'if you bloody wanker don't play either blur, suede or
    asis, i'll beat the shit out of you!' nice lad culture. life can be tough,
    indeed.

    keep on truckin,

    heikki kiviluoto | turku soul mafia



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