BlueMoon’s House music thread

Anyone used to go to Venus?

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These are the two tunes that remind me of the old Club V site at 111 Deansgate the most, spent dozens of Saturday nights in there. I used to do flyering for them so I could get in for free.

Jerry Ropero, Denis the Menace & Sabor ‘Coracao (Axwell Mix)’




Solu Music ‘Fade’

 
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Anyone remember the Hooj Choons label from the turn of the century? They had some proper decent heavy house stuff.

Halo Varga ‘Future’




KC Flightt & Funky Junction ‘Voices (Fata Morgana Remix)’

 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Anyone used to go to Venus?

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These are the two tunes that remind me of the old Club V site at 111 Deansgate the most, spent dozens of Saturday nights in there. I used to do flyering for them so I could get in for free.

Jerry Ropero, Denis the Menace & Sabor ‘Coracao (Axwell Mix)’




Soul Music ‘Fade’

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Thought you meant Venus in Nottingham, which I went to plenty.
Good tunes you’ve added there :-)
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Anyone used to go to Venus?

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These are the two tunes that remind me of the old Club V site at 111 Deansgate the most, spent dozens of Saturday nights in there. I used to do flyering for them so I could get in for free.

Jerry Ropero, Denis the Menace & Sabor ‘Coracao (Axwell Mix)’




Soul Music ‘Fade’

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Venus was good back in the day managed to Dj there a couple of times around 2006. Didn’t like the new club they opened down the other end of Deansgate. It’s sad there’s nothing like this about now and a lack of venues playing house music. Only ones you can go to that spring to mind is Joshua Brooks and the Warehouse project which feels more like going to a gig than being in a club.

Used to be loads of places playing house from The Ampersand, Holy City Zoo, Angel Deelite, Dry Bar, Athenaeum, North, Prague Five. Sadly all gone unfortunately, people don’t want to hear new music on nights out and just want what they’ve been listening to on Spotify all week playing in what ever bar or club they go in.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Venus was good back in the day managed to Dj there a couple of times around 2006. Didn’t like the new club they opened down the other end of Deansgate. It’s sad there’s nothing like this about now and a lack of venues playing house music. Only ones you can go to that spring to mind is Joshua Brooks and the Warehouse project which feels more like going to a gig than being in a club.

Used to be loads of places playing house from The Ampersand, Holy City Zoo, Angel Deelite, Dry Bar, Athenaeum, North, Prague Five. Sadly all gone unfortunately, people don’t want to hear new music on nights out and just want what they’ve been listening to on Spotify all week playing in what ever bar or club they go in.
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Interesting point that, about wanting to hear new music when you go out.

The one thing that did sometimes annoy me about house clubs was where certain (many?) djs seemed to be obsessed with being as upfront as humanly possible, to the point where once something had an office release they’d stop playing it. It was like white label city.

I used to love hearing upfront tunes don’t get me wrong, but it was brilliant where a few times in a set you’d actually hear something you’d bought, you’d recognise, you’d know the name of etc, and then respond to when you hear it on the dancefloor. They’d still be ‘new’ tunes by most people’s standards.

I know I’m going off on a tangent but your post just reminded me of it.
 
chesterbells said:
Interesting point that, about wanting to hear new music when you go out.

The one thing that did sometimes annoy me about house clubs was where certain (many?) djs seemed to be obsessed with being as upfront as humanly possible, to the point where once something had an office release they’d stop playing it. It was like white label city.

I used to love hearing upfront tunes don’t get me wrong, but it was brilliant where a few times in a set you’d actually hear something you’d bought, you’d recognise, you’d know the name of etc, and then respond to when you hear it on the dancefloor. They’d still be ‘new’ tunes by most people’s standards.

I know I’m going off on a tangent but your post just reminded me of it.
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Back in the days of vinyl there was that arms race between djs of who could get good new stuff first on promo or white label and when it got a proper release they would lose interest in playing it. Us mere mortals who weren’t on mailing list for that stuff had to go and be best buddies with whoever was picking the tunes out in the likes of Eastern Bloc, Underground, Blue Vinyl etc. it did give every Dj a unique sound in that sense compared to what it’s like today where everything is readily available to download across the internet.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Back in the days of vinyl there was that arms race between djs of who could get good new stuff first on promo or white label and when it got a proper release they would lose interest in playing it. Us mere mortals who weren’t on mailing list for that stuff had to go and be best buddies with whoever was picking the tunes out in the likes of Eastern Bloc, Underground, Blue Vinyl etc. it did give every Dj a unique sound in that sense compared to what it’s like today where everything is readily available to download across the internet.
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Oh yeah, those guys in Spin Inn, Eastern, underground etc had a lot of “power” back then. Sadly the nearest I ever got was a best mate who worked at Yanks. Hardly very useful, unless you were interested in grabbing The Grateful Dead’s back catalogue on the cheap etc.
 
Just a list of clubs back in the day I'd been to house scene wise, not talking regularly. Just been at least once. Quick list off my head
Hać, Boardwalk, Precinct 13, Wiggly Worm, Home, Konspiracy, Manalive., Wigan Pier, Pleasure Dome Farnworth.
Further afield, Back to Basic Leeds, Angels Burnley, Sequins Blackpool, Sub Club Glasgow, Metropolis Saltcoats, Kelly's Portrush and Circus Circus Banbridge.
Sure I could come up with a few more if I thought about it. The NI and Scottish ones were from my Army days :)
 
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