Friday Dance Break - "Don't You Want Some More"

House Music Break: Let's Go (Don't U Want Some More)

The title may not sound familiar, but I guarantee that if you spent any time in nightclubs between 1988 and 1995, you heard this song. Often. Just press play and you'll see...

Afternoon Dance Break - House Of Gypsies

This Latin Tribal House track is actually called Sume Sigh Say, but most people (including myself) remember the "Que Es Lo Que Pasa Aqui" lyric. Back in the day I probably heard this song every Saturday night for a good 2-3 years - and I'm still not tired of it...

Afternoon Dance Break - Dajae - U Got Me Up

DJ Danny Tenaglia's club mix of U Got Me Up was a staple of NYC's megaclubs when I moved here in 1993. And, to this day, U Got Me Up makes me want to shake my moneymaker ...

Classic House Track - Work It To The Bone

They have been WORKING me to the bone lately at the restaurant, so I need a dance break. And this little ditty is perfect - a true classic:

Afternoon (Celebratory) Dance Break - Deep Inside

This is a repost, but Deep Inside is one of my all-time favorite house/dance ditties - so it seems appropriate to post again today. Here's what I said back on March 17, 2010:

Deep Inside, by Masters At Work, is still one of those "I'm feeling FIERCE!" songs which pop into my head when I'm having a particularly good day.

And today IS a good day here in NYC, and this song DID pop into my head - so let's do this...

Afternoon Dance Break - Bottom Heavy

Bottom Heavy by DJ Danny Tenaglia is one of those tracks you could hear on any given night in NYC's clubs during the late 90's - and it still sounds great today. Tenaglia, btw, will be the closing DJ during this weekend's legendary Saint At Large Black Party at Roseland Ballroom.

Afternoon Dance Break - Paris' Acid Ball

Paris Is Burning + House remix by Hannah Holland = PERFECTION.

Afternoon Dance Break: "Because Of You"

Let's let Gabrielle's "Because of You" usher us into the weekend. TGIF!

Afternoon Dance Break - Going Nowhere

Gabrielle serves up some early 90's House realness in Going Nowhere:

 

Saturday Dance Break - Been A Long Time

The Fog's Been A Long Time is one of the best House tracks of all time, in my ever-so-humble opinion. This song used to set the dance floors of the Roxy and the Sound Factory ON FIRE back in the day:

Afternoon Dance Break - Brighter Days

Let's celebrate the start of the weekend with this little ditty from 1992 - Cajmere (featuring Dajae) giving us Brighter Days.

Afternoon Dance Break - Voices

Voices inside my head

Echoes of things that you said

It's time to work off some of that holiday booze and food - and what better way than bustin' a move to one of the fiercest House tracks of the 90's? This song was always a crowd-pleaser on the dance floor of the Roxy (pictured above) ...

Afternoon Dance Break - So Deep, So Good

This M&M (AKA George Morel and Erick Morillo) track was absolutely one of my favorites back in the day. Although it's not exactly poetry set to music - the only lyrics are:

So Deep, So Deep

So Good, Oh, So Good, Oh

So Deep

Repeat (about 50,000 times)

But honey - you don't really need fancy wordplay when the backing track is so slammin' and the gorgeous Queens are mobbing the dance floor of the late, great Roxy.

Afternoon Dance Break - Lift It Up

Inaya Day is one of the GRAND DIVAS of House Music (see my previous post HERE). One of Inaya's best songs - Lift It Up - always plays on my Pandora "Junior Vasquez" channel - and I can't get enough of it. Have a listen for yourself ...

Afternoon Dance Break - Appreciate Me

Appreciate Me by Amuka was one of the last big anthems at the Roxy before it closed in 2007.

Afternoon House Break - Welcome To The Factory

In the early-mid 90's, the Sound Factory (above) on 27th Street was THE place to go "after-hours" (AKA after 4 AM when the other bars/clubs closed). Almost every Saturday night my friends and I would stumble out of Roxy and walk 10 blocks to the Sound Factory to dance while DJ Junior Vasquez weaved his magic web of House Music. 

And many times I remember being greeted on the dance floor with this song - "Welcome to the Factory" - by Angel Moraes. Junior always seemed to play it right as I arrived ...

Afternoon Dance Break - Joy

Staxx brings us some Joy this afternoon...

 

Afternoon Dance Break - Milkshake

This remix of Milkshake (by Kelis) really brings the boys to the dance floor.

Favorite Song #2 - Finally - Kings of Tomorrow

My favorite House track EVAH ...

Time marches on never ending, 

time keeps its own time,

Here we stand at beginning, 

and then goes passing us by,

And I, I, I can dream for us all, 

I hope I'm in a better state,

When here and now crumbles and falls 

and you, you , you who make worlds collide

I knew you'd come knocking one day,

unannounced like a thief in the night.