Re: [bomp] DJ culture (and all that jazz)

[Dave Monroe <monropolitan@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Mostly they want to dance and know the songs.
>   I always try to play to the crowd not the
> collectors. The plan is your 1st hour is basically
> "dinner music." When a crowd of live ones amasses,
> play hits mixed in with floor pounders that aren't
> necessarilly well-known.

My tendency there is to deploy lesser known versions
of better (?) known songs.  I spun a biweekly, then
weekly, night with friends for a few years which, in
retrospect, at the very least, was far too reliant on
"hits," even if largely ones of our own making.  

The real challenge, the real thrill was to discover
those hits, and that they would serve as such, in the
first place.  And then to keep finding more ...

Another night @ the same venue hasn't appreciably
altered its set lists in over fifteen years now. 
Sure, it's lasted that long, but only by virtue of
boring people playing boring music for other boring
people.  And there's plenty of all concerned to go
around there.  I've enough ruts I've fallen into ...


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