Maybe you are right -- maybe the beauty of early house is in how dated it
sounds, and that it is old enough to sound "dated-cool", as opposed to
"dated-period", like whatever was popular three years ago.
Still, there are a few tracks that, for me, go beyond dated coolness and
sound truly timeless. Voodoo Ray, yes... and also Mystery of Love by
Fingers Inc.
Also, since house was the first kind of electronic dance music I became
familiar with, the four-on-the-floor beat is kind of like the default dance
beat for me. So, if I hear a drum'n'bass track, I think "drum'n'bass",
whereas, if I hear a house track, I just think "dance music".
Marco
>I have also been listening (and buying back) a lot of early house: Todd
>Terry, D-Mob, Kevin Saunderson, S'Express, Beatmasters, 808 estate, Farley
>Jackmaster Flash, etc. However, I disagree with you. Most of it does not
>stand well the sense of time. I love it because of both its nostalgic
>value and because there were a lot of ideas latent there which remain to
>be fully exploded in electronic music. Most of their then original ideas
>have been developed to such levels that they sound dated, but there is
>still some stuff that you can see pointing in a direction that none or few
>picked up later. I have always been very interested in the origins of
>styles because of their rawness, and a lot of that stuff is so raw, it has
>an extra force that is lacking in a lot of new releases.
>
>-axel
>
>
>PS: But A Guy Called Gerald's 'Voodoo Ray' can still raise lots of
>eyebrows!!!!!!!!!!
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue May 16 2000 - 08:29:19 MET DST