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I am always fairly suspicious of clubbers who don’t have an appreciation of house music, its history and its touchstone records. And yes, Frankie Knuckles is the Don. Good to have a broad palette.
Danny Tenaglia (circa '97 - '99)
People like different things shocker
You’ll prob find that 100% of people on here have an appreciation for house music, Alistair.
There are just loads of overplayed and overrated tracks that can get in the bin, for eternity.
Interesting when we had that poll on the best track on the Xpander EP. I went with Xpander because it shook my world at the time despite the fact that it’s pretty much the last thing that I want to hear right now
jonattonyeah A well placed classic can do wonders but I like the feeling of “oh what the fuck is this” far more.
…deffo, a lesser-known Strictly dub or Red Zone mix seamlessly placed in a set of new music is the way a decent DJ would do it, back then and now. Familiar elements, unfamiliar context.
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There are some all time classics like Someday or Tears or Pressure that no matter how many times you hear them still sound great when well placed like the bunkers. The message/sentiment and quality of vocal make them timeless, especially in troubled times. Great organic productions too. Morales/Knuckles/MAW stuff especially doesn’t age for me
…no problem with those tracks, in the hands of a great Dj they can still sound immense.
My original point though, was that this is very different from the dynamic created by an entire set of back-to-back ‘classics’.
LOL I’ll never not upvote a post about that nutter. Imagine if Nick Warren was Black but he didn’t know. Our man Vinnie would’ve gone way out dead with that discovery.
Unbroken1 agreed, of its time, and it can stay there. Filed under pop-house with a multitude of “classics” that appeared on free CDs stuck to magazines.
I was a regular at Sir Henry’s in the early 90s with Greg Dowling & Shane Johnson, the best house DJs the country have produced, the best thing about their sets was the dropping of a vocal you’d know here and there and it would be an obscure remix, 99% of trax in their sets weren’t ID’d until years later.
My original point though, was that this is very different from the dynamic created by an entire set of back-to-back ‘classics’.
I know what you mean mate. I went to a manor classics night a few years back. All the tunes were awesome but I deffo missed the ‘what is this tune’ feeling, no real peaks or troughs in the night. Once you’ve heard Xpander at 12.15 where do you go from there?
Was a good for a laugh but no match for a decent night out.
