By Marke B.
I just came upon this 2k7 vid of the best-club-ever-after-Paradise-Garage Body and Soul tour in Tokyo. And I don't know if it's the beauty of DJ Joe Clausell's knob-tweaking, the pain of the recent Depression, the gay-soul-gorgeousness of Dan Hartman and Loleatta Holloway's barnstormer duet, or the sight of hundreds of off-their-nut Japanese boppers singing "Relight My Fire" -- but I'm bursting into tears.
Body & Soul Live in Tokyo Open Air 2007
Those kids are so amped up that by the time of the breakdown ("I'm strong enough to walk on through the night") they can't shout any louder. Srsly, it's time for a house comeback. There's already a couple of underground roving house revivals going down in NYC, and Body & Soul itself will rock Webster Hall there this Sunday. Let's pick it up SF!
We could do worse that pack Vessel on Thursday night for a very rare appearance by way-more-than-legendary Body & Soulmate Francois K.
(That's him above hunched behind a laptop. He later had to sternly warn the kids -- in Japanese, because he's amazing -- to stop rushing the stage or he'd stop the music. But who could blame them?.)
Oh, I'm Francois Kervorkian, and I was there for the birth of house AND I speak Japanese. What have you done with your life?
Mr K. has been at it for more than 30 years now, and his last big club project in NYC, Deep Space, focused on lovely dub-techno grooves, with a few slices of hardcore (!) thrown in to shake everybody's boots up. But his core is still that early house sound, the period when house was emerging all wet and slippy from disco's pulsating hole -- and those of us who earned waaay too many miles jetting to NYC to get down to "Jaguar" and "The Ten Commandments of House" at Body & Soul are having a REUNION.
Francois K. (3 hour set)
w/ DJ Rooz and some other people we hope are cool and not too rockstar-goofy, i.e. knockoff Gucci shades on while they spin and that spiky hair thing that straight guys are somehow still into because Bed Head Moulding Mud sponsors Paul Van Dyke or something
Thu/12, 9pm-3am, $15 presale
Vessel
85 Campton Place, SF
www.vesselsf.com
Presale tickets at: www.djrooz.com/djrooz/francois-k-vessel.html
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Comments (2)
Joe's knob tweeking gets on my tits...can't he just play the record?
Posted by KVUL | March 12, 2009 03:56 PM
ha -- yeah, but it's Tokyo. There has to be extra technology.
Posted by Marke B | March 12, 2009 04:54 PM