What sort of dance music do I like?

i've liked juno, hardwax, clone, and gramaphone for finding new stuff. they all have slightly different orbits. agreed re: ra being not that great.

also I'd search "house" on hardwax and listen to the samples

^this is a good idea

was about to mention gramaphone, good catch

A lot of the stuff being mentioned in this thread is quite far off the brief in the first post (Blawan, really?)

Judging by the links in the first post, the stuff you like is the sort of thing that I personally find the less rewarding but I think you're right in that your tastes veer towards deep house.

I find that sort of stuff can work well whole horizontal on a sunny day but I find those warm, jazzy pads have a soporific effect on me on a dancefloor.

Having said that the DJ Sprinkles recommendations are on the nose for you, both her album and her mix CD from a couple of years ago. Also ye olde Cassy Panorama Bar mix album, the new Kyle Hall album, lots of Theo Parrish and Moodymann should keep you going. Mark E and The Revenge should do it for you as well.

Ah I just saw Theo in the first post.

You might also go for Gavin Russom in a big way (both with Delia and without) given all the cosmic krauty stuff you mention.

Radio is always a good way to discover new music and NTS have some great shows. The morning show hosted by Charlie Bones (Do You) is always good value - strong balearic vibes generally. He's had Theo on a few times.

http://www.nts.live/shows/the-do-you-breakfast-show

i find the djs on nts insufferable.

tho i haven't listened to that show - if i have to hear another 3/4 minutes of "*deep breath* shouts to the bussey building, man like another white person and me gonna be tearing it up this weekend... *music back up for a minute* - come along if you're not up to anything, midnight till 6am..." etc...

What are the other options? 6 Music?

soundcloud and the ilx mixes thread both contains mixes with no speaking or destructions of reverie, finding new records can be done without the soul being chipped away at by monsters using outdoor voices in the vibe cabin

dunno, i never listen to the radio - p much always soundcloud or other mixes.

saer otm.

I don't agree. Whilst Soundcloud etc are great resources, it's nice to hear a DJ that you like interact with their audience.
I grew up listening to the likes of Peel and Andy Kershaw so maybe I'm old school.

yeah i'm not totally against it, i just have found nts generally kind of annoying, and i don't find myself seeking out djs since the dance/electronic ones are all massively devoid of personality or charisma.

Speaking is one of the many methods used to induce anxiety and destroy reverie, the dream state is under constant attack from these barbs, a nod and a smile goes a long way in the information age

*deep breath* shouts to the bussey building, man like another white person and me gonna be tearing it up this weekend... *music back up for a minute* - come along if you're not up to anything, midnight till 6am..." etc...

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haha accurate

at the back of my mind for i guess the last few years there has been a generic modern pootling strawman of this sort that i feel i've never been able to successfully bring to life. this thread has def touched on certain aspects

one of my backburner ideas i might never dot will do someday was to record an entire radio show parodying the awful london house music djs.

just in general, for many years, it's kind of bothered me how entirely rare it is for anyone presenting any alternative music tv or radio show to have any capability to make a joke or do any of the basic things you expect a presenter to do, like talk about music or make the listener feel comfortable, they sound like someone calling you up to sexually harass you.

incomprehensible strikethrough but you get the idea

Based on the first post, I'd recommend checking out Gemini. Back in the 1990s he released some awesome, fairly minimal but lush deep house records you might dig. Sadly he's since then pretty much disappeared (there was some ILX thread where it was discussed he was having some serious personal and legal problems or something), but the 90s records are still timeless classics, IMO.

A more recent, minimal-but-deep house recommendation is Moomin.

xpost Surprised by the NTS backlash. In the main, it's just a bunch of DJ's (some more charismatic than others admittedly) playing music that they like. My experience completely at odds with LG's.
Also check other regulars Weatherall, Shanti Celeste and Jon Rust.

it's probably a case of my own cynicism ruining something for me - but i guess i don't feel i need them to discover new music. i listen to red light radio on soundcloud a lot, there doesn't seem to be much dj speak on there and i like the music they play a bit more.

*deep breath* shout out to Rolling techno* albums thread for people who are clearly doing it wrong

i don't really understand the UK radio landscape but have heard lots of great mixes on soundcloud that originated on NTS (and have had some on there myself).

btw you might like this record coming out on 100% Silk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atihj_yw2Mw

and this, for a perfect Rhodes loop and dirty drums.

http://www.youtube.com/v/n0e6ZsTLpzI

I used to just listen to Beats In Space every week but I've tailed off a bit as the roster has diversified a bit and there's less Sweeney.

Optimo's monthly show on NTS features very little talk, none of it annoying

hold tight the optimo mandem i see ya

i got ye bruv, i see ya.

A lot of tracks I like turn out to have been Boiler Room or Stamp The Wax Debuts on Soundcloud. I should really sort out some decent follows on there. I'm so lax.

it kind of naturally became a way I hear new music - I recently started buying vinyl again and I knew loads of the records from the peeps I follow on soundcloud and their mixes

about the 'djs talking' thing, it's usually a drag for me too, i could never really deal with tim sweeney for example. one person who i think does it very well is dj bone, plus his choices are great and mixing skills classic A++.

i honestly wouldn't recommend dj sprinkles to the op because not heteronormative enough, look i can be an annoying snob too. ;)

i think my other answer besides "basic channel" is just dig into more detroit house. theo parrish, kenny dixon jr., andres, rick wilhite, kyle hall, kelli hand. some of it is harder to come by but it describes what you're looking for and is better than a cornball like traumprinz.

oh man now I'm wishing I had a recording of this moritz von oswald dj set I saw, basic channel and excellent techno that built superbly

My favourite DJ mixes in this general vein (that haven't already been mentioned):

Andrew Weatherall's Blood Sugar mixes (esp. the first, which is his Radio 1 Essential Mix from 1996 - less dubby than its successors, it's more a perfect celebration of deep house) and his mix for Live @ The Social Volume 3

Daniel Bell's 'The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell' and 'The Button Down Mind Strikes Back'

Tobi Neumann's 'Pass Your Bedtime'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_laeWTEP70