DJ’s Fakin It on TOTP – Episode 1

Have a look at some DJ’s and acts from 90’s and early 00’s who appeared on Top Of The Pops in the UK.  This was a show that encouraged charting acts to mime their performances. Some of the worlds biggest pop acts regularly lip-synced to backing tracks of their current hits, but where did this leave DJ’s and producers who had began to permeate the world of POP?   DJ’s basically make a living standing behind a table watching other people have fun and for “TOTP” the boundless energy and peaks and troffs of a 5 hour DJ set needed to be crammed into a three to five minute performance of a recent cross-over dance track. You could expect endless record queing, decks not connected to anything, extremely hastily coordinated dance moves and ATB in his DJ castle.  Hilarious and unintentionally brilliant performances.

Witness:

• Armand Van Heldan literally not givin a fuck!
• DJ Duke so excited to be on TV.
• Phats and Small with four decks!
• And, Dido Dancing!

Roger Sanchez – You Can’t Change Me

“Dubious beat scratching”

DJ Duke – Blow Your Whistle live on Top Of The Pops, London 1993

“Blow your first appearance on TV”

AVH + Duane Harden – You Don’t Even Know Me

“AVH or Ali G”

Phats & Small – Turn Around (Live TOTP) 1999

“Experts of the index finger deck touch”

Eminem & Dido – Stan – By Dj Shot

“Dido Dance”

Jennifer Lopez – Play 

“DJ Set-Dressing”

Perfecto Allstarz –  Reach Up 

“Kylie Minogue intro”

Wildchild – Renegade Master (Lee & Herring Presenting)

“Cher Into – Lee and Herring Intro, including Paula Yates gag”

Basement Jaxx – Plug It In in

“Too many cooks”

Barthezz – On The Move

“Boobs in cage”

Soulsearcher – Can’t Get Enough – TOTP 1999

“A band of DJ’s”

 

Robert Miles – Children TOTP 1996

 “Spice Girls intro -Bob kilometer I’ll have your children? – Because That Piano Won’t play itself”

Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) – Spiller @ TOTP in 2000

“If this ain’t Live”

ATB – 9PM (Till I Come) TOTP

“DJ tower”

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