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Shaun
22-06-2006, 03:04 PM
We've all had the comments.

(when the dancefloor is full) "play something we can dance too"

(kids pointing to the mixer) "do you know what all those buttons do?"

(Person comes up to to stage) "Are you the DJ?"

"what songs have you got?" [ do they really expect me to recite my whole music library..lol? ]

(guests approaches) "can you play ________, and play it NOW !!!" [I'm happy to take requests..but I don't take demands :) ]



Feel free to add to the list......

Solitaire Events Ltd
22-06-2006, 03:10 PM
"Got anything decent"

"Have you finished" (After 5 minutes of silence and packing gear down)

"Everyone will dance to this if you play it"

"Two coffees please" (Someone thought I was a waiter, years ago....)

Fresh
22-06-2006, 03:11 PM
when you are broken down and packing away .... can you just make an anouncement for Mr Jones, there is a cab waiting outside

dj_ags
22-06-2006, 03:13 PM
"Can you play Usher - Yeah?"

"If you listen closely enough, you will realise that we are currently playing it!"

"Can you announce that the buffet is open?"

"I've already done so, about a minute ago!"

"Can you play any slow songs please?"

"We will do later on in the night, but we are playing an upbeat dance set at the moment!"

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 03:30 PM
(Person comes up to the stage) "Can you play Usher - Yeah?"

"If you listen closely enough, you will realise that we are currently playing it!"Have you got any reggae?

"I think you'll find I'm actually playing Bob Marley!"



"You know what would go well after this?........ Something by the Monkees"

(song currently playing - I'm a believer (not Vic & Bob & EMF))


(Person comes up to the stage) "Can you announce that the buffet is open?"

"I've already done so!"
"Can you announce that the buffet is open?"

"I think you'll find that the stampede of people that nearly knocked you over on your way up here was a result of me having done just that"

"Got any Garage?" Actually let's not go there I'm in a good mood today. :teeth:

Corabar Entertainment
22-06-2006, 03:34 PM
"Got any Garage?" Actually let's not go there I'm in a good mood today. :teeth:Just look at his signature and you'll get the idea :teeth:

dj_ags
22-06-2006, 03:35 PM
Have you got any reggae?

"I think you'll find I'm actually playing Bob Marley!"

The same goes for Motown requests!

"Can you play any Motown for us old farts?"

"If you listen carefully, we're actually playing some Diana Ross!"


It gets me it really does! If people listen, and think twice about what they are about to say, then these stupid comments would be thankfully avoided!

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 03:49 PM
The same goes for Motown requests!

"Can you play any Motown for us old farts?"

"If you listen carefully, we're actually playing some Diana Ross!"


It gets me it really does! If people listen, and think twice about what they are about to say, then these stupid comments would be thankfully avoided!Of course there are those people out there who believe that Motown is actually a Genre as opposed to a Record Label
Just look at his signature and you'll get the idea :teeth:Not just that, to quote something I posted on 100% Biker


Garage "music", not just the music but the fact that that particular genre has stolen a name allready in use since the 60's

Garage is bands like MC5, the Stooges, the Sonics, the Fabulous Wailers, Moving Sidewalks (they turned into ZZ Top you know), the Seeds, ? & the Mysterians, Radio Birdman, the Hoodoo Gurus, the Lime Spiders, the Scientists, the Playn Jayn, the Fuzztones, the Prisoners, the Milkshakes, thee Headcoats, thee Mighty Caesars, the Golden Horde, thee Hypnotics, the Solarflares, the Buff Medways, the Hexxers, thee Headcoatees, the Kaisers, the Trashmen, the Neanderthals, the Mummies, the Scamps, the Sin Tones, the Wigs (anyone remember them?) the Surfin' Lungs, the Swinging Neckbreakers, Paul Bearer & the Hearsemen, the Bootmen, the Galaxies, the Litter, the Outcasts, Unrelated Segments, the Castaways, Flash & the Memphis Casuals, the Oxford Circle, Teddy & His Patches, Count Five, the Music Machine, the Electric Company, the Vagrants, Madd Inc, Mouse & The Traps, the Orfuns, Lindy & The Lavells, the Soul Vendors, the Wilde Knights & the Hypnomen.

NOT DJ LUCK & MC F****N NEAT!

A-L_Vibez
22-06-2006, 05:01 PM
Ive got an email from a fellow DJ about this you have prob all seen it but ill post it anyway!

Things not to say to a DJ
When asking him for a request....

1) When are you going to play something good?
Firstly, you're saying my music is crap. Secondly, you appear to expect me to read your mind and work out what you like. I suggest you leave before I stab you with this ballpoint pen. Sod Off!!

2) If you play XXXXX everyone will dance!
Nothing is guaranteed to be further from the truth. If I play this track everyone will flock off the dance floor leaving you stood on your own in the middle. Until you feel stupid and leave. Having killed the atmosphere. Thanks a bunch.

3) Why you playing this ****? Nobody likes it!
That would explain the packed dance floor would it? If you don't particularly care for it sir, please wait 10 minutes and the music will change. To something else you can whinge about.

4) Can you play XXXX in the next 10 minutes because I've got to go home?
No. I'm trying to entertain those who are staying for the whole night. I'm not going to destroy the atmosphere I've cultivated to play The Village People at 9:30. You want to hear it, you wait until 11:00ish when it'll actually go down well.

5) Have you got any dance music? Would that be House, Garage, Trance, Hard House, Disco, Euro pop, Hi Energy, Techno, Vocal House, Drum n Bass (ugh!) or Happy Hardcore?

6) Can I have a look at your CDs?
No. They are the tools of my living. They are arranged in a specific order. They are also a convenient size to hide under a jacket as you leave. You thieving little pikey.

7) What have you got?
Look, I carry over 250 CDs, with over 5000 tracks. I’m not about to list them for you. And no, you can't look. No. You can't press that button either.

8) When are you going to play something recent?
Oooh. About 30 seconds ago. And I'll probably play some more as soon as I've played some 70s for your Mom. Patience is a virtue. Now sod off.

9) Can you play [insert heavy metal tune]?
No. This is a wedding. You are the only person in this room who actually like to make his/her ears bleed. I know you have a bedroom wall full of their posters and you tattooed the lead singer's name on your arm with a compass and ink. But believe me, no one else likes them. And, contrary to your firm belief, the sight of you standing alone in the middle of the dance floor flicking your long greasy hair backwards and forwards, killing off your remaining brain cells, will not make young women weak at the knees. Queasy in the stomach maybe.

Discodaz
22-06-2006, 05:08 PM
Ive got an email from a fellow DJ about this you have prob all seen it but ill post it anyway!

Things not to say to a DJ
When asking him for a request....

1) When are you going to play something good?
Firstly, you're saying my music is crap. Secondly, you appear to expect me to read your mind and work out what you like. I suggest you leave before I stab you with this ballpoint pen. Sod Off!!

2) If you play XXXXX everyone will dance!
Nothing is guaranteed to be further from the truth. If I play this track everyone will flock off the dance floor leaving you stood on your own in the middle. Until you feel stupid and leave. Having killed the atmosphere. Thanks a bunch.

3) Why you playing this ****? Nobody likes it!
That would explain the packed dance floor would it? If you don't particularly care for it sir, please wait 10 minutes and the music will change. To something else you can whinge about.

4) Can you play XXXX in the next 10 minutes because I've got to go home?
No. I'm trying to entertain those who are staying for the whole night. I'm not going to destroy the atmosphere I've cultivated to play The Village People at 9:30. You want to hear it, you wait until 11:00ish when it'll actually go down well.

5) Have you got any dance music? Would that be House, Garage, Trance, Hard House, Disco, Euro pop, Hi Energy, Techno, Vocal House, Drum n Bass (ugh!) or Happy Hardcore?

6) Can I have a look at your CDs?
No. They are the tools of my living. They are arranged in a specific order. They are also a convenient size to hide under a jacket as you leave. You thieving little pikey.

7) What have you got?
Look, I carry over 250 CDs, with over 5000 tracks. I’m not about to list them for you. And no, you can't look. No. You can't press that button either.

8) When are you going to play something recent?
Oooh. About 30 seconds ago. And I'll probably play some more as soon as I've played some 70s for your Mom. Patience is a virtue. Now sod off.

9) Can you play [insert heavy metal tune]?
No. This is a wedding. You are the only person in this room who actually like to make his/her ears bleed. I know you have a bedroom wall full of their posters and you tattooed the lead singer's name on your arm with a compass and ink. But believe me, no one else likes them. And, contrary to your firm belief, the sight of you standing alone in the middle of the dance floor flicking your long greasy hair backwards and forwards, killing off your remaining brain cells, will not make young women weak at the knees. Queasy in the stomach maybe.

LMFAO!

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 05:13 PM
7) What have you got?
Look, I carry over 250 CDs, with over 5000 tracks. I’m not about to list them for you. And no, you can't look. No. You can't press that button either.Only 250! Bloody amateur! :teeth:


9) Can you play [insert heavy metal tune]?
No. This is a wedding. You are the only person in this room who actually like to make his/her ears bleed. I know you have a bedroom wall full of their posters and you tattooed the lead singer's name on your arm with a compass and ink. But believe me, no one else likes them. And, contrary to your firm belief, the sight of you standing alone in the middle of the dance floor flicking your long greasy hair backwards and forwards, killing off your remaining brain cells, will not make young women weak at the knees. Queasy in the stomach maybe. Watch it Matey!!!!! :teeth:

Has nobody told you rock is outselling all other types of music at the moment. (this is according to Q Magazine, Mojo, Virgin Radio & BBC 6 Music, anongst others. Before you ask)

soundtracker
22-06-2006, 05:19 PM
She didn't say Rock, she said heavy metal- you genre twisting hippy!! :teeth: :teeth:

Corabar Entertainment
22-06-2006, 05:21 PM
PMSL!!! :teeth: :teeth:

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 05:25 PM
She didn't say Rock, she said heavy metal- you genre twisting hippy!! :teeth: :teeth:
& what is Heavy Metal if not a sub-genre of Rock??

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/

Discodaz
22-06-2006, 05:26 PM
PMSL!!! :teeth: :teeth:


Ditto !!

colinm345
22-06-2006, 05:32 PM
& what is Heavy Metal if not a sub-genre of Rock??

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/


Lol

Btw Motown is also a genre:teeth:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rbeach/teachingmedia/module9/5c.htm

Corabar Entertainment
22-06-2006, 05:40 PM
Lol

Btw Motown is also a genre:teeth:

No strangers to the genre, Human Nature have been including Motown covers in their live ... A major part of the motown genre was giving equal importance to ...Oh God! Don't get him started Colin! It's one of his 'pet' subjects.

IMHO, the answer is you are both right: It is technically a record label but it has become known as a sub-genre of soul.... although a lot of what people call 'Motown' wasn't on the Motown label!

ian8limelight
22-06-2006, 05:44 PM
Here's some more:-

Q "Have you got any Garage/House/Rave, etc" ?
A "What do you mean by Garage/House/Rave, etc" ?
Q "You know ................. (you've guessed it !!!)"


"Can you play me that song that has got (such and such) in Verse 2. Can't remember who it's by/what its called ?"


"Can you play some modern music ?" (Latest pop/dance sound in the background)

Shaun
22-06-2006, 05:44 PM
My clients say motown is a genre. The customers always right...lol.

Shaun
22-06-2006, 05:46 PM
Another pet peeve is people singing lyrics to a song really badly and really loudly in my ear then saying "so have you heard that song". I usually reply "yes, but not quite that version" :D

soundtracker
22-06-2006, 06:13 PM
Another pet peeve is people singing lyrics to a song really badly and really loudly in my ear then saying "so have you heard that song". I usually reply "yes, but not quite that version" :D
Answer, "No, I haven't got any CD's where the artist sings flat and out of tune, well apart from Ronan Keating obviously!" :teeth:

colinm345
22-06-2006, 06:17 PM
Got anything we can dance to...They say

The floors full and pushed for room..I say

I dont mean them,I mean us.. they say

Wolfie
22-06-2006, 06:26 PM
can i sing the next karaoke song
(no, because this is the last song & i'm going home!.)
One that Colin can recall i'm sure & noted in another thread...

Will you play an extra hour...
(get your wallet out & i'll consider it, overtime is charged at £30 if i'm in a good mood & whatever i feel like if i'm in a bad mood & right now i'm not a happy camper)

Do you want me to get you a drink?? / some food from the kitchens??
(erm... does a Reliant Robin have 3 wheels??)

Can i have a go mate?
(certainly, on the condition that I can come to where you work on monday morning, take your job over & **** everything up... i'm sure the person paying you will be very pleased that some amateur has come along & well & truly stuffed things up)

I'm a DJ. I'm dead good at it as well.
(so why have they booked me then & not you?, let's ponder on that for a moment.)

Do you ever use computers?
(read the back of the shirt i'm wearing, I think you will find the URL on there's a hint!)

"i've got some DJ kit at home...dead good stuff, Soundlab, top make, they are fantastic"
(my dear friend, you have a lot to learn)

"if you ain't using a set of 1210's you are not a proper DJ".
(Ok i'll come home then shall I?, please let the person paying me aware of your findings. By the way if you hadn't noticed I'm here because it's a mobile disco for your aunties wedding.... not playing house music in Manumission!)

& my favourite... the scenario with the pub landlord who you discover has booked some imbecile to DJ for him.

"we will definately book you again"
(if you don't find anyone cheaper that is & then when they let you down you'll come creeping back)

ian8limelight
22-06-2006, 06:28 PM
can i sing the next karaoke song
(no, because this is the last song & i'm going home!.)
One that Colin can recall i'm sure & noted in another thread...

Will you play an extra hour...
(get your wallet out & i'll consider it, overtime is charged at £30 if i'm in a good mood & whatever i feel like if i'm in a bad mood & right now i'm not a happy camper)

Do you want me to get you a drink?? / some food from the kitchens??
(erm... does a Reliant Robin have 3 wheels??)

Can i have a go mate?
(certainly, on the condition that I can come to where you work on monday morning, take your job over & **** everything up... i'm sure the person paying you will be very pleased that some amateur has come along & well & truly stuffed things up)

I'm a DJ. I'm dead good at it as well.
(so why have they booked me then & not you?, let's ponder on that for a moment.)

Do you ever use computers?
(read the back of the shirt i'm wearing, I think you will find the URL on there's a hint!)

"i've got some DJ kit at home...dead good stuff, Soundlab, top make, they are fantastic"
(my dear friend, you have a lot to learn)

"if you ain't using a set of 1210's you are not a proper DJ".
(Ok i'll come home then shall I?, please let the person paying me aware of your findings. By the way if you hadn't noticed I'm here because it's a mobile disco for your aunties wedding.... not playing house music in Manumission!)

& my favourite... the scenario with the pub landlord who you discover has booked some imbecile to DJ for him.

"we will definately book you again"
(if you don't find anyone cheaper that is & then when they let you down you'll come creeping back)



Wolfie,

You're a star .............. very funny indeed some of these.

Wolfie
22-06-2006, 06:44 PM
As i've said a few times, when you get the people who come over, criticize everything you do & tell you you are doing your job wrong, or that you are playing the wrong music (despite the fact they give you a list & that song is on it!!)

in the words of Billy Connolly.. "I don't come to where you work & tell you how to sweep up, so don't come here & tell me how to do my job."

Have a disco
22-06-2006, 06:57 PM
Of course there are those people out there who believe that Motown is actually a Genre as opposed to a Record LabelNot just that, to quote something I posted on 100% Biker


Garage - do you do you like it? is it is it wicked? Im luvin it luvin it luvin it
- Yo rewind Bo selecta

hmm 2 generations two styles ha ha ha

could you play some tamla - erm hate to say this mate this is the temptations a Tamla Mowtown group DUH

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 07:03 PM
Garage - do you do you like it? is it is it wicked? Im luvin it luvin it luvin it
- Yo rewind Bo selecta

hmm 2 generations two styles ha ha ha

& the second not even remotely simiar to the first, no direct lineage.

Should be made to change it's name.

What next? a new sub genre of Drum & Bass......Rock 'n' Roll???????????????

Wolfie
22-06-2006, 07:04 PM
I know we go on about those people who sing to you when asking for requests, this was a genuine comment by a person asking for a request.. can you believe some people are so stupid!

a guy comes over,

"do you know the title of that song that goes.... der der der der, Chihuahua, der der der der Chihuahua, der der der der Chihuahua!??"
(... i'm going to say Chihuahua!! i may be wrong)

Have a disco
22-06-2006, 07:14 PM
Will say that there are other genres with 2 styles

R & B
Rock n Roll
Ska
Jive

all have subtle diferent versions

soundtracker
22-06-2006, 07:36 PM
Not genres again???????

