#071 Amore Estivo

  • junio 25, 2024 19:00

«I wanted to include a lot of music that influenced me early on,
as well as tunes that were in heavy rotation when I first started DJing outside the bedroom.
Tunes that spark joy and happiness.»

«Quería incluir un montón de música que me influyó desde el principio,
así como canciones que estaban en rotación pesada cuando empecé a DJ fuera de la habitación.
Melodías que provocan alegría y felicidad.»

Amore Estivo

BY

Alias: Tom DeBlase
Pronombres: He / Him
Localización: Rochester, New York
Colectivo: Sole Rehab
Sellos: Self-Released Remixes
Conoce más:  soundcloud | instagram

TRACKLIST:

01. Blue Six – Beautiful Tomorrow [Naked Music Recordings, 2002]
02. Deee-Lite – Runaway (Maw Remix) [Elektra Entertainment, 1992]25
03. Leftfield – Not Forgotten (Hard Hands Mix) [Rhythm King Music, 1990]
04. St. Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Dub Remix) [Warner Bros. Records Inc., 1991]
05. Kerri Chandler – Rain (Original Mix) [Nervous Records, 2016]
06. Mr. Fingers – What About This Love (Kenlou Remix) [Because Music, 2017]
07. Blaze ft. Palmer Brown – My Beat (Derrick Carter’s Disco Circus Mix) [3way Music, 2009]
08. Ian Pooley – Chord Memory (Mark Bell Mix 1) [White Label, 1996]
09. Tonja Dantzler – In And Out Of My Life (Armand Van Helden Mix) [FFRR, 1994]
10. Hyper Go-Go – High [HOOJ Choons , 1993]
11. Black Magic – Dance (Do that thing)(MAW mix) [Strictly Rhythm, 1997]
12. Hardrive – Deep Inside (The Dub) [Strictly Rhythm, 1993]
13. The Sugarcubes – Leash Called Love (Tony Humphries Mix) [O.L.I., 1991]
14. DJ Sneak – Fix My Sink (D’s BHQ Rub) [Magnetic Recordings, 2001]
15. Janet Jackson – Go Deep (Alternative Mix) [Virgin, 1998]
16. Cajmere – Brighter Days (Its Me JT Rework) [White Label, 2019]
17. Cajmere, Dajae – Say U Will (’05 Mix) [Casual Records, 2005]
18. Honey Dijon ft. Sam Sparro – Stars (Disco Version) [Classic Music Co, 2018]
19. Everything But The Girl – Wrong (Todd Terry Remix) [Virgin Records, 1996]
20. Grooverider – Rainbows Of Colour [MAW Mix] [Higher Ground, 1998]
21. Matteo DiMarr – Blunted Again (Original Mix) [Jungle Funk, 2014]
22. Soul Central – Strings of life Danny Krivit remix [Feel the Rhythm, 2004]
23. C+C MF – Here We Go (DeBlase Re-edit) [Unreleased]
24. Funky Green Dogs – Until The Day (Dub Mix) [Twisted UK., 1996]
25. Sha-Lor – I’m In Love (Caught Up Version) [Gertie Records, 1988]
26. S’Express – Nothing To Lose (Can’t Lose Club Mix) [Rhythm King, 1991]
27. Chez Damier – Close (Translated Vox) [Distance, 1997]
28. 707 Boyz – Emotions [Tendance Records, 1990]
29. Felix Da Housecat – What Does it Feel Like (Royksopp Remix) [City Rockers, 2001]
30. Blair – Life (Honey Dijon edit) [Unreleased]
31. Ian Pooley – 900 Degrees [V2, 2000]
32. Uncle Bob – Uncle Bob’s Burly House [Stress Records, 1992]
33. ReTide – Satisfy (Original Mix) [Cut Rec Promos, 2015]

https://soundcloud.com/otherstothefront/house-of-others-071

#070 Funkin’ in the Dark

  • junio 18, 2024 19:00

«1. Funky (adj.) – grimy, sticky, smelly
A good friend of mine once told me, “Funk music is getting over the blues.”
The word and that phrase capture the sensory input, emotional output, and historical weight that come with a great House set. When the clubs in NYC opened back up in 2021, most of us turned completely feral. Interestingly, the DJs came back first, live music took a little bit to percolate.
After my plucking along as a guitar player with a Afro-Caribbean Funk band in live venues for years I had tasted the dancefloor, but yearned for folks who lived it. Once my group fell apart, I was lost. House music brought me home. I found a community that shared my passion for movement, obsession with 4 to floor, and that love for being drenched in sweat in a crowd of tons of people. Coming to the club was almost like entering a neon chrysalis and exiting as a saucy butterfly.
House music is a sanctuary for the freaks.
House was built with african diasporic sounds spun by queer, black, & latinx djs; it was born in Detroit/Chicago/NYC bathhouses, sweaty industrial spaces and packed loft parties. Spanning organ heaters, Hard House, Disco Screamers, Dirty Acid, Ghetto-tech/Booty House sounds, I wanted to make a mix that’d encapsulate the spirit of a lot of those foundational places and spaces while celebrating the wide range of house flavors – specifically keyed in on Houses’ 90s heyday.»

