Don’t be a Paris Hilton

soulspinnas:


Great article we ran into about the explosion of the Electronic Dance Music scene and its pros & cons.

Read it here: Why old-school DJ’s are complaining and you should too

oh, i didn’t think X factor Dj would actually go down… i thought it was just an idea. i’m not holding my breath tho… actually, i think I’m already horrified.

thediscography: I wrote about the new Limelight documentary, and early ’90s NYC rave, for NPR.
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thediscography:

I wrote about the new Limelight documentary, and early ’90s NYC rave, for NPR.

callsuper: Really enjoyed reading THIS article on an emerging house scene in New York from The Face magazine December 1988 via the amazing testpressing.org
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callsuper:

Really enjoyed reading THIS article on an emerging house scene in New York from The Face magazine December 1988 via the amazing testpressing.org

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Source: callsuper

From Carl Craig's Detroit teenage bedroom to the heart of Planet E

During the trip, Inner City played at north London’s Town & Country Club [now HMV Forum] in Kentish Town to around 3,000 serious ravers. “I had never seen a crowd like that before!” Craig laughs. “These people were insane … it tripped me out.”

The F1 Grand Prix came to the city’s streets in 1982. “It was fantastic,” he laughs, “but it was also the last time a million people came here to drink and hang out and have fun. That just doesn’t happen any more.”


Global recorded music sales fall almost $1.5bn amid increased piracy | Business | guardian.co.uk

edgy journalism this is not.

Power 2 Da People

sourcoatedsour:

cost £12 in 1989? wow.

The building blocks of boogie

soulspinnas:

On his Electrofunkroots site Greg Wilson posted an article on the building blocks of boogie. An interesting guide through the history of early 80’s boogie music. At the bottom he shared a list of Sean P’s 100 boogie essentials. Worth checking out!

Click here to read the article and view the list.

Here is a small selection:

Carol Williams - Can’t Get Away (From Loving You)

Captain Sky - Super Sporm

Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine

Skyy - Here’s To You

Thanks to Onda Sonora for the tip!

Despite respected underground clubs likeReSolute and Blckmarket Membership, clubland has yet to recover from the Guiliani-era “clean up”, which closed many venues. Yet Wolf + Lamb’s modest, 500-capacity parties resonate globally. DJ Magazinecalls them, with Berlin’s Panorama Bar, “the ultimate pilgrimage for thrill-seeking dance tourists”. But that’s one difficult pilgrimage, given that Gadi, 34, and Zev, 28, now only advertise their parties at 24 hours’ notice, to avoid being overrun with tourists. Despite the hype, they’re determined to evolve at their own pace. Particularly Zev, who, though he is now in recovery, has twice been diagnosed with cancer. In lieu of a visit to the Marcy, Love Someone, the duo’s debut album, shows why the Wolf + Lamb project has got people so excited. A set of fractured, psychedelic, sometimes provocatively slow house music that owes as much to Moodymann or leftfield disco as it does minimal techno, it’s distinct and original, the product of a singularly creative environment. That environment is the Marcy Hotel, which isn’t a hotel at all. The name is an in-joke, as is Zev’s elaborate spoof website for this “AAA five-diamond” luxury hideaway. In reality, this three-storey Williamsburg building was a shell, which Wolf + Lamb (“wolf” and “lamb” being the Hebrew for Zev and Gadi’s names) made into a recording studio/party space, office and apartments, and where they run a label that’s Factory Records-like in its idealism.
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Despite respected underground clubs likeReSolute and Blckmarket Membership, clubland has yet to recover from the Guiliani-era “clean up”, which closed many venues. Yet Wolf + Lamb’s modest, 500-capacity parties resonate globally. DJ Magazinecalls them, with Berlin’s Panorama Bar, “the ultimate pilgrimage for thrill-seeking dance tourists”.

But that’s one difficult pilgrimage, given that Gadi, 34, and Zev, 28, now only advertise their parties at 24 hours’ notice, to avoid being overrun with tourists. Despite the hype, they’re determined to evolve at their own pace. Particularly Zev, who, though he is now in recovery, has twice been diagnosed with cancer.

In lieu of a visit to the Marcy, Love Someone, the duo’s debut album, shows why the Wolf + Lamb project has got people so excited. A set of fractured, psychedelic, sometimes provocatively slow house music that owes as much to Moodymann or leftfield disco as it does minimal techno, it’s distinct and original, the product of a singularly creative environment.

That environment is the Marcy Hotel, which isn’t a hotel at all. The name is an in-joke, as is Zev’s elaborate spoof website for this “AAA five-diamond” luxury hideaway. In reality, this three-storey Williamsburg building was a shell, which Wolf + Lamb (“wolf” and “lamb” being the Hebrew for Zev and Gadi’s names) made into a recording studio/party space, office and apartments, and where they run a label that’s Factory Records-like in its idealism.

Metro Times - Music: Name that number

Lesley remembers, “We never felt like youth trapped in Detroit. We felt like we already had worldly experiences, even though we were still in high school.”

Party clubs such as Direct Drive, Charivari (from the name of a New York clothing store, later changed for the song title) and Capriccio existed not in specific venues, but in exclusive areas with parties that paid attention to every detail, laying the groundwork for the techno revolution to come. Emphasis was placed on atmosphere: special locations (ranging from big backyards to ballrooms with all the seats taken out — you had to dance), sound systems (as loud as they could play it), skilled DJs, lighting, people dressed up in GQ, purple pants and New Wave sunglasses. Style was everything.

Source: metrotimes.com