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​​Session​ #42

Tribute to the legendary
Fifth Colvmn

Saturday, 27 February
3pm EST
It really was “like nothing else.” The legendary Fifth Colvmn was the home to some of the most beautiful moments in the Night Club industry everywhere. I will be celebrating it via a live stream tribute in a live mix session (#42) of In My House that will yank you back some 30 years, this Saturday at 3pm EST, 10pm Beirut, along with Fifth DJs Michael Meacham and Taha Elroubi.

Share this post, spread the word, and join the IMH Livestream group for much more here https://bit.ly/3p9oQOd, including high quality audio mix of this stream.

Add your track requests in the feed below if you've been to the Vth! I'll try to get to them!

We wanted to make this In My House fundraiser for DC’s Martha’s Table, but considering the Texas troubles and shortages, we will be donating proceedings to the Central Texas Food Bank. If you can chip in as little as $10 as you join us, it would be good giving.

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Everyone is invited to join us, but most of all, those who had a slice of it in the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, are our special guests. You will recognize the tracks, reminisce about that unparalleled vibe, and relive the verve even if for fleeting moments…..right before you ponder the cluster-f*** that club life turned into in the 2000s with kids running around focused on humping around velvet VIP ropes and champagne bottles instead of taking in the delectable music and dancing to its beat (you dance to the beat, not the melody or the lyrics!)

We will also be joined by the purveyors of this awesome scene, Rebecca and Zalman, as well as others in conversations prior to the stream. Thanks to the administrators of the Fifth Colvmn page on FB, Kip Lavinger and Brian Kane whom I hope will join the conversation.

bassam


​​IN MY HOUSE LIVE STREAM  SESSIONS /FUNDRAISERS 

SUPPORTED ORGANIZATIONS

​Martha's Table, ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid), Los Angeles Food Bank, The Red Nation, AROC (Arab Resource and Organizing Center), UNRWA USA, NAMI (National Association for Mental Illness), MBL (Movement for Black Lives), Skoun, Muntada Al-Muq`adeen, UPA (United Palestinian Appeal), The Love Land Foundation, Growing Palestine, Doctors of the World-Iraq, The Lebanese Red Cross, DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, ACLU's LGBTQ's Rights Project, PartnersLebanon, Lebanese Red Cross
All proceeds from this live and every live stream will be donated DIRECTLY (no mediator) to the designated organization.

STREAMOLOGY 
​WEEKLY LIVE SESSIONS

SESSION 1:  House (Current)
SESSION 2: Dance Party (essentially, a mix of what most people like)
SESSION 3: 80s Dance Party (Golden Age) 
SESSION 4: Techno and Hard House
SESSION 5: 90s Dance Party (The Eclectic Decade)
SESSION 6: Dance Party (an Electrifying Mix of what most people like)
SESSION 7: 70s Dance Party (The Queen of Dance Decades)
SESSION 8: HIZZ! العب يلا (Baladi and Mahraganaat) Dance at your own risk
SESSION 9: HISHIK! آه و نص (Sha`bi, Mashriqi/Maghribi) Dance at your own Wist
SESSION 10: "Get Up! Stand Up!" House+ (House, Funk, R&B+, Conversation)
SESSION 11: DABKEH! 
SESSION 12: "VAMOS A LA PLAYA" BEACH PARTY!
SESSION 13: 80s Arabic Dance Music (Hobbak Ya Wala)
SESSION 14: Revolutionary Raî
SESSION 15: Baby Shark to Baba Fein (Kid's Dance & Pajama Party) 
SESSION 16: House and Tech House (Delicious Tech House) 
SESSION 17: The Beautiful Sound of the 1980s (You're My Heart, You're My Soul etc.)
SESSION 18: Tarab & Araq (طرب و عرق) (Classic Arabic Music)
SESSION 19: International Beast (non-stop high energy global rhythms)
SESSION 20: Wataniyaat (Patriotic-ish Songs)
SESSION 21: International Beast (Non-Stop High-Energy Global Rhythms
SESSION 22: Epic Gay Club Anthems (Feisty, Fierce, Fabulous Music)
SESSION 23: Arab Dance Classics of the 60s & 70s  (يا واد يا)
SESSION 24: Techno 2 (Enough Said)
SESSION 25: Tarab 2 
SESSION 26: ​Progressive House


​The Thump . . . A Retrospective Account of DC Club Scene

Back from the Basics
It’s never going to stop. That feeling when you hear the pulsating thump, accompanied by a fierce rhythm.

For the past 35 years, I’ve been glued to Dance Music, or Club Dance Music, as it is classically called, both as an enthusiast and a DJ. This is not the radio stuff. But the kind that moves you viscerally. That sound. The melody. The memories of a time when Night Clubs were (mostly) about the music and dancing, not voyeurism, grinding, and champagne in the VIP.

Dj’s used to spend months and years learning how to perfect beat-mixing records that drew from the crowd’s energy while also educating their ears; Promoters had a commitment to the music back then, even if they were making money too. Some clubs had no promoters at all as other elements were the draw. Club owners owned Dance Clubs first, and a business second. And clubbers just reveled in the music—for the most part.

Even hip-hop sounded better then—I say “even” because if you started going to clubs in the 2000s, you’d think that the club world was always dominated by that genre. In reality, the notion of “club” dance music historically was more associated with Disco, Euro High Energy, House, Trance, Techno, and the like. With the various changes in the music industry (yes, neoliberalism hit that too), mass tastes, and technological advancements, that world lives through a smaller number of venues in every city, almost world-wide.

Despite notable exceptions among DJ’s, promoters, owners, and clubbers, things are different, to say the least.

Yet, it is sill often exhilarating. We can’t bring all the magic back, but we can relive it virtually as we celebrate the current moment in club life. This is what I wish to do with many among this community, new and old, by launching a steaming podcast of music sets, writing, interviewing, and hosting testimonies from that magic era, from the mid-1980s to the early 2000’s, right before things went to shit . . . for the most part.
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What made house explode in 1988 "Can you feel it"

DJ Residency Timeline

Desirée/ 1988
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BAJA & Anastesia / 1990
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Fifth Colvmn / 1992-1995
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Coco Loco / 1995-1996
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Zei / 1996
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Diva / 1996
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Babylon / 1997-2000
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Platinum (Fifth Colvmn Space) / 2000-2003
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Diva / 2004-2005
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1223 & Spank / 2005-2009
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I-Bar / 2005-2007
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Andalu & Aqua Ardiente / 2003-2009
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Lima & Retro / 2008-2012
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Opera / 2013-2015
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Greenhouse / 2016-2018
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especially if you experienced the golden age but still want to jump and prance. others too, who grew up to mostly recycled 2006+ dance music
Entering the Fifth Colvmn was a sublime experience.”

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