«»1. Funky (adj.) – mugriento, pegajoso, maloliente
Un buen amigo me dijo una vez: «La música funk es superar el blues».
La palabra y esa frase capturan la entrada sensorial, la salida emocional y el peso histórico que conlleva un gran set de House. Cuando los clubes de Nueva York volvieron a abrir en 2021, la mayoría de nosotros nos volvimos completamente salvajes. Curiosamente, los DJ volvieron primero, la música en directo tardó un poco en filtrarse.
Después de tocar la guitarra con un grupo de Funk afrocaribeño en salas durante años, había probado la pista de baile, pero añoraba a la gente que la vivía. Cuando mi grupo se disolvió, estaba perdido. La música house me trajo a casa. Encontré una comunidad que compartía mi pasión por el movimiento, mi obsesión por el 4 to floor y ese amor por estar empapado en sudor entre una multitud de toneladas de gente. Venir al club era casi como entrar en una crisálida de neón y salir convertido en una mariposa descarada.
La música house es un santuario para los freaks.
El house se construyó con sonidos de la diáspora africana pinchados por Djs queer, negrxs y latinxs; nació en los baños de Detroit/Chicago/NYC, en espacios industriales sudorosos y en fiestas en lofts abarrotados. Abarcando sonidos organ heaters, Hard House, Disco Screamers, Dirty Acid, Ghetto-tech/Booty House, quise hacer una mezcla que encapsulara el espíritu de muchos de esos lugares y espacios fundacionales, celebrando al mismo tiempo la amplia gama de sabores house, especialmente centrada en el apogeo de Houses en los 90″.»

Funkin’ in the Dark

BY

Alias: Misha Savage aka DJ Zeidi
Pronombres: He / Him
Localización: Brooklyn, NY
Residencia: Sugarbump
Sellos: Self-Released
Conoce más:  soundcloud | instagram

TRACKLIST:

01. Smooth Touch – House of Love
02. Dave Morales & The Bad Yard Club ft Crystal Waters & Delta – In de Ghetto
03. Club Ultimate – Carnival 93 (The Mardi Gras Mix)
04. River Ocean ft. India – Love & Happiness (Yemaya Y Ochùn) (12″ Club Mix)
05. Angel Moraes – Heaven Knows (The Moraes Mix)
06. Cold Cuts – The Big Bang (Warehouse Mix)
07. Dawn Tallman – Wake Up (Hex’s Hard Church Dub)
08. DJ Kevin Halstead – Floor Mover
09. 740 Boyz – Shimmy Shake (Extended Club House Mix)
10. Rudy Rude Dog Gonzalez – I Like It ft Jesica
11. House Gospel Choir & Adelphi Music Factory – Salvation
12. Willie Ninja – Hot (Expansions NYC Dub)(Louie Vega Remix)
13. DJ Kevin Halstead – B Down
14. LSDXOXO – Body Mods
15. DJ Bam Bam – Make Ya Bounce (Erect House Mix)
16. Paul Johnson – Let Me See You Butterfly
17. Beau Didier – Booty Shake
18. Sweet Chariot (Booker T’s Mass Fusion Dub) – Club Artists United
19. Charlotte – Skin (Club 69 Future Anthem Mix)
20. Chris Liberator And Sterling Moss – Massive Line
21. Da Tekno Warriors feat. DJ Bam Bam – Pump Up Da Bass ****
22. Carbine – It’s Funky, But It Ain’t House
23. Headrush Tactics – Good Times (DJ Vic’s Remain Insane Good Times Remix)
24. Floorplan – I Feel Him Moving
25. Jimmy Jones – Watch Out For Da Big Girl
26. Waxmaster Maurice – Get Em Girl
27. Beads – Escola de Samba
28. Green Velvet, Dajae, Mihalis Safras – Wurk
29. Misha Savage – OFA Pts 1 & 2
30. Waxmaster Maurice – Otis Ghetto House
31. Dj Tameil – Teena Marie Theme
32. Byron Stingily – Testify (Forthright Club Mix)
33. Doubleplusgood – The Winding Song (Armand’s Calypsonic Dub)
34. Joe Smooth – Promised Land (12” Club Mix)
35. Roland Leesker – No Way Out (Scan7 No Way Out Remix)
36. Geraldine Hunt, Carl Cox- Can’t Fake the Feeling (Carl Cox Rework)
37. マクロスMACROSS 82-99 – This Feeling (w/ Soul Bell)