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 08:14 PM
Will say that there are other genres with 2 styles

Rock n Roll
Ska
Jive

all have subtle diferent versions
Subtle being the operative word. Not a gaping bloody great chasm! Garage & Garage are not related & the only similarity is that they both came from their respective R & (and or)'n' B These two types of music should not have the same name. First come first served.

Oh & don't mix R&B with R'n'B, even though both stand for Rhythm & Blues (come from the same root, (blues)) there is a massive difference between R&B of Beyonce etc to R'n'B of the Who, Yardbirds, the Stones etc

& as for Swing!!!!! What prat thought that one up?????

soundtracker
22-06-2006, 08:27 PM
The same mindless gink that came up with "Dance". Sheesh! :teeth:

Have a disco
22-06-2006, 08:31 PM
and disco LOL

Corabar Steve
22-06-2006, 08:34 PM
The same mindless gink that came up with "Dance". Sheesh! :teeth:
I have an image in my head of a bespectacled Dr Farnsworth type sitting in a darkened room dribbling all over himself listening to new music......."What Schalll we call thisss one then?"

pdarnett
23-06-2006, 09:36 AM
From last weekend:

Can you play something my wife will know?

my answer: Yes of course.

or the hated:

Can I sing along with your mike.

No no and once again no

Wolfie
23-06-2006, 09:45 AM
I have an image in my head of a bespectacled Dr Farnsworth type sitting in a darkened room dribbling all over himself listening to new music......."What Schalll we call thisss one then?"

http://simpsonovi.comics.cz/Futurama/Profesor%20Farnsworth.gif

Good news everyone, i've just discovered a new music genre it's like RnB & Urban of the early 21st century but we'll just call it "crap!"

soundtracker
23-06-2006, 09:49 AM
He: I'm a professional D J !
Me: Are you indeed? Then you must be gutted?
He: Why?
Me: That you were passed over in favour of a mere amateur like me!
He: (After loud whoooooosh! sound) Uh - got that song from the eighties, you know the one?
Me: You may need to give me a little more to play with
He: Oh you know, real floor filler, they'll all dance to it!
Me: and you don't know who its by, or what its called
He: I always play it.
Me: and its filed in your box under what?
He: Oh you know the one
Me: Sorry, ain't got a clue
He: Hang on, I'll ask my mate

30 minutes later

He: Me again, you haven't played that song yet!
Me:You haven't told me what it is yet?
He: Oh hang on!
(Goes away again, and eventually returns with a big grin)
He: Last night a DJ saved my life
Me: I thought you said a guaranrteed floorfiller
He: Yeah they'll love it
(Play tune, against my better judgement- floor empties all bar numpty and his mate)
He(returning) that was great
Me: No it cleared the floor!
He: Can you play it again later.
Me: No I'm a professional DJ

Wolfie
23-06-2006, 10:12 AM
or the old classic

Can you play me a song...

yes

cheers...

(person that leaves the room & goes into the other bar....you play the song... an hour passes)


"why haven't you played my request"

I did

when

about 20 minutes ago

i didn't hear it

well i played it

no you didn't

yes i did...

well... ermm ..i ... erm... was in the loo/bar/outside on my phone can you play it again.

(are you going to listen to it this time or **** off again)

this is one big advantage about computer systems.. at least if people argue the fact you've not played a request, you can on many packages go through the playlist history & show them the precise moment of the night you played that track as proof when they argue with you.

Corabar Entertainment
23-06-2006, 10:33 AM
One of our DJs last weekend was doing a Holy Comminion Party in the afternoon for both adults & children.

Half way through the gig the customer came up to him and said "Are you going to put any lights on" ......"Erm, they are on, but it is extremely bright in here".
Reply: "Oh yes, of course"

Follow up: Today received the questionnaire with nothing but praise for the DJ... very nice, flexible, good with kids, etc but comment made "Not much lighting" :omg: (I give up!)

colinm345
23-06-2006, 10:33 AM
Subtle being the operative word. Not a gaping bloody great chasm! Garage & Garage are not related & the only similarity is that they both came from their respective R & (and or)'n' B These two types of music should not have the same name. First come first served.

Oh & don't mix R&B with R'n'B, even though both stand for Rhythm & Blues (come from the same root, (blues)) there is a massive difference between R&B of Beyonce etc to R'n'B of the Who, Yardbirds, the Stones etc

& as for Swing!!!!! What prat thought that one up?????

I know that you are well into Genre,and not trying to be argumentative with you for one moment as I find it all rather fascinating but I am sure The Who are a Rock band
Welcome to Petetownshend.com (http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/&revid=490701757&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&ct=result&cd=1)
Official site for the lead guitarist of legendary rock band The Who.

How right you are with R&B differences:teeth:

Corabar Steve
23-06-2006, 10:37 AM
From last weekend:

Can you play something my wife will know?

my answer: Yes of course.

My answer: Probably, find out what she knows & let me know :teeth:

Corabar Steve
23-06-2006, 10:46 AM
Sorry Colin, I missed this we must've been posting at the same time
I know that you are well into Genre,and not trying to be argumentative with you for one moment as I find it all rather fascinating but I am sure The Who are a Rock band
Welcome to Petetownshend.com (http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/&revid=490701757&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&ct=result&cd=1)
Official site for the lead guitarist of legendary rock band The Who.

How right you are with R&B differences:teeth:They kind of "became" a rock band when the term broadened

Let me just say (despite the typo on the cover that any purist would spot a mile off) I rest my case. :teeth:

reemicks disco
23-06-2006, 10:47 AM
Was packing all leads up and getting lights down when we was approached by some bloke asking whether we had finished for the night,

Alex - Cream Ents
23-06-2006, 10:47 AM
In fairness this usually applies at Uni / College / younger based events.

Guest: "Oy mate this song's ****"

I look ahead of me to a full dancefloor...

Me: "It seems to be going down fairly well, is there anything I can play for you?"

Guest: "Well no-one here likes this type of music, play something decent."

This can be perhaps an R&B fan if playing rock / dance or vice versa...

Me: "Anything in particular?"

Guest: "Yea....(insert innapropriate request that will either offend or clear dance floor)..."

Me: "I'll see if I can find it"

However, I can handle a couple of these amongst the usually good fun nights I have at these events!

reemicks disco
23-06-2006, 10:52 AM
I (maree) personally refuse to give mick any cd's if the client is down right rude to me, it never hurt anyone to use there manners. Have had young lads say to me put my song on now! i always reply to them, until you ask decent then you won't get it on, hate rudness.

Paul James Promotions
23-06-2006, 10:57 AM
The best ones i've had at Karaokes...

1) How much does it cost to sing on the Karaoke?

2) Do you mind if I have a little dance while people are singing?

:teeth: :teeth:

Corabar Entertainment
23-06-2006, 11:03 AM
LOL! Those 2 are new ones to me, Jamie!

......and the prize for the most original answer goes to.... :teeth:

colinm345
23-06-2006, 11:06 AM
Sorry Colin, I missed this we must've been posting at the same timeThey kind of "became" a rock band when the term broadened

Let me just say (despite the typo on the cover that any purist would spot a mile off) I rest my case. :teeth:

Thanks for that Steve have a look under the category ,and by the way i tell a few porkys I am turning 61 on July 3rd I think I have been listening to music when most were in their prams:teeth:

Corabar Steve
23-06-2006, 11:06 AM
The best ones i've had at Karaokes...

1) How much does it cost to sing on the Karaoke?

2) Do you mind if I have a little dance while people are singing?

:teeth: :teeth:
Thing is with number one some people use Karaoke as a charity fund raiser (Pay to sing) so if they've only been to one like that then they might assume that you have to pay at all karaoke events.

2 reminded me, I once actually had somebody ask if it was allright to dance when I was doing DISCO!!!!!!!

Corabar Steve
23-06-2006, 11:07 AM
Thanks for that Steve have a look under the category ,and by the way i tell a few porkys I am turning 61 on July 3rd I think I have been listening to music when most were in their prams:teeth:
:teeth: :teeth: :teeth:

Corabar Steve
03-07-2006, 06:53 PM
This weekend's daftest question


Friday night, I'm stood on the deck stand hanging off the goalpost, setting up my lighting rig (with music already running so guests in next room can hear, but that's beside the point)

Woman comes in "Are you doing tonight's disco?" The reply that came out was quite boring, but the one in my head was along thelines of "No, I just had the most overwhelming urge to have a climb"

leighinstoke
03-07-2006, 08:35 PM
Hee hee - good one Steve.

I've had some stunners in the past:

"Have you got a microphone?" - No I'll just shout or roll up a paper cone.

Best recent one;

Punter: "Have you got such and such?"

...types into PCDJ search facility and up come about 20 tracks.

Punter: "Oh.....I can't see that - I haven't got my glasses on"

Words, at that point, often do fail me.

Another thing that works;

I've found the best weapon against kids who pester me - pens and paper at the point where they can get to speak to me - I just point to the paper and they automatically write their requests (must be the teacher in me!) - and I also get written things like 'please give my mum a shout' or 'My mate fancies you' (her mate is 7) or often I get drawings of some random object. I can then look at what they want and censor the list.


All part of the fun and games.

Leigh....

musicbox
03-07-2006, 10:53 PM
Steve with reference to RnB i thought this stood for rythem and bass like drum and bass = DnB

Or am I completely wrong ?

Corabar Steve
03-07-2006, 11:00 PM
Rhythm & Blues, the worrying thing is they both come from the same root

Paul James Promotions
04-07-2006, 03:15 PM
When you have a 1000 people dancing to 80's classics and a guy comes up and demads 'Drum & Bass' because it will get people dancing.... :rolleyes:

Corabar Steve
04-07-2006, 03:20 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong sir, but I can hear drums & yes that's definately bass. Now **** off! :teeth:

dj andy allwood
04-07-2006, 03:30 PM
what about BUBBLE GUM POP lol

BeerFunk
04-07-2006, 06:58 PM
Er.... what about bubble gum pop?? :confused:

dj andy allwood
04-07-2006, 07:16 PM
sorry just got me thinking about stupid names for music

BeerFunk
04-07-2006, 07:31 PM
Aah right... I thought it was a term given to stuff like Britney Spears, S Club 7 etc etc

Have a disco
04-07-2006, 08:27 PM
Er can you play some funky house

Yes Sir Which generation are you After 70's disco house which was funky, 80's pop club house another generation or the early 90's soul house which was also classed as funky house or the newer version which is basically back to square one sir

erm I dont know mate have you got any

yes mate any particular track?????

I'll go and check with me mates never to be seen again all night

off they trundle completely bamboozled

I remember when it was just called disco then house music now its coming full circle again with yet another genre name funky house what a load of cobblers to put it mildly

Corabar Steve
04-07-2006, 09:58 PM
I thought the term house was coined in the 80's???????????

Solitaire Events Ltd
04-07-2006, 09:59 PM
I thought the term house was coined in the 80's???????????

It was, in Chicago.

Corabar Steve
04-07-2006, 10:06 PM
So what's this 70's disco house I hear spoken of?

BeerFunk
04-07-2006, 10:41 PM
Eh?? 70's disco house?? :confused:

As I understand it, house evolved like this :

70's - disco, 80's - house, 90's funky house

Corabar Steve
04-07-2006, 10:46 PM
Got it, 70's Disco House, where you went to dance in the 70's :teeth:

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 08:59 AM
:)
Aah right... I thought it was a term given to stuff like Britney Spears, S Club 7 etc etc

yeah your right really crap pop music

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 09:03 AM
the latest genre is minimal techno................... erm lets just call everything music eh???

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-07-2006, 09:18 AM
:)

yeah your right really crap pop music

And the sort of stuff us mobiles play all the time....

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 10:38 AM
And the sort of stuff us mobiles play all the time....

yeah but the good thing is when your playing a song you hate you can just put your headphones on and listen to a better one like i do :teeth:

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 10:39 AM
C ountry
R ock
A nd
P op

thats what i got told crap stands for lol

BeerFunk
05-07-2006, 10:49 AM
yeah but the good thing is when your playing a song you hate you can just put your headphones on and listen to a better one like i do :teeth:

Lmao, and I thought I was the only one to do that! :teeth:

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 10:54 AM
Lmao, and I thought I was the only one to do that! :teeth:

do we all do that then? :teeth:

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 01:35 PM
Eh?? 70's disco house?? :confused:

As I understand it, house evolved like this :

70's - disco, 80's - house, 90's funky house

Kool & the gang were playing funky disco (early house), it then become mainstream house in the 80s with PWL pop house as well in the late 80's with detroit house ie; JM'silk'Hurley. they merged in the 90's to become the house we know now ie M-People Robin S etc etc, funky house has only been about since 2000+ as ever the basics is about the beat wether buy drum or machine is just above or beyond interpretation but it all can be labeled under the HOUSE groupage

And Yes Disco was its beginning

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-07-2006, 01:37 PM
Sorry, complete rubbish...

PWL were putting out house tunes before The House sound of Chicago??

I don't think so.

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 01:50 PM
actually house music came from hip hop beats and developed there own style so ner lol

Shaun
05-07-2006, 01:55 PM
Ok...this was published in a dj magazine (can't remember which one) circa 1995.

Enjoy the lesson ;)


The History Of House
It's been ten years since the first identifiably house tracks were put on to vinyl, ten years which have changed the technology behind the electronic music revolution beyond recognition but left the basic structure of house intact. It's seven years since it was being said house couldn't last, that it was just hi-NRG, a fast blast that would wither as quickly as it had started. But then the music reinvented itself, and then again and again until it gradually dawned on people that house wasn't just another phase of club culture, it was club culture, the continuing future of dance music. The reason? It's simple. People like to dance to house.

The roots to 1985
Like it or not, house was first and foremost a direct descendant of disco. Disco had already been going for ten years when the first electronic drum tracks began to appear out of Chicago, and in that time it had already suffered the slings and arrows of merciless commercial exploitation, dilution and racial and sexual prejudice which culminated in the 'disco sucks' campaign. In one bizarrely extreme incident, people attending a baseball game in Chicago's Komishi Park were invited to bring all their unwanted disco records and after the game they were tossed onto a massive bonfire. Disco eventually collapsed under a heaving weight of crass disco versions of pop records and an ever-increasing volume of records that were simply no good. But the underground scene had already stepped off and was beginning to develop a new style that was deeper, rawer and more designed to make people dance. Disco had already produced the first records to be aimed specifically at DJs with extended 12" versions that included long percussion breaks for mixing purposes and the early eighties proved a vital turning point. Sinnamon's 'Thanks To You', D-Train's 'You're The One For Me' and The Peech Boys' 'Don't Make Me Wait', a record that's been continually sampled over the last decade, took things in a different direction with their sparse, synthesized sounds that introduced dub effects and drop-outs that had never been heard before.
But it wasn't just American music laying the groundwork for house. European music, spanning English electronic pop like Depeche Mode and Soft Cell and the earlier, more disco based sounds of Giorgio Moroder, Klein & MBO and a thousand Italian productions were immensely popular in urban areas like New York and Chicago. One of the reasons for their popularity was two clubs that had simultaneously broken the barriers of race and sexual preference, two clubs that were to pass on into dance music legend - Chicago's Warehouse and New York's Paradise Garage. Up until then, and after, the norm was for Black, Hispanic, White, straight and gay to segregate themselves, but with the Warehouse, opened in 1977 and presided over by Frankie Knuckles and the Garage where Larry Levan spun, the emphasis was on the music. (Ironically, Levan was first choice for the Warehouse, but he didn't want to leave New York). And the music was as varied as the clienteles - r'n'b based Black dance music and disco peppered with things as diverse as The Clash's 'Magnificent Seven'. For most people, these were the places that acted as breeding grounds for the music that eventually came to be known after the clubs - house and garage.

Right from the start there was a difference in approach between New York and Chicago. "All of the records coming out of New York had been either mid or down tempo, and the kids in Chicago wouldn't do that all night long, they needed more energy" commented Frankie Knuckles after his move to Chicago. The Windy City was seduced to a far greater extent by the European sound and when the records started to come, it showed. Whereas garage in New York evolved more smoothly from First Choice and the labels Salsoul, West End and Prelude, there was no such evolution in Chicago. Opinions still differ as to what the first house record was, but it was certainly made by Jessie Saunders and it was on the Mitchball label - probably Z Factor's 'Fantasy', but there was also another Z Factor tune which went by the name of 'I Like To Do It In Fast Cars'. 'Fantasy' sounds extremely dated now but ten years ago it was like a sound from another planet, with echoes of Kraftwerk's heavily synthesized string sounds, a Eurobeat bassline and a simple, insistent drum machine pattern. Suffice to say, the record remained obscure outside the close-knit urban Chicago scene.

