[sigh] ok maybe it's time to get 'serious' on this thread. I find all the talk of 'is it dance' 'is it hophop' really frustrating. Growing up in the late 80s & early 90s these sorts of artificial distinctions didn't really exist and so I think it's great that in London town there still are events every weekend where you will hear disco, electro, funk, acid, afro, techno all thrown in together, seamlessly blended to cause maximum festive impact. Now perhaps someone can come on here and prove me wrong but there seems to be a gap in the ibiza market for genuine freestyle parties where DJs are given artistic licence to play whatever they like. I personally think there IS room to incorporate elements of hiphop into any party and here are some examples of tracks which I think really rock ANY kind of discerning floor
students of djs like greg wilson will know exactly where I'm coming from
young mc - i get off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8srtQ7cDNE
delicious sample of aaron neville's 'hercules' - this used to knock me sideways. I still have people coming up to me sometimes going ollyollyoxenfree
beastie boys - new york city (with rub n tug steve miller macho city overlay) - http://mirrormanrecords.com/?pid=23330517
nas get down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFQfQD2c47g
a mate used to bring his set down with this halfway through a load of anonymous house - total pandemonium in the place every time
younger generation - we rap more mellow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxoB-bs0U0M
big, big greg wilson tune, which joey negro turned into a bit of a disco stomper - remember losing the plot in a field at the big chill when this came on
and there's plenty of ways to ease you into a hiphop moment - consider this track sagat 'fuk dat' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHCe-Lepxds massive in 1993, hiphop sentiments laid over a pitched down US house track - and then before you know it, you're into jvc force territory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4SydcL9OLE then pitch it right up towards the end of the track et voila
coldcut - (totally pioneering) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Jm_O2HtdI
and then bring it back into the house and the present day with this cheeky edit of MARRS (like rocky did last week at lowlife) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fvZpUplFpA
and do you know by the end of all that none of the crowd will give a monkeys whether it's house or hiphop
I think you could be onto something here...
All we need now is the £££ to put it on, or a venue &/or promoter willing to take the risk!
If Reclaim has taught us anything it's that Ibiza is much, much more than house music - and that by no means is a bad thing.
I'm sure somebody like Annie Mac or Zane Lowe would be interested in such a proposal... we can but dream
