Is house music dead?

[nrgbeat]

Has house music died in U.S. gay clubs in favor of the circuit sound?

[born2disco]

Don't know about US but it never dies.... just goes to sleep for a while.

It's booming here!

[BrunoRepublic]

"Is House Music dead?"

Well, a better question might be "Was it ever alive?" :P :lol:

[PhyllisHyman]

Nrgbeat
What is the circuit sound? House certainly isn't dead in London Gay clubs!

[nrgbeat]

A circuit party is a gay dance party generally held in a large city (i.e. Miami, Los Angeles, etc.)

The music played tends to be big diva vocals over heavy synths and tribal beats and usually remixed by Thunderpuss, Hex Hector or Junior Vasquez.

[born2disco]

Oh, that's what the 'circuit' sound is.

YUCK!

:P

[nonkel808]

NOOOOOO house music is not dead!
And it's not just for gays.
At least not in Europe or Belgium it isn't!
It's still very big and mainstream over here.
BUT!
the commercial house is getting kinda more commercial and boring these days; and R&B and Rap are the new flavour of the dancing youth 2day. Even rock is making its dancing revival, with it's 80's electro-rock mash up that ruled the underground untill recently. And let's not forget the whole nu-electro-clash movement.
Still House will never die! And is returning back to the underground again.
If i can advice you 2 dj/producers that will definetly please a disco crowd; then i would go for Martin Solveig and dj Gregory! They both make a very nice blend of afro-disco music with rich orchestrations.

Greets!

[born2disco]

Martin Solveig's latest, 'Rockin Music', is 10/10 pure MJ-influenced disco fun... get it!

I hate these "is [insert genre] dead" threads. They're pointless. A style is never dead if you don't stop loving it.

[the professor]

>>>>>>>>>>>peace 2 all.........I just had to answer this .No!! house is not dead no way no how!!! Housemusic has is and always will be alive..........Don't all of u know that house is disco's revenge!!!! I live in the US. and if i wanted to i could go to a housemusic party SEVEN DAYZ A WEEK!! :lol: :lol: :P

[QUINNY]

In the UK at least, Dance music and clubbing culture is now officially on a downward spiral. Hence, Paris is now the clubbing capital of Europe, possibly the world.

[bryanbergman]

are french producers deaf? what i hear coming out of france is crud. me thinks they are all deaf - fulkcon, bongalter - all of em. deaf as posts.

case example:
despite the fact it will be MASSIVE with the clubbing SHEEP, only a deaf frenchman with zero taste and style would sample Steve Winwood and loop it until you can't get "Valerie" out of your head... just another flash in the pan.

House is thriving down here in Oz - but unfortunately, so is the trashy electro rot from France... :(

[born2disco]

Some French house is fantastic Bryan!

namely producers like:

Plaisir de France
Cassius ('I'm a Woman' was pure disco nonsense-fun!)
De Pompidou
Cicada (? I think they are French... correct me if i'm wrong..)

I know I have more French records that are fantastic... just don't know them off hand...

[bryanbergman]

fair enuff - must admit I forgot about Plaisir De France - I also have that and I love it, but it is getting on a bit now, so with my post, I guess I kinda meant alot of the electro/80's/compressed sounding stuff being released right now... :oops:

[Studio74]

I quite like french producers a lot,people like Daft Punk,Cassius,Mike 303,Fafa Monteco,We In Music,Alan Braxe,DJ Falcon,Bob Sinclar,Dimitri From Paris,Air,Blackstrobe,Scratch Massive,Benjamin Diamond,David Duriez,Kiko,The Hacker (and Cerrone´s made a good comeback album :D )...but i think House Music in general is very tiresome...Today i´m into the more electro kind of stuff (electro,electro-house,electro-techno,electro-disco...), the new wave/disco-punk kind of stuff...and always DISCO (from where it all came).

[bryanbergman]

unsurprisingly i feel somewhat outnumbered as expected ;)

understandable, but sad none the less