"Those records didn't really motivate people" says Adonis, one of the early producers on the Chicago scene. "The first was Jamie Principle's 'Waiting On Your Angel'. See, before there were records there were cassettes, and that was the hottest thing in Chicago. It was so hot Jessie Saunders went in and recorded that track word for word, note for note, and put it out on Larry Sherman's label Precision. It was so influential that four or five records came out that took its sounds." Within a year though, others were fast joining. Saunders, who by then had come out with his Jes-Say label, with Farley Keith (or Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk) getting in on the act. Frankie Knuckles, who had already done some remixes for Salsoul was also beginning to work on his own productions. By 1985 it was clear that something big was beginning to stir. Ron Hardy, who was to become the backbone of the Chicago club scene by consistently breaking the new records, began playing at The Music Box around the same time as Frankie Knuckles left The Warehouse, and other DJs like Farley and the Hot Mix 5 who threw down the mix shows on the radio station WBMX were making names for themselves. But making a record wasn't the priority for most of the DJs at the time - they were making music specifically to play at the clubs and the parties that were beginning to spring up in the city. Larry Heard and Robert Owens, later to be known as Fingers Inc, and Steve Hurley were all experimenting with basic rhythm tracks long before they made the jump to vinyl.

"I started dabbling in making my own music." says Hurley. "Just making tracks to play as a DJ, not really thinking as far as producing - more to do with just having something to play that nobody else had. And one of these tracks, 'Music Is The Key', got such a good response that I decided to borrow some money and go in with another guy, who happened to be Rocky Jones, and put the record out."

That momentous occasion was the beginning of DJ International Records, one of the two labels that was to give all the aspiring producers in the city a chance to get their music on to vinyl. The other, Larry Sherman's Trax Records was already up and running, though to begin with Sherman was attempting to break into a more commercial market with Precision. 'Music Is The Key' (the first house record to include a rap, incidentally) took house on a step by incorporating more musical elements and a vocal, and by the time Chip E's 'Like This', also on DJ International, appeared house had discovered real vocals and the sampled stutter technique that's such an integral part of dub remixes today. "It took a little while for the sound to develop" remembers London DJ Jazzy M, who worked in a record shop at the time and was one of the very first to get house on the radio in Britain with his immensely popular Jackin' Zone show on London pirate station LWR. "When 'Like This' and Adonis' 'No Way Back' came out, that's when it picked up. At first it was just drum machine programs and they were called trax, like there was Chip E Trax and Kenny Jason Trax and that's what house was, with maybe a few dodgy samples. I can remember talking to Colin Faver, who was one of the first DJs here to get into it, about 'Like This' and we were both really excited by it."

Meanwhile, things were gathering pace over in New York though the development was a lot slower. Mixers like Larry Levan, Tony Humphries, Timmy Regisford and Boyd Jarvis, who came straight after Shep Pettibone and Jellybean Benitez were making ground as remixers, and fired by the raw club sound of Colonel Abrams, the deep, soulful club sound that became known as garage was taking shape with early releases on the Supertonics, Easy Street and Ace Beat labels. Paul Scott was one of the first with 'Off The Wall' in 1985 but before that there was Serious Intention's deep dub classic 'You Don't Know' and even before that was World Premiere's 'Share The Night'.

1986
While Frankie Knuckles had laid the groundwork for house at the Warehouse, it was to be another DJ from the gay scene that was really to create the environment for the house explosion - Ron Hardy. Where Knuckles' sound was still very much based in disco, Hardy was the DJ that went for the rawest, wildest rhythm tracks he could find and he made The Music Box the inspirational temple for pretty much every DJ and producer that was to come out of the Chicago scene. He was also the DJ to whom the producers took their very latest tracks so they could test the reaction on the dance floor. Larry Heard was one of those people.
"People would bring their tracks on tape and the DJ would play spin them in. It was part of the ritual, you'd take the tape and see the crowd reaction. I never got the chance to take my own stuff because Robert (Owens) would always get there first."

"The Music Box was underground " remembers Adonis. "You could go there in the middle of the winter and it'd be as hot as hell, people would be walking around with their shirts off. Ron Hardy had so much power people would be praising his name while he was playing, and I've got the tapes to prove it!

"The difference between Frankie and Ronnie was that people weren't making records when Frankie was playing, though all the guys who would become the next DJs were there checking him out. It was The Music Box that really inspired people. I went there one night and the next day I was in the studio making 'No Way Back' " In 1985 the records were few and far between. By 1986 the trickle had turned to a flood and it seemed like everybody in Chicago was making house music. The early players were joined by a rush of new talent which included the first real vocal talents of house - Liz Torres, Keith Nunally who worked with Steve Hurley, and Robert Owens who joined up with Larry Heard to form Fingers Inc, though the duo had already worked with Harri Dennis on The It's 'Donnie' -and key producers like Adonis, Mr Lee, K Alexi and a guy who was developing a deep, melodic sound that relied on big strings and pounding piano - Marshall Jefferson.

Marshall worked with a number of people like Harri Dennis and Vince Lawrence for projects like Jungle Wonz and Virgo, who made the stunning 'RU Hot Enough'. But it was 'Move Your Body' that became THE house record of 1986, so big that both Trax and DJ International found a way to release it, and it was no idle boast when the track was subtitled 'The House Music Anthem', because that's exactly what it was. Jefferson was to become the undisputed king of house, going on to make a string of brilliant records with Hercules and On The House and developing the quintessential deep house sound first with vocalist Curtis McClean and then with Ce Ce Rogers and Ten City. "I can remember clearing a floor with that record" laughs Jazzy M. "Though they'd started playing it in Manchester, most of London was still caught up in that rare groove and hip hop thing. A lot of people were saying to me 'why are you playing this hi- NRG' and it was hard work but people were starting to get into it." 'Move Your Body' was undoubtedly the record that really kicked off house in the UK, first played repeatedly by the established pirate radio stations in London, which at the time played right across the Black music spectrum, and then by club DJs like Mike Pickering, Colin Faver, Eddie Richards, Mark Moore and Noel and Maurice Watson, the latter two playing at the first club in London to really support house - Delirium.

Radio was the key to the explosion in Chicago. Farley Jackmaster Funk had secured a spot on the adventurous WBMX station, playing after midnight every day, and it wasn't long before he brought in the Hot Mix 5 which included Mickey Oliver, Ralphie Rosario, Mario Diaz and Julian Perez, and Steve Hurley, giving people who couldn't go to the parties the chance to hear the music. Then there was Lil Louis, who was throwing his own parties. By this time, house was moving out of the gay scene and on to wider acceptance, though in Chicago at least it was to remain very much a Black thing. Though a number of Hispanics were on the house scene, the number of White DJs and producers could be counted on one hand.

The labels were still mostly limited to the terrible twins that were to dominate Chicago house for the next two years Trax and DJ International. Between them they had nearly all the local talent sewn up and by popular consent they were just as dodgy as each other, with rumors and stories of rip-offs and generally dubious activity endlessly circulating. Everybody it seemed, was stealing from everybody else. One that remains largely untold involved Frankie Knuckles. "This was the story at the time" recalls Adonis. "Supposedly Frankie sold Jamie Principle's unreleased tapes to DJ International AND Trax at the same time. Then Jamie came out with a record called 'Knucklehead' dissing Frankie. After that Frankie went back to New York."

When Rocky Jones at DJ International became convinced by a larger- than-life character named Lewis Pitzele who was helping put a lot of the deals together at the time that Europe was the place to focus on, house poured into Britain with London Records putting the first compilation of early DJ International material out. As the press bandwagon rolled into action the 86 Chicago House Party featuring Adonis, Marshall Jefferson, Fingers Inc and Kevin Irving toured the UK's clubs. Trax took a little longer

Adonis: "Trax was meant to be a bull label for all the dirty, raggedy records Larry Sherman didn't care about. You know, labels were always trying to do radio stuff, but Trax became popular after 'No Way Back' and 'Move Your Body' and all those tracks." It was DJ International and London who notched up the first house hits, first with Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk's 'Love Can't Turn Around', a cover of the old Isaac Hayes song with camp wailer Daryl Pandy on vocals which reached Number 10 in September 1986, and then a record that spent months gestating in the clubs before it was finally catapulted to Number One in January 1987 - Jim Silk's 'Jack Your Body'. The Americans were gob smacked. Their underground club music was going mainstream four thousand miles from its home. But it was no surprise that Steve Hurley was behind the track, which hit the top despite only having three words - the title. Even then he was the one with the commercial touch. It wasn't a terribly original record - the bassline was from First Choice's 'Let No Man Put Asunder', but it summed up the mood of jack fever. All of a sudden the word 'Jack', which originally described the form of dancing people did to house, was everywhere 'Jack The Box', 'Jack The House', 'Jack To The Sound' 'J-J-J-J-JJack-Jack-Jack-Jack'. It was the stutter sample on the 'J' that took the word into legend. Vaughan Mason's Raze, who'd quietly been doing stuff out of Washington DC burst into the clubs and then followed Jim Silk into the charts with 'Jack The Groove'. And garage? New York simply couldn't match the energy flowing out of Chicago but there was little doubt that the music was developing simultaneously. The Jersey garage sound, boosted by Tony Humphries (who'd also been on the radio since 1981) at Newark's Zanzibar Club, was beginning to take shape with Blaze but the New York club sound was defined at the time by Dhar Braxton's 'Jump Back' and Hanson & Davis' 'Hungry For Your Love' which borrowed heavily from the Latin freestyle sound but echoed the energy of house. And over in Brooklyn, producers like Tommy Musto working for the Underworld/Apexton label were developing a different style again, one that like Chicago seemed to take its roots as much from Eurobeat as from Black music, though the mood and tempo was strictly New York.

1987
While Chicago stole the thunder in 1986, other cities not only in the United States but across the world had either been absorbing house or working on their own thing, biding their time. One record from New York served a warning shot that the city was gearing up for some serious action - 'Do It Properly' by 2 Puerto Ricans, A Blackman and A Dominican. 'Do It Properly' was essentially a bootleg of Adonis' 'No Way Back' with loads of samples and a great electronic keyboard riff squeezed in to it and the first in a long, long line of New York sample house tracks. Its producers were one Robert Clivilles and David Cole, helped by another guy called David Morales. After that some kid in Brooklyn called Todd Terry made a couple of sample tracks with a freestyle groove for Fourth Floor Records by an act he called Masters At Work.
But the sound that was really taking shape in New York and New Jersey was a deep style of club music based on a heritage that had its roots firmly in r'n'b. Though there were some superb deep, emotive instrumentats like Jump St. Man's 'B-Cause', the emphasis was on songs, which came with Arnold Jarvis' 'Take Some Time', Touch's 'Without You', Exit's 'Let's Work It Out' and a record on Movln, a new label run from a record store in New Jersey's East Orange - Park Ave's 'Don't Turn Your Love'. Ironically, as the first garage hits began to appear, The Paradise Garage - Larry Levan had already left - closed, but the vibe carried on with Blaze, who recorded 'If You Should Need A Friend' and Jomanda, both of whom teamed up with new New York label Quark.

Echoing the need for vocals in house music, deep house began to take hold in Chicago. Following Marshall Jefferson's lush productions, the record that defined deep house was the Nightwriters' 'Let The Music Use You', mixed by Frankie Knuckles and sung by Ricky Dillard, a record that a year later was to become one of the anthems of the UK's Summer Of Love. And it didn't end there. Kym Mazelle launched her career with 'Taste My Love' and 'I'm A Lover', while Ralphie Rosario unleashed the monstrous 'You Used To Hold Me' featuring the wailing tonsils of Xavier Gold. Then there was Ragtyme's 'I Can't Stay Away', sung by a guy who sounded a a little like a new Smokey Robinson - Byron Stingily. Soon after, Ragtyme, who also made an extremely silly innuendo track called 'Mr Fixit Man', mutated into Ten Clty. But Chicago's excursion into songs wasn't only characterised by uplifting wailers. There was another side, led by the weird, melanchoty songs of Fingers Inc and beginning to show itself in other minimalist productions like MK II's 'Don't Stop The Muslc' and 2 House People's 'Move My Body'. By 1987, though house was no longer a tale of two cities. The virus was taklng hold elsewhere as clubbers, DJs and producers worldwide became exited by the new music.

It was obvious that Britain, which had already seen a massive boom in club culture in the mid-eighties as the increasingly racially integrated urban areas turned to Black music in favour of the indigeonous indie rock music, would eventually get in on the act. Though acts like Huddersfield's Hotline, The Beatmasters from London and a handful of others who included DJs Ian B and Eddie Richards had been trying to figure things out, the first British house track to really make any noise came from a partnership that included a DJ from Manchester's Hacienda, one of the very first clubs in Britain to devote whole nights to house music - Mike Pickering. With its funk bassline and Latin piano riffs, T-Coy's 'Carino' busted out all over, particularly in London at previously rap and funk clubs like Raw. But with the open nature of the UK pop charts compared to Billboard which was an impossibly tough nut to crack for small labels marketing new music, it was inevitable that the sound would be commercialised. 'Pump Up The Volume' by M/A/R/R/S was a rather lightweight record based on a house beat with a number of clever (at the time) samples but it worked like crazy on the dancefloor and it wasn't long before club support propelled it into the charts, where it held Number 1 for an incredible three weeks. Also in the top ten at the same time was another record that had broken out of Chicago - the House Master Boyz' 'House Nation'. The marketability of house - or pophouse - in the UK became gruesomely apparent with the advent of the 'Jack Mix' series, a number of hideous stars-on-45 style megamixes of all the house hits.

Things were progressing in a much more underground fashion back in the States. A few guys in particular who'd been noticed hanging out in Chicago and checking the scene came from a city just a couple of hundred miles away Detroit. One of them, Juan Atkins, had been making records since the early eighties under the moniker Cybotron which specialised in spacey electro-funk fired by the Euro rhythms of Kraftwerk. But progress had been slow and electro had already fused with rap. By 1985 Atkins' sound was beginning to change with records like Model 500's 'No UFO's', which bore more than a passing resemblance to the new sounds emanating from their neighbouring city. Two other guys who had been to school with Atkins, and who shared his passion for European music were also beginning to experiment with making tracks and heartened by what they heard coming out of Chicago, set to work Their first tracks, X-Ray's 'Let's Go', produced by Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson's 'Triangle Of Love' by Kreem weren't classics by any stretch of the imagination but it didn't tahe them long to hit full power. Kevin came out with 'Force Field' and 'Just Want Another Chance', and Juan pressed on with Model 500's 'Sound Of Stereo' but it was Derrick who really hit the button with Rhythim Is Rhythm's 'Nude Photo', 'Kaos' and 'The Dance', all of which were immediate hits on the Chicago scene, and the latter a record that was to be thieved and sampled again and again for years to come. The Belleville Three, as they became known after the college they attended, made an amusing trio with Kevin as the regular guy, Derrick as the fast-talking nutter and Juan as the laid-back smokehead, but there was more to techno than that. Two other producers who helped forge the different sound were Eddie Fowlkes and Blake Baxter. It was faster, more frantic, even more influenced by European electrobeat and severed the continium with disco and Philadelphia, taking only the space funk basslines of George Ctinton from Black music. They called it techno. But Chicago was also beginning to head off into another direction, the most frenetic form of house yet. It was started by two crazy tracks that Ron Hardy had been pumping at the Music Box and it was going to be perhaps the most important stage of house so far. It was acid.

1988
In truth, acid house had already started long before 1988. Amongst the scores of Chicagoans who were buying equipment and trying to learn how to make tracks was one DJ Pierre, who'd started out playing Italian imports at roller discos in the Chicago suburbs, and who had joined Lil Louis for his notorious parties.
"Phuture was me and two other guys, Spanky and Herbert J." remembers Pierre. "We had this Roland 303, which was a bassline machine, and we were trying to figure out how to use it. When we switched it on, that acid sound was already in it and we liked the sound of it so we decided to add some drums and make a track with it. We gave it to Ron Hardy who started playing it straight away. In fact, the first time he played it, he played it four times in one night! The first time people were like, 'what is this?' but by the the fourth they loved it. Then I started to hear that Ron was playing some new thing they were calling 'Ron Hardy's Acid Trax', and everybody thought it was something he'd made himself. Eventually we found out that it was our track so we called it 'Acid Trax'. I think we may have made it as early as 1985, but Ron was playing it for a long time before it came out."

