@TodePond If the MC is good then all music works with the MC. It's lyrical poetry, and like other forms of poetry it can often be set to multiple forms of music.

I'm smiling while reading this thread as I went through something similar in my 20s on the small gig scene after merging into it from the free party scene.

#repetition

One of my first MCs in a situation like this was Kirsty Hawkshaw, at a party on Davidstow Airfield. Who knew "opera" worked with Techno (*stares at Fifth Element*).