I think if Levan had lived on he wouldn't have been playing deep house and serious techno, he would have loved songs like "1 Thing" and "Boogie 2Nite" more
that feels very 5ish years ago to me, but I also don't want to get sidetracked into an argument about it, we agree on the historical contextin 2020, (rhetorically) gay still carries an inner city urban connotation - working class trans people prefering to use gay than queer if they are not het in my experience, whereas queer is more a suburban, almost punk thing
yeah I once saw Paul Johnson to play to an essentially abandoned dancefloor - long story - in full give no fucks mode and he was dropping all kinds of 80s cheese, as well as punishing 90s Dance Mania businessIve even heard Jeff Mills drop dead or alive in a techno set tbh
yeah I once saw Paul Johnson to play to an essentially abandoned dancefloor - long story - in full give no fucks mode and he was dropping all kinds of 80s cheese, as well as punishing 90s Dance Mania business
and yeah it's always the purists who are deadset against cheese
yeah I agree with third it's really hard to say, hard to extrapolate and project, things changed so muchI think if Levan had lived on he wouldn't have been playing deep house and serious techno, he would have loved songs like "1 Thing" and "Boogie 2Nite" more
yeah, everything he did after he moved back to NY strikes me as polite and nondescriptA lot of late period Knuckles strikes me as polite and nondescript
a lot of that "Directors Cut" material is blandly unlistenable