Explanations for the name of 'acid' have been long and varied, but the most popular, and the one endorsed by a number of people who were there at the time was that they used to put acid in the water at the Music Box. Pierre though, stresses that Phuture was always anti- drugs, and cites a track about a cocaine nightmare, 'Your Only Friend' that was on the same EP as 'Acid Trax'. 'Acid Trax' came out in 1986 but made little impact outside Chicago, as was the case with another acid track, Sleazy D's 'I've Lost Control', which slapped a deranged laugh and some geezer repeating the title over the 303 squelching. 'I've Lost Control' was made by Adonis and Marshall Jefferson and was certainly the first acid track to make it to vinyl, though which was created first will possibly never be known for sure. It wasn't until well into 1987 that the acid sound began to infiltrate Britain, fuelled by another track that was getting a lot club play, and which fitted into the sound Bam Bam's 'Give It To Me', and a diversion of the regular acid track which put vocals into the equation, developed by Pierre's Phantasy Club with 'Fantasy Girl'. The house scene in Britain had faltered following the commercialisation of the poppier end of the spectrum, but towards the end of 1987 the underground was taking off with new LP compilation series like 'Jack Trax' and the opening in London of seminal clubs like Shoom and Spectrum and the move of Delirium to Heaven where the main dancefloor became exclusively house. Delirium's Deep House Convention atLeicester Square's Empire in February 1988 which featured a number of seminal Chicago artists like Kym Mazelle, Fingers Inc, Xavier Gold. Marshall Jefferson and Frankie Knuckles was a depressing event because of the poor turnout. But the people who did go were to be become the prime movers of London's house explosion. The next week a warehouse party called Hedonism was rammed and the soundtrack was acid. Acid house UK style had begun.

As acid tracks like Armando's '151' and 'Land Of Confusion', Bam Bam's 'Where's Your Child' and Adonis' 'The Poke' began to flow out out of Chicago, the scene grew at a rate of knots with Rip, Love, Future, Contusion and Trip opening in London, and the legendary Nude in Manchester. DJs suddenly discovered they had a year's worth of classic house which hitherto they'd been unable to play. When WBMX in Chicago closed down, signalling the end of radio play for the music in the city, it was clear that the emphasis had switched to the UK. Acid house became the biggest youth cult in Britain since punk rock a decade before as British house records like Bang The Party's 'Release Your Body', Jullan Jonah's 'Jealousy & Lies' (later used as the backbone of Electrlbe 101's 'Talking With Myself'), Baby Ford's 'Oochy Koochy', A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray, and Richie Rich's 'Salsa House' became huge club hits, before the chart UK house records emerged with S'Express' 'Theme From S'Express', D-Mob's 'We Call It Acid', which popularised the ridiculous but funny club chant of 'Aciiieeeeed!' and Jolly Roger's 'Acid Man'. Opinions differ as to the effect on the scene of the relatively new drug ecstasy, but there was little doubt that the sudden rise in availabilny of the drug was directly related to the growth of the club scene. Before the tabloids discovered what was going on with their inevitably lurid headlines about 'Acid House Parties' and drug barons, it was easy to see people openly imbibing the drug in any club.

Like Chicago radio was to prove crucial to spreading house in Britain. But this wasn't any kind of legitimate radio. Save for a few token shows, you couldn't hear Black music or dance music on legal radio, and eventually the demand turned into supply in the form of numerous pirate stations, mostly in and around London but also in a few other big cities. Most of them were on and off the air in months or even weeks, but the more organised stations managed to keep going, supplying hungry listeners with the music they wanted to hear - reggae, soul, jazz, hip hop - and house. Steve Jackson's House That Jack Built on Kiss and Jazzy M's 'Jacking Zone' on LWR pumped out the new music week in, week out.

"When LWR was what you call the boom, it was on half a million listeners." says Jazzy M. And we knew that because the surveys were actually being published in newspapers The Jacking Zone was getting 40-50 letters a week and I was broke because all my wages went on new tunes. Once that plane had landed with the imports, I was getting the new records on the show the same night. It was unbelievable."

1988 wasn't just acid it was the year that house first really began to diversify. For a start, there was the 'Balearic' business, an eclectic style of DJing which at the time encompassed dance mixes of pop artists like Mandy Smith and quasi-industrial music like Nitzer Ebb's 'Join In The Chant' Championed by Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway, Paul Oakenfold and Johnny Walker who'd all been to Ibiza, Balearic was an integral part of the club scene at the time, but after the gushing media overkill it all became a little farcical as people attempted to make Balearic records There was, of course no such thing

Then there were the anthems. A year's worth of inspirational Chicago deep house, which went back to the Nightwriters and took in Joe Smooth's 'Promised Land' and Sterling Void's 'It's Alright' along the way became some of the biggest club records of the year, while Marshall Jefferson took the music to new highs with Ten City's 'Devotion' and Ce Ce Rogers 'Someday'. Marshall was on a roll in 88, picking up remixes and linking up with Kym Mazelle for 'Useless' It was the deep house that spawned the first two house LP's, which naturally came out in Britain first - Fingers Inc's benchmark 'Another Side' and Liz Torres With Master C & J's excellent 'Can't Get Enough'.

Ten City were an important stage in the development of house. With self-conviction unusually high for the time, they snubbed the Chicago labels which by that time were losing their artists more quickly than they could sign them, and headed for Atlantic records in New York where Merlin Bobb promptly snapped them up. Where nearly all the house that had gone before them was strictly producer created, Ten City were an act, and they could be marketed as such. Plus, they returned some of the soul vision to house, a tradition that went all the way back to the Philly sound it was no coincidence that 'Devotion' was one of the first records from Chicago to really do well on the East Coast, which always had much stronger r'n'b roots in its club music. After another huge club hit with 'Right Back To You', they broached the UK top Ten in January 1989 with 'That's The Way Love Is' Even Detroit was discovering songs. Though the new techno sound was by now at full tilt with Rhythm Is Rhythm's anthem 'Strings 0f Life' Model 500's 'Off To Battle' and Reese & Santonio's 'Rock To The Beat', it was Inner City's 'Big Fun' a techno song with vocals by Chicagoan Paris Grey that was to propel Kevin Saunderson into the big time. Originally a track recorded for Virgin's groundbreaking 'Techno! The New Dance Sound Of Detroit' LP, 'Big Fun' was just too commercial to hold back, and Saunderson suddenly found himself in a virtually full-time pop duo making videos, follow-up singles and EPs like any other pop act.

Chicago however was still finding new things to do with house, though the next trend wasn't to be anything like as significant. There had already been raps put down to house tracks as early as 1985 with 'Music Is The Key' and more recently with M-Doc's 'It's Percussion', The Beatmasters' 'Rok Da House' and New York's KC Flight with 'Let's Get Jazzy'. But it was Tyree Cooper (who'd already had a big club record with 'Acid Over') and rapper Kool Rock Steady who defined the hip-house style with 'Turn Up The Bass', a galloping track which somehow combined Kool's rap with the classic Chicago piano sound and Tyree's trademark 909 roll. It wasn't long before Fast Eddie, also at DJ International, expanded it with 'Yo Yo Get Funky'.

But the biggest new producer of 1988 was someone who didn't come from Chicago at all. Or Detroit. New York was beginning to flex its muscles, the city that had always regarded itself the world's capital for dance music wanted some of the limelight back. But it wasn't an established figure in the New York or New Jersey dance scene that broke through, it was a kid from Brooklyn who was showing an incredible alacrity for the new form of sampling that had been co- developing with house - Todd Terry. First it was those Masters At Work tracks, but after that Todd hit house in a big way with 'Bango' (at which Kevin Saunderson was highly miffed, because it heavily sampled one of his records), 'Just Wanna Dance', Swan Lake's 'In The Name Of Love', Black Riot's 'A Day In The Life' and 'Warlock' and the one that was almost certainly the biggest club record of the year - Royal House's 'Can You Party!'. Though in New York Todd's sample tracks were firmly categorized with the Latin freestyle house sound that the Hispanics were developing, in the UK Todd became the toast of the house scene. In a by now familiar scenario, 'Can You Party' hit the Top 20 in October on a wave of club support, closely followed by another track on the new Big Beat label out of New York, Kraze's 'The Party'.

As it became more and more apparent that Chicago was grinding to a halt, New York was getting it together, with more labels like Cutting (who'd already released Nitro Deluxe's classic 'Let's Get Brutal' in 1987) and Warlock turning to house and new labels starting up. One of these was to prove more important than all the rest - Nu Groove.

1989
By now the UK and its trend-hungry music press had become the local point of the dance music world. After acid had slumped into fatuousness with the adopted logo of acid, the smiley, appearing on t- shirts racked up in every high street and the mainstream press (including the 'qualities') scuttling after every whiff of a half-arsed drug story, they discovered new beat from Belgium. The trouble was that save for one or two genuinely good records like A Split Second's 'Flesh', nearly everyone outside Belgium hated new beat, a sort of sluggish cross between acid, techno and heavy industrial Euro music and the media hype dissolved into a number of red faces. Then they discovered garage. 'Garage' as a term had already long been in use on the house scene to differentiate the smooth, soulful songs flowing from New York and New Jersey from the more energetic, uplifting deep house out of Chicago. But the hype on this supposedly new music did allow a lot of very good acts a chance of exposure that otherwise they wouldn't have had. The Americans were confused. To most New Yorkers and Jerseyites, garage was what was played at the Paradise' Garage, which had closed two years earlier. What they were making was club music or dance music, and house was all that track stuff from Chicago. But they were happy that someone somewhere was getting off on their sound. Tony Humphries, who'd been on New York's Kiss FM since 1981 and at the Zanzibar in New Jersey since 1982, was to become instrumental in exposing the Jersey sound. Though he was one of more open-minded DJ's In the New York area, his was the style that married real r'n'b based dance to house.
"I really saw house start with the Virgo 1 record, which had that 'Love Is The Message' skip beat, and I was using that and a lot of other Chicago stuff as filler between the vocals, so if I was to play Jean Carne I would use the Virgo drum track before it. Vocals was always very much my thing, and I would say the people from Chicago we really respected in Jersey were Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles and JM Silk. A lot of it was really Philly elements, it was like Philly living on forever, and that was our flavor. "I became known for breaking new stuff, and to stay ahead of everyone I had to come up with more and more demos. I wanted to help all the people around me in Jersey, so around 88-89 I did a huge showcase with all the acts at Zanzibar first on my birthday and then at the New Music Seminar. Suddenly everyone was talking about the Jersey sound."

Blaze were the forerunners of the new soul vision, followed by their protégés Phase II, who struck big with the optimism anthem 'Reachin', and Hippie Torrales' Turntable Orchestra with 'You're Gonna Miss Me'. Then there were the girls - Vicky Martin with 'Not Gonna Do It' and of course, Adeva, behind whom was the talented Smack Productions team. ' In And Out 0f My Life' had already been released by Easy Street a year before, but when Cooltempo signed the Jersey wailer up on the basis of her cover of Aretha Franklin's 'Respect', mainstream success was more than on the cards - it was a dead cert. 'Respect' entered the Top 40 in January and hung around for two months, by which time Chanelle's 'One Man' and then her own collaboration with Paul Simpson, 'Musical Freedom' had followed the example. It didn't end there. Jomanda, who shared the billing with Tony Humphries at a massive event stage in Brixton's Academy were next with 'Make My Body Rock', and though they were to become successful in the States, their sound never crossed over in the UK.

New York was stepping up the pace in grand fashion and there was a lot more going on than just the Jersey sound. Following Todd Terry's success, the New York sample track was breaking out like wildfire, particularly with Frankie Bones, Tommy Musto and Lenny Dee at Fourth Floor, Breakln' Bones and Nu Groove records. Nu Groove, built on the foundation of the Burrell twins who'd escaped from an abortive r'n'b career with Virgin Records, was fast becoming the hippest house label. Nu Groove had started the year before with records like Bas Noir's 'My Love Is Magic' and Aphrodisiac's 'Your Love' and by 1989 they were on a roll. Nu Groove never had a sound - with producers as disparate as the Burrells, Bobby Konders and Frankie Bones that wasn't conceivable - and they never really had one big record, but the concept of the label went from strength to strength. Among their producers was Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez, yet to hook up with Little Louie Vega, who was moving into house with his Freestyle Orchestra project. Nu Groove's first competitor was to come in the form of Strictly Rhythm, who opened up in 1989, though their first breakthrough wasn't to come until the following year. Two other New York producers who were also beginning to make a lot of noise were Clivilles and Cole with Seduction's 'Seduction' and their excellent deep, dubby mix of Sandee's 'Notice Me'. Their break into the mainstream came with a mix of Natalie Cole's 'Pink Cadillac'. Another guy who was also beginning to make a name for himself as a house remixer was David Morales.

But one of the biggest records on the burgeoning UK rave scene was a record that made very little impact in its native New York - the 2 In A Room LP on Cutting Records, a follow-up to 2 In A Room's 'Somebody In The House Say Yeah' that included a clutch of firing sample tracks from Todd Terry, Louie Vega, George Morel and a few other producers known only on the Latin freestyle scene in New York.

By Summer 89 the acid house scene had grown into the rave scene which was becoming so big that promoters came up with the idea of putting on huge events in the countryside outside London - events that could not only hold thousands of people but which could go on all night. Although the scene was later to degenerate with an increasingly narrow musical policy, ludicrously numerous DJ line-ups and suffer from gangster style promoters who saw how much money could be made, at the time it was incredibly broad. Alongside the regular house movers, records like Corporation Of One's 'Real Life', Karlya's 'Let Me Love You For Tonight' and 808 State's 'Pacific' became the open air anthems.

Several of those anthems came from a label that had started up in Canada the year before. Toronto's Big Shot Records was the brainchild of producers Andrew Komis and Nick Fiorucci, and they were startled when Amy Jackson's 'Let It Loose', Index's 'Give Me A Sign', Jillian Mendez's 'Get Up' and Dionne's 'Come Get My Lovin' became huge club records in the UK.

"I was dumbfounded about England. To me it was soccer players and the Queen, but if it wasn't for the dance stores in London and Record Mirror I'd probably be working in a hardware store." Andrew Komis. Again, the scene was largely fueled by radio. Though the original pirates had come off the air in an attempt to gain licenses (Kiss eventually managed it in 1990) and the penalties had been sharply increased, a new generation of pirates were on the air - Sunrise, Center force, Fantasy, Dance and countless others. Young, loud and incredibly unprofessional, they pumped out an endless diet of underground house music round the clock and shamelessly promoted all the raves.

Another set of incredibly successful records came from a country only marginally more likely than Canada. House records from the Continent were becoming more and more common, though most of them were sub-standard covers of US and UK records, and when Italy's Cappella crashed the charts with 'Helyom Halib' it was really only because it was based on a huge club record from Chicago which had never managed to crossover - LNR's 'Work It To The Bone'. Then came Starlight with 'Numero Uno' and Black Box with 'Ride On Time', both the work of production team Groove Groove Melody. 'Ride On Time' was a brilliant concept, taking the vocals from Loleatta Holloway's 'Love Sensation' and putting them to a sizzling piano anthem. There was no holding it back. As the record flew up the charts on its way to becoming the first house Number 1 since 'Jack Your Body', the floodgates opened. Italo-house was a happy, uplifting lightweight sound nurtured in the hedonistic clubs of the Adriatic resorts Rimini and Riccioni, and it gatecrashed everything from the large raves to the hippest clubs. Those that argued that there was no substance behind it (a lot of the records WERE extremely corny) were foiled when a more mature sound emerged with Sueno Latino's 'Sueno Latino' and Soft House Company's 'What You Need.' Despite their initial insistence that 'Ride On Time' wasn't all sampled, Black Box managed to record a very good album, though they promptly pulled a similar stunt on Martha Wash, who wasn't at all amused. The Italians would go on to become an integral part of house music, with one of the most consistent labels, Irma, proving acceptance in New York by opening up shop there.

