Hang the DJ, pt. II

As already anounced, here's a little story about the DJing-issue. Since a couple of years now i treat the parties down in KHG with sounds. Sometimes better, sometimes worse: The best experience was probably when people were jumping so much that the wooden platform they were dancing on collapsed. The worst was definitely when i emptied the dancefloor within half an hour. In between there were a lot of smaller incidents i will never forget. Like, long ago, after having ended my session on the decks i was talking to that girl i then had a slight crush on. During our conversation she suddenly stated that "the music really had gotten better since one half hour ago". Well, that was exactly when i quit my session.



When i started this special hobby my prime motivation was a really pure one: to make people convert to "good" music. Which was, of course, my taste of music. I was young and strict and the idea of playing, say, Bon Jovi instead of New Order didn't even come to my mind and corresponding wishes (for Bon Jovi, of course) were answered with a killing glance. How the times are changing. Nowadays i check the applicant's body measures first. Just kidding. But anyway, vain spinning of records against the general public's opinion is, in the long run, a foolish endeavour. This doesn't mean that i play Bon Jovi now - the correspondent wish for is still being answered with a killing glance - but i arranged mayself. Less indie, more mainstream.



Finally here are some advices for future Pushers of the Play-Button:
1.) The girl rubbing, ahm, the upper part of her body against your back is NOT in love with you. She doesn't even want to kiss you. She is simply drunk and tries to make you play that song you rejected playing for her boyfriend 5 minutes ago.
2.) Your audience may be a really sophistcated bunch of people, but after a certain level of consumation they drop their ideals. You better do the same. Play YMCA.
3.) Do not drop ALL of your ideals: Do not play Bon Jovi. Even if the girl you had a slight crush on a couple of years ago demands "It's my life" persistingly.
4.) People usually do not remember what you were playing in the beginning of your set, unless they are still sober. Do not hesitate to play a song a second time if you think that in this very moment it fits perfectly into your set. Nobody will notice it.
5.) Don't think that your audience consists of musical cave wo/men. Some of them have taste and style. Consider their hints ingenuously!
6.) Play fuckin' loud.

My personal "worst of" what people asked me to play (no specific order):
- "Something of Bon Jovi"
- "Böhse Onkelz"
- "Can't you play more commerce?!?!?"
- "The Austrian National Anthem"
- "More Hip-Hop" (at that point i had played hip-hop/reggae for almost one hour)