agreed 100%. If "dance music" only encompassed 120 bpm and higher, there would be thousands less great, classic tracks. Pre house, tthe majority of disco, funk, hip-hop, soul, r&b, and rock songs were not nearly as uptempo as the newer stuff.
-Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 2:42 PM > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) Classic beatdown tracks? > > > i also have something to say about the comment someone else > made earlier about beatdown not being "floor friendly". those > deejays and their tunes are far and away the MOST floor > friendly that ive ever experienced. nearly every one of the > best deejay performances ive seen have been by those guys i > listed. and in my own sets, their tunes are always amongst > the most well received. its funny, people hear something on a > record thats "slow" or "chilled" sounding to them, but theyre > not able to extrapolate how those kinds of records work in a > deejay set. ive seen complete pandamonium erupt a countless > number of times to those "slow" records. IMO there's more > room for energy in the slower music..... > > tom >
