Transpontine
history is made at night
God Made Me Funky?
This is what Buddhists call mindfulness I believe, kind of total awareness in the present.
I'm ambivalent about the spiritual thing in house music. When people set out to make spiritual music the result is often terrible new age slush, but there's no doubt that there is a transcendental aspect to music, perhaps especially dance music.
The effect it had on me was bringing me into the present (here & now). Not thinking about what happened earlier or what happens next, but being very aware of the present. It's a similiar state meditation achieves and the earlier house dancers considered the dancing as a spiritual act. That probably came from all the gospel in the house at the time, but the gravity it has is what you give to it.
This is what Buddhists call mindfulness I believe, kind of total awareness in the present.
I'm ambivalent about the spiritual thing in house music. When people set out to make spiritual music the result is often terrible new age slush, but there's no doubt that there is a transcendental aspect to music, perhaps especially dance music.