A Question for DJs...

I wrote a looooonnnngggg, piece on this exact thing recently, wherein I applied three ratings to all sorts of records: a Personal Rating (PR); a Wedding Playability Rating (WPR) ("wedding" meaning "weddings, office parties, suburban dance bars"); and a Disparity Rating (DR) to measure the difference in my response. I can't go into too much detail here--partly 'cause I still want to revive the piece which was a mess--but needless to say the records I found most interesting were the ones with a high DR, usually meaning ones I don't care for that much at home (or hate even) but which I'm totally capable of actually loving when they perform their magic on the dancefloor. (Off the top of my head I can think of "Love Cats" and Madonna's "Music.")

(I was only thinking of techno/house music when I wrote the originial question, but, now that you have made me think about it, there are a lot of other records I have that make me feel the same way.)

Marc Arcadipane ft Dick Rules I Like It Loud

This generally works really well on the floors as a banging, stupid, obnoxious partytrack, but at home it's soooo cheesy.

I wish I could answer this more in regards to techno-house but I never get hired in those places (probably 'cause the Bob Seger and Jive Bunny albums are always peaking through the crates when I apply).

s - the point was that you didn't have to be talking about techno-house. I just made a dumb assumption. What bob seger records do you mix into a techno/house set?

Actually, this doesn't exactly count, but the only good mix I've ever done with "Old Time rock 'n' Roll" (which made it sound great to me for the first time EVER) was mixing from it (during the breakdown vocal part) into Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue" opening beat. It was fucking ace if I don't say so myself--even the groom who "forbid" me not to play Seger was giving me the thumbs up (I dis-obliged 'cause his aunt from wherever-ville was getting all rangy on me to play it).

I'll have to check this thread later--my boss just handed me major work!

there's not much to say about Tone - "Love Save the Day" (Bass Boy Records) - other than it rocks a dancefloor.

Actually, I tried to write about my favorite DJ weapon on freakytrigger, but my review sounded pretty clinical, which is not what the record is about at all.

However, it's just my writing skillz which need honing. People like Tim Finney can write reams on things that are verbally non-descript to me (my usual reaction: "oh shit dude, that's the bomb").