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Clockwise from top: Al Green, Rick Wilhite, the girls from First Choice, Ron Hardy.

When music is really hitting the spot, when it’s truly sinking through the thick callus built up from over exposure, you might agree it feels like it materializes out of thin air the first time it reaches your ears. The feeling experienced when hearing something unexpected is a rare one and although it feels like you were blind sided with originality, most all music takes a long and arduous path through the bowels of musical lineage to reach your ear.

Deeper dance music: it’s about history; it’s a vocal cut, a guitar riff, a drum track, a classic groove that moves people in its original form and is then re-envisioned to move people in an entirely different way. It may sound corny but an old saying that was never intended to describe dance music really gets the point across:

something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

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Tags: Al Green, First Choice, Love and Happiness, Rick Wilhite, Ron Hardy