serious question: when and where did house music stop being cool amongst black Americans?

[Rawtid]

That's because House has a very specific formula due to that it was birthed from disco...

Four on Four and all that shyt...

But there are all types of House music...

I think the most of the House that Black people know of is Chicago House, Hip House and Ghetto House...

Thanks for this! I was going to comment on how each song is structured as well, which kind of aids in it sounding alike to me. I like when house is played in a session with other music, I appreciate it much more.

 

[AlainLocke]

Thanks for this! I was going to comment on how each song is structured as well, which kind of aids in it sounding alike to me. I like when house is played in a session with other music, I appreciate it much more.

Yeah...electronic music like House (Black House and Tropical House), Trap (EDM version and the Hip Hop version), Dubstep (Brostep)...got a very particular formula that falls dead on the ears...

And it's all Disco's fault because Disco kinda proved that if you find a very particular formula and song structure...shyt will hit the charts no matter what...

Whether it's the 808 bass and the hihat roll in Trap, the beat drop in Trap/EDM, or the Wobble in Dubstep(Brostep)...


Even though I love the 70s and all the music that was birthed from that era...that era introduced this gimmicky formulaic shyt that we have today...

 

[Unknown Poster]

this is true but it holds true for most genres of music which is why you can easily group genres based on a a specific sound but I think House has many grooves/feels







(house/techno hyrbid)

These are some of my favorite jama right thurr...

Had to rep.

 

[Unknown Poster]

'House' music didn't stop being cool among Black people. The demopgraphic for it changed due to hip-hop in the late 80's.

I'm also from Jersey and I can tell you that most of the clubs around my immediate vicinity stopped playing a lot of hip-hop music due to the violent altercations associated with the crowds that frequented those clubs.

They switched to more 'house' style music and drew in more laid-back people and homosexuals.

Hip-hop artists didn't want to be left in the cold, so, 'Hip-House' was born.......and died.........











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good post

 

[Unknown Poster]

Personally I think house and just about all all electronic/techno type music sounds best when it's presented in the form of a long mix, preferably controlled by an expert DJ. Same with go-go actually. It takes time for that groove to really develop, almost like cooking a big pot of stew, you need to let it marinate

For those reasons it just doesn't sound as good when they play a house track on the radio then switch back to some pop shyt, then to a rap track, etc

Basically house requires a longer attention span than other forms of popular music and most people lack the patience to appreciate it

I agree 100%.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Garage house started in Chicago.
From "The Paradise Garage".

The Paradise Garage was a New York City club, where Larry Levan was the main deejay.

The Warehouse was the groundbreaking club in Chicago with Frankie Knuckles where "House Music" began to thrive.

Larry and Frankie were both NYC deejays. Frankie brought the NYC dance music culture to Chicago
and re-invented it there.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

House music stopped being "cool" when we ceased dancing as key
social activity.

Up until about the 1990s, dancing had always been synonymous with partying for
black folk.

Soul Train was just a televised version of the way black folk would party.

The strip club replaced the dance club.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

That's because House has a very specific formula due to that it was birthed from disco...

Four on Four and all that shyt...

But there are all types of House music...

I think the most of the House that Black people know of is Chicago House, Hip House and Ghetto House...

deep/soulful/garage/vocal house by far are the ones most black people know and listen to

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

If youre from North or Central Jersey and Black then House is pretty much embedded in you

In the 80s, House was bigger in NJ than Hip Hop.

Hip Hop was a NYC thing at that time.

Zanzibar was to Newark what The Fever was to the Bronx.

 

[AlainLocke]

deep/soulful/garage/vocal house by far are the ones most black people know and listen to

Yeah man...I try to listen to the CAC type stuff and I just can't do it...

House to me needs soul or it's just...

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Yeah man...I try to listen to the CAC type stuff and I just can't do it...

House to me needs soul or it's just...

 

[Unknown Poster]

The Paradise Garage was a New York City club, where Larry Levan was the main deejay.

The Warehouse was the groundbreaking club in Chicago with Frankie Knuckles where "House Music" began to thrive.

Larry and Frankie were both NYC deejays. Frankie brought the NYC dance music culture to Chicago
and re-invented it there.

I knew I had both locales twisted thanks foe the correction! Lol.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Yeah man...I try to listen to the CAC type stuff and I just can't do it...

House to me needs soul or it's just...

Some of that stuff is good.

My thing is I solely use youtube to find new tracks to play out for dj gigs so i find stuff thats good and stuff that sucks everywhere. Kind of like when i first got into buying records from 1999-2002 and really spent time looking for new tracks.

I like mixing deep soulful sounds with minimalist clicks and cuts and mixing thpse chicago and detroit deep house and 90s nyc house records with newer style european tech house records.

 

[BlackBall]

If you weren't at the chocolate factory in the early 90's you lost

 

[Majestyx]

I aslo lame the radio for conditioning people into listening to just "1 song". And people not listening to house music loud as fukk with a good ass dj seemlessly transitioning and blending two or 3 songs together.