>From what I gather, Body & Soul had a particular vibe that doesn't necessarily
translate outside its own peculiar context.  I have been at Deep House-centric
events with what I imagine to be a similar feel. What makes that sort of event
different is that there are a lot of people in attendance who are not at all
ravey, but just love to dance.  They have favorite tracks that make them make
wave their hands in the air and make this face:

http://www.psychiatry.uiowa.edu/~kent/lj_images/tpnye/2.html

That sort of feeling on a dancefloor is highly infectious.  The
same music in another context could well come off as rather cloying and
slack.

My personal taste is for more varied sets, where it's not one uplifting
vocal house anthem after another. In other words, variety and contrast make
a DJ set enjoyable, something that seems not to have occurred to a lot of
DJs.

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Matt MacQueen wrote:
>
> ah, but  there's a point at which though (this may be blasphemy to some
> here) that the whole Joe Claussell super organic "spiritual" house can
> get too watered down and wank-off-ish to me.

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