Circle Music (Dancer Anthems) - Volume 1

"Of all the formal qualities that constitute the essentials of House, nothing could be more ephemeral or more powerful than the vibe, the defining building-block of the Underground-House scene. The vibe is an active communal force, a feeling, a rhythm that is created by the mix of dancers, the balance of loud music, the effects of darkness and light, the energy. Everything interlocks to produce a powerful sense of liberation. The vibe is an active, exhilarating feeling of "now-ness" that everything is coming together -- that a good party is in the making. The vibe is constructive; it is a distinctive rhythm, the groove that carries the party psychically and physically. "[H]ouse is a feeling and no one can understand really unless their feet moved to the sound of our house. Can-you-feel-it?" (song lyrics by Heard and Roberts, 1988, quoted in Rietveld 1998, 5). Because rhythm coheres the whole, the vibe is mutable, in flux, controlling the ebb and flow of the night. The beat means safety. It pulses through bodies, causes the floor to bound and rebound; because everyone is moving in synchrony, it avoids disharmony, eschews collisions and fights." -- Sommer, Sally R. (2001). "'C'mon to My House': Underground-House Dancing" (PDF). Dance Research Journal. 33 (2): 72–86. doi:10.2307/1477805.

All tracks selected and mixed by Rodney Marable a.k.a. The Soul Donkey for educational and entertainment purposes only · Strictly licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0