Teino Evans, Staff Reporter
IT WAS the third set of spin-offs in the Heineken Green Synergy competition inside the Asylum, Nightclub, Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston, on Friday evening and this time at the turntables were disc jockeys Lynel and Bull.
With both deejays only being allowed 25 minutes each to prove their superiority, they had to get straight down to business if they wanted to please the club's crowd.
ENERGY LEVEL
Kicking things off was Lynel, who started strong as he spun songs such as Welcome To Jam Rock mixed on a hip-hop rhythm, which found positive favour with the audience.
Loud cheers erupted inside the club as the evidence that the song had been accepted.
Lynel, feeding off the crowd's energy, quickly followed with Turbulence's Notorious, also on a hip-hop rhythm.
During his set, DJ Lynel ensured he gave patrons a taste of his scratching talents, as he teased the audience with the intro rhythm of Snoop Dogg and Pharrell's Drop It Like It's Hot while mixing in Left Side and Esco's Tuk In Yuh Belly.
It was after this reggae, hip hop mix, that DJ Lynel introduced his hardcore dancehall segment, as he spun a series of Elephant Man dance tunes and other songs, which had patrons doing the Coolie Dance and Willie Bounce.
The disc jock wrapped up his set with several 'retro' dance tunes including I Like To Move It.
UP A FEW NOTCHES
DJ Bull had the tall order of either maintaining the high energy level that Lynel had set, or take it up a few notches.
The latter is probably what he managed to do, given the crowd reaction.
He broke the ice with songs like Hustler Baby, before going full out to win the praises of the Asylum crowd with his dancehall collections including King Of The Dancehall, Tempted To Touch and Jolly.
He stirred up the dance vibes inside the Asylum as a few patrons took to the middle of the dance floor and had a dance off, competing for the 'video light'.
Bull rounded up his set by playing a few tunes of yesteryear.
CONFIDENT
Both disc-jocks were quite confident after their sets.
"Mi feel seh di crowd did deh deh wid mi, cause all one a di time, bare noise mi did a hear. When mi hear dat, mi really use dat fi encourage mi self an feed off dem energy. I was nervous still, cause it was di first mi a use CD player fi select, mi normally use computer," DJ Lynel said.
DJ Bull, however, felt that he had the edge: "The vibes on stage was good and the people responded as expected, because I really practised and rehearsed. I thought that I had more experience over the other DJ and that have a whole lot to do with it, for example choosing the right music for club setting and so on."
The competition will continue next week at the Asylum.
