MANIFEST: IF IT CAN EXIST, THEN IT EXISTS

  • June 15, 2022 01:23

Each time, we are more and more on the margins, or rather, all those who don´t fit and don’t want to fit in the integrated identities are more visible than ever.

The revolt against white supremacism or the molecular transfeminist revolt that is constantly producing small but innumerable revolts against gender, a primary division that classifies and dominates us from the beginning, are expressions of the generalized tiredness with the permanent subjection of some people to others by reasons that, under the appearance of normalized reality, hide a non stop destruction of bonds, communities, lives and ecosystems.

The queer, as an empowered cry that claims the right to self-determination of the bodies, has taken the central antagonist stage and has the power to add the new anti-capitalist, post-gender and post-colonial struggles. And like all visions of an alternative order that show signs of breadth and depth, queerness is a disputed territory, permanently harassed by commercial co-optation to turn it into yet another shiny fetish ready to be consumed unproblematically.

Although rarely has been aware of it, underground dance culture has always been a political device that has made it doubly possible to generate safe environments for dissident identities. That is the miracle of the syncopated rhythm: generating new communities characterized by more plural and open compositions.

From its countercultural, African-American and gay origins in Detroit, Chicago and New York, since the mid-1980s to the current wave of new rave culture, through the expansive shocks it has generated over three decades among young people, and not so young, from Europe and the US, rave culture has become a self-managed method for building communities of equals where before there was mutual ignorance, misunderstanding and, in many cases, hatred and violence. It is the original speech of Acid House, it doesn’t matter who you are before entering the rave or the club, as long as your non-negotiable principles are Peace, Love and Unity.

Only from the margins can the political moment arrive that will definitively bury the old capitalist, cisheteropatriarchal and racist regime and in its place open up a world of equality and social, community and personal freedom. The moment of the others to go to the front has arrived. It will always be another front because we will never be satisfied with the speech given and our front can never be the same. Our front is made up of many fronts that do not stop mutating, like us, and one of them is the dancefloor.

See you dancing!
Love, Peace & Unity,

Others To The Front

#001 Substructure by Panooc

  • June 15, 2022 01:17

About the mix: “It’s got all the different flavors of House
that have influenced me over the years –
this is filled with old classics & newer House tracks
from all the spectrums of the genre :)”

Name of the mix: Substructure

BY

Alias: Panooc
Pronoun: They/Them
Location: UK & NYC
Collective(s): XOXA NYC
Music label: Fortune Signal; Sorry Records; .WAVCAVE
Know more: @panooc_music | @panooc

 

https://soundcloud.com/otherstothefront/house-of-others-001

#tracklist
01. Jack The House (Frankie Knuckles Remix) – Mitchbal, Larry Williams – Still Music, 2012
02. You Brought Me Love – MK – 4 To The Floor, 2019
03. Never Alone – Lesny Deep – theBasementDiscos, 2021
04. Show Me (Philip & Danny) – Urban Soul, Roland Clark – King Street Sounds Presents Back In Time (25 Years Essentials), 2018
05. Stay A Little While (Mechant Dub) – Fred Everything, Atjazz – Lazy Days Music, 2022
06. Haus Musik – Roland Leesker – Get Physical Music, 2022
07. Massive Trax Beat – Luca Gerlin – Trax Records, 2022
08. Necessary (Terrence Parker Remix) – Disruptive Pattern Material – Rekids, 2021
09. Get It On – V.O.T.U. – Eight Ball Digital, 2022
10. Behind One (Clive From Accounts Remix) – Kaysoul – Dirt Crew Recordings, 2022
11. Let The Rain Come Down (Down Pour Mix) – Intense – Movin’ Records, 1990
12. Manipulation (Dub Mix) – Marshall Jefferson, Artem Shipst, Volodya Borisov – House Dessert, 2022
13. Never Thought (Printworks)(623 Again Vocal) – Kerri Chandler, Sunchilde – Kaoz Theory, 2022
14. Pressure Cooker (Original Pressure Mixx) – Mike Dunn, MD III – Classic Music Company, 1993
15. Poly – Matthieu Fauborg – Smile For A While, 2022
16. When Love Is Drums – Austin Ato – Phonica White, 2022
17. One House – Roland Clark, Kickbugs – Flashmob Records, 2022
18. Bonuz Me – Redshape – Running Back, 2022
19. Won’t Beat Me (Extended Mix) – Ejeca – Needwant, 2022
20. Everlasting – Audiojack – Gruuv, 2022
21. I Remember (Extended Mix) – James iD – Nothing Else Matters, 2022
22. Moving Points – Luca Olivotto – Dancefloor Impact Research, 2022
23. Going Up – Panooc, D.D. Curry – Fortune Signal, 2022
24. I Believe feat. Suzanne Palmer (Sophie Lloyd Extended Remix) – Glitterbox Remix, 2022
25. Praia (Yuksek Remix) – Nathalie Duchene – Toy Tonics, 2022
26. Drop It! (John Tejada Remix V2) – Pablo Bolivar – Galaktika Records, 2015
27. Gimme Gimme (Disco Shimmy) – Frankie Knuckles – Noice Music, 2006
28. Daydreaming – Alex Agore – Moment Of Truth Records, 2022
29. Gotta Work (1st Take) – Envee, Nick Sinckler – Local Talk, 2021