Even in 1989, when house music had become the property of the world, Chicago still had a few tricks up its sleeve. Led by people like Steve Poindexter and Armando, the new underground of the city was returning to its roots with a new, minimalist style even rougher and rawer than the original drum tracks, a sound that was to join acid and techno in forming the roots of the hardcore scene. Another producer who'd led the way with crazy tracks like 'War Games' and 'Video Clash' was Lil Louis. While his spinning partner DJ Pierre became entangled in a fruitless contract with Jive Records (a fate that also befell Liz Torres), who'd opened up in Chicago, Louis' time came in 1989 with a track that slowed down to a complete halt and had as a vocal only a senes a female love moans - 'French Kiss'. 'French Kiss' was a huge club record and eventually it climbed to Number 2 in the charts and landed Louis an album deal with Epic in the States and ffrr in the UK. Though the style had started three years earlier with Jackmaster ****'s 'Sensuous Woman Goes Disco' and Raze's 'Break 4 Love' the previous year, 'French Kiss' began a sex track phenomenon that was to last a long time.

Another group that broke out of Chicago was Da Posse, formed by Hula, K Fingers, Martell and Maurice. Their early tracks like 'In The Life' were mostly based on old Rhythm Is Rhythm records, but 'Searchin Hard', a deep house song on Dance Mania records led them to a deal with Dave Lee's Republic Records, for whom they eventually recorded an excellent album. Later they formed their own label, Clubhouse Records.

Two other house originals also teamed up in 1989 - Frankie Knuckles and Robert Owens, who recorded 'Tears' with Japanese keyboardist Satoshi Tomiie. 'Tears' was a great record but mystifyingly, even in the year of house hits, it failed to make the charts. Though Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May and Juan Atkins had become very popular with the majors as remixers, Detroit had become very quiet, and the only club that supported techno, the Music Institute, had closed down. But a resurgence was on the horizon with new producers like Carl Craig and a young protégé of Saunderson who had just made his first record for KMS - Marc Kinchen.

Despite the studied apathy of the American music business and repeated attempts to replace house in Britain with just about anything - Soul II Soul and their numerous imitators proved more of a hiccup than anything else the 4/4 bass kick entered the new decade stronger than ever, underground dance scenes developing in new cities and new countries with every month that passed. Even Spain underwent its own acid house craze in 89, and threw up the talented Barcelona producer Raul Orellana, who created a style all of his own by merging flamenco with house. A comment made in 1988 by Robert Owens on the UK TV documentary 'Club Culture' was proving truer and truer.

"It's not just boom boom boom. They're telling me something here. Something I can dance to and learn from. I can see house music becoming universal one day. It'll just take time for people to receive it."

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-07-2006, 01:58 PM
actually house music came from hip hop beats and developed there own style so ner lol

Not so sure about that either...

From Google
"Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. House music originated in a Chicago, Illinois nightclub called the Warehouse, which many hold to be the origin of the term "house music". DJ Frankie Knuckles originally popularized house music while working at the Warehouse.

House music grew out of the post-disco dance club culture of the early 1980s. After disco became popular, certain urban DJs, particularly those in gay communities, altered the music to make it less pop-oriented. The beat became more mechanical and the bass grooves became deeper, while elements of electronic synth pop, Latin soul, dub, rap, and jazz were grafted over the music's insistent, unvarying 4/4 beat. Frequently, the music was purely instrumental and when there were vocalists, they were faceless female divas that often sang wordless melodies."

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-07-2006, 01:58 PM
Mine was more concise!

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 02:50 PM
I will beg to difer as many disco tracks from the late 70's / early 80's are classed now as house tracks

Thelma Houston - Dont leave me this way 1977
KC & the sunshine band - Im your boogie man 1977
Baccara - Yes Sir I can boogie 1977
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Chic - Le Freak 1978
Earth wind and fire - September 1979
gloria Gaynor - I will survive 1979
Anita Ward - Ring my bell 1979
Blondie - Rapture 1981
Billy Jean - Micheal Jackson 1983

this may be due to remixes etc etc but most definitely now been reclassed

heres a complete breakdown of sub genres to date

House music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music) has many sub-divisions:


Acid house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_house): A Chicago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago) derivative built around the Roland TB-303 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303) bassline machine. Hard, uncompromising, tweaking samples produce a hypnotic effect. ex: Adonis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis), L.A. Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L.A._Williams&action=edit)
Afro house (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afro_house&action=edit): A form of house developed in Brooklyn, New York which reflects the cultural heritage of Africa and the African Diaspora. Incorporates deep percussive elements, chants, and organic African instruments and voices. Artists include Osunlade, Jephte Guillaume, Ian Friday, Antonio Ocasio and DJ Sabine.
Ambient house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_house) (see ambient music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music)): Mixing the moody atmospheric sounds of New Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age) and ambient music with pulsating house beats.
Chicago house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_house): Simple basslines, driving four-on-the-floor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-on-the-floor_%28music%29) percussion and textured keyboard lines are the elements of the original house sound. ex: Larry Heard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Heard), Steve Poindexter (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Poindexter&action=edit)
Deep house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_house): A slower variant of house (around 120 BPM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats_per_minute)) with warm sometimes hypnotic melodies. ex: Gemini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini), Glenn Underground (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glenn_Underground&action=edit), Kevin Yost (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Yost&action=edit).
Disco house (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disco_house&action=edit): A more upfront variant of house that relies heavily on looped disco samples. ex: DJ Sneak (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DJ_Sneak&action=edit), Paul Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson), and Stardust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_%28band%29).
Electro house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_house): A style of dance music which has rapidly increased in popularity since the early 2000s. A common misconception is that Electro House is influenced by early 80s Electro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_%28music%29), when in actual fact it has a lot more in common with Electroclash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroclash), Synth pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synth_pop) and Italo disco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_disco). ex: Steve Angello (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Angello), Eric Prydz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Prydz).
Epic house (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epic_house&action=edit): A variant of progressive house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_music) featuring lush synth-fills and dramatic (some would say the legendary Shep Pettibone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_Pettibone) and Tony Humphries at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ. Not to be confused with speed garage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_garage) or the British style nowadays called UKG pronounced "garridje". See garage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_%28dance_music%29).
Freestyle house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_house): A Latin variant of NY house music, which began development in the early 1980s by producers like John Jellybean Benitez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jellybean_Benitez). Seen by some as an evolution of electro funk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_funk).
French house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_house): A late 1990s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s) house sound developed in France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France). Inspired by the '70s and '80s funk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk) and disco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco) sounds. Mostly features a typical sound "filter" effect. ex: Daft Punk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk), Alan Braxe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Braxe), Le Knight Club (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Le_Knight_Club&action=edit)
Funky house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_house): Funky house as it sounds today first started to develop during the late 1990's. It can again be sub-divided into many other types of house music. French house, Italian house, Disco house, Latin house and many other types of house have all contributed greatly to what is today known as Funky house. It is recognizable by it's often very catchy bassline, swooshes, swirlls and other synthesized sounds which give the music a bouncy tempo. It often relies heavily on black female vocals or disco samples and has a recognizable tiered structure in which every track has more than one build-up which usually reaches a climax before the process is repeated with the next track. ex: Axwell, Seamus Haji and ATFC to name but a few.
Garage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_%28dance_music%29): This term has changed meaning several times over the years. The UK definition relates to New York's version of deep house, originally named after a certain style of soulful disco played at legendary club the Paradise Garage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage), although the original Garage sound was much more of an eclectic mix of many different kinds of records. May also be called the Jersey Sound due to the close connection many of its artists and producers have with New Jersey such as unds. The style was generally fast tempo.
Ghetto house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_house): A derivative of Chicago House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_House) with TR-808 and 909 driven drum tracks. Usually contains call-and-response lyrics, similar to the Booty Music (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Booty_Music&action=edit) of Florida. ex: DJ Deeon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Deeon), DJ Milton (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DJ_Milton&action=edit), DJ Funk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Funk), DJ D-Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DJ_D-Man&action=edit)
Handbag house (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Handbag_house&action=edit): A form of uplifting vocal house music mainly from around the mid 1990s and played in more commercial-orientated dance music venues. Takes its name from the notion of groups of girls dancing around a pile of their handbags on the dancefloor! Examples include Loveland, Nush, etc
Hard house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_house): In the US, a harder, more aggressive form of Chicago House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_House). Sometimes contains elements of Ghetto House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_House), Hip House (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hip_House&action=edit). ex: CZR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZR), DJ Bam Bam (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DJ_Bam_Bam&action=edit), Abstract Beating System (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abstract_Beating_System&action=edit). In the UK, hard house was what is now known as Hard dance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_dance)
Hi-NRG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-NRG): Called "high energy". Derived from Dance music and Happy hardcore, you could say what happyhard is to techno, is what HI-NRG is to dance, it usually has female voices with natural pitch, its tempo is also around the same as techno, eg: DJ Nick Skitz.
Hip house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_house): The simple fusion of rap with house beats. Popular for a brief moment in the late 80s. Most famous record is Jungle Brothers "Girl I'll House You."
Italo house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_house): Slick production techniques, catchy melodies, rousing piano lines and American vocal styling typifies the Italian ("Italo") house sound. A modulating Giorgio Moroder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Moroder) style bassline is also a trademark of this style.
Kwaito (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaito): House music that originated in Johannesburg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg), South Africa in the mid 90's. It is characterised by slow beats, accompanied by (mostly male) vocals - often shouted and not sung - set against melodic African loops.
Latin house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_house): Borrows heavily from Latin dance music -- Salsa, Brazilian beats, Latin Jazz, etc.
Merenhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merenhouse)
Microhouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhouse): (or Minimal House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_House)) A dirivative of Tech House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_House) with sparse composition and production. ex: Akufen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akufen), Todd Sines (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Todd_Sines&action=edit), Alton Miller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Miller)
New York house (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_York_house&action=edit): New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York)'s uptempo dance music, referred to simply as club music by some.
Progressive house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_house): Progressive house is typified by accelerating peaks and troughs throughout a track's duration, and are, in general, less obvious than in hard house. Layering different sound on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of the mix is a key idea behind the progressive movement. Some of this kind of music sounds like a cousin of trance music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music).
Tech house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_house): House music with elements of techno in its arrangement and instrumentation. ex: Rino Cerrone (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rino_Cerrone&action=edit), Dave Angel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Angel)
Track house (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Track_house&action=edit): A drum-oriented variant of Chicago house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_house) built around compact drum machines of the late '80s and early '90s. ex: Trackhead Steve (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trackhead_Steve&action=edit), DJ Rush (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DJ_Rush&action=edit), Paul Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson)
Tribal house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_house): Popularized by remixer/DJ Junior Vasquez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Vasquez) in New York, characterized by lots of percussion and world music rhythms.
this should cause a few more ripples as if funky house was not bad enough

dj andy allwood
05-07-2006, 03:19 PM
erm stuff that how can the Sugababes win the best dance award over fatboy slim and the chemical brothers which they did a few years ago at the brits i bet no-one can answer that you might be able to tell me who hit the first ever drum which made the first bass line ever but not even einstien can figure that one out!!!!

Corabar Steve
05-07-2006, 03:28 PM
I will beg to difer as many disco tracks from the late 70's are classed now as house tracks will edit this as soon as I check them up
So we're back categorising tracks now are we?

Let's see, Faith No More - Nu Metal
Prince Buster - Dub
Sparks - Techno
Elvis Presley - Hard Rock



the latest genre is minimal techno........
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And Yes Disco was its beginningWhen it was called............................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ................DISCO :omg:

it was inevitable that the sound would be commercialised. 'Pump Up The Volume' by M/A/R/R/S was a rather lightweight record based on a house beat with a number of clever (at the time) samples but it worked like crazy on the dancefloor and it wasn't long before club support propelled it into the charts, where it held Number 1 for an incredible three weeksM/A/R/R/S were actually all members of bands on indie/aternative label 4AD
& the track was made to show how easy it was to have a hit with such manufactured drivel (it worked)
I will beg to difer as many disco tracks from the late 70's / early 80's are classed now as house tracks

Thelma Houston - Dont leave me this way 1977
KC & the sunshine band - Im your boogie man 1977
Baccara - Yes Sir I can boogie 1977
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Chic - Le Freak 1978
Earth wind and fire - September 1979
gloria Gaynor - I will survive 1979
Anita Ward - Ring my bell 1979
Blondie - Rapture 1981
Billy Jean - Micheal Jackson 1983

this may be due to remixes etc etc but most definitely now been reclassed


Back to my original point how can you reclassify an old track? With the exception of Rapture they are all Disco songs.

& Rapture was just an attempt at band waggon jumping :teeth:

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 04:04 PM
Ok so when did disco stop and house offically take over as they are in constant battle even today look at this

Disco "spinoffs": rap and "house" music

Disco was largely succeeded for younger listeners by rap, which had started, by rapping over disco tracks. The first commercially popular rap hits were "Rapper's Delight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapper%27s_Delight)" (which borrowed the bass line from Chic's "Good Times") and Kurtis Blow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtis_Blow)'s "The Breaks". The two styles existed side by side for a few years, with rap sometimes being used in disco songs such as Blondie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_%28band%29)'s "Rapture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_%28song%29)",Teena Marie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teena_Marie)'s "Square Biz", and Indeep's "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life". The two styles together also sparked off "House Music" with such legendary innovators such as Larry Levan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Levan) in New York, and Frankie Knuckles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Knuckles) in Chicago in the early 1980's. Legendary clubs associated with the birth of house included New York's 'Paradise Garage' and Chicago's "Warehouse" and "The Music Box". Mixes incorporated here included various disco loops overlapped with a strong bassbeat, usually computer driven, and with longer segments intended for mixing. Afrika Bambataa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Bambataa) released the 1982 single "Planet Rock", which drew several elements from Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" and the previous year's "Numbers". Electronic sounds in rap were eventually discarded in favor of a more "raw" hip-hop sound in songs such as "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Flash_%26_the_Furious_Five). However, the "Planet Rock" sound also spawned a non-"hip-hop" electronic dance trend, with such follow-ups as Planet Patrol's "Play At Your Own Risk", the same year, followed by "One More Shot" by C-Bank; and the following year, its popularity skyrocketed with Shannon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_%28singer%29)'s "Let The Music Play" Freeze's "I.O.U.", Gwen Guthrie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Guthrie)'s "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent", Chaka Khan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan)'s "I Feel For You", and Midnight Star's "Freakazoid". Electronic Dance music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music) or House Music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Music) (later called "techno") had now emerged as its own genre, and this became the new "disco", even though it was not addressed as such.

[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disco&action=edit&section=15)]


"Death" and a "Retro" revival

By the year 1983, disco was said to be pretty much "dead". It did not really have a distinctive "death", but simply blended back into other popular styles, while spawning some new styles. It was the synthesizer, and resulting change in the sounds, that basically ended disco as it was known in the pre-electronic 70's, more so than the reaction from the competing rock genre. The danceable rhythms would live on in pop/rock, rap, techno/house music and R&B.

However in the 1990s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s), a revival of the original disco style began and is exemplified by such songs as "Lemon" (1993) by U2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2), "Spend Some Time" (1994) by Brand New Heavies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_New_Heavies), the album "Tales Of Acid Ice Cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_Of_Acid_Ice_Cream)" by Awaken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaken) (1996), "Cosmic Girl" (1996) by Jamiroquai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai), "Who Do You Think You Are" and "Never Give Up on the Good Times" (1997) by The Spice Girls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spice_Girls) (1997) and "Strong Enough" (1998) by Cher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_%28entertainer%29), who had also recorded disco songs in the 70s.

During the first half of the 2000s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s), there were releases by a number of artists including "Spinning Around" and "Love at First Sight" by Kylie Minogue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Minogue) (2001), "I Don't Understand It" by Ultra Nate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Nate) (2001), "Crying at the Discoteque" by Alcazar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcazar_%28band%29) (2001), "Love Foolosophy" by Jamiroquai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai) (2001), "Party In Lyceum's Toilets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_In_Lyceum%27s_Toilets)" by Awaken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaken) (2001), "Murder on the Dancefloor" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ellis-Bextor) (2001), and "Love Invincible" by Michael Franti and Spearhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Franti_and_Spearhead&action=edit) (2003) that channeled classic disco music.

In 2004 former Three Degrees lead singer Sheila Ferguson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Ferguson) hired Burning Vision Entertainment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Vision_Entertainment) to create the ultimate disco music video to accompany the release of 'A New Kind Of Medicine' (http://www.burningvision.digitalresolve.co.uk/sheila_f.html)with mesmerising effect.

