The skill of the take over has been perfeced by many a reggae aficionado through out the years. It's the age old story. You go to a house. A few drinks, a few smokes. Everyone's having he craic, but no tunes! You step up to the plate and take control of the airwaves as if it were your god given right(which it is). But then the 'owner' of the house approaches you. There is a few different angles they might take, and some stock reactions you can whip out
they might start with "yeah, reggae's alright. do you have that Bob Marley track?" to which a seasoned take over artist will say " why yes of course, its at the end of this jing kammys cd..." These people will allow for a good few tracks to be played before getting suspicious. But are generally polite and easy to distract.
You'll also find people who actually do like reggae, but will insist "hey, its been half and hour! how about something a bit different?" For them, the "just one more track" line will work for a while. perhaps two more hours.
Eventually your going to come across people who straight out hate reggae. This is where the take over tai-chi is most important. You have to listen to everything they say; smile, nod, crack a joke, then completely ignore their instructions. They dont really know what they want and could possibly be a complete asshole. Other excuses to make yourself feel better are, "they might grow to like it in a while", "no one else has come up and tried to wrestle me away from the ipod", "they might be confused". If this doesn't help you relax and enjoy the music, fuck 'em. They're almost definitely a complete asshole.
These unfortunately will almost always become an arch nemesis by the end of the night. You must stay strong and vigilant. Do not give in. Four more hours of reggae is much more important to the world than a single second of their drivel.
Before you can go and start defending yourself from the nay-sayers, you first need to know what you need for the highjack. Obviously the first thing you need is you music. To make life easier on yourself an mp3 player is the best. After that you will need to bring a headphone jack to phono lead, a headphone jack to tape cassette converter, and a headphone jack to small FM frequency transmitter. With these in your bag your sorted. In the past it was harder as most of these cables were a pain to find, replace and carry around. And you had to bring a large stack of cd's and tapes. Nowadays there is large stereos that are purpose built for someone to just stick there ipod into! The next generation of sound system highjackers will never know how good they have it.Basically any stereo will do once you have those tools tho. A good idea in a big house party though is to find a room with an unattended sound systems. There is always one and it is your job to find it, high jack it, then defend it! If there is no other sound systems in the house, or if its a small gathering then you have no choice but to take the main one.
all you need now is a mix to get yourself started. And remember the mantra in case someone is really giving you grief "just one more tune!"
enjoy
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Tracklistings:
Nitty Gritty - Gimme Some of your Something
Little Twitch - Devil send you Come
Reggie Stepper - If you want to Leave
Garnet Silk - Retreat Wicked Man
Courntey Melody - Ninja me Ninja
Ackie - Call me Rambo
Conroy Smith - Original Sound
King Kong - Babylon
Selah Collins - Pick A Sound
Mikey Murka - Control The Dancehall
BenJammin - Mexican Bean
Brother Culture - Wickedness
Pinchers - Bandelero
Red Dragon - Good hole college
Reggie Stepper - Modeling
Mikey Murka - Downpressor Man
Tuffest - Wey Them A Talk Bout
Clement Irie - Follow me
Cutty Ranks - Danger Commit
Perfect - Kutchie cup
Buju Banton - Talk to me
Macka Diamond - Murderer
Simpleton - Coca Cola Bottle Shape
Tiger - When
