Best and Worst Salsa DJs?

I might have just had the chance to hear the worst DJ in my salsa experience so far. :D

He played about 1/3 salsified pop, 1/3 reggaeton and 1/3 other (including bachatas, merengues, salsa hits in their most cheesy version and random Cuban tracks). He was mixing the tracks and adding effect in such a clumsy way that would sometimes add half a bar so that you end up dancing on the wrong beat. He played a version of El Incantante that I could only laugh at even though I love the song. The top was a particularly revolting salsa version of Careles Whisper (yes, George Michael's...). I was mentally ready to hear Lady in Red any moment. :eek:

I am almost curious what I'll hear next time I bump into him :rolleyes:
 
salsera_alemana said:
....The very best DJs for me were the Puerto Rican DJs we had in Germany at the beginning of the 1990s, e. g. Miguel Guante & Edwin Melendez ("Black & White") and some of the DJs in the Frankfurt and Darmstadt area, I do not recall their names.
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I second that part about Frankfurt area - I used to like their music (their="Latin Factory's" since they were basically everywhere, including Darmstadt) something like 3 years ago, too. Don't know about now, haven't been there for a while. However, there was actually just one dj who really stood out for me - it was Tito, who was Puertorican from NY. Pity he's not in Germany anymore. But I'll check out the music at this year's festival :cool:
 
SalsaGipsy said:
He played about 1/3 salsified pop, 1/3 reggaeton and 1/3 other (including bachatas, merengues, salsa hits in their most cheesy version and random Cuban tracks). He was mixing the tracks and adding effect in such a clumsy way that would sometimes add half a bar so that you end up dancing on the wrong beat.
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You have my sympathy. Sounds like torture. I would be banging my head against the wall by the end of the evening.
 
desconocida said:
I second that part about Frankfurt area - I used to like their music (their="Latin Factory's" since they were basically everywhere, including Darmstadt) something like 3 years ago, too. Don't know about now, haven't been there for a while. However, there was actually just one dj who really stood out for me - it was Tito, who was Puertorican from NY. Pity he's not in Germany anymore. But I'll check out the music at this year's festival :cool:
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Was he the one who had or still has this online salsa radio station: http://www.live365.com/stations/mrsalsoul?play? He used to be in Wiesbaden. I have never heard him DJ-ing but he plays great music on this radio station so I assume that I would also love his DJ music. I have not been in the Frankfurt or Darmstadt scene for many years.
 
salsera_alemana said:
Was he the one who had or still has this online salsa radio station: http://www.live365.com/stations/mrsalsoul?play? He used to be in Wiesbaden. I have never heard him DJ-ing but he plays great music on this radio station so I assume that I would also love his DJ music. I have not been in the Frankfurt or Darmstadt scene for many years.
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I don't know for sure but I doubt it is him for some reason. However, his last name has never been mentioned anywhere from what I remember. We could ask Luisco though, if we really wanted to know, I'm sure he knows.
The picture of that guy from live365, though blurred, doesn't look like Tito - actually this is him on the top left salsafestival-frankfurt.de/index.php?id=111#c345
There used to be a guy at Wiesbaden's Mamalatina parties and he was good, too. Maybe it's him who you're talking about?

Update: ok, seems like it might be the same Tito, got this link from ChrisK salsabayern.de/club/schirn-frankfurt.html
Thanks, Chris!
 
desconocida said:
Update: ok, seems like it might be the same Tito, got this link from ChrisK salsabayern.de/club/schirn-frankfurt.html
Thanks, Chris!
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I could not tell from any photo as I have never met him in person. I exchanged some emails with him a couple of years ago. There was probably only one DJ Tito from Puerto Rico as there are so few Puerto Ricans left in Germany now...

I have salsa friends in Speyer and they say that DJ Marco (also on the Frankfurt goes Salsa page you posted) plays very good music. They always go to the Cubar in Schwetzingen on Fridays and they have my music taste.
 
I'm not going to name names here, it wouldn't be fair.

I expect the same from DJ Yuca otherwise I'll say it was you. :raisebrow:
 
Ok, wow, I just came back to this thread. I have learned alot from reading through it and also that clearly I do not get out or around enough. So I hope to have the opportunity to hear some of the great DJs that have been mentioned.
 
bailar y tocar said:
A lot of people have emigrated from Colombia and Venezuela in the last 10 years, any DJs among them ?
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Well, a bunch of them, I think. As well as Bolivians or Dominicans. But most of the time that doesn't mean automatically that they know a lot about the music "we" (the hard core salsa community, of course) would like them to play. Sometimes it's just an easy (or the only) thing to do for them (work permits and so on). And even when they do know a lot about the music and have the right tracks that doesn't mean they play them. Be it due to the fact that most parties over here are more of "latino mix" parties (even when advertised as salsa parties) and people expect them to play b...it or because club owners assume that's what people want and make djs play it.
Sad, but true. Just experienced that yesterday: an otherwise really good dj with tons of good music (or that was my impression of him at least, judging from the last time I heard him djing) digging up the fourth, fifth and sixth Victor Manuelle, Marc Anthony and Gilberto Santa Rosa song while dancers give up on that night and go home empty-handed. Welcome to Germany's salsa reality :mad:
 
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