the productions of the three body and soul djs - francois k, joe clausal
and danny krivit, and the body and soul mix cds are no indication of the
vibe and music at body and soul afternoons and evenings.
take joe clausell, as mat said (i think) his spiritual life stuff can get a
little noodly and disappear up it's own arse.
but, at b&s joe played in a way that was anything but noodly. he was the
hard man of b&s. he was the favourite of the shirtless muscle marys that
hung out at the back of the dance floor and had just come from 14 hours of
junior vasquez at the tunnel.
i went ot b&s religiously for the time it was running and absolutely loved
it. but i don't own any of the b&s mix cds and very little of the
production of the djs.
for another example, take theo parrish. absolutely love his djing -i'd be a
very happy little vegemite if i could dance to chicago acid and disco
classics for the rest of my days. but as for his production, there are only
two tracks that really move me on the dance floor - lost keys and dan ryan
(that's the tribal track on roots revisited, right?).
james
www.jbucknell.com
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Re: (313) Tortured Soul!?!
>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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