Last night, remember I live in a city of approx. 150,000, in Finland, I had agreed to play for a second time in this event titled; "Bounce Around the World Pt. 2".
As its predecessor, which I killed with CDJ's last autumn, was a party for exchange students at our university,
where the emphasis would be on music around the world (read=not sung in English).
Nice idea, eh?
The guy who promoted the night, a student in my alumni, wanted that I'd play more R&B/Hip-Hop/"laid-back" in downstairs, while his german DJ-friend played some techno/electro/trance upstairs (where I, as I said, packed the floor last time).
He suggested before the event that the ratio of English/other languages would be 50/50,
said: "OK, I'll try, but won't guarantee it."
After some sound issues, I started.
Fifteen minutes after start:
Girl: Is this some world-music night?
Me: Yes. Didn't you see the posters? (Hard to miss, even for a blind person.)
Girl: Well, this sucks. I'm from Vantaa (equivalent to saying to an American DJ, that you're from NYC or LA, read= I'm richer and better than you), on my friends birthday, and I wanna party! Play some top40 stuff!
Me: OK, how about Low? (were on the early steps of becoming conquered by that.)
Girl: No, that's like a year old (???), I want something newer, play Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music" (?!?).
Procedeed to play that in a blend, floor starts packing, then some Daft Punk, Stardust, few house tracks with Latin flavor, then Pitbull's Fuego remix.
Right after that, dancefloor half full:
Trio of Latin girls: SHAKIIIRAA! Play some SHAAAKIIRAAA!
Me: Don't have it (using search library function, showing that I really don't have it).
Trio: PLAY SOME LATIN MUSIIIIC!!!
Me: (Pointing to the speakers, in the middle of Don Omar's verse) LISTEN!
Trio: .......... (Running to the floor)
01.30
In the middle of 90's Rap/R&B set, playing Mariah's "Fantasy", Gin&Juice, California Love, French Rap, etc.
Girl: Play Basshunter's "Boten Anna"!
Me: No.
Girl: Why not? This is international party, the Swedes would like to hear that!
Me: NO! I won't play it, cos I hate it, and it's played out, and it will kill the floor.
(For those of you unfamiliar, its the Europe equivalet of Soulja Boy :
Watchwww.youtube.com)
01.45
The Girl returns, with friends:
Dynamic Duo: Now listen, we paid to get in (lowly 2€), and we WANT to hear Boten Anna!
Why don't you play it?
Me: I hate it, its played out, and I wouldn't play it for a million euros!
DD are really taken back, their reaction being, like I'd just said really blasphemic.
Then they heat up, start to argue, one of them bumps the needle,SKREEEEEECH!, crowd looks at me, I point to DD, bouncers throw them out, problem solved.
At 02.00, in the middle of D&B-set, Tarantula is playing, floor on fire,
German dude comes up to me:
GD: Hi! I'm a DJ in Germany and you're very good, but you should play (not: could you play) Nothing Else Matters.
Me: If I'd have it I wouldn't play it right now.
GD: Well, play something up-beat then. (Pendulum's "Tarantula" not up-beat enough?)
At the end of the night, when I'm lugging my stuff out, I see the German DJ who played upstairs, to a crowd of 5-15, according to my girlfriend who was there three times.
He and the promoter (who, by the way is a very mediocre backpack-deskdrawer-rapper), are heading home. "Promoter" asks: "What did you do back there? Weren't supposed to play international stuff?"
I could see, that he was disappointed, but my set was pure cross-genre FIRE, and I did drop non-english tunes where ever possible.
But I talked to the ticket vendors, and we had sold some 500+ tickets, on a Thursday night.
And the drink sales must have been quite good to the club itself. We even had some customers, who were a part of the start-up crew of a huge cruise ship, really enjoyed themselves.
One of them even tipped me,when I dropped Pitbull's "Get Freaky".
I'm just tired of all these jealous haters, wannabe DJs and dumb douches who really believe that every motherfucking request they make will get played INSTANTLY, just because they paid to get in.
I suppose these same dimwits go to Avril's gigs and ask her to play some Beatles and Slayer?
