Ep 45 - Spoken Word House Music (1940 - 2001))

The second game, and I'm, I'm not gonna be long this morning, the second game, and I took inventory of several people, the second most popular game that we played as children is house.

Recently, I was asked to play a DJ set, and I wanted to do a set of two halves.

The first part was '70s soul, funk, and disco, the kind of music I talk about a lot on this podcast, and for the second part, my plan was to play some house and breaks, a sound that's more typical in one of my DJ sets.

When human drummers and traditional instruments come up against drum machines and synths, the sound can be quite jarring.

So I was trying to think of a house tune with a long intro to create a smoother transition between these two sounds.

Because I'm an old man and still DJ with vinyl, I couldn't just download something suitable and needed to look through my record collection.

I remembered a tune, Song for Shelter, from Fatboy Slim's third album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, released in the year 2000.

It has this long, blissed-out intro with vocals from Roland Clark, and the drums don't come in for over three minutes.

Perfect.

[electronic music] I get deep, I get deep, I get deep, I get deeper into this thing.

The deeper I go, the more knowledge I know what to sing, what to bring.

What.

I get deep, I get deep, I get deep, I get deeper, deeper, deeper into the vibe.

What.

I.

Chilling in the corner at the shelter all by myself, checking it out.

I'm not dancing no more, but why? Why? Why? What? How on earth are you supposed to vibe around the fake ones, the wowing, the ones that say they know what is what, but they don't know what is what? They just strut.

What the fuck? What.

I get deep, I get deep, I get deep, I get deep, I get deeper into this thing, and I pretend that they're not there.

I just stare up in the booth at the dread man spinning the song, spinning it strong, playing things like, "We can have house, we can." That's my shit.

What? I get deep, I get deep, I get deep, I, I get deeper when people start to disappear, and it's about 6:00.

I'm feeling hot.

Take off my sweater and my pants, and I start to dance, and all the sweat just flows down my face.

And I pretend that there's nobody there but me in this place.

I get deep, yo, I get deep.