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I think house is might be the one genre I genuinely don't get at all. Playing this mix just cemented this feeling to me. I can hear it's smooth and mellow, but it's also just the most boring thing ever. If I go out to dance and a DJ is playing this I go find a different place. As I'm typing this comment the music only just got interesting, and I'm at 8:15, like why.. And I just know that he's just going to ruin it by making the interesting part boring by stretching it for the next 4 minutes. I've got a few friends in my old crew that still do house dance, and I can get with it for a while, but eventually the boringness just gets to me and I need something to either pop or break.

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Don’t really know what to say. Your comment reads like someone telling me that they don’t like a pan seared salmon filet. I don’t think anyone will convince you that this music is exciting but 120/130 bpm is a fine speed to dance to and there’s a reason people enjoy music like this

Well I don't set my metronome to 120 and jam to it tho.. but kidding aside, that's exactly why I made the comment. I feel so weird for it, like I genuinely can tell that it's good fish, and that it's prepared exquisitely, I just can't enjoy it for some reason. For me it's just one snare hit away from something truly danceable like maybe dancehall or electropop.

the repetitiveness is the appeal, is all i can say. i hear similar arguments about ambient music. "it's the same chord for 40 minutes", "it's just white noise".

The idea that it's supposed to promote something of a trance is right in the name of the whole trance genre.

I find that putting on repetitive music in the background while working is helpful.

I don't listen to a lot of house, but this mixmag cd[1] from Dimitri from Paris, Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk, I just keep coming back to.

A lot more flair than most "plain" house though, guess that's why.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4mIoV3U84

I don't think it's ever been meant to listen to per se, more to dance to; hence why it used to be called dance music.

Which is funny because I find a lot of edm listenable outside of a dance context, especially hardcore.

This is just some real classic house here and sometimes I just spend weeks listening only that. You may need a history yourself in the scene to get it. Music for minorities, music to heal.

And Kerri here is such an engineer, mixing pitch perfect with a complex system, fixing it if needed.

Such a legend.

absolutely! Second this

house is a feeling

House is house

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