IIRC from listening to local radio, Baltimore Club music is REALLY stripped down, low fi, club music. The distinction between club and house, in this sense is that house music pays attention to arrangement, and flow, and groove, etc of a track. Club music is just a beat with one or two variations, and a few vocal samples layered in the mix. It's rough, demo-quality tracks that probably only became a thing b/c it was Baltimore's thing. The music was seriously nothing to speak of.
I really never knew what Baltimore breaks were. There were 2 or 3 producers from the town who made their mark outside of the city. Unless there was a large group of bedroom producers sharing tracks with each other, I don't know of any sound or scene that escaped from anyone's studio. Except for a few producers here and there, Baltimore only had a great party scene for a few years, especially in the mid and early 90s. It was (is?) a city that loved to dance, but no purveyor of music. -Gil -----Original Message----- From: Kent Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:02 AM To: list 313 Subject: Re: (313) B'More club (was dance in brazil) On 9/22/05, Dr. Lester K. Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read a piece in Nerve magazine on Baltimore Club and almost threw up. > From the article it sounded like booty music...which made it some > ten plus years too late. > > was it me? > A few years back I heard a lot about Baltimore Breaks, but I think this must be some follow on to that. I liked some of the Baltimore Breaks stuff -- Cex gave me a mix CD I still listen to. But what I heard was it was basically just a few producers, all using the same breakbeat for every track, and it was only sold in one record store, which burned down. Of course, I've never actually been to Baltimore, so...
