Seek and Discover: Intergalactic Avant Gay Dance Music

I've been thinking a lot recently about a certain idealised notion of the music played at my favourite gay clubs: camp, glossy, apocalyptic maximalist vocal house crossing into glossy, apocalyptic, maximalist pop.

Stuff like Kristine W vs Murk's "Some Lovin" is maybe the most typical example of the house side of the equation (fittingly, this was released as the single for one of the Queer As Folk soundtracks I believe. It's a great track).

But I guess what I've actually been thinking about is not so much the actuality of this stuff as a kind of fantasy based on certain extreme examples: the point where the music becomes so overripe and multifaceted that it begins to feel like the palatial, celestial overproduction is the very point of the music.

Like: a constellation sketched out by The Freemasons' remix of Kylie's "The One", Quentin Harris' remix of Jennifer Hudson's "Spotlight", Madonna's amazing Jacques Lu Cont-produced "Erotica (Confessions Studio Extended Mix)", and then maybe even not-really-gay stuff like Aeroplane.

Or, to put it more simply: what Carl Craig's remixes would sound like if he were targeting them at gay clubs.

Do people know what i mean? Can anyone suggest other stuff in this style??? I want to compile as much as possible in a stockpile against the day that my friend Catherine and I can start our own gay club.

You should stockpile records from Moby Dick Recs and Megatone and Sylvester records and others like that. New music: if you don't have the internet and you're not rich, how are you supposed to hear it?

If you are not rich and not on the internet do you really think you would be interested in a genre of music called Intergalactic Avant Gay Dance Music?

Patrick Cowley is the alpha and omega of this thread.

LOL "avant gay"

like basically you want music that sounds like eric prydz but with vocals

here you go, tim

like basically you want music that sounds like eric prydz but with vocals

prydz remix of PSBs 'miracles' is sooooooooooooooooooo good.

My parents have the internet. Yes to P. Cowley.

And I'm genuinely moneyless, as usual.

3 hours and no chakimeme

Patrick Cowley is amazing but is not really what i am trying to get at in this thread (although his remix of "I Feel Love" is in the ballpark).

Vahid that Prydz/Rihanna mash-up is great and closer to what I'm talking about. I already loved "Pjanoo" but the addition of Rihanna's vocals makes it so much better!

Nonetheless "Pjanoo" it's a bit more... focused? utilitarian? than what I'm thinking of. I mean I'm happy with stuff that stays in the same area as "Some Lovin" or Joey Negro's "Make A Move On Me", but I'm interested in the idea of stuff that takes that vibe and stretches it to almost unsustainable levels of decadence and pretension.

Here's that Madonna track I'm talking about:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xS2KdGDYpBw

The Freemasons' "Rain Down Love" (superior 2007 version) is perhaps still too straightforward but you've gotta see this amazing fan video on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=kzdUowBO3SI

Dennis Ferrer - Touched The Sky (Quentin Harris Remix):

wish i didn't miss you (hex hector remix) maybe??

Tim, you want the William Orbit Spatial Expansion mix of S'Express's cover of Sly's "Music Lover".

this was linked on the S'Express thread, but here's the far less space-filling single mix video

This is the most Tim thread title of all time.

Anyway you mean really ridiculous bombastic expensively and expansively produced, unashamedly pop house right? Stuff like this? Actually Quentin Harris just owns this thread fullstop.

if gay clubs actually played this sort of stuff, as opposed to will-this-do poppers o'clock cheap crap and/or obnoxiously rubbish electro, i might go to them once in a while

Space battle homo.

"if gay clubs actually played this sort of stuff, as opposed to will-this-do poppers o'clock cheap crap and/or obnoxiously rubbish electro, i might go to them once in a while"

There's one or two clubs that will play this kind of stuff intermittently over here. It is odd though that the choice often seems to be between that sort of "will-this-do" vibe you're describing and the self-consciously arty/indie vibe you get at "queer" nights. The last of which I went to featured a riot grrl band covering Britney songs and the DJ playing lots of Peaches :-/

"Space battle homo"

Yes! This is spot-on.

aw man, where were you when i was starting david guetta threads three years ago?

i'm a little out of touch with the big room house scene (avant gay and apres straight) but honestly i would just check out what erick morillio is playing. this denis the menace character seems fairly OTT and syke n sugarstarr sounds pretty good too (warning: video is deeply suspect).

also i <3 axwell forever

something tells me though that you're going to say my picks are too prog, too straight, or possibly both?

i think a sort of theme that i'm noticing in the tracks you've been naming tim is that in the 2nd half the bass drops out for a while as the producer piles on layers and layers of synths. whereas in the tracks i'm partial too they're just as likely to do the opposite: drop out everything except the bass and the drums. big difference i guess between your jacques lu cont / fred falke inspired productions and your average murk / subliminal style banger.

This thread intimates the future of space travel/galactic exploration being one decadent homosexual dance party. Hopes, but no expectations...

this also reminds me of the missed opportunity of mixing "Sky Fits Heaven" - which should have been a single - such lost potential

I don't really like most David Guetta though :-(

"i think a sort of theme that i'm noticing in the tracks you've been naming tim is that in the 2nd half the bass drops out for a while as the producer piles on layers and layers of synths."

Yeah this is like the jump to warp speed moment in the track where the stars become long lines. Combining this with the middle eight from the original vocal pop song or perhaps even a spoken word section is particularly effective.

I can't believe that Subliminal Sessions is up to Volume 12! I don't really recognise any of those tracks but Subliminal was always a bit gruntier/straight than the sound I'm trying to pinpoint here. Not that is necessarily a bad thing, just a different thing. I like Axwell too (esp. the awesome "I Found You") although "Feel The Vibe" sounds more like a c. 2000 filter-disco track minimally tweaked to survive into 2008 (comparable to say that house version of "Sun Is Shining" from around that time). Tellingly, "Let Me Think About It" is probably my favourite commercial house track of the past few years and I still get excited when it comes on the radio (and it sounds great in gay clubs too) but I wouldn't class it in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQLEuSFYrh0

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