{"id":2738,"date":"2013-07-21T18:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2013-08-11T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T20:57:13","slug":"quentin-harris-20-07-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/quentin-harris-20-07-13\/","title":{"rendered":"QUENTIN HARRIS 20.07.13"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quentin Harris<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

00:00<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe party is in the main room!!!\u201d\u00a0 A Tambor<\/a> guest observes.\u00a0 Her hazel eyes scope the vast lounge and concert hall. The event space dazzles underneath its natural lighting.\u00a0 In case this much is forgotten, Tambor is an event, an experience in and of itself. Haters are silenced.\u00a0 And bloggers be hushed.\u00a0 A surprise looms in the air.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Close to four years ago, a DJ led Atlanta\u2019s House Music Movement to church.\u00a0 Where would this same DJ drive the movement, if he were to play tonight? Church?\u00a0 The Promise Land? Or NYC\u2019s Funkbox?\u00a0 All guesses were subject to personal interpretation. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Right off the bat, the music flies from the speakers with a clean and clear appeal.\u00a0 The music swings not too bass heavy.\u00a0 But has the right amount of kick for the space.\u00a0\u00a0 Rumour has it Quentin Harris returns to Tambor.\u00a0 That rumor turns true.\u00a0 The DJ\/remixer\/producer\/songwriter appears onstage ready to score.\u00a0 First up, Adele\u2019s \u201cRumour Has It\u201d hits a homerun!\u00a0 The Quentin Harris Fuck What You Hear Re-Production clocks a safe 4 minutes and 45 seconds, however, Quentin plays the song double time.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Guitar chords break the surge through the sound sphere.\u00a0 Disco house enters the playing field.\u00a0 A familiar pitch delivers the drive to Chaka Kahn\u2019s\u201d Live In Me.\u201d\u00a0 Quentin takes the DJ Spen Edit to another level.\u00a0 He loops, \u201cGroove with the Motion, Let\u2019s Take It To The Top\u201d for what seems like minutes.\u00a0 \u201cTambor let\u2019s take it to the top.\u201d\u00a0 DJ Stanzeff cheers.\u00a0 And so the party continues its ascent into the outer field.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Subtle bongos play.\u00a0 Cautious ears must take note.\u00a0 In the background \u201cAhamdulillahi\u201d plays.\u00a0 Who?\u00a0\u00a0 Not who, but more like what?\u00a0 This is the sampled intro to JT\u2019s \u201cLet the Groove Get In\u201d off The 20\/20 Experience Part 1.\u00a0 If you blinked, you missed it.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quentin Harris travels to his Midwest roots to bestow the dancers with some good lovin\u2019.\u00a0 Chicago house legend, Cajmere along with Chicago vocalist legend, Dajae represent on \u201cSatisfy<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 As people sing the hook and their feet shuffle over baby powder the song plays entirely too long.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Onstage, Quentin\u2019s tattooed sleeves that weave between a laptop, a mixer and a sequencer look nice.\u00a0 However, some hard bodies paid to see the Sacrifice<\/a><\/em>\u00a0tat. \u00a0Quentin pays no mind.\u00a0 Although hard at work, he appears all too relaxed dressed in an \u201cOpen the Games\u201d black tee that stays on his back all night.\u00a0 His body language eludes pose and refinement while the music screams, “sex.”\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIs this Prince?\u201d\u00a0 A voice yells.\u00a0 The eruption of horns blaring over a guitar sounds so.\u00a0 Actually, the Purple One takes a back seat on this track to let his former girl group, Apollonia 6 sing, \u201cSex Shooter.\u201d\u00a0 People scream amazed at the execution of rocking the old school.\u00a0 \u201cSatisfy.\u201d\u00a0 Again, the Cajmere song reappears?\u00a0 \u201cAre You Satisfied?\u201d\u00a0 Dajae sings.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYes and enough.\u201d\u00a0 The crowd answers. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving on.\u00a0 A gospel house track plays; sadly, the vocals are mixed too low to make out the lyrics and that\u2019s said by the people dancing in front of the speakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quentin digs deep into his back catalog.\u00a0 He pulls song number eleven from his debut opus, No Politics<\/a>.\u00a0 A titled aptly needed for these days.\u00a0 Time treks back to the year 2006.\u00a0 Soul songstress Tina Broussard\u2019s \u201cJoy<\/a>\u201d (Quentin Harris Mix) breaths life into these troubled times of polarized views.\u00a0 Quentin plays the song in its entirety, allowing his signature production work of electric beeps that pong over spacey beats, to shine.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What does the world need?