House Music Recs

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I was just watching a few videos of DJs I respect and it seems like house music of the vocal/soulful persuasion is back.

Records like these:

This sort of thing. Anyone got any recs?

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I’m
going through stuff for NYE and pulled this out this afternoon

Thanks for the reminder about Peggi blu. I’ll did that out too.

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Such a big record! Can I come?

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The party I went to Friday night was very much in this vein, two DJs from the BBE crew (Jeff Higgins & Johnny Reckless)

Not strictly house but this was a highlight

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That’d be really lovely. It’s NYE at Beak Brewery taproom, 8 til 1:30 I think.

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I don’t know about ‘back’ but I get the feeling that there has finally been a shift away from repetitive afro based vocals & grooves to a more trad US house style.
Here are a few of my faves from this year.

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I really like this queer-forward banger from Gideon:

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I’d include that Space Ghost Majestic Fantasies if you hadn’t posted it, here’s 3 more

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Most of the house stuff I’m sent gets played for about 5 seconds then deleted as its all so formulaic, predictable and dull.

This caught my ear though.

Would prefer a more dubby version mind :grinning:

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There’s a million shades of house, some of which age better than others. It was my world for many years but then I dunno if people got lazy or formulaic, as Howler said, but I just got really bored with vocal house in particular or people who didn’t shift tempo.

I’m sure that if I was out and high and somebody dropped a load of Ibadan classics I would still feel it, but how often is that likely to happen now? There was certainly a real excitement around those bangers that is sometimes missing from the chuggers I moved on to but maybe I just changed or got old or hear everything differently now.

I think another thing that lost me was the gatekeeping elitism of some of the pure house warriors. I totally got where they were coming from (people like Pipecock, Jay Simon…) in trying to preserve the roots but it also meant a degree of stagnation imo. I’ll listen to people’s picks on here, maybe it will rekindle my interest, but I dunno if there’s any real way back for me as a scene that I used to follow so passionately.