Nice showcase. I notice that the house scene is so different outside NY,NJ as far as the age group is concerned. The house scene outside of those states and outside of the country seems to attract people who are low 30s and under where the scene in NY and NJ appear to be late 30s and up and some of those people have been on the scene since the mid 80s. I think we're not getting a big influx of new house heads on the scene and the left overs are die hard house heads for life. I enjoy watching these videos because I get to watch how house music and house dance has evolved over the last 3 decades including great female dancers which. For a long time the only great female dancer I knew was Marjory and may she rest in peace. I can't believe that up until about 2004 I used to think that NY was the only place that had a real house dance scene and RUclips opened my eyes to a whole new world of house and house dance.
Yea Mike, I would say here in the Bay the house scene is certainly in its late 30's early 40's and up. We do have a small community of more "dancers" and not so much "house heads" that do enjoy going out to some of our clubs and dancing to the music. It really is different times, being someone who hasn't seen all that much but maybe 15 years or so of our scene, I can tell you it has already changed tremendously. A lot of what I think has brought on the biggest change in the Bay Area is that electronic music (house included) has such a big "night club" industry now. It's not a bad thing necessarily , but it has driven those that have always been "underground" to go a bit deeper underground. I get a little discouraged when some of our longest running promoters/dj's can barely fill their small dance floors at their monthly events. I have realized that history has always shown us that EVERYTHING comes back around. I just hope I will get to live through another "golden area" of house music and "club culture" while I am still able to enjoy sweating to it :)
Nice showcase. I notice that the house scene is so different outside NY,NJ as far as the age group is concerned. The house scene outside of those states and outside of the country seems to attract people who are low 30s and under where the scene in NY and NJ appear to be late 30s and up and some of those people have been on the scene since the mid 80s. I think we're not getting a big influx of new house heads on the scene and the left overs are die hard house heads for life. I enjoy watching these videos because I get to watch how house music and house dance has evolved over the last 3 decades including great female dancers which. For a long time the only great female dancer I knew was Marjory and may she rest in peace. I can't believe that up until about 2004 I used to think that NY was the only place that had a real house dance scene and RUclips opened my eyes to a whole new world of house and house dance.
Yea Mike, I would say here in the Bay the house scene is certainly in its late 30's early 40's and up. We do have a small community of more "dancers" and not so much "house heads" that do enjoy going out to some of our clubs and dancing to the music. It really is different times, being someone who hasn't seen all that much but maybe 15 years or so of our scene, I can tell you it has already changed tremendously. A lot of what I think has brought on the biggest change in the Bay Area is that electronic music (house included) has such a big "night club" industry now. It's not a bad thing necessarily , but it has driven those that have always been "underground" to go a bit deeper underground. I get a little discouraged when some of our longest running promoters/dj's can barely fill their small dance floors at their monthly events. I have realized that history has always shown us that EVERYTHING comes back around. I just hope I will get to live through another "golden area" of house music and "club culture" while I am still able to enjoy sweating to it :)