I've never heard of a DJ getting an encore in the US, except for the Jeff
Mills Liquid Room CD which I also thought was bizarre. The closest I've
ever come was Doc Martin at Twilo sometime in 95 (right after it turned
from the Sound Factory). They kept trying to turn on the lights and turn
off the system and every time they did it he would throw on an even better
record and everyone would start dancing and they'd turn the lights off for
another 10 minutes or so.
But I've never heard of a DJ getting an encore in this country at least. As
I said in a previous email it seems very bizarre to me since it takes a
good DJ hours to do anything worth listening to and I don't see how that
can be replicated in a few minutes in an encore.
I don't find the idea of a crowd wanting a DJ to continue strange - that
was happened lots of times - but I find that people generally get annoyed
if the music stops playing so that the DJ can bask in the glow of the crowd
or the MC is announcing the DJs or anything like that.
So here I think people would get more annoyed if a DJ stopped playing to
wait for the crowd to ask them for an encore than if a local DJ kept the
music going.
Just something I found a bit strange.
Eric
At 12:40 PM 2/27/02 +1100, Cyclone Wehner wrote:
I don't know about elsewhere but encores are traditional in Australia. It
gives people the chance to give props to the DJ. If there's no screaming for
encores, it's seen as a diss to the DJ. Jeff Mills, Derrick, Stacey, all
have done them. And lo behold local DJs coming on after who don't give the
DJ a chance to do them..... Then it's ice grill time. People leave.
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>From: "David Gillies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 313@hyperreal.org
>Subject: RE: [313] may's djing
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:41 PM
>
>>To me the point of having a DJ is having someone create something over a
>>matter of hours. So playing one record over the monitors seems a
>>particularly bizarre way of doing an "encore..."
>
> He'd been playing overtime from what I remember. The security in the place
> turned off the sound system. The monitor was all that was running. Nobody
> wanted to go home.
>
> That was a seriously AWESOME night. Probably one of the best nights of my
> life. I doubt I'll ever experience anyting like that ever again.
>
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