Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Jelly DJs

music sound in Athens bars streamlined?  Catch yourself yawning after 20 minutes in the hands of an also yawning DJ?
I get out,- rarely, I must admit-, to bore for 2-3 hours in a newly decorated bar, club etc.
The bartender area is similar to any other, this wall of bottles is unique (or not) and  the DJ seems to repeat what was on the radio this morning or copying another DJ, I was listening to last Thursday.
Throughout the year there are discrete bar seasons:
 Xmas                                Apokries (bamboleo season),
pre-Eurovision spring         post –Eurovision spring
summer                              autumn+winter
and each season, I get the feeling that there are more or less 100 –150 songs played.  Again and again. Year in, year out.
You know you are at the end of the season when you are already fed up with listening to the piece the DJ has just,- proudly-, played.  Hell, you have already heard it 60-70 times already!
No wonder it takes so much alcohol to have fun and start dancing.
The best of Jelly DJs is yet to come: artists with curiosity, scanning and experimenting in YouTube, exploring jamendo, hunting for upcoming artists in the open and not out of the lists (or freebies) of major music distributors.
Jell-o, happy guys discovering Colombian hiphop, like Choc Quib Town
Mummy, can I please have music like this? Please?

BTW try searching Google for “how to have fun with alcohol “.
Google doesn’t believe you really want to do this, does it?
“No, really I want alcohol!
Well,  this is where Google get stubborn, and expect to be told off,  if you keep on pressing for alcohol.






Disclaimer: The above searches were only done as part of the research to find photos for this post.  When I REALLY want alcohol, I maintain the good sense to not fight with Google over it!

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