great speeches/spoken bits to play at the start of dj sets.

it sounded fckn amazing, and etm was saying last night that all hands were coming up and giving it 'best clubbing night of our lives'.

i was looking for the thread about it that you posted but couldnt find it.

Great opening speech, especially in the Hybrid version (one of the few Hybrid tracks that just plainly rocks).

As we dance to a beat that seems out of time
To the one you feel in the metronome of your mind
Does it offend you that our rhythm looks strange
Or causes you thinking to be re-arranged
Could it be that you would understand those beat to which we dance
More clearly had you been given the chance
So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet

Ask yourself............can you dance to my beat

dunDUN dun DUN

Good morning. In less than one
hour planes from here and all
around the world will launch the
largest aerial battle in the
history of mankind...
Mankind. The word has new meaning
for all of us now. We are
reminded not of our petty
differences but of our common
interests.

Perhaps it's fate that today, July
the Fourth, we will once again
fight for our freedom. Not from
tyranny, persecution or
oppression. But from
annihilation. We're fighting for
our right to live, to exit. From
this day on, the fourth day of
July will no longer be remembered
as an American holiday but as the
day that all of mankind declared
we will not go quietly into the
night. We will not vanish without
a fight. We will live on. We
will survive.

" Ezequiel 21:17
Blessed is he who in the name of charity & good will separates the weak through the valley of darkness......for he is truly his brother s keeper ...& the finder of lost children..."

any advances on these?

'In churches around this nation, the stately hymns of Christendom are being replaced by the jungle rhythms and the occult incantations of the jellyhead generation'

There is even one part where he talks about the obscene immoral trash that is.... the smothers brothers!

haha.

"1. This one's for you, and nobody likes you. Why don't you fuck off back to Xanadu in Ireland.
2. ..."

But I'll mention the one thing I heard that began an early version of "Freak Like Me" by Richard X/Girls On Top.. and that's the Cramps' live version of "Good Taste"... "For all you Gucci bag carriers out there, you got goooooooooooooood TASTE!"

'Mondo Manhattan' doesn't exist in mp3land - what is the spoken word bit all about?

Gentrification on the Lower East Side (where I DJ).

one was this hillbilly southern baptist preacher literally consfusing himself whilst talking "can you ever be born again again? and again?" i used to cut it back and forth so he was going "again and again and again and again" and fade in the echo and then fade in the first track

another one is a pharmaceutical company promotional record for when valium was first put on the market, talking about the advent of psychobenzeprines and giving anecdotes of mental disorders

my favorite is a sex ed record from the 50s given by a very ancient sounding "gentleman" type to what sounds like a class of very giggly and uncomfortable 12 year old girls - each of whom has to come up with and ask him a question. it's excrutiating and funny. so many terrific soundbytes

i have comedy records in bulgarian, i have "annual reviews" of the year in news for most of the 60s and 70s, i have the lunar landing flexi-disc from national geographic that the orb used extensively on the ultraworld album... too much shit actually. the last few times i moved i said "no more buying records"

Sometimes music takes you places that you've been or want to go. It makes a giant meek as a lamb, it makes a weak man strong, brings life to a dead soul, moves mountains, parts rivers, makes a deaf man speak and a layman leap. It's funny to think something so natural, so mystical, totally affects us all...but it does. Do you allow yourself to be moved, do you lose yourself and then refind yourself in the music? I couldn't imagine a world without music. There would be such a void in my life. Music has kept me out of harms way. It's that beacon of light that shines brightly through my world. I thank god for music. I love music. And I allow music to love me.

more?

Was thinking of the E-Man acappella mentioned by Paul in SC just yesterday. Slighty corny, declamatory delivery and reverb but nonetheless inspiring. I used the MLK "I have a dream" speech a few times early on but it comes off very pompous since I don't DJ, you know, stadiums.
I think the Wild Angels movie rant is a perfect fit tho: "We want to be free! We want to be free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride. And we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man. And we want to get loaded. And we want to have a good time! And that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna have a good time. We’re gonna have a party!"

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

Almost anything by Derek and Clive.

http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/

D.H.S. - "The House of God" is great for this.

I think the Wild Angels movie rant is a perfect fit tho

And then two seconds later when the crowd realizes you AREN'T playing "Loaded"...

I don't play those crowds! In fact I don't play any lately.