Well done. Love it! just voted. Good luck!

I was going to vote just now, turns out you won

Oof I’m late as hell lmao

@@noahalcoser1977 hahaha that means just as much to us. But hell yeah this documentary won :)

Yassss Edward Chong

Any chance you know the song they were freaking out to backstage about the sample? I need to hear the full track!

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I adore the old way!

Klopfenpop music I think it’s some remix of the next episode by dr Dre and snoop. I’d start there and look for jersey club versions of that.

Help us get the word out! We need it toooo

So respectful and really focused on introducing and making connections! I hope you strengthen and create bonds that we get to see fostered further thru your channel! I love you this shifted from hard music theory to an exploration of the people's varied experiences into this culture. I wish you could go back in time and explore House music development too 😍

Thanks Kingsley. We're working HARD

Great segment!!

Easily....

I was wondering if anyone else remembered them saying that in Trading Places!! I remember specifically them on the train in disguise as African students

I never saw the movie but I’m fascinated

We need this weekly!!

When are you going to start up again!? 🥺

Amazing Hector thank you for sharing your story

@@SoundFieldPBS Yes Sound Field. Also forgot to mention Studio 54 Funhouse Better Days and more. My Final years were at Webster Hall and Sound FACTORY. My Best day were at the Legendary Infamous Paradise GARAGE with LARRY LEVAN. Thanks for REMINISCING. I appreciate it. On Sound Cloud I have a demo called Believe Check it out Under Santo Sud......titled Believe

WE LOVE YOU BACK SIS!

Agreed...our people has been able to make lemonade out of 'dirt' since slavery...you give us sweet potatoes...we make sweet potato pie.

He’s looking good

He's beautiful. So glad to see he's still around

Late as all hell, but for the future it's The Next Episode (Jersey Club Remix) by PrepTheProducer kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fqd6apWbnqm8g4E.html

Came across this randomly and I couldn't be more excited to share it! Humblest of thank yous. MikeQ is an absolute gem (in my best Auntie voice) I've been playing his music as long as he's been sharing it with us....There's a generation out there hungry for this doc.

amazing video! also so cool you added this link to the artists and really gave them a spotlight

We've been going around filming these "On Tour" episodes as part of a series, and we are meeting people in person and learning about their style of music. Hopefully these episodes can stand on their own without us making our own songs, because for a lot of them it just wouldn't feel right to do so.

@@SoundFieldPBS [nods!] This felt super informative and super respectful. It's making me think about the act of making art for purpose for a community, because this music is made *for* ballroom in detail down to when they hit the crash cymbal - and it'd be appropriation to try to mimic it for mass audiences, but the tools they use, the effects they pursue, and the questions they ask and answer in the formation of their works are still ... things, that can help us understand what music is and can be. And help us think about the impact we could have had by _not_ being respectful.

You’re right there’s so many great moments we left on the cutting room floor! We had a blast in Nyc and almost every moment was like stepping into a world where magic is real.

