DJ Dada
Michael Grosse is DJ Dada. He will play whatever to whoever, whenever. For a price, that is. For a good time, e-mail michaelgrosse@yahoo.com.
What kind of music do you play?
Whatever I am paid to play, I play.A sellout?
I would like to think of it as “where art meets commerce.”Where can we see you deejay?
Thursday nights, I’ll be at Bodean’s [6441 Power Inn Road] doing R&B.How do they like you out there?
“White boy can play” is one of the complements I got. I don’t like the words “grown ’n’ sexy,” but it’s like adult R&B.So it is grown ‘n’ sexy.
Yeah, it’s D’Angelo, Maxwell, Mary J. Blige, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding …By your huge red face, I assume you’re a white person. How’s that going for you?
Umm, it’s been 40 years …You’re 40? You’re looking good for 40!
Yeah, it’s the cigarettes.It’s bad for you, you know.
It’s horrible for you!It’s better than the alternative, I guess.
Yeah.Wait, what is the alternative?
Drugs. Unfortunately, drugs are the alternative.You talk more than any other person on the planet.
I’ve always been like that. I can pull out report cards and show that “Mike talked out of turn.”So you got in trouble for talking a lot?
Yeah, I got a little, uh … trouble with the secret service.Really?
I’ll talk about anything, but not that.I think you just did. So what are you trying to do with turntables?
To play music that’s good; that has some redeeming value … I have a goal, I just don’t know how to articulate it.Is Christina Aguilera part of that goal?
You know, [“Ain’t No Other Man”] is a great song. DJ Premier is an amazing producer. As a matter of fact, I think people should give Christina a chance. For a pop musician, she is one of the better ones. But I play it and it falls flat. Wrong crowd maybe. I have to find the right crowd for [“Ain’t No Other Man”]. … Justin [Timberlake] is a good singer.