Tag: Deep house
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Annie II: Electric 90’s Boogaloo
The 1990’s revival, or another attempt at making that era into another 80’s theme night seems to be in full retrostalgia swing. Like This Is England ’90 where it didn’t so much jump the shark as put it in a tank and exhibit it. (No-one outside of a rave looked like this in the 90’s!…
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PC Music
I’ve said for a long while that 16 bit / 90’s sounds would make a comeback – most recently in the 16bit shows. We’ve had future aka speed garage and a sort of brief dalliance with 90’s deep house which remains to be seen if it goes overground…but unexpectedly the ‘Casio Kids’ have struck back,…
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DJ Pierre
I’ve been avoiding Boiler Room videos even though it started here, mostly because of the twazzocks dancing behind them, the beautiful, young, weak, witless, ‘look at me’ hipsters in neon and conspicuous labels who seem less interested in the amazing music than posing for the camera. But they do have ace DJs, and I cracked…
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Bears Have Claws
If I was a wanky music reviewer (call me! good rates! :-P) I’d say the 2 Bears have claws with this album, whereas the first one was just about having a good time (Bearhug) this is about the down side, the come down, getting your own back. Not deciphered the spoken lyrics to Get Out…
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East India Youth
I went to the Wild Beasts Brixton gig a few days ago. It was strangely schizophrenic in feel, like the crowd and myself love the older songs, there’s obviously a shift in the audience, with Tom Fleming asking ‘who was here when we first played this song 10 years ago?’ to utter silence he responded…
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DJ Sprinkles, limited editions and that bitch Madonna
Through an excellent (if slightly wrong article*) about the mostly unwritten history queerness of club culture in Resident Advisor I learnt about Terre Taemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles, who was part of the New York Deep House scene playing at transgender bars, and later making records. This lead me to Midtown 120 Blues, ironically on YouTube…