@@SoundFieldPBS Just returned for my third viewing. HOW CAN THIS HAVE ONLY 14K VIEWS! I personally suck at social media, but this absolutely deserves more exposure, and maybe even a small ad buy. Then again, maybe I'm just more thrilled by this than most. I worked my way through college in the early 1980's, immediately got a good job, and for the first time in my life I had money to spend and time to spend as well. But I soon found I had zero social skills. I never previously had time or funds for much of a social life, and I was so busy I didn't feel much of a need. I loved to dance, but in the clubs I had trouble asking for dances. Worse yet, the clubs then were fairly predatory, and women would get defensive very easily, and for good reason. I really envied that women could go out onto the dance floor alone, or with other women, when the social norms of the day made that impossible for men. I once voiced this while getting a drink at the bar, and a guy I didn't know said: "There are clubs where you can do just that. But they're gay clubs. And they do welcome straight people, if you're cool about it." He mentioned one club that had Thursday "Bring Your Straight Friends" night. My desire to dance crushed my small fear of the unknown. And though I'm as straight as the day is long, I had no concerns at all. I simply viewed it as visiting another culture, something I had done many times while in the US Navy between high school and college. That first experience was everything I had hoped for, and more. Not only did I get to dance, but I also found I was accepted. I felt comfortable. Well, not all the time. I had to learn how to deal with men who found me attractive. I learned how to gracefully accept a drink from a man, yet do so with no hint of anything happening beyond friendship. I learned how to react to getting my butt pinched. And I learned how **not** to react to erect men rubbing up against me on the dance floor. Just turn away, turn away. Basically, I learned what women put up with all the time. And, frankly, those gay men knew how to hit on someone far better than any straight man I had ever met. Fortunately, that was just the novelty. The real core was the one simple social rule: "You accept and love me, as I am, and I accept and love you, as you are." Before long, I was being introduced as: "This is my friend Bob. He's not gay. Yet." I also met many self-described "fag hags", straight women who liked being around gay men. I met lesbians who took female lust to a level I had hardly contemplated: Testosterone ain't "all that". And all the pretty, pretty boys. And drag queens. In a place where race and age didn't matter at all. This new circle of friends was far wilder and more wonderful than I could ever have imagined for myself. And another thing: These folks hugged. They hugged for real, for at least a full breath. At every opportunity. I didn't realize I was suffering from an extreme case of "hug deprivation". I'm still taking treatments for it every chance I get! Eventually I started venturing back to what I was now calling the "straight clubs". Having an open heart changed everything. I stopped asking for dances from women who were being deluged with requests from horny men. I focused on those not dancing, yet looking longingly at the dance floor, much as I had spent so much time doing. Before I knew it, I was never off the dance floor! I made so many friends. Then women started asking me for a dance! I made a rule to always say "yes": No rejection ever, only acceptance. And I made more friends. I met and danced with their friends. Including their "pretty" friends. I was THAT guy: On the dance floor surrounded by women. Men started asking me how I did it. Rather than explain things, I told them to go to the gay clubs! Some asked me if I was gay. My answer? "Not yet!" None of these new friends became girlfriends. I simply was afraid of killing the magic. The best part was I didn't need or want them to be my girlfriends! I wanted them as good friends, as my "dance family". Much like how I had been accepted by the gay community. Not just accepted, but also shown how to be a better man. A much better man. Then AIDS hit. The gay community shattered, everyone afraid of this devastating epidemic. Being an engineer, I learned the facts, and wasn't scared away. Soon my friends in that community started getting sick and dying. People who had worked so hard to craft their own society within a larger culture that rejected them. I wound up being the friend who would run errands, would visit, would be there every minute I could. My new "dance family" supported me, always reminding me to keep the music on and my legs moving. I vividly remember the first time I was the only one there when a friend took his last breath. The grief and sadness gutted me, but was soon replaced by raging anger, that so many others were dying alone. So I went to my dance family and made the Big Ask: Join me. I then learned of PFLAG, and together we supported their efforts, especially their network that ensured nobody suffered or died hungry or alone. Eventually that black tide passed and the healing began. The gay community, and culture, reasserted itself. But many of the gay clubs had gone broke, and the social scene was greatly reduced. For a while. Seeing this ballroom video snapped me back to the exuberance I felt when I first danced in and with the gay community. That first viewing literally had me sitting on the edge of my seat, talking back to the video, shouting to the dancers: "You GO Girl!" It also had me simultaneously laughing and crying. Today's beauty mixing with memories from nearly 40 years ago in ways I hadn't expected. Maybe few can feel what I felt, which may explain the low view count. Nah. I still think it's a lack of exposure for this awesome video.

Xonethsoul 1 i wish they would post the link to it I’ve been trying to find it forever

Um yeah. I’m looking now. I need that ASAP. I’ll post a link if successful.

amari binion soundcloud.com/djmikeq/the-moment

William Killington soundcloud.com/djmikeq/the-moment

Xonethsoul 1 THANK YOUUUUUU

I think it's equally ironic that Dan Aykroyd in blackface is connected in any possible way to an actual black underground scene. What the hell is going on in Trading Places?

@Othniel McClinic yes it is a good movie I agree with you on that

We had so much fun! thanks for watching Gladys

Such a cute pup

ThatLadyDray Im trying to figure out where to find it

@@amaribalenciaga if you find out, please share the information bcuz I'd like to have it too

@@ThatLadyDray I found it for you soundcloud.com/djmikeq/the-moment

@@SoundFieldPBS Thank you! This is fire 🔥

These are exactly the things we spoke about when we started this series. When we first got together we just wrote on the board: FUN. But then we went further and decided we wanted to focus on history and the importance of culture in the music we listen to.

Yes Sonja that's so great!

Ball culture is a place for black and Latino LGBTQI to come together in New York, they have their own space, where there is no prejudice or judgement, which they may encounter in other spaces like racism.

You should watch POSE on Netflix it’s sooooo good it’s nominated for multiple EMMYS!

NYCITY3 wasn’t that the Paradise Garage & The Loft???

Thanks so much for watching!

Thanks for watching ! We appreciate all the love

We appreciate it Joe! It’s a lot of fun for us too

Wow this is so nice thanks for watching!

Absolutely!

It's slept on

Because they don't want straight people to steal or ruin it as their own

We appreciate you Dave

That's amazing thanks for watching Filip

Thanks Aman!

Thank you Jaizen!!!!!!

You are the best!

Really glad you are enjoying it. You’re welcome!

Thank you Shanta! We worked really hard on it

CJ you’re a real one! Thanks for watching and all your support

shout out fruity loops.. and keep in mind that isn't the only recording software out there... once you learn the theory of DAWs you will understand all DAWs, they all work to do the same thing for the mix. this topic is very important for DJs and Producers today

What’s fruityloops?

Charli XCX also sampled them in her first mixtape SUPER ULTRA MIXTAPE. soundcloud.com/charlixcx/charli-xcx-moments-in-love-art The track is called Moments In Love

So where is the beat they played in the video?

@@amaribalenciaga soundcloud.com/djmikeq

@soundfield i know it’s by mike p lol i wanted to know the specific name of the beat so i Can practice to it

@@amaribalenciaga soundcloud.com/djmikeq/the-moment Here you go!

That’s amazing ! Thanks Brenden

A mysterious world

I love u Mike Q!!!

We appreciate you Gunnar!

Glad to introduce you!