Most recently, Madonna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_%28entertainer%29) has used disco themes in her latest album, Confessions on a Dance Floor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_on_a_Dancefloor) (2005). Her single "Hung Up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_Up)", notably samples ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)".

So Disco and house are very entwinned and each are the same in sense but

this is the true sense of the word

Disco is a genre of music that originated in discothèques (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoth%C3%A8que). Generally the term refers to a specific style of music that has influences from funk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk), soul music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music), and salsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_%28music%29) and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa.

this means that disco has been around since the 60's

ie

Proto-history: from disco to house: late 1960s to early 1980s

Main article: Electronic music history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_music#History)

House, techno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno_music), electro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_%28music%29) and hip-hop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music) musicians owe their existence to the pioneers of analog synthesizers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_synthesizer) which enabled a wizardry of sounds to exist, available at the touch of a button or key.

Although many people believe house music to have originated from Donna Summer's "I Feel Love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Feel_Love)", fully formed electronic music tracks actually came before house. Early American Sci-Fi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Fi) films and the BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC) Soundtrack to popular television series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_series) Doctor Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who) stirred a whole generation of techno music lovers like the space rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rock) generation during the 1970s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s), influenced by the psychedelic music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_music) sound of the late 1960s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s) and bands such as Pink Floyd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd), Soft Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Machine), Amon Düül (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_D%C3%BC%C3%BCl), Crazy World of Arthur Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_World_of_Arthur_Brown), and the so-called Krautrock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krautrock) early electronic scene (Tangerine Dream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream) and Klaus Schulze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schulze)). Shunned by many as a gimmick or children's music, it was a genre similar and parallel to the Kosmische Musik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmische_Musik) scene in Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany). Space rock is characterized by the use of spatial and floating backgrounds, mantra loops, electronic sequences, and futuristic effects over Rock structures. Some of the most representative artists were Gong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_%28band%29) and Hawkwind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkwind).

The late 1970s saw disco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco) utilize the (by then) much-developed electronic sound and a limited genre emerged, appealing mainly to gay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay) and Black (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American) audiences, it crossed over into mainstream American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) culture following the hit 1977 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977) film Saturday Night Fever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever). As disco clubs filled there was a move to larger venues. "Paradise Garage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage)" opened in New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York) in January 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978), featuring the DJ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ) talents of Larry Levan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Levan) (1954 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954)–1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992)). Studio 54 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_54), another New York disco club, was extremely popular. The clubs played the tunes of singers such as Diana Ross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Ross), CHIC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIC_%28band%29), Gloria Gaynor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Gaynor), Kool & the Gang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool_%26_the_Gang), Donna Summer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Summer), and Larry Levan's own hit, “I Got My Mind Made Up.” The disco boom was short-lived. There was a backlash from Middle America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_%28US%29), epitomised in Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl's "Disco Demolition Night (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night)" in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979). Disco returned to the smaller clubs like the Warehouse in Chicago, Illinois (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%2C_Illinois).

Opened in 1977, the Warehouse on Jefferson street in Chicago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%2C_Illinois), was a key venue in the development of house music. The main DJ was Frankie Knuckles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Knuckles). The club staples were still the old disco tunes but the limited number of records meant that the DJ had to be a creative force, introducing more deck work to revitalize old tunes. The new mixing skills also had local airplay with the Hot Mix 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Mix_5) at WBMX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBMX). The chief source of this kind of records in Chicago was the record-store imports, etc., where the term “house” was introduced as a shortening of Warehouse (as in these records are played at the Warehouse). Despite the new skills, the music was still essentially disco until the early 1980s when the first stand-alone drum machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_machine) were invented. Disco tracks could now be given an edge with the use of a mixer and drum machine. This was an added boost to the prestige of the individual DJs.

In Sheffield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield), England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England) the industrial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_music) band Cabaret Voltaire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_Voltaire_%28band%29) is often considered to have pioneered their own version of the "house sound" as early as 1981 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981) with tracks like "automotivation". Some recordings of The Clash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash) have also been seen in a similar light

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-07-2006, 04:09 PM
Ok so when did disco stop and house offically take over as they are in constant battle even today

It's got nothing to do with that.

They are different genres and styles of music.

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 04:19 PM
Now read it full again they are one and the same in a sense both the same genre and also not the same in another. Im afraid that the germans had it sorted out sometime ago

Disco clubs became popular in Germany in the 1970's and continued into the 1980's. Unlike its counterparts in America, however, the word "Disko" in German nowadays usually refers to any dance club, and not just ones that include disco. It is starting to be phased out in favor of "Klub" as of late in normal speech and in titles, but it still remains.


JOY of Wicpeadea

Corabar Entertainment
05-07-2006, 04:35 PM
Now read it full again they are one and the same in a sense both the same genre and also not the same in another. Im afraid that the germans had it sorted out sometime ago

Disco clubs became popular in Germany in the 1970's and continued into the 1980's. Unlike its counterparts in America, however, the word "Disko" in German nowadays usually refers to any dance club, and not just ones that include disco. It is starting to be phased out in favor of "Klub" as of late in normal speech and in titles, but it still remains.


JOY of WicpeadeaYeah, but what do the Germans know.... David Hasslehoff was a H-U-G-E star there! :teeth: :teeth:

Corabar Entertainment
05-07-2006, 04:41 PM
In Sheffield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield), England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England) the industrial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_music) band Cabaret Voltaire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_Voltaire_%28band%29) is often considered to have pioneered their own version of the "house sound" as early as 1981 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981) with tracks like "automotivation". Some recordings of The Clash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash) have also been seen in a similar lightOh God! Only just seen this....... I've heard it all now!

Cabaret Voltaire and the Clash - House! :omg: (quite apart from the fact that Cabaret Voltaire is being referred to as an industrial band, when they started long before the term 'Industrial' was coined.)

TBH, it doesn't matter what some expert writing after the event says, don't you remember living through all of this? What does your own experience of the time tell you?

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 06:59 PM
Oh God! Only just seen this....... I've heard it all now!

Cabaret Voltaire and the Clash - House! :omg: (quite apart from the fact that Cabaret Voltaire is being referred to as an industrial band, when they started long before the term 'Industrial' was coined.)

TBH, it doesn't matter what some expert writing after the event says, don't you remember living through all of this? What does your own experience of the time tell you?

Scary isnt it LOL

BeerFunk
05-07-2006, 07:52 PM
I'm actually gobsmacked at what I'm reading here.. :omg:


Thelma Houston - Dont leave me this way 1977
KC & the sunshine band - Im your boogie man 1977
Baccara - Yes Sir I can boogie 1977
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Chic - Le Freak 1978
Earth wind and fire - September 1979
gloria Gaynor - I will survive 1979
Anita Ward - Ring my bell 1979
Blondie - Rapture 1981
Billy Jean - Micheal Jackson 1983
It's opinionated of course, and it's a case of where you draw the line, but I don't know how you can claim these tracks to be house

Corabar Entertainment
05-07-2006, 08:00 PM
Badger, even in the article you have posted it says:-


Despite the new skills, the music was still essentially disco until the early 1980s when the first stand-alone drum machines were invented.

OK - you can say that House has it's roots in disco, but you can't say that disco is house (IMHO)

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 08:14 PM
I'm actually gobsmacked at what I'm reading here.. :omg:


It's opinionated of course, and it's a case of where you draw the line, but I don't know how you can claim these tracks to be house

Please note these are not my opinions but alot of customers whom know jacky onasis about music because they have heard the newer versions and to say alot of the top DJ's now would not call them disco now it has split in many ways.

We currently are heading into a 3rd generation of Disco music as house is taking a step backwards by nicking disco riffs again

My own opinion what disco music is soley this disco music is popular tunes people dance to everytime I do a disco this could be Sister Sledge, Human league, blur blackbox or black sabbath or even black lace, age of the music has nothing to do with it either.

disco is no longer a real genre it is a term for a style of dance music that moves people hence they never hire anything but a "disco"?? no matter if its a promotions or entertainments company roadshow or what ever its named we all play disco music??

so prehaps what some of us called 70's disco music really is now early house music??????

Corabar Entertainment
05-07-2006, 08:18 PM
It was bad enough when Cabaret Voltaire and the Clash were being classed as 'House' - Ozzie as 'Disco' .....
My own opinion what disco music is soley this disco music is popular tunes people dance to everytime I do a disco this could be ..........black sabbath....... :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: :eek:

Have a disco
05-07-2006, 09:42 PM
Yeah Sorry about that but even meatloaf could be classed as disco and that sounds batty as hell

Corabar Entertainment
05-07-2006, 09:50 PM
Of course it's batty. It's complete cobblers! (IMHO) :omg:

BeerFunk
05-07-2006, 10:44 PM
Forget 'IMHO', it just is! :teeth:

No, I'm sorry, but house music has an electronic base with snares and kicks etc - disco music in the 70's was essentially recorded by a band.

Oh, and...
funky house has only been about since 2000+...again a matter of opinion, but the first funky house track that springs to my mind is Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You, and I would even cite Sub Sub - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) as early funky house (1992)

Corabar Steve
06-07-2006, 01:12 AM
disco is no longer a real genre it is a term for a style of dance music that moves people hence they never hire anything but a "disco"?? no matter if its a promotions or entertainments company roadshow or what ever its named we all play disco music??

Utter & total balderdash & piffle You're confusing Disco the genre & Disco the abbreviation of Discothque
My own opinion what disco music is soley this disco music is popular tunes people dance to everytime I do a disco this could be Sister Sledge, Human league, blur blackbox or black sabbath or even black lace, age of the music has nothing to do with it either.
Don't forget Bodyrockers :teeth:

Solitaire Events Ltd
06-07-2006, 01:24 AM
Utter & total balderdash & piffle You're confusing Disco the genre & Disco the abbreviation of DiscothqueDon't forget Bodyrockers :teeth:

Agreed. :)

Corabar Steve
06-07-2006, 01:56 AM
Agreed. :)
It's a bit like Pop the genre & Pop the abbreviation of popular :teeth:

Coz being one dosen't necessarily make it the other.

wayne_uk
06-07-2006, 11:34 AM
PHEWW!!!
Break time,
tea/coffee and biscuits coming up
have fun
wayne

Shaun
06-07-2006, 12:09 PM
Now that we've discussed the "off-topic" discussion on the origins of house music....I return you to our original discussion

Stupid things people say to you at gigs.

keep 'em coming... :)

music-2-play
06-07-2006, 04:11 PM
There will always be house music that can readily be distinguished from 70s disco, such as acid house (tr-303 basslines, 909 drums etc) (with the possible exception of Moroder-esque material like Donna Summer's I Feel Love), electro dirty house & progressive house, but funky house and disco house (often used interchangeably) share many elements with 70s disco, whether through sampling or original performance, such a wah-wah funk guitars and orchestral arrangement

However, to say that 70s disco was disco house, is to my mind, tantamount to saying that World In Motion is a Hip-Hop track, because of the John Barnes rap. It really depends on the context in which the music was created. Don't Stop Movin by S CLub 7 sounds a lot like a disco record, but most would just describe it as pop.

Candybeatdiscos
06-07-2006, 04:48 PM
Ok Ok...just to clarify a few things...my interpetation of music is as follows:

Sister sledge, Donna Summer, Jackson 5 etc = DISCO
Meatloaf, Black Sabbath, Guns 'n' Roses etc = ROCK
S Club, Westlife, Spice Girls, Steps = POP
Body Rockers, Flip & Fill, Eyeopener etc = DANCE
Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Human League - 80's Synth (Hi-NRG Pop/Dance)

Now i hope this clears it up for ya :) lol

Solitaire Events Ltd
06-07-2006, 04:50 PM
Ok Ok...just to clarify a few things...my interpetation of music is as follows:

Sister sledge, Donna Summer, Jackson 5 etc = DISCO
Meatloaf, Black Sabbath, Guns 'n' Roses etc = ROCK
S Club, Westlife, Spice Girls, Steps = POP
Body Rockers, Flip & Fill, Eyeopener etc = DANCE
Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Human League - 80's Synth (Hi-NRG Pop/Dance)

Now i hope this clears it up for ya :) lol

Could be pushing it with Bodyrockers.... :omg: :teeth:

Candybeatdiscos
06-07-2006, 04:52 PM
I love that Hoobastank Track - The Raeson.....just thought i'd add that -thats Rock i'd say BTW

Have a disco
06-07-2006, 05:07 PM
house vs disco thread moved to here

http://www.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=44286#post44286

back to thread

BeerFunk
06-07-2006, 07:35 PM
And did it never occur to anyone here that some tracks fall into 2 or more 'genres'?

Fresh
06-07-2006, 07:37 PM
as the americans would say .... hey guys it's a rat hole

Corabar Steve
07-07-2006, 01:53 PM
Could be pushing it with Bodyrockers.... :omg: :teeth:
Didn't we decide they were Electro Rock? :teeth:

Solitaire Events Ltd
07-07-2006, 03:47 PM
Didn't we decide they were Electro Rock? :teeth:

Probably...

Have a disco
07-07-2006, 03:56 PM
I love that Hoobastank Track - The Raeson.....just thought i'd add that -thats Rock i'd say BTW

Raeson???

Is that not a grape thats shrunk

Corabar Entertainment
07-07-2006, 04:04 PM
Raeson???

Is that not a grape thats shrunk
:omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: How on earth have you got the front to pull someone else up on their typos, Badger!!!!!!! :teeth:

Have a disco
07-07-2006, 04:04 PM
Makes a change for once LOL

Corabar Steve
08-07-2006, 10:55 AM
:teeth: :teeth: :teeth: I want one :teeth: :teeth: :teeth:

Candybeatdiscos
08-07-2006, 11:40 AM
:omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: How on earth have you got the front to pull someone else up on their typos, Badger!!!!!!! :teeth:


Look i have fat fingers....i am piano-ally challenged

Have a disco
08-07-2006, 12:27 PM
Pmsl

Solitaire Events Ltd
08-07-2006, 01:54 PM
Back to the original thread...

Doing a corporate karaoke last night and one bloke decided to sing way too loudly, so I told him not to, and to hold the mic away from his mouth a bit, and he said "Yeah, but I can't hear the music"

What??????????

Sacriledge - I used the Mackies for karaoke last night...Noooooooooooooooooo!

Corabar Entertainment
08-07-2006, 01:57 PM
Yeah, but surely the reason he couldn't hear it was because he was making so much noise!!!! :omg:

soundtracker
09-07-2006, 01:11 PM
Videographer yesterday- "What time is the first dance?"
Me - "No idea mate, we seem to be totally off-plan."
"Will you introduce the Bride and groom for the first dance"
Me (in my head) "**** me, what a brilliant idea, why oh why have I never thought of that!!" (out loud)" Yeah will do!"

Corabar Entertainment
09-07-2006, 03:00 PM
Not said at a gig, but I've just had an online enquiry where they stated that there was going to be a wide range of people of all ages, so they needed a good across the board mix of music - "Drum and bass , r and b , Hip hop, and old 70's" :omg: :omg: :omg: Yeah, right!

st1ngo
09-07-2006, 03:09 PM
Videographer yesterday- "What time is the first dance?"
Me - "No idea mate, we seem to be totally off-plan."
"Will you introduce the Bride and groom for the first dance"
Me (in my head) "**** me, what a brilliant idea, why oh why have I never thought of that!!" (out loud)" Yeah will do!"


and the best part is he was getting paid about 4x what you were !

Corabar Steve
09-07-2006, 03:09 PM
Had someone last night so intent on hearing David Bowie - Let's dance that...

Actually here's the full story

Firstly the person in question was my serial requester of the night. Secondly she was absolutely bladdered (the table she was at was the reason that the bar shut early, but that's another story).

Just before the band came on for their second set the person concerned comes up & asks for Let's dance. My reply "OK, but it'll have to wait as the band are about to come back on (they were actually on stage instrument in hand at this point). Every gap between songs that they had she grabbed the singer (at one point nearly causing him to trip over his monitor) & demands Let's dance (not sure at this point if she thinks the band will play it coz I've told her to ask them or not?? She seems to think we're part of the same company) At a point when the singer of the band is getting someone from the audience up do do some backing vocals, she sees her opportunity & launches herself in my direction "Play Let's dance, play it now, they've stopped"

"No they haven't, he's just getting somebody up"

"Play it now!"

"NO the band are still on!"

"PLAY IT NOW!"

"NO they're about to start again!" Which I can only assume that she took as they're going to play it now, as soon as the song had finished......

"You haven't played Let's dance!"

Singer - "We don't know it"

Oh no here she comes again......"Play Let's dance NOW!"

