My New York: Beautiful People

So this blog has some benefits: I recently blogged about how much I like the new Blaze single, "Most Precious Love," featuring Barbara Tucker. Well, my friend Noel alerted me to one of the things I love this city for so much: A free summer concert at Brooklyn's Prospect Park featuring - who else - Miss Barbara Tucker (as well as the great DJ Spinna). Aparently this was the 12th so-called Clubhouse Jamboree (where was I the last 11 years?) and summer blessed us with a beautiful day. The setting was sublime, a great crowd dancing under the shade of some trees. Miss Tucker, who had just flown in from Ibiza, didn't dissapoint and introduced a couple of songs from her upcoming album as well as the classics: "Beautiful People," "I Get Lifted," and "Most Precious Love."

DJ Spinna's set also lifted up to some euphoric heights. At one point I was sitting on the bass while I took some pictures and, damn, you could really feel that pulse surge through you! Unfortunately his set got cut short when the system went down.

Amazing day. More photos here.

[...and if you are in New York tomorrow Tuesday, have ten bucks to spare, and want a chance to see and hear Barbara Tucker, just head to Discotheque at 17 W 19th Street around 10PM. She'll be joined by chanteuse Joi Cardwell, Danny Krivits and members of Blaze and the Basement Boys]

The Music

1. “Lust 4 U” – Jose Nuñez feat. Bruce Baps (from the 8th “Subliminal Sessions” mix series) Oh. My. God. The pulsing dirty drive, the reverb, the assured vocal and that breakdown! Pure nirvana! This needs to be a single somewhere, somehow!

2. “4 Ur Ears” – Timo Maas feat. Kelis (from the new Timo Maas CD “Pictures”) A follow up of sorts to their collaboration on “Help Me” on Timo’s last CD, this one continues Kelis’ (“Milkshake”) stratospheric rise to goddess.

3. “U Don’t Know Me (JaxxHouz KlubMix)” – Basement Jaxx (original is from their ‘best of’ CD but this is from the CD maxi single) Rowdy banger with Lisa Kekaula and Sean Escofery on vocals and old-skool Art of Noise samples.

4. “Most Precious Love (Copyright Spiritual Club Mix)” – Blaze presents Uda feat. Barbara Tucker House legend Barbara Tucker (“Beautiful People”) teams up with house legend Blaze (“How Deep is Your Love”) and Uda (?). Good thing for Blaze to give props to those who actually do the work but what does “presents” mean? (ah, yes, and it’s a good ol’ church-pew house stormer).

5. “Not Too Shabby (Jamie Lewis Goes Disco Mix)" – Cerrone (from the latest Defected mix “Bob Sinclair in the House”) “Looking good? Not too shabby, a-ha, a-ha” – Underappreciated Cerrone does the body good!