Tonight at Nerve Ryan Kennedy talks about Baltimore Club a type of song that mixes 2 Live Crew type lyrics with house music percussion and pace.
I remember the first time I encountered house music within the pages of a Chicago newspaper. The year was 1991. Considering that I'd been a house music acolyte for six years already, and the scene had been hot (in Chicago, mind) for at least another four before that, you figure that being ten years late was better than being 11 years late.
Here? I thought Nerve was supposed to be hot. Supposed to be on it.
Baltimore Club? This is nothing but Detroit bass music...which had replaced house and Detroit techno on the airwaves and most club playlists by 1992. Strippers used to shake to it, young undergrads and high schoolers used to move to it, and a white Michigan undergrad by the name of DJ Assault made himself quite a name on it. Think of house music on a combination of speed and Viagara and you get the picture.
I just don't know why the hell it took so long for Nerve to get the picture. I hope Kennedy didn't pitch the story to someone else too. No need for two news magazines to get took.
For me Baltimore and Detroit have a great deal in common. I don't think it's a coincidence that the music grabs a hold of Baltimore the same it did Detroit.