Love dancing vol 2 by djstarsign
For those of you who remember my very early dj days when I mostly used to play heavy funk and hip hop, you have probably heard my sets evolve into a more eclectic outlet for anything from jazz to latin to house and disco. To me there is no distinction in music I like, it's all about sound, arrangement, rhythm vs melody, big vs small, mood, emotion... in other words I love it all from the dirty and rough to the sublime and meticulous.
Once I got into house and disco, I began to research the roots of what we consider modern dance music (from "krautrock" to Italo) and the term Balearic was a "subgenre" that I heard a few times. I was pretty ignorant of it, and to be quite honest, I still have a long way to go, but I realized that a lot of the hazy, spaced out new electronic music I was into was being tagged as having a Balearic feel.
I don't normally like labels b/c to me music is subjective and we all have different interpretations of what is "good" and what is "bad"; it's all part of a larger tree in the end. But still, the Balearic influence has been in my sets long before I was even aware of what that word was. Here is a practice set I was working on for an upcoming gig. If you've heard some of my recent mixes, some usual suspects show up (Classixx, Todd Terje).
I can be a vinyl nazi sometimes and I really do prefer to dj with records, but this mix was recorded strictly using Serato.
Love Dancing Vol 1 can be found on Mixcloud by clicking here