https://soundcloud.com/otherstothefront/house-of-others-070

HoO Compilation Vol.1

  • junio 11, 2024 13:12

OTHERS TO THE FRONT PRESENTS:
HoO VOL.1
[0TTF003-HOO1]
Release Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Others to the Front is releasing its first compilation EP next week, celebrating the second anniversary of the House of Others podcast, with the desire to continue strengthening the community, in permanent construction around HoO and its radical love for underground House culture, which has as its mission to bring back this queer & POC music to its legitimate audience.

All the DJ-producers participating in this EP are already HoO’s acquaintances. They shared their story in a 2-hour mix, making us walk through their vision of House, in dialogue with their other lives, resistant and rebellious lives, never banal and always disobedient.

Formed by 14 tracks that in alliance reclaim House music as the music of the otherness, as a safe place to let ourselves be, to question and seduce ourselves to the rhythm of melodies loaded with for-coming. 14 dissident pills make up this compilation, a celebration of the existence of queer & POC bodies. An EP that dances collectively in search of the common history of the otherness. Deep bass lines that tell our history in the key of Groove, a history which remains, even today, clandestine, and unknown to many.

Get ready to travel through suggestive and dissident soundscapes, experiences of otherness that connect us and remind us that we are not alone, rhythms that move and transform the soul of the listener. The tracks of this EP tell a story and exist with you, they are just there and ask for nothing in return. They are there for when you want to feel them. They exist in case you need them. They are there for you to play on any dance floor that sweats glitter. They exist for you to dance to how, where and with whom you want.

HoO vol.1 is the shared experience of 14 stories of 16 producers who travel together transatlanticaly, during 1 hour 18 minutes 41 seconds, in the format of House electronic music. A journey to dive into the overflowing world of the most underground House culture. All are welcome. Who enters, stays. The time has come, put on your best dance clothes, tie your shoe laces, fill your water bottle, because the dance starts here. WE ARE TAKING OFF!

1.    AWOOD – RIDE WITH YOU

(04:46 – 135bpm) #DubHouse #DeepHouse

This story begins in Vancouver, Canada. We land as the music starts to play and we feel a strong vibe, in key of Dub House, of open spaces and wide horizons, it smells of freedom. Can you smell it? With delicate synthesizers supported by a thick bass line, we start the engines towards a warmer dimension. The Groove begins. And don’t let it stop!

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/ride-with-you

 

2.   DON ESQUIVEL – TRÓPICO

(04:51 – 129bpm) #DubHouse #DeepHouse

 We continue with a dubby vibe. Its dawn in Mexico and there is a breeze. We dance on a beach with a sample under our arm that transports us directly to the Solid Groove label. It could be the 2000’s. It’s a soundscape full of sentimental and nostalgic pads, where Mr. Fingers and Basic Channel merge in love and harmony in a village in Michoacán. How good this trip feels.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/tropico

 

3.   AKUMEN – LIGHT MY FIRE
(04:34 – 126bpm) #House #DeepHouse

We have landed in Los Angeles, USA. Our bodies are trippin’ with this bass roller, smoothed out with Rhodes-style piano chords. It’s groovy but not heavy. A track that, without asking for permission, sets the dancefloor on fire, inviting us to join this journey without stop moving. We have to take the transatlantic line. What time is it? What day is it?

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/light-my-fire

 

4.   GIO – MISSA 7AM
(07:08 – 130bpm) #DeepHouse #ProgressiveHouse #TribalHouse 

It could be Sunday, the bells are ringing and it’s time to go to mass. We are in Berlin, it sounds like a small town in Brazil. Its 7 o’clock in the morning, we reluctantly live it behind and are ready to dance to this exhilarating spiritual rhythm. Our past must be danced through. We swap the church pews for Tribal House and get back on the dancefloor.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/missa-7am

 

5.   FEASTING – INVANO
(05:47 – 130bpm) #ItaloHouse #TranceHouse #TribalHouse

Without going far, while staying at 130bpm with the celestial rhythm ascending, in this Italo-House-Trance spacey cut. We are still in Berlin, even though now it smells like Santiago de Chile, reminding us of the migrant experience, that strange idea of crossing the Equator in a matter of hours, and crossing the fragile summer-winter temporal membrane. The impossible bouquet.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/invano

