KISS_FM_HOUSE.mp3
This tape was recorded off the radio one Friday or Saturday night in 2001.
Myself, Kevin, and Carlos were house music fiends there for a few years. We would go out dancing at clubs a few times a week. We went to Body and Soul, to Sapphire, to Frank's Lounge in Fort Greene, where the upstairs room had obviously been, 50 years ago, somebody's home, and now was full of people dancing. We even schlepped to this club called The Quarry in the Bronx.
The house scene is funny. It's mixed, racially. It's mixed in terms of sexual orientation. It's casual. It's working-class. It's not young. I'm 37, and I was at a club recently where they were playing house, somewhere downtown, and I was about average age. They play a lot of old stuff at these clubs, as well as some newer stuff. Eclecticism is valued.
People dance.
I mean, there would be moments where almost everyone inside the club was dancing, with maybe one thin layer of non-dancing people around the edge.
Me, I prefer more techno-style house. Fewer vocals, less flute. The actual definition of House is up for debate. But I like this tape. It's fun. I love that this was on the radio across all of NYC.
I always wished I could dance better.
This tape was recorded off the radio one Friday or Saturday night in 2001.
Myself, Kevin, and Carlos were house music fiends there for a few years. We would go out dancing at clubs a few times a week. We went to Body and Soul, to Sapphire, to Frank's Lounge in Fort Greene, where the upstairs room had obviously been, 50 years ago, somebody's home, and now was full of people dancing. We even schlepped to this club called The Quarry in the Bronx.
The house scene is funny. It's mixed, racially. It's mixed in terms of sexual orientation. It's casual. It's working-class. It's not young. I'm 37, and I was at a club recently where they were playing house, somewhere downtown, and I was about average age. They play a lot of old stuff at these clubs, as well as some newer stuff. Eclecticism is valued.
People dance.
I mean, there would be moments where almost everyone inside the club was dancing, with maybe one thin layer of non-dancing people around the edge.
Me, I prefer more techno-style house. Fewer vocals, less flute. The actual definition of House is up for debate. But I like this tape. It's fun. I love that this was on the radio across all of NYC.
I always wished I could dance better.