DJ Ras Claude playing the NoF-NoF session in Neuchatel 1993
My second visit at NoF-NoFs place. This was new to me, because there was a feeling from the year before (see here). That was still in memory. And there was an article in the newspaper (just saw it after the show for a moment). To some people NoF-NoF introduced me for years as the number one DJ.
My outfit was quite exotic. Special dancing shoes from my father with my self painted ska-patterns with tipp-ex color. The pants were special bicycle driver pants with leather inlay for the butt. I painted them also with a ska-pattern but with white color washable. Instead of the three Adidas stripes there were three lines with a black-and-white pattern. The coat was originally from the sixties. My father wear it, when he was young. I called it the bear-coat. The fur was synthetic, it only looked like from a bear.
To prepare my performance, my brother Roger and me planned something special. I didn’t realized at that moment, that my Friedrich Dürrenmatt mix from the year before was already cult. Anyway, we planned something new on a next level.
After I played some music, I went outside the club. My brother stayed inside and took the turntables. When I went out, I took the coat out of the car. I went back to the club with my very special outfit. Right into the middle of the quite empty dance floor. Then my brother changed the music. He played the first two minutes of this ELP tune “Fanfare For The Common Man”.
After the first part of the tune I was dancing on the floor like hell, but it was quite heavy to dance all the rest of the tune. But luckily after two minutes, my brother changed the music again. This time it was just to kill the audience completely. The best chance to get through everyone is taking Bad Brains. This tune from a live performance show exactly what we wanted to bring into the chilled reggae audience. Live.
I guess it was a shorter pattern of hard core punk. But it was necessary. I was all alone on the dance floor and after the fanfare, everybody was looking at me. Nobody was ready for this massive changes, but that was the show element.
While Bad Brains cleaned the rest of the brains, I took over at the controls and started a heavy set of roots reggae killer tunes. Something like this:
Then I had it quite easy to bring the dancing mood into a versatile atmosphere with many different moods. From roots to modern, from old to new, from jazzy to commercial, from punk to ska, from harmonies to other dimensions. I read the audience and try to find the best next tune. One after another.
Finally it was finished, but not the same as the year before. I guess, nobody was ready for a DJ like me. Many of the “fans” including NoF-NoF himself were upset because of the statement with ELP and Bad Brains. That was too much exotic, too much strange thing.