dancefloor fela
tripledouble
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now ive seen fela records ignite dancefloors on many occasions (whatup rich!)and i dropped "waterget no enemy" and got a explosive reaction at 3:30am on saturday. whassyour top fela burners in your opinions experiencealways musch respect to fela, byt the way
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lucky bastard!
unsophisticated locals down here will pretty much universally clear the floor at the hint of anything afrobeat
the only exception would be ck mann, which was well appreciated by gorgeous chicks...
That's a first for me to hear that. I've never dug Fela at any rate, but in my experience a Fela record (always played be somebody else - I don't own a Fela record) either clears the dancefloor, or is OK for early doors warm up.......whilst you flip the box for the more serious dancefloor ammo, and get a few beers down your neck.
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go slow, of course. thats a banger
yo, i dont know how many have seen rich medina spin, but in philly he used to get people moving on the floor and he'd end most nights with a fela trak and people would go bananas, sweat flying foot stomping go for broke...and im sure people had no clue what they were dancing too...just feeling it
DigDug, is that CK Mann you've got off of that comp from years back?
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Hmmm...maybe this was the Fela track that I and other people went nuts to when Rich spun at the Squarebiz Roy Ayers tribute last year. I need to do some follow-up research on that, because whatever it was must be copped.
Tone, was that a regular gig you did or just a one-off?
psssh... probably not the comp you're thinking of, this is some bullshit bootleg comp from the 90s. the quality is terrible.
thats one that I would absolutely be willing to shell out for an original of one day though... anyone know if the rest of the album is straight highlife or if there's other crossover material?
I can't recall any Fela track failing on a Toronto dancefloor before????
K.
I get the impression that slower tempos and longer tracks go over better in Canada than they do here
Houston, texas, home of the 2nd largest population of Nigerian immigrants in America.
would "everything scatter" fit the bill?
heard it played (most likely off CD) at an afrobeat night a few years back and it definitely got people moving.
K.
i played this at a wedding last night and muhfugging 50 year old formerformerhippies were getting it in on the dancefloor!
Definetely! And can't forget about "Yellow Fever".
K in Canada.
the irony of dudes who command ??37000 for a gig doin mixes of Expensive Shit is
You saw that too. Thats insane right??
That also "goes hard in the paint".
more insane was the later news that basement jaxx got paid like ??40K for a new years gig
where's your head at INDEED
how is that possible? you would have get 5000 people in the club.
Can't they fit like 3 or 4 thousand people at the Ministry of Sound?
well i believe the figure i read was 1800 advance tickets ALONE sold at ??20... who knows what they charged at the door or the overall capacity of the club but money was still made shockingly enough.
the scary thing is that people were willing to pay that much money to see two chubby dudes spin cdrs while paying ??10 fer a lager