the lasting charm of house

From: Marco Baroni (baroni@humnet.ucla.edu)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 00:06:42 MET DST

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    In the rare moments in which I am not enjoying Mellow Mellow, I have been
    listening to some old house music -- Mr. Fingers, Inner City, Joe Smooth. I
    was surprised by how well early house music stood the test of time. Better,
    I would say, than later, more ambitious kinds of electronic/dance music
    (techno, drum'n'bass, downtempo...) Does anybody else agree with this
    intuition? If you do, do you have a theory about it? Is it because house
    music (via the disco connection?) is closer to the eternal soul/funk roots?
    Or is it something about the four-on-the-floor beat? Or is it just an
    impression due to the fact that house is trendy again thanks to labels like
    Nuphonic?

    Regards,

    Marco



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