What they normally do is pull out a quirky record, or a favourite, something special - this is what I notice Derrick does. Stacey pulled out a drum 'n' bass record once, he dug real deep to find it. These were at the Innovator parties here and the promoter Richard M always instructed his staff to let the DJ go over if he wanted to and to allow them do an encore. It's a symbolic thing and it's a nice gesture - DJ etiquette!. It's in the context of the night. In text it may sound strange. It's not as naff as below, it's like the music stops, people holla, 'one more, one more' and the DJ finally relents and maybe plays a track or mixes for a few more minutes, this way the crowd thanks the DJ and the DJ thanks the crowd, it's about the love, man! It's often spontaneous and fits in with the mood of the night - especially when you consider at the end of a 3 hour set the loyal kids are remaining. I guess it depends on how you view the DJ - as a performer/shaman or just some MF playing records.
---------- >From: Eric Scuccimarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 313 Detroit <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: Re: [313] may's djing >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:55 PM > > 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. >> >>---------- >> >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. >> > >> > _________________________________________________________________ >> > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
