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The good thing about ‘Nuyorican Soul’ is we get a little bit of everybody liking it.
Dance music has evolved very much. From DJs playing at the Olympics, to playing at the Super Bowl, working with Cirque Du Soleil and even getting recognized at the Grammys with awards, dance music is growing in a big way.
Every time we play our music in clubs, there’s such a strong reaction.
To me, there’s a lot more bottom and ‘dirt’ with vinyl. When I say dirt, it’s good dirt. You need that raw sound in the clubs. To me, a CD is too clean.
I always think about making a CD you can hear in your car, your house party, with wonderful energy for all.
I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.
I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our culture with good music that will be remembered for years to come.
My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came down from the ceiling on a rope, and the crowd went crazy.
Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.
I think it’s healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.
I’m definitely looking forward to DJing in Scotland again. There’s always fun and a great party vibe.
For me, family has always been one of the key reasons to make music.
When I’m not working, I’m having fun with my son. We do lots of kids’ stuff.
At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I’ve gone the other way: organic and world music.
Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song ‘Stronger’ was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the hip-hop scene opens up to all the great music that came out of dance, it will continue to spread to the more mainstream audience.
I always want to make my records sound great so they’ll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.
People are digging into house music even from other genres.
We’d take records you’d never hear in clubs and make them into club tracks. We were doing B-sides on records that had nothing to do with the songs, and calling them Masters at Work dubs.
George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.
