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For
those of you who who wish to see the photos from the United2Dance
weekend, click the link above this article. I was spending time with the
DJ's while at the United2Dance extravaganza over the last weekend, and
it really exposed to me the desire that exists up and down the beltway
for Chicago style stepping. While there, I ran into DJ Al Sykes, who has
a never ending desire for more stepping music to play for his
predominately Hand Dance and R & B audiences. "They want that music and
they want to learn that dance." said Sykes, a veteran DJ from the
Baltimore area. Unlike many of the DJ's I know, Al does step. I first
met him years ago, when he and a group from Baltimore visited the Razz
Ma Tazz. DJ 007 is a Washington DC DJ who not only does his Hand Dance
and Slyde Djaying thing, but he also compliments this business with a
balloon decorating gig which works in perfectly with his musical
artistry in "the box"... He has moved his DJ tools to include using a
computer to play and mix the music on. 007 says, "A lot of people say
real DJ's don't use computers, but I've been doing this for a lot of
years and it only made sense to move to the computer. I remember lugging
crates of records to every event and this is much easier and I can blend
the music the same way (Hand Dancers, apparently don't like to hear as
many blends as steppers do, they want to hear the very last note of a
song). Hand Dancers want to learn stepping too." DJ Disco Bird, another
DC DJ also echoed many of the same sentiments about people asking about
stepping music and the dance. "The Hand Dancers, just like the steppers
love their dance to the point of no return, but they want to learn
Chicago stepping too." Most Chicago Style Steppers are familiar with
DJ's Mellow Khris and DJ Rodney Mack from Detroit. I'll have more on
these two traveling DJ's in the near future.
