jameroquai (very danceable!!!!!)

"yea..a ... alright now... let's spend tha night to-get-her... let's make it last for-ever... yea..a alright now..." 

Think of tomorrow
We beg, steal or borrow
To make all we can in the sun
While we are moving
The music is soothing
Troubles we'll all have begun --- 

GrooveJet, DotMusic Article, Sophie website

WHAT IS HOUSE?: my little attempt to define it

some of the best house music is very soulful..... some of it is like R&B soul music with a funky dance beat to it....

for example imagine a remix of aretha franklin... I'm serious.... I heard a remix of a Mary J. Blige song, it was tight... it took mary's music to straight-up dance-mode

remix Mary J.= house, remix r&b/soul = house, remix gospel = house (oh yeah)

(who sings that song, "I'm blessed"?)

get beyond r&b/soul or gospel ...house music gets into the electronica arena... or beyond that you can get into the ambient arena or you could go into to the jungle arena... techno, it's an extension of /or it took the hip-hop concept of mixing beats and sounds and taking you straight toward the dance appeal of the music as opposed to hip-hop's political dapplings or aggressive nature/tendencies, but then of course you got that crazy *ish  like that group that sings "firestarter" that takes you to that crazed deranged mode... what about trip-hop? labels labels labels, so many categories so many extensions under one big-ole umbrella.... M-U-S-I-C, and that's all it is....I ain't mad at dat... variety is the SPICE OF LIFE!!!!

it's all about dancing

"I just wanna dance, is that a crime?" J-Lo

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WHAT IS HOUSE MUSIC?

Very interesting article!!!!!
Too Blind to See It: The Real Roots of House Music By: David Lubich

House music gets its roots from Black/Soul music.

This article seeks to answer the question, why isn't house music embraced more by Black [African-American] music lovers?

QUOTES

"Yet people seem to have forgotten that the BLACKEST MUSIC OF ALL, the real soul music ... [is house, not rap]"

" ... house music exists, as disco did before it, as the purest of soul music for people who want to hear songs of love, hope, and belonging."

"Escapism" ... a peace that isn't "chemically induced"

According to Tom Moulton House does NOT=  Disco

According to Ian Levine House does NOT= gay culture / music

A "meeting of performance, soaring vocals and a song that was saying something gave the early house records a hook into the disco past."

Mark Moore: "He'd made his name playing a mixture of disco trash, film soundtracks and heavy rap at the-then desperately hip (how times have changed!) Wag Club. A cosmopolitan mix of B-Boys [who also frequented the Mud] (the first wave of hard-core hip-hop fans), trendies and suburban girls and boys Up West flocked there..."

"Kid Batchelor would be down there [Heaven] every week, and every week he'd ask me 'Why aren't there more black people here?"

"and when the best known b-boys in London people like Magic and Flash told their mates that it was OK [to go to Heaven (a gav club)] I think it helped to change people's attitudes to the music, and to gay people as well."

"Mark [Moore] sees those early trendy house nights as proof that the scene could incorporate Black and White, Gay and Straight."

"It was The Trip, Nicky Holloway's hug House night at the Astoria, that, really broke the scene amongst a Black crowd for the first time."

"What hasn't changed is the gap between RAP and HOUSE, an antipathy which exists between these TWO FORMS of SOUL MUSIC." 

The Underground | The Mainstream

The Mainstream vs. The Underground

Race relations: "Ironically it's rap, with all of its violence and too-frequent lapses into intolerance and homophobia, that has pushed things along [as far as Black kid, white kid race relations go]." "Rap has taught white kids that they need to respect black people; with house, white kids and straight kids may embrace it but unless they're able to respect gay people in the same way, what are we going to be left with"

"The weirdest thing about rap music's massive success is that it's built on simultaneously alienating and attracting white kids to the underside of black urban life..."

• Who is Tom Moulton (Salsoul songs)?
  • "I just got a load of these soul records and put 'em all together  on a tape in a 45-minute set, building the tempo all the time..."
  • "his true claim to fame...the disco mixer"
  • article on Jahsonic
  • search for Tom Moulton

   

• Who is Frankie Knuckles
  • biography
  • frankie knuckles and the warehouse

   

• Who is Darryl Pandy
  • "performing 'Love Can't Turn Around' ... he stood there like a male Patti Labelle - an outrageous diva and a WONDERFUL SOUL VOCALIST..."
  • searh for Darryl Pandy
  • mp3 samples

• Who is Liz Torres
  • amazon.com

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questions questions questions

(Unfortunately) I wasn't a music major:

• what is hi-hat
• drum-and-bass

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One of my favorite off-beat-indie films( with a house music DJ)  is: Party Girl starring, indie-film-queen, Parker Posey.  Does the movie have a soundtrack? (... those cray-zay new yorkers!!!)

all I gotta say is madonna's ray of light is a mastepiece!!!! it's ambient, positive, uplifting, and even spiritual

Last Update: June 6, 2004