Podcast: House of Others

  • June 15, 2022 01:00

House of Others
Our definition of house music

 

Give me that house music to set me free
Lost in house music is where I wanna be

Marshall Jefferson, Move your Body (the house music anthem)

House Of Others is the name we give in Others to the Front to a particular aim to give back house music to its legit crowd. A monthly podcast mix will portrait the many different tones and strains of house music, be it vocal house, deep house, acid house, hip house, Garage, UK Garage, Speed Garage. Deep liberating groovy sounds more than pure genre definition is what we aim for. We will ask our favorite djs to spin their definition of house music in long special mixes, at least two hours long, or longer if the dj needs more time to give a full account on her/his/their/our take on house music.

Few electronic music subgenres have been more neglected, despised, commodified and distorted than house music. Born during the 80s as totally new sound in the black gay clubs of Chicago. There the likes of Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage in New York was always near, pushing the boundaries of disco and electro far beyond the “pop music song” conventions and focusing on creating a relentless groove on which soundscapes of sound and rhythm keep being developed and morphed one into another in the mix. The almost constant climax of disco tunes was deconstructed into an all night, trance inducing, sequenced track continuum. In a word, they gave birth not also to house music but to what, to this day, we consider a dance DJ set.

House music first jumped to the balearic island of Ibiza, which still very much retained the underground hippie feel of the seventies, unsung heroes like Jose Padilla or DJ Alfredo where the first on this side of the atlantic to play the new music from Chicago and New York to a white european crowd in the anything goes atmosphere of the island at the time. And from the balearic secrecy, it made to London, where it just went ballistic as fuel for the first generation of rave parties which literally swept across the UK, generating as much panic and confusion in mainstream media and politics as it generated an unprecedented mood of euphoria and political utopianism in an, otherwise, battered, post-thatcherite british youth.

The United Kingdom has, since then, maintained a lively underground house music culture which has mutated and fused with many other styles of anglo jamaican bass music origins, such as UK Garage or Speed Garage that go back and forth in a constant communication process with black and latino communities in the US. But it is within the black communities of the United States where the house music scene has always been evolving and growing. Places like Chicago, New York or Detroit, whose house sound is flawlessly incorporated into its trademark techno sounds, have always been top of the list, but also the crucial house/garage scene from New Jersey or the Baltimore club scene has kept the true spirit of house alive, if yet very much at an underground level.

The rise of club mass tourism in Ibiza, on the other hand has banalized the once innovative balearic house sounds in the island, as much as money allows, making them a sort of intrascedent, washed away, conventionally optimistic sound for male and female normative and commodified bodies at exclusive villa pool parties and superclubs designed to mimic the lifestyles of the super rich. The watered down sounds of that sadly functional sound called tech-house, which is neither techno nor house, of business entertainment mega franchises as Elrow, which are no more than theme parks for middle class white europeans in search of a banal and escape from heir routines, have set the completely distorted image of house music as a rather superficial style of music, that has sprang to European continental countries in the last two decades.

We have been through a series of years in which soulless techno, coming mostly from the catch all wealthy Berlin industry, which has set up the foundations for an endless wave of conventionally called “dark” techno, that has progressively shallowed until becoming just another gimmick commodified sound. And we believe it is the right time to bring back the liberating sounds of house music to everyone’s minds and bodies.

House music belongs to a lineage of black and queer people that have crafted a magical groovy sound that gets inside our bodies and makes us dance until we relase all the energy on the dancefloor creating deep experiences of freedom, both collective and individual. House music has thrived in small queer club basements and in outdoor summer block parties in black hoods alike. Dance crews, be it vogueing, jitting, footworking or breakdancing are a key part of this culture. A culture of dancing, which as New Jersey’s own DJ Qu, one of the producers that has taken house music further in recent years would say: “its not the same as moving along to music”.

House is a feeling, lets get it back

 

Lincoln Park Music Festival 2008, Newark, New Jersey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_BJsUcXLE