\u00a0 More joy!\u00a0 Amid the news of a large municipal filing bankruptcy, racial tensions and protests, Quentin seems to be in a happy place.\u00a0 Or so speaks his message, he delivers through the music.\u00a0 Lord knows, the crowd could stand to hear some more positivity.\u00a0 So the in-demand music producer delivers nothing less-than-his-stellar, his mega anthem that has won over global dance floors, his interpretation of Leela Jame\u2019s \u201cMy Joy<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 The melody bouncing over soft percussions ignites ears.\u00a0 Hands fly into the air.\u00a0 Bodies jump up and down.\u00a0\u00a0 Even upstairs, the very important people sway from side to side.\u00a0 But before Margaret Grace sings one lyric the music vanishes into thin air.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve Got A Deeper Love.\u201d\u00a0 A smokey alto wails over no music.\u00a0\u00a0 Quentin pays homage to his Detroit\u2019s Mrs. Aretha Franklin with her early nineties Pride anthem, \u201cA deeper Love.\u201d\u00a0 All of a sudden, the boys appear dressed in ribbed shirts and tanks that reveal toned biceps and protruding pecs.\u00a0 The grown and sexy rush front and center stage.\u00a0 They all sing \u201cWelfare Don\u2019t Need.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Queen ReRe\u2019s a cappella flutters on.\u00a0 The beat to \u201cMy Joy\u201d drops with a bang into the mix.\u00a0 The vocals and music play together in perfect harmony and peace.\u00a0 People of the world, please take note.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quentin Harris is no stranger to the world of house music.\u00a0 He\u2019s heralded to command both American soulful house dance floors and European music festivals alike.\u00a0 So when he drops a dirty beat of pure tech house, heads pay attention.\u00a0 Bells ring as the four on the floor dissipates.\u00a0 The music stutters on reverb.\u00a0 His two hands take the helm of the Bozak and lifts the sounds to a climatic build and then drops hardcore thumps onto the screaming house heads.\u00a0\u00a0 Quentin shows-off, playing big room beats that builds and drops into frantic states.\u00a0 The musical styling puts the T into Tambor.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A male\u2019s voice sings the blues that only pain produces.\u00a0 The voice complains about a woman who deceives him and cheats on him.\u00a0 He calls her out.\u00a0 She\u2019s a \u201cMillie Vanillie<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Cajmere\u2019s green haired alter-ego, Green Velvet featuring Russoul shows face on the whimsical track.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A house music party without playing a Peven Everett song is like a house music party with no subwoofers, the two go hand-in-hands.\u00a0 The famous Timmy Regisford and Adam Rios concoction falls from the sound ware.\u00a0 \u201cBurning Hot<\/a>\u201d rejuvenates.\u00a0 The former Timmy Regisford study lavishes by extending Peven\u2019s vocal hold for more seconds than needed to make the crowd shrill with ecstasy.\u00a0 The room\u2019s temperature flies off the meter.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTambor let\u2019s give it up for the infamous<\/em> Quentin Harris.\u201d\u00a0 DJ Stanzeff announces with a proud smile.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>02:07<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tambor Party founder works his own surprise.\u00a0 Daddy Tambor starts his music hour off \u201cPerfectly<\/a>\u201d with Shea Soul\u2019s raspy vocals singing over the Layabouts\u2019 signature beats.\u00a0 DJ Stanzeff rocks the crowd with a mixture of deep, spatial, and stretched out themes that unite the elements of the night.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

03:00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What a surprise!\u00a0 Quentin drove the party to the edge of amazement.\u00a0 For the ears wanting to experience a different sound, Quentin delivered.\u00a0 For two straight hours, the Funkbox NYC resident banged the beats.\u00a0 He never drifted to one subgenre or slowed the beat down.\u00a0 The music played at the right tempo, the drums kicked a harder four on the floor all to construct a heavier sensation.\u00a0 Some songs played too long and certain segments looped too often but that is Quentin\u2019s choice style of play.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be real, \u201cLet\u2019s Be Young<\/a>\u201d plays for an Olympic ten minutes.\u00a0 Sadly, the track was not included in the party’s playlist. If people complained after this Tambor installment, perhaps their pulses and heartbeats need to be checked, because this experience could not be dismissed with a callous nod.\u00a0 Better yet, Quentin would say, \u201cKiss My Black Ass.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Visuals & Words: AJ Dance<\/p>\n

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