Edited by Azizi Powell
This post showcases a video of the 1998 song "My Beat" (also known as "Can You Dance To My Beat") by Blaze, featuring Palmer Brown. The song lyrics to this House music beat are given as part of the summary statement for this video. Information about House music and information about Blaze are also presented in this post.
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Thanks to Blaze featuring Palmer Brown for this recording. Thanks also to all featured musicians & dancers, and thanks to the publishers of this video on YouTube.
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INFORMATION ABOUT HOUSE MUSIC
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music
"House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized circa 1984 in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, it fanned out to other major cities across North and South America, as well as Europe and later Australia.[1] Early house music commercial success in Europe saw songs such as "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy of House (1987) and "Doctorin' the House" by Coldcut (1988) in the pop charts. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.
Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats, rhythms mainly provided by drum machines,[2] off-beat hi-hat cymbals, and synthesized basslines. While house displayed several characteristics similar to disco music, it was more electronic and minimalistic,[2] and the repetitive rhythm of house was more important than the song itself. House music today, while keeping several of these core elements, notably the prominent kick drum on every beat, varies a lot in style and influence, ranging from the soulful and atmospheric deep house to the more minimalistic microhouse. House music has also fused with several other genres creating fusion subgenres,[2] such as euro house, tech house, electro house and jump house."...
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INFORMATION ABOUT BLAZE
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_(band)
"Blaze is a house-music group formed in 1984 in New Jersey, USA...It was formed by Josh Milan, Kevin Hedge, and Chris Herbert, when Herbert introduced Milan, a member of his church choir, to Hedge, his childhood friend. Ironically, Herbert was the one who left the group in 1991, leaving Milan and Hedge to keep working together.[1]
The group's output consists mainly of house-music tracks with heavy gospel, soul and afrobeat influences (sometimes referred to as gospel house). When the group started, Herbert was the singer, with Milan playing the piano, and Hedge on production. After Herbert left, both Hedge and Milan started to share production duties, vocals, and playing most of the instruments of the group's tracks and albums. The group achieved notoriety with its remix of Lisa Stansfield's "People Hold On" in 1989, after signing with Motown/MCA Records.
... It is best known to modern audiences by its singles featuring Palmer Brown on vocals, the oft-remixed "My Beat," and the tribute anthem "I Remember House." Blaze's most recent album, released in 2005, is a mix compilation title called Found Love.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Blaze - My Beat (1998)
DaGhostChild Published on Jun 7, 2012
http://www.discogs.com/Blaze-Feat-Pal...
As we dance to beat that seems out of time...
...To the one you feel in the metronome of your mind
Does it offend you that our rhythm looks strange
Or causes your thinking to be re-arranged
Could it be that you would understand those beat to which we dance
More clearly had you been given the chance
So as you struggle to find the feel with your feet
Ask yourself... can you dance to my beat
Watch us get down to this groove with a afro-funk feel
While we get hiiiiigh to a rhythm with spiritual appeal
Expressions of freedom from the descendants of slaves
God gives us the strength for new horizons we must breathe
First bondage than mental now financially oppressed
With this beat we dance we know we've passed the test
So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet
Ask yourself... can you dance to my beat
(to my beat)
The rhythm... rhythm... rhythm... is our power section.
The freedom we feel in our soul
We dance to learn those lessons,
As our story continues to unfold
Our beats, our words our melodies, our gifts
From the givers of those gifts,
We're merely the terminals through which they have passed
So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet,
Ask yourself, can you really dance to my beat
(to my beat)
(the rhythm)
(to my beat, the rhythm, to my beat)
(to my beat)
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The video shows people doing breakdancing (b-boying).
Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-boying for information about breakdancing.
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