 

6.   THEORETIC – BLOOM2
(04:04 – 130bpm) #DeepHouse #House

What goes up must come down. So we go deep down to the very roots of House music with this amazing groove. We camp out in Brooklyn. This track is one that bears witness to the sort of hibernation, restoration, and then finally, growth that happens coming out of the cold, winter blues season. Allow yourself to hear the tension in the song, but also the immense release.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/bloom2

 

7.   LUISA HOUSEWORKS – LAWS OF ATTRACTION
(04:46 – 128bpm) #DeepHouse #House  

A Zeppelin takes us all the way to El Paso, Texas, to stay on the deeper side of things with this homage to the roots of house music. A wonderful late-night DJ tool for playing on any dancefloor that deserves to be danced on. A tribute to Soulphiction, who sadly isn’t with us anymore. A sonorous ode to life that transmits fresh Deep House vibes.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/laws-of-attraction

 

8.   SCOTIA – DOLLS IN THE COFFEE POT
(05:31 – 128bpm) #JackinHouse #Booty #AcidHouse 

On a train bound for New York, in search of an adrenaline-pumping coffee. Things get nasty and rough with this Chicago inspired jackin’ groovy dirty track. A track made with a few pieces of classic hardware, with plenty of tape hiss and a lot of sassy attitude. Caffeine has worked, increases heart rate, state of exaltation ON mode.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/dolls-in-the-coffee-pot

 

9.   PANOOC – TOUCH
(06:11 – 131bpm) #House #Hardgroove #HiEnergy

After recharging our energies we open our eyes in Scotland, UK.  We head straight to the club´s dancefloor to seduce and touch each other dancing with this sexy and eerie Hi-Energy tinged track. Feel the 80’s twist that’s distinctly queer, deep & sensual, before submerging yourself into a dreamlike finale. A time hole appears, taking us back to where we came from. The spiral starts.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/touch

 

10. KNDYFRK – DORIAN UGLY
(05:53 – 125bpm) #AcidHouse

We are taken to a dark basement by this bass-intensive Acid House track, which is a tribute to the queer culture of New York City, and to the ballroom icon Dorian Corey and her definitive definition of the art of throwing shade. Turn up the intensity with this housy track inspired by the sound of the NYC underground. The Brooklyn Bridge never sleeps. The hot air balloon awaits us.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/dorian-ugly

 

11.  TORVVIC – DULCE
(06:03 – 132bpm) #HardHouse #Hardgroove #BubblegumPop

We cross the Atlantic Ocean to Madrid, nothing is what it is, it sounds like Texas, but it’s not. Peak time beefy and very tasty Hard-House, inspired by the unapologetic sensuality of 90s Bubblegum Pop, this track embraces the dichotomy of its era – where lyrics danced between innocence and suggestion while maintaining a picture-perfect facade. Bubble gum POPped off!

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/dulce

 

12. RIVA + BIANCA – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
(05:27 – 129bpm) #Garage #House #EuroHouse

This voyage of transatlantic alliances takes us dancing on a roller coaster ride to Philadelphia. Our hands are totally in the air to receive this diva anthem, by and for divas.  A nod of appreciation for the 90’s Euro Dance era through a minimal tech lens, inspired by Everything, by 49ers featuring Ann-Marie Smith and her incredible voice, released on Media Records in 1993.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/everything-everywhere

 

13. JACKI-E – GETTING IT OFF THE GROUND
(07:35 – 135bpm) #HardHouse #Rave #Trance

The ecstasy of the ride is coming to an end. The beats get really pumpin’ for this UK warehouse rave destroyer. We’re sweating and bouncing at some cheeky rave in some TAZ, Temporary Autonomous Zone, in North Wales. Driven by powerful drums and vocal samples pitched both up and down, this track is dancefloor filler with catchy hooks and quirky fills.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/getting-it-off-the-ground

 

14.  A FRIEND OF JACKIE – WE CAN HANG
(06:05 – 126bpm) #HardHouse #Afrofuturism 

Recurring meeting point and last stop of this journey, NYC. We round up with a visit to the psychedelic Afrofuturistic realms of Jamal Moss and the pristine world of Detroit Hi Tech Soul Techno. A celebration of the club, the atmosphere, the soundsystem, the energy and its shifts throughout a collective & sweaty House night. Open your eyes and breathe slowly. We have just arrived.

https://otherstothefront.bandcamp.com/track/we-can-hang

 

*This journey is a piece of House fiction that tells a story of the otherness based on real experiences where, in the form of a poetic narrative collage, some of the texts written by the producers are entangled with the lyrical fantasy of HoO.