What sort of dance music do I like?

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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