padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
which is to say that pd/ph is just a way of describing an era
if yall just want to hear a lot of cool records, no problem
proto-house is a different thing, obviously organized around it's relation to house (and techno really, in the beginning things were pretty blurred)
for me that stretches back to disco proper, beginning with people like Bohannon, Patrick Adams, etc and obviously Moroder
as well as crucially edits and mixes by Walter Gibbons, Francois K, Danny Krivit, etc
again, a lot of cool records, if not quite as many, and some overlap with pd/ph, but different in having a specific focus
if yall just want to hear a lot of cool records, no problem
proto-house is a different thing, obviously organized around it's relation to house (and techno really, in the beginning things were pretty blurred)
for me that stretches back to disco proper, beginning with people like Bohannon, Patrick Adams, etc and obviously Moroder
as well as crucially edits and mixes by Walter Gibbons, Francois K, Danny Krivit, etc
again, a lot of cool records, if not quite as many, and some overlap with pd/ph, but different in having a specific focus