i don't know the below (tho from the clips i've heard i wouldn't have taken the lyric so literally, i mean 'i remember house before disco' is like saying i remember techno before kraftwerk) but a better 'back in the day' look back tune is martello bros 'remember' (on trax of interest)....no genre divisions or edges in that one
robin... > I agree Ken - but I think "Do You Remember House?" sucks :) I was born in > 1977, so no, I don't remember house before it was house. Shoot me. "I Think > Of You" and "Gloria's Muse" from the LP are both ace, but another Blaze > triumph last year was their collaboration with LLV for "Brand New Day". And > I completely agree about it dividing people along soulful vs punk lines in > their attitude to house, which is a shame. I know which side I'd rather be > on, but great music is made without a guiding theory, rather just listening > to your own voice - to get all hokey - and pointless genre divisions obscure > that fact. > > > However, I have some misgivings abt the underlying idea: that house has > > somehow been distorted by excessive modernism, hard beats, electronic > > emphasis - it seems to want to put the genie back into the bottle: "I > > remember house when it really was a spiritual thing." Catchy phrase, but > > would I really want to not have had 'glitch house'? Also, some of the > prime > > proponents of new styles in house it seemed to me during the 90s were none > > other than Blaze themselves. This is muddled or misguided thinking to me. > > > > Note well though, I love Hedge and Milan to bits, love every single thing > > they've done to bits including the whole of the latest album, I just think > > the idea of creating a dichotomy between 'rootsy' and 'modern' is wrong > and > > you'll find all sorts of people and soul on either side of that artificial > > divide. >
