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

[Dave Monroe <monropolitan@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

>   Anyway, you can only rely on "the people" being
> present, not "the collectors." ...

I'm presuming I'm among "the collectors," and yet I
rarely recognize most of what I hear at, say, the
ModChicago weekender (my one regular point of contact
with the outer world), but then again, I spin a
couple/three times a week in town, and I rarely
recognize even what the mostly local cast of charactrs
who I spin those night with are playing, so ...

So it's not difficult to play something I don't know
at me.  And as often as not, the better known the
artist, the lesss likely I am to recogmize their
deep(er) cut.  I'm not a willful obscurnatist, I just
tend to find, enjoy and play out idiosyncratic tracks,
is all.  Being in the often overlapping hinterlands of
a couple/few vintage music scenes ...

> All of the club owners tell me they like what I
> play. Noemi at Tainted Lady told me I play the
> songs everyone knows but nobody else plays...

"All the music you never grew up with, but should
have," is my motto ...

> That's my bumper sticker now.

"My other car is a Pynchon novel" ...

>   It's a fine line to walk. Mr. FineWine's soul
> dances are almost the same songs in the same order
> every month but on his weekly radio show, I don't
> think I've ever heard the same song twice. He knows
> the difference between a dance hall and the radio
> (and yes even I am disinclined to break into a jig
> in front of the radio).

Matt was just out here for New Year's Eve (as he was
last year as well, the 4th of July before that), I
unfortunately however ultimately spent the evening not
spinning a few sides myself as I could have, but
staring catatonically rather @ back-to-back showings
of South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut insttead ...

"For these and all my sins. Mea culpa, mea culpa ...

>   Smashed!Blocked! and Subway Soul try to keep it
> fresh by having guest DJs.

Me, I like the challenge of trying to at least meet
someone halfway whilst mixing it up.  The funk night
here (which i've spun o@) occasion rotates every three
records or so, which REALLY keeps things moing ...


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