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Dance Music: Where are things at?
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Buckley
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I remember quite enjoying the Basics crew finishing off a joyous Sunday on the Space Terrace with 'Living on a Prayer', posting about it here and someone referencing school discos in response (possibly you @SOS Sargantana ol' mucker?), but even I would raise an eyebrow at Vengaboys in Berghain
elmooreo
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Saw Macca from NTS drop The Vengabus on a secretsundaze terrace last summer....he just about pulled it off but it divided our group massively. Similarly saw OK WIlliams play Whigfield - Saturday night at Glasto last year (it was Saturday night)...I thought it was a stroke of genius and loved it at the time but there is deffo a time and a place for it (third day of a big festival with a jaded crowd)...in a club its a bit different not sure how that would have flown at PBar but then again maybe everyone just takes themselves a little bit too seriously? As long as it makes a statement, and it isnt just happening for the sake of it, and the rest of the set is fire, whats the problem?
I saw
Naive Melody
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Can imagine a crowd getting quite into that - proper singalong. In a similar vein (and place!) Tiefschwarz closing out the Space terrace with Talk Talk's 'It's My Life' was something I was completely on board with.I remember quite enjoying the Basics crew finishing off a joyous Sunday on the Space Terrace with 'Living on a Prayer', posting about it here and someone referencing school discos in response (possibly you @SOS Sargantana ol' mucker?), but even I would raise an eyebrow at Vengaboys in Berghain
Also saw Sven Vath finish off his set in the Amnesia main room at 2005 Cocoon closing party with the Bangles. That was...unexpected.
fhmsparkle
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Yep, that’s stuck in my head all night now!
Marts73
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I think it can work at the right time and moment. But that is the skill a good DJ should have. They should be reading the crowd. Seem to remember some DJ playing Careless Whisper in a set a few years ago and it went down like a lead balloon. I only read about that so can’t really comment. But one night/morning in a basement in Kings Cross at a Tonka party someone was banging out the heavy acid for a good hour and then dropped a 60s tune from Donovan. A very trippy song but worked perfectly.
I’m far from a dance music snob, but this current trend of what is basically Scouse House / Donk tunes slowed down with some Hard House era ‘hoovers’ I can’t get my head around
Floyd
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Horrendous tune
eclipse15
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Just had this come up on the Spoti of the Fy- Jesus, it's awful. Like, ear bleedingly awful
diver
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*Copy, paste, google, buy.
The Sun God
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rick beato’s yt channel is excellent. Well worth a watch 
Moondust
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Showing my age here... We used to go weekly to a club in Birmingham called the Base place at a venue called coast to coast. Id roughly say a spell through the very late 80's early 90's. One evening one of the regulars, Simon "bassline" Smith managed mid set to slot in Phil Collins "in the air tonight". You could tell by everyone's face nobody was sure. It was a low ceiling hothouse of a club with very a very heavy sound system ( ears ringing for a few days heavy ) but in the smoke filled strobe lit area "in the air tonight" really worked.. So much so 30+ years later it will pop up in conversation of reminisce.
There have been other instances like Luciano playing big fun at the "old" Ushuaia beach club which seemed to go down quite well with the punters in 2008.
As for the vengaboys being wedged in i can think of that as some sort of social experiment, not unlike some of the clothing Balenciaga has rolled out in recent years, maybe in hand in hand... Of course just my opinion and no offence to anyone out there and each to theirs which is, after all, the beauty of the game.
There have been other instances like Luciano playing big fun at the "old" Ushuaia beach club which seemed to go down quite well with the punters in 2008.
As for the vengaboys being wedged in i can think of that as some sort of social experiment, not unlike some of the clothing Balenciaga has rolled out in recent years, maybe in hand in hand... Of course just my opinion and no offence to anyone out there and each to theirs which is, after all, the beauty of the game.
Johnny Vodka
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"Interesting" article on current pop music, mentioned here because much of it seems to sample big 90s dance hits. Can honestly say I haven't knowingly heard most of the new tracks mentioned.
www.theguardian.com
‘It’s a risk to put out something completely new’: why pop is so heavily plundering the past
The charts are stuffed with dance-pop songs that brazenly lift from 90s hits. Is this a clever blend of nostalgia and freshness – or a sign the industry has run out of ideas?
Buckley
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I've heard most on the radio in the car. Almost always stuff that was lowest common denominator even when it was new, but the Robert Miles 'Children' one is sacrelige."Interesting" article on current pop music, mentioned here because much of it seems to sample big 90s dance hits. Can honestly say I haven't knowingly heard most of the new tracks mentioned.
‘It’s a risk to put out something completely new’: why pop is so heavily plundering the past
The charts are stuffed with dance-pop songs that brazenly lift from 90s hits. Is this a clever blend of nostalgia and freshness – or a sign the industry has run out of ideas?
