Stoddard, Kamal wrote:
I don't really remember when faster tempo's took over or became as much of a deal. I remember older electro (we called it bootyshake music down here). Like hip hop be bop is hecka slow. Most older house used to be pretty slow. Secret tapes of dr eich I remember being pretty slow( at least my neigborhood, parking garage politics, and slam dance). Optic nerve quasar is about there. Those old legowelt trax that JT posted awhile back, pretty slow. I don't think tempo was as big of a deal back then. Thing were still very wide open. This brings me to a conversation that took place between myself and a friend over the weekend. We were on typical Sunday morning after status (treats still in the bloodstream, wine in a glass, 7:30 am, shades on, in a lawn chair on the patio) when he started playing a bunch of older orbital, and slower breakyer rave stuff. Mostly the dubby bassy deep bidness. We had a long talk about the raves we used to go to (not sure if it was the same overseas) an
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there was almost always a point (usually 6-7AM) when the party would go underwater and everyone would be locked into a kind of psychedelic midtempo, bodyrock. It's what we looked forward to everytime. No more madness and chaos, just a beat and a vibe controlling like 2000 people at once. Are there any dj's playing that futuristic bodyrock anymore (it wasn't like electro, but drew from it and freestyle just the same)? Do you even know what I'm talking about? Maybe I'll get Jim to do a mix.
i dunno about that particular style (tho as i'm from manchster Greg Wilson is more or less the pioneer of that style over in the UK) but i know what you mean about that time of an evening....only the groovers left and the tempos drop. my experience of this is with DiY and Smokescreen free parties in Derbyshire quarries where house music is the order of the day, but i suspect the effect of the tempo is the same.
robin...
