Selectors at Short Shorts Party... Hot, hot, hot!

Renaissance Disco

TAYLOR Hall's fourth annual Short Shorts Party, Outrage, was 'OUT-rageous'.

Short shorts did it at the event which was held at the Students Union on the U.W.I. Mona Campus.

The barely there shorts, which left little to the imagination, had the male patrons lusting all night. Young people jammed until 3 a.m. to the sounds of Epidemik - the computer sound, Kurt 'The Party Animal' Riley, Arif Cooper, Renaissance and Code Red.

The session got hot at about midnight with the Epidemik selectors at the controls. The psychedelic lights flickered on the concrete dance floor and the smoke machine added a club-like atmosphere.

The Epidemik selectors gave a good account of themselves, the patrons 'Logged On' to various hip-hop mixes from the young selectors. At 12:30 a.m. Kurt 'The Party Animal' Riley took the controls and went on a stroll down memory lane with the 'Pepper Seed' rhythm playing hits like Nuh Katch and Big Speech. He then turned to the 'Corduroy' rhythm and spun hits like World Dance and Gangalee.

He then changed the pace, juggling some sounds from the Bad Boy family of old, the late great Notorious B.I.G. which had the patrons getting busy to tunes like One More Chance and Only You (Remix).

Riley then showed his versatility by giving the patrons a little disco music as well, which was received with open arms.

At 1 a.m., the foam was let out into a bordered area - dubbed the foam pit. Some lovely young ladies referred to as the 'Red Stripe Girls,' decked in craftily designed Red Stripe T-Shirts, were the first to sample the foam pit. Then it was opened for patrons who wanted to indulge. The fans danced in the foam all night long.

During this time DJ Arif Cooper had taken over the turntables. He began his set with several hip-hop beats that had the patrons flicking their lighters. His set intensified when he played a dub plate special of Warrior King's Virtuous Woman.

At 1:36 a.m. Renaissance took the controls and paid a small tribute to the people of America affected by Tuesday's terrorist attacks.

The Renaissance selectors got great responses from the crowd when they unleashed Shabba's Love Punnany Bad and the dance floor looked like a scene from a soft porn film. The hot sound system also played a series of Wayne Marshall specials and the patrons at the Student's Union were begging for more.

At 2:30 a.m., Tony "Mentally Ill" Matterhorn took the microphone and let loose a new track from Shabba Ranks, which he predicts will be 'locking' the dancehall scene in the next couple of months.

At 2:35 a.m., Code Red stepped up to the plate and they too gave condolences to the people of America. They played tunes like Praise Ye Jah and It Was Written. They never eased up at all and continued to blaze on the turntables.

The heat intensified and the party was fever-pitched as they delivered an onslaught of Capleton and Sizzla.

At eight minutes to three the fun all ended as lawmen came by and ordered that the music be stopped.

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