"The band are still on & if you don't stop asking for it, it won't get played at all"

At which point I think she finally got the message

+Scooby+
09-07-2006, 04:08 PM
Oh God! Don't get him started Colin! It's one of his 'pet' subjects.

IMHO, the answer is you are both right: It is technically a record label but it has become known as a sub-genre of soul.... although a lot of what people call 'Motown' wasn't on the Motown label!

Its a comfortable swaying motion that 40 somethings do on the dance floor :teeth:

ian8limelight
09-07-2006, 04:20 PM
Sacriledge - I used the Mackies for karaoke last night...Noooooooooooooooooo!



You'll regret that you know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bat:

Larry B Entertainment
10-07-2006, 12:48 PM
"Are you the Dj" i was asked once when turning up to a venue wearing a T shirt with "ROCKET ROADSHOW, DJ LARRY B" on it.

No madam, I am just a member of the fanclub i answered.

BeerFunk
10-07-2006, 01:45 PM
Had someone last night so intent on hearing David Bowie - Let's dance that...

Actually here's the full story

Firstly the person in question was my serial requester of the night. Secondly she was absolutely bladdered (the table she was at was the reason that the bar shut early, but that's another story).

Just before the band came on for their second set the person concerned comes up & asks for Let's dance. My reply "OK, but it'll have to wait as the band are about to come back on (they were actually on stage instrument in hand at this point). Every gap between songs that they had she grabbed the singer (at one point nearly causing him to trip over his monitor) & demands Let's dance (not sure at this point if she thinks the band will play it coz I've told her to ask them or not?? She seems to think we're part of the same company) At a point when the singer of the band is getting someone from the audience up do do some backing vocals, she sees her opportunity & launches herself in my direction "Play Let's dance, play it now, they've stopped"

"No they haven't, he's just getting somebody up"

"Play it now!"

"NO the band are still on!"

"PLAY IT NOW!"

"NO they're about to start again!" Which I can only assume that she took as they're going to play it now, as soon as the song had finished......

"You haven't played Let's dance!"

Singer - "We don't know it"

Oh no here she comes again......"Play Let's dance NOW!"

"The band are still on & if you don't stop asking for it, it won't get played at all"

At which point I think she finally got the message
Oh man, I hate when you get someone like that. Normally a woman. Has nothing better to do than come up and ask for requests all night.

I had a drunken woman repeatedly ask me for Boney M, even after I'd played it for her (she was outside having a fag :mad: ) for her friend, because her friend's husband had just died :omg:

I mean, you have to take her word for it, and as it turned out she wasn't lying - although her friend's husband had actually died years ago, not recently

Corabar Steve
22-07-2006, 01:15 AM
Had a corker tonight, girl comes up to me "Are you another DJ?". It was to hot to even attempt to think of a witty reply.

BeerFunk
22-07-2006, 01:29 AM
"Are you another DJ?" :confused:

Shaun
22-07-2006, 01:29 AM
'People Are Strange'

Corabar Steve
22-07-2006, 01:30 AM
"Are you another DJ?" :confused:
Yeah, as opposed to????

Corabar Steve
04-10-2007, 11:55 PM
Have we got any new ones?

Dragonfly
04-10-2007, 11:56 PM
have you got xxx? ................






can you play it please? ........


no i was just going to let you look at the case.

flatliners
05-10-2007, 12:38 AM
just going back to the whole 70s disco house thing there is no such thing as 70s disco house. as many people have said house was started in the 80s one of the frist mainstreem house hits was farley jackmaster funk love carnt turn around
also jamie principle and frankie knuckles your love
on and on by jesse saunders was the first house track to be pressed and sold to the public that was 1985

Tom
05-10-2007, 12:39 AM
had this once

"excuse me mr dj. is it possible if you could say that the bar is taking last orders in 5 mins". in a snobbish way


i walked off the stage and turned the lady around and showed here the clossed bar, and said it closed about 20 minutes ago.

as my hand was on her sholder in a friendly manner, she pushed my hand off and stormed off. then her husband walked over and i was like :Rob James:

went back to my desk. the man comes up to me and says " you have :Censored: touched my wife. your :Censored: dead mate. got it. dead. (young couple). luckly my dad was with me. took him to one side and told him what happened, then they walked outside.


great another fight i was thinking. came back about 5 mins later and everything was ok :confused: the man came over and said sorry.

i still dont know what happened out side. :( :confused:



i take it some people are blind as well as stupid

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-10-2007, 10:34 AM
Have we got any new ones?

You were that bored that you had to bring up all these old threads Steve? :p

Dragonfly
05-10-2007, 10:36 AM
You were that bored that you had to bring up all these old threads Steve? :p

we found that djs falling over small children only had a limited amusement factor :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 10:48 AM
we found that djs falling over small children only had a limited amusement factor :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Nah! I'm still laughing at that one.

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-10-2007, 10:58 AM
Nah! I'm still laughing at that one.

Shaddup beardy. :boxer2:

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 11:00 AM
Alright baldy http://planetsmilies.net/vicious-smiley-1763.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

Dragonfly
05-10-2007, 11:01 AM
Just had a thought Steve if you trimmed your beard and sent it to Daz no one could call anyone anything?? :D :D :D :D

Paul James Promotions
05-10-2007, 11:06 AM
After coming to the stage to sing at Karaoke, and picking up the microhone...

Baring in mind the title of the track is already displayed, "do the words come up on here?"

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 11:07 AM
Just had a thought Steve if you trimmed your beard and sent it to Daz no one could call anyone anything?? :D :D :D :DTrimmed it the other day, it was getting a bit long (OK very long, I cut off about 2 1/2 inches)

Dragonfly
05-10-2007, 11:08 AM
surely thats enough for a crew cut?

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 11:08 AM
After coming to the stage to sing at Karaoke, and picking up the microhone...

Baring in mind the title of the track is already displayed, "do the words come up on here?"

http://planetsmilies.net/sign-smiley-438.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

Dragonfly
05-10-2007, 11:14 AM
at a 6th form prom a girl came up and said "excuse me but the elastic has gone in my knickers would you mind if i just stand back here and sort it out?"

so said yeah fine go for your life but then later thought .............. this venue does have toilets??????

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 11:27 AM
Maybe she just didn't want to miss any of the top tunes you were spinning?

Dragonfly
05-10-2007, 11:29 AM
or maybe she thought i was ..... pants??? tell you what though ive never concentrated so much on a dance floor ........ eyes front !!!!

Sam
05-10-2007, 12:34 PM
or maybe she thought i was ..... pants??? tell you what though ive never concentrated so much on a dance floor ........ eyes front !!!!

god it's like backstage at the theatre.
The amount of people who do quick changes back there on some shows.. specially amateur ones.. it's stupid.... you have to look up at the flys to avoid being accused lol!
That's why i like followspotting.. your out of the way

JAMdisco
05-10-2007, 03:15 PM
Another thing that works;

I've found the best weapon against kids who pester me - pens and paper at the point where they can get to speak to me - I just point to the paper and they automatically write their requests (must be the teacher in me!) - and I also get written things like 'please give my mum a shout' or 'My mate fancies you' (her mate is 7) or often I get drawings of some random object. I can then look at what they want and censor the list.


I also use this method, there's nothing worse than a woman shouting down your ear - high pitched and it hurts like hell.

I was doing my residency the other week and a girl came up and said "can you play that song I like"
which one is that
"can't remember the name of it"
who's it by
"erm... can't remember - the other dj used to play it for me"
how?
"he knew I liked it and always played it"

I told her, how can i expect to play a song when she can't tell me the artist or title. She gave me an embarassed smile and said "oh yeah"

Mindst you- she was blonde :D :eek: :zip:

rob1963
05-10-2007, 03:19 PM
When you are setting up the disco, and someone comes into the room, looks at you & asks "Are you the DJ?"

:bang:

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 03:48 PM
No I'm a suicide bomber & this is my bomb.

Not a wise move when my beard's long though http://planetsmilies.net/sign-smiley-6816.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

Dragonfly
05-10-2007, 03:51 PM
No I'm a suicide bomber & this is my bomb.

Not a wise move when my beard's long though http://planetsmilies.net/sign-smiley-6816.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

if you said that in Derby they would just smile at you walk back to the bar tell their mates and then carry on drinking :D :D :D

Tom
05-10-2007, 04:37 PM
Stevie Binladen :p

Vectis
05-10-2007, 04:52 PM
When asking for a request, always starting the conversation with

I know you've probably not got it, but...


... and then going on to ask for a stock favourite like Abba or Loveshack or something!

Corabar Steve
05-10-2007, 04:56 PM
Wish I had a pound for every time I get that.

I thought it was because of the way I look, but obviously not. :sj:

PropellerHeadCase
05-10-2007, 09:22 PM
just going back to the whole 70s disco house thing there is no such thing as 70s disco house. as many people have said house was started in the 80s one of the frist mainstreem house hits was farley jackmaster funk love carnt turn around
also jamie principle and frankie knuckles your love
on and on by jesse saunders was the first house track to be pressed and sold to the public that was 1985

Absolutely true, but what people probably mean is 70s Disco/House, so house mixes of old disco or house in a disco style... at a guess.

Larry B Entertainment
05-10-2007, 09:29 PM
if you said that in Derby they would just smile at you walk back to the bar tell their mates and then carry on drinking :D :D :D

Almost sounds a daft as Boston lol

Larry B Entertainment
05-10-2007, 09:35 PM
god it's like backstage at the theatre.
The amount of people who do quick changes back there on some shows.. specially amateur ones.. it's stupid.... you have to look up at the flys to avoid being accused lol!
That's why i like followspotting.. your out of the way

I got some work on a fashion show a few years ago for the local lingerie shop. I was the soundman. There was about 150 women and i was the only bloke in the room. Loads of women parading about in all this underwear :D Dont get many bookings like that everyday.

Solitaire Events Ltd
05-10-2007, 09:37 PM
I got some work on a fashion show a few years ago for the local lingerie shop. I was the soundman. There was about 150 women and i was the only bloke in the room. Loads of women parading about in all this underwear :D Dont get many bookings like that everyday.

Sounds awful...;)

colint
05-10-2007, 09:54 PM
I had a really nice one last sat? & I'm sure I aint the only one this has happened too!
Two blokes (bout 60years) old sitting 4 foot in front of 2.5k of speakers, one comes up to me and says (suprise suprise) can you turn it down were trying to talk! I was playing background music at the time

NO MOVE!:bang:

Corabar Steve
06-10-2007, 02:21 AM
Absolutely true, but what people probably mean is 70s Disco/House, so house mixes of old disco or house in a disco style... at a guess.

Please don't dredge that one up again. Badger gets his knickers in an awful twist over it. :sj:

thex-faders
06-10-2007, 05:19 PM
Have you got my friends new track?? Its on her myspace account....

"Who is your friend?"

"Inserts random name"

"Why on earth would i have your friends track who knowebody has ever heard of!!"

Or can i have a go?

"Yes of course you can fiddle and do anything you like with my £££'s worth of equipment, have a ball" ..... i think not

Corabar Entertainment
07-10-2007, 12:15 AM
Have you got my friends new track?? Its on her myspace account....Wow! A new one! Never heard of anyone coming up with that before. I wonder how much thought went into the question? :p

Larry B Entertainment
07-10-2007, 04:27 PM
Have you got my friends new track?? Its on her myspace account....

"Who is your friend?"

"Inserts random name"

"Why on earth would i have your friends track who knowebody has ever heard of!!"

Or can i have a go?

"Yes of course you can fiddle and do anything you like with my £££'s worth of equipment, have a ball" ..... i think not

Come on x faders, your not seriously saying you dont trawl through 10 million myspace accounts and burn a copy of every single song just in case theres a one in a million chance someone might ask for it :D

Larry B Entertainment
07-10-2007, 04:28 PM
" My mates a DJ, can he have a go ? "

Er no, thats why im playing tonight and he isnt !!!!!

PropellerHeadCase
07-10-2007, 09:11 PM
" My mates a DJ, can he have a go ? "

Er no, thats why im playing tonight and he isnt !!!!!

I've never understood that... if your mate's the DJ why aren't they talking to me?

Shaun
07-10-2007, 09:24 PM
Stupid things people say to you at gigs.

At my gig on Saturday at the beginning of the evening....

Guest: "Are you the band?....."

Me: "No, I'm the DJ, there's no band tonight. Is there anything I can help with?"

Guest: "I wanted to request a song from the band"

Me: "If it's a song request you're after I'd be glad to help. What would you like to hear?"

Guest: "But I thought you weren't the band?"

Me: "I'm not....I'm the DJ. Would you like to request a song?"

Guest: "Ummm, no, it's ok"

*walks off back to her seat*

At that point I'm thinking.... "It's gonna be a loooong night".

robbiedj
07-10-2007, 09:57 PM
" My mates a DJ, can he have a go ? "




The best part is when he wanders behind the stand .................. and gapes at the laptop. "That what you use? I can't use that!"

Good !!!!!!!! :Laugh: :ner:


We have done 2 birthdays for former djs in the last year and both times offered them the chance to try the gear. Both declined as it looked too complicated without a bit of practice beforehand.

Now, they WERE professional djs. :thumbsup:

DMX Will
07-10-2007, 10:10 PM
At my gig on Saturday at the beginning of the evening....

Guest: "Are you the band?....."

Me: "No, I'm the DJ, there's no band tonight. Is there anything I can help with?"

Guest: "I wanted to request a song from the band"

Me: "If it's a song request you're after I'd be glad to help. What would you like to hear?"

Guest: "But I thought you weren't the band?"

Me: "I'm not....I'm the DJ. Would you like to request a song?"

Guest: "Ummm, no, it's ok"

*walks off back to her seat*

At that point I'm thinking.... "It's gonna be a loooong night".

:lol:

PropellerHeadCase
07-10-2007, 10:29 PM
At my gig on Saturday at the beginning of the evening....

Guest: "Are you the band?....."

Me: "No, I'm the DJ, there's no band tonight. Is there anything I can help with?"

Guest: "I wanted to request a song from the band"

Me: "If it's a song request you're after I'd be glad to help. What would you like to hear?"

Guest: "But I thought you weren't the band?"

Me: "I'm not....I'm the DJ. Would you like to request a song?"

Guest: "Ummm, no, it's ok"

*walks off back to her seat*

At that point I'm thinking.... "It's gonna be a loooong night".

Come on, I'll spell it for you... Deeeee Jaaaaay ;)

Larry B Entertainment
08-10-2007, 04:39 PM
What can you really say to people that are THAT stupid !!!

Penfold42
08-10-2007, 05:08 PM
At that point I'm thinking.... "It's gonna be a loooong night".

LOL.....

The bit i find funny is holding your composure until you can find a moment to laugh..........so much you start to cry and it hurts!!

:D :D

ross@rds
08-10-2007, 07:47 PM
Not at a gig but on the phone "How much for a disco" & "Ill get back to you" and they dont .

DMX Will
08-10-2007, 10:35 PM
I had a child once ask me if I had every song ever made.


He was quite impressed when I said "nearly every song" lol

Dragonfly
28-10-2007, 03:14 PM
last night ......... "hi can you play a song you have already played please?"

this was at 12.25 am??????? started at 7.30pm

robbiedj
28-10-2007, 04:56 PM
last night ......... "hi can you play a song you have already played please?"

this was at 12.25 am??????? started at 7.30pm


I had that a couple of weeks ago, with a bit more information.

"You played it near the beginning, it was good." :confused:

djsteve10
28-10-2007, 04:59 PM
we was out at a wedding last night,

We had the silk flame effects out and this man came over "excuse me.. what gas mark are they on"

i thought he was taking the micky but he was deadly serious lol

mb3
28-10-2007, 05:07 PM
erm stuff that how can the Sugababes win the best dance award over fatboy slim and the chemical brothers which they did a few years ago at the brits i bet no-one can answer that ...


Dead easy to answer.

The Sugababes have very attractive looks.

Fatboy Slim & Chemical brothers do not.

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 05:51 PM
At the end of the day these people are customers so its in your best interest to be nice even if they are as thick as two short planks.

Sometimes the best way to get rid of annoying people is be nice and they cant argue with that !

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 05:57 PM
Nobody has seriously suggested that you should be anything other than nice to your customers and their guests..... this thread is just about sharing the amusing silly things that people do say to you. :confused: :confused:

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 06:00 PM
But dont you think this is very disrespectful to the people who pay your wages as a DJ ?

Solitaire Events Ltd
28-10-2007, 06:03 PM
But dont you think this is very disrespectful to the people who pay your wages as a DJ ?

Why? This is a lighthearted thread with people sharing experiences.

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 06:04 PM
As no-one is naming names, or suggesting that you should tell people to :Censored: etc, then I personally can't see any harm in this thread. It's just a bit of harmless fun and a way for DJs to let off a bit of steam IMO - but each to their own

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 06:06 PM
But what if people looking for a disco are reading the thread ?
A little respect goes a long way.

Solitaire Events Ltd
28-10-2007, 06:07 PM
But what if people looking for a disco are reading the thread ?


Then they will know what not to say at a gig.

Lighten up. :)

ross@rds
28-10-2007, 06:10 PM
Are you my taxi driver ?

That guy had a lot to drink that night lol. During set up at a function room when I first went in there was a guy sitting at the bar talking to the barmaid who was getting the room ready for the birthday, I walk in and he says are you my taxi driver lol.

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 06:12 PM
Perhaps we should discuss the good things people have said to us ?

Great night mate, could you do a birthday party for us ?

You are a great DJ would you like to come back to mine afterwards ?

Solitaire Events Ltd
28-10-2007, 06:15 PM
Perhaps we should discuss the good things people have said to us ?

Great night mate, could you do a birthday party for us ?

You are a great DJ would you like to come back to mine afterwards ?

Start another thread then.

ross@rds
28-10-2007, 06:18 PM
The stupid things are better than the good things tho.

sleah
28-10-2007, 06:18 PM
last night ......... "hi can you play a song you have already played please?"

this was at 12.25 am??????? started at 7.30pm


I had that a couple of weeks ago, with a bit more information.

"You played it near the beginning, it was good." :confused:

I had EXACTLY that last night! :Laugh:

rob1963
28-10-2007, 06:21 PM
Perhaps we should discuss the good things people have said to us?

We could do, but it wouldn't be anywhere NEAR as entertaining is the stupid things people say.

Excalibur
28-10-2007, 06:22 PM
Perhaps we should discuss the good things people have said to us ?

Great night mate, could you do a birthday party for us ?

You are a great DJ would you like to come back to mine afterwards ?

Now come on, no-one ever says good things to us, do they?:confused:

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 06:23 PM
I once saw an attractive woman on the dance floor.
I watched her for a while and she came up and asked me to dance with her.
So we danced for a while.
This bloke ran up to me and grabbed me by the throat and told me to stop hassling her !
It turned out it was her brother, I said "But she asked me to dance !"

Excalibur
28-10-2007, 06:23 PM
Are you my taxi driver ?

That guy had a lot to drink that night lol. During set up at a function room when I first went in there was a guy sitting at the bar talking to the barmaid who was getting the room ready for the birthday, I walk in and he says are you my taxi driver lol.

For the right price, of course, no problem!;)

Shaun
28-10-2007, 06:40 PM
But dont you think this is very disrespectful to the people who pay your wages as a DJ ?


But what if people looking for a disco are reading the thread ?
A little respect goes a long way.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:


As no-one is naming names, or suggesting that you should tell people to :Censored: etc, then I personally can't see any harm in this thread. It's just a bit of harmless fun and a way for DJs to let off a bit of steam IMO - but each to their own




Lighten up. :)


I agree.

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 07:02 PM
Are you my taxi driver ?

.I had one pillock try to get in the van with me, because he thought it was a taxi. Me "What are you doing?"
Him "Is this my taxi?"
Me "It's a police van"
Him http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-13329.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)


Perhaps we should discuss the good things people have said to us ?

Great night mate, could you do a birthday party for us ?

You are a great DJ would you like to come back to mine afterwards ?
It would be boring & I'd be typing the same raise each week (I'm fantastic, in case you didn't know)

I once saw an attractive woman on the dance floor.
I watched her for a while and she came up and asked me to dance with her.
So we danced for a while.
This bloke ran up to me and grabbed me by the throat and told me to stop hassling her !
It turned out it was her brother, I said "But she asked me to dance !"
That's the spirit, join in

BeerFunk
28-10-2007, 07:18 PM
You know how you get some people who caome up and ask you something, then rather than go away, they sort of stand there for no apparent reason? Really awkward! Anyway, I had a girl do that the other week, and then she looked at my CD cases which were lying open, and asked "do you remember where every song on every one of those CDs is?"

Bearing in mind I had Now... 20-67, countless Mastermix compilations and whatever else in there, I couldn't help but laugh. I just told her I remember the important ones, and have a rough idea about the rest :)

ross@rds
28-10-2007, 07:18 PM
I had one pillock try to get in the van with me, because he thought it was a taxi. Me "What are you doing?"
Him "Is this my taxi?"
Me "It's a police van"
Him http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-13329.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

LOL.


(I'm fantastic, in case you didn't know)

Erm ........ :)

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 07:39 PM
Finger on the ban button :sj:

sleah
28-10-2007, 07:44 PM
I once saw an attractive woman on the dance floor.


I did once. Long time ago though.:rolleyes:

BeerFunk
28-10-2007, 07:56 PM
I did once. Long time ago though.:rolleyes:
Eh?? :confused:

Did you go Mr Magoo or something?

sleah
28-10-2007, 08:01 PM
I did once. Long time ago though.:rolleyes:


Eh?? :confused:

Did you go Mr Magoo or something?

Sorry, poor atempt at humor! I read Nigel's post as if he'd only ever seen an attractive woman on a dancefloor once:D

If you came to the club I work at you'd be on my wave length, we're famous for our....errrr...... less than attractice ladies:D

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 08:34 PM
The worst thing anyone did at one of my gigs was to ask someone to put the juke box on just as I was about to start !

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 08:41 PM
at least they weren't still feeding the juke box with money AFTER you'd started - which I've seen on more than 1 occasion! :eek:

robbiedj
28-10-2007, 08:52 PM
at least they weren't still feeding the juke box with money AFTER you'd started - which I've seen on more than 1 occasion! :eek:

Don't get the chance with me. If there's one in the room, I switch it off and pull out the plug. :devil:

PropellerHeadCase
28-10-2007, 10:00 PM
The worst thing anyone did at one of my gigs was to ask someone to put the juke box on just as I was about to start !

Wasn't that cathartic? Doesn't it feel good to vent about [anonymous] idiots!?

Dragonfly
28-10-2007, 10:03 PM
everyday of my life im forced to share my planet with these people !!! say that to myself every morning.

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 10:11 PM
That's why you spend so much time on here, isn't it Dave? ;)

Dragonfly
28-10-2007, 10:13 PM
indeed you people are my anchor to the little part of my brain that is still labled "sane" :D :D :D :beer1:

Excalibur
28-10-2007, 10:15 PM
indeed you people are my anchor to the little part of my brain that is still labled "sane" :D :D :D :beer1:

I wish I still had a part like that, but sadly I'm a DJ!:p ;)

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 10:33 PM
"How much do you charge?"

& then when I told them

"Wouldn't get much for £75 then"


Not sure what reminded me of that one. :sj:

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 10:36 PM
You get a very good sound system.
Great light show.
The standard disco soul and pop music.
And the greatest DJ in the world, I mostly keep my gob shut.

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 10:51 PM
Have you got any Motown :sj:

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 10:53 PM
Motown, northern soul, soul, pop, country and western, rock and roll and Billy Idol.

Dragonfly
28-10-2007, 10:54 PM
Motown, northern soul, soul, pop, country and western, rock and roll and Billy Idol.

indeed a veritable genre all on his own ..... saw him live in 93













we don't mention the M word around steve ...... it just upsets him :D :D :beer1:

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 10:54 PM
Yeah, but they usually want something that came out on Stax or Atlantic :sj:

How long has Billy Idol been a genre? :sj:

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 10:55 PM
Erm...... just a gentle prod lads......

:ontopic:

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 10:59 PM
I was once asked "Are you a geordie ?"

He nearly got a slap, I am north west and geordie is north east.

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 11:00 PM
Close enough :sj:

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 11:01 PM
I was once asked "Who is gonna walk my mate home ?"

I of course replied "me"
Got home 3 days later, luckily for me the other 3 dj's packed up and took the gear home.

We had a rule that if anyone pulled the rest of the dj's loaded the van.

nigelwright7557
28-10-2007, 11:05 PM
Did a disco in a transvestite bar in Manchester.

There were laods of trannies dancing around ,very badly.

I looked around and there at the bar was the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen. I was just about to walk over and say hello when my mate grabbed me. He told me that it wasnt a woman. I said,"You must be joking, she is gorgeous". He said,"Take my word for it, its a lady boy"
So my mate saved me from some serious embarassment.

Excalibur
28-10-2007, 11:06 PM
Have you got any Motown :sj:

Don't answer this, it's a trap!:D

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 11:06 PM
How do these fall into the "Stupid things that people say to you at gigs"? :confused: :confused:

Excalibur
28-10-2007, 11:08 PM
How do these fall into the "Stupid things that people say to you at gigs"? :confused: :confused:

Sorry, we thought it was " Things stupid people say to you at gigs!):D

Corabar Steve
28-10-2007, 11:09 PM
Stupid thing you've said about gigs maybe?

Corabar Entertainment
28-10-2007, 11:10 PM
Sorry, we thought it was " Things stupid people say to you at gigs!):D:lol: .... No, I was posting at the same time as you: I think Nigel thought the title was "Stupid things you've said at gigs" ;)

Dragonfly
28-10-2007, 11:11 PM
i like after a dodgey ymca from myself and my then roadie being asked by a young lady ..."excuse me is either you or your friend a professional dancer?"

erm ....... no incidentally where is mr. solitaire this evening ... is he out doing some work??..... or has someone been out littering readings streets with infants again?? :D :D

Shaun
28-10-2007, 11:13 PM
:ontopic: :)

Dragonfly
28-10-2007, 11:18 PM
i like after a dodgey ymca from myself and my then roadie being asked by a young lady ..."excuse me is either you or your friend a professional dancer?"

erm ....... no incidentally where is mr. solitaire this evening ... is he out doing some work??..... or has someone been out littering readings streets with infants again?? :D :D


:ontopic: :)


:confused: :confused:

sleah
29-10-2007, 01:01 AM
indeed you people are my anchor to the little part of my brain that is still labled "sane" :D :D :D :beer1:

You're on the wrong forum mate:D either that, or I'd hate to see the truely insane side of you:eek: :D :D :beerchug: :ner:


We had a rule that if anyone pulled the rest of the dj's loaded the van.

Like it :thumbs_up: but what if all of you pulled? Last one etc?:doh:




Y'all know the "Have you got..." and they then badly sing a line that's usually wrong and out of tune?..










Well, I actually got one right on saturday night:eek: couldn't believe it:cool:
It was "free" by Ultrawatsername

Danno13
29-10-2007, 01:10 AM
Well, I actually got one right on saturday night couldn't believe it
It was "free" by Ultrawatsername

Ultra Nate.. or it could have been the Yomanda version.. :p

sleah
29-10-2007, 01:20 AM
Ultra Nate.. or it could have been the Yomanda version.. :p

Thanks Danno, it was indeedy Ultra Nate, just couldn't spell it:o

gillo
29-10-2007, 01:38 AM
Mine has got to be (dance floor full) put some hardcore dance on, i don't like this :Censored: your playing! so i told the young intoxicated male that if he doesnt like the music then he should leave:D now i no you have got to cater for everyone but why should you change the whole genre for a drunken chav whereing a baseball cap!:D

Excalibur
30-10-2007, 12:04 AM
Stupid thing you've said about gigs maybe?

Stupid things you've said AT gigs?:o :confused:

Edit. Sorry Angela, just read your post. Oops.

Dragonfly
03-01-2008, 04:51 PM
at one of my xmas gigs .....

"excuse me mate have you got that song thats played in the nightclub in the first 5 minutes of the film Blade?" :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Or the lady ive just given a quote to "and is that price negotiable?" hold on yes ive just this minute realised i over charged you by £50 ???????? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

alphawave
03-01-2008, 06:56 PM
picture the scene . .in front of lots of sweaty/drunk people appox 12.10am all the hall lights on and amps packed,leads rolled up and screens down and theres always that one "can you play one more?please,you said you would play me that song"!

rob1963
03-01-2008, 07:03 PM
picture the scene . .in front of lots of sweaty/drunk people appox 12.10am all the hall lights on and amps packed,leads rolled up and screens down and theres always that one "can you play one more?please,you said you would play me that song"!

I had something similar on new year's eve.

I'd finished the gig, and had been packing up for about 10 minutes when a girl came up & asked "Are you going to play any more music?"

:bang:

Penfold42
03-01-2008, 07:22 PM
One on NYE.....

''Can you play Blue Order....?''
''Sorry Lxxx and Bxxxx (B&G) have given me a playlist...so i'm sticking to most of that but if you have a request on that list then yes i will....''

''Who's Lxxx and Bxxxx then.....????''

:D :D :D :D :D

PropellerHeadCase
03-01-2008, 08:08 PM
"excuse me mate have you got that song thats played in the nightclub in the first 5 minutes of the film Blade?" :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

If I'm right the answer may be amusing considering your use of the confused smiley... New Order 'Confusion' (Pump Panel Reconstruction)

Solitaire Events Ltd
03-01-2008, 08:37 PM
''

''Who's Lxxx and Bxxxx then.....????''



Well you have to admit, they are fairly unusual names. :D

Dragonfly
03-01-2008, 08:40 PM
http://www.szilagyi.us/images/Simpsons/KangKodos.jpg

for those that don't know ......

Lxxx and Bxxxx :D :D :D :D :D

Solitaire Events Ltd
03-01-2008, 08:41 PM
They look a bit like Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons......

PropellerHeadCase
03-01-2008, 08:54 PM
A passing similarity, I'll agree ;)

Larry B Entertainment
03-01-2008, 09:01 PM
We've all had the comments.

(when the dancefloor is full) "play something we can dance too"

(kids pointing to the mixer) "do you know what all those buttons do?"

(Person comes up to to stage) "Are you the DJ?"

"what songs have you got?" [ do they really expect me to recite my whole music library..lol? ]

(guests approaches) "can you play ________, and play it NOW !!!" [I'm happy to take requests..but I don't take demands :) ]



Feel free to add to the list......

Had the good one again on NYE..........

"Should that machine be smoking like that ?" someone asks

She was referring to the smoke machine. I dont know whre these people come from :mad:

Excalibur
03-01-2008, 09:11 PM
Had the good one again on NYE..........

"Should that machine be smoking like that ?" someone asks

She was referring to the smoke machine. I dont know whre these people come from :mad:

Could have been worse. I have been charged by wannabe firemen ready to extinguish me! Also roundly chastised by an outside bar, who thought his beer coolers had just exploded! :eek: :D

Penfold42
03-01-2008, 09:17 PM
Well you have to admit, they are fairly unusual names. :D


for those that don't know ......

Lxxx and Bxxxx :D :D :D :D :D

:lol:

.....:D :D :D :D :D :D

rob1963
04-01-2008, 12:11 AM
One on NYE.....

''Can you play Blue Order....?''
''Sorry Lxxx and Bxxxx (B&G) have given me a playlist...so i'm sticking to most of that but if you have a request on that list then yes i will....''

''Who's Lxxx and Bxxxx then.....????''

:D :D :D :D :D

Someone at a wedding might not know the bride & grooms names...

...maybe they were a gate crasher!

(Do you get those at weddings?)

robbiedj
04-01-2008, 10:52 AM
Someone at a wedding might not know the bride & grooms names...

...maybe they were a gate crasher!

(Do you get those at weddings?)

You haven't seen the film Wedding Crashers then? :D

Seriously, it could be the ubiquitous "and partner" invitation where said partner has never actually met the B&G.

rob1963
04-01-2008, 10:56 AM
You haven't seen the film Wedding Crashers then? :D

Seriously, it could be the ubiquitous "and partner" invitation where said partner has never actually met the B&G.

That's fair comment Robbie, and no...I haven't seen that film!

Penfold42
04-01-2008, 04:25 PM
Someone at a wedding might not know the bride & grooms names...

...maybe they were a gate crasher!

(Do you get those at weddings?)

Hmmm fair comment but if you were going to NYE bash....would you not find out who's it was ???

I find it strange....not only strange but rude......IMO....:)

drb
05-01-2008, 10:03 AM
"Can I have a look at your CDs?
No. They are the tools of my living. They are arranged in a specific order. They are also a convenient size to hide under a jacket as you leave. You thieving little pikey."- AL Vybz

Ha Ha!!