Throwback Thursday: Barclay Dance Blend with ROOG, MC Rose & Susanne Alt
An old but great one: Barclay Dance Blend featuring ROOG, MC Rose and Susanne Alt in approximately 1999/2000. More than 20 years ago! When it was normal to promote cigarette smoking and they even sent us on a nation wide tour through the Netherlands. This was recorded by TMF, the 'MTV" of the Netherlands and broadcasted several times. It was a series of dj live acts and manifested what was going on in the underground house scene for a while already: live musicians and mc's/singers jamming together along with house dj's.
I remember that this concept worked really well in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague but it was kind of scary to play outside of these cities, the "randstad", which is the urban agglomeration in the (west of the) Netherlands: Sometimes our gigs would be super short because the crowd was not familiar with our kind of music and the club owner advised us and the Barclay promotion team to stop, for our own security... a local dj would then take over and play the usually more trance or hardstyle kind of music people were used... I remember sometimes we were a little bit depressed because they were not ready for it and we had traveled all the way there to make them dance!
Later, Ibiza would become one of the fancy places to go to on holiday. Since then, house music became much more normal, even for people from non-urban regions because they discovered house music on holiday on Ibiza and from then on only got positive thoughts about it. Nightlife, getting lost in the sounds and sound effects of this music and of course dancing. These days, except for big festivals with house music, wealthy people on the countyside love to have their Ibiza-style garden party... funny and nice how things can change!
My latest mix is now online. Venus Tunes Sessions is a monthly mix by Susanne Alt on Freak31, aired every first Sunday of the month at 19:00h. In addition, earlier Venus Tunes Sessions shows are repeated every Friday between 20:00-21:00 and Tuesday 21:00-22:00.Freak 31 has around 250 daily listeners (less during the week, more in the weekend) and a total of +10.000 listeners every month. In addition to Mixcloud and Hearthis, all mixes are also available as podcasts on Deezer and iTunes.It was in 2015 when I had my first official dj gig and since 2016 I started to perform regularly. This took place in Amsterdam's Skyybar, Floor17 and The Harbourclub Zuid... bit by bit, other places like Momo and W Amsterdam followed, leading to club bookings as a dj and festival bookings with Venus Tunes Live in the Netherlands and abroad. All of this in addition to my normal life as a musician. I love dj'ing as it adds another facet to my musicianship.Listen to all editions of the Venus Tunes Sessions where you like; choose your platform: Venus Tunes Sessions is a monthly guest mix by Susanne Alt on Freak31, aired every first Sunday of the month at 1900h. Streaming Dance, straight from Amsterdam. - An old but great one:Barclay Dance Blend featuring ROOG, MC Rose and Susanne Alt in approximately 1999/2000.More than 20 years ago! When it was normal to promote cigarette smoking and they even sent us on a nation wide tour through the Netherlands. This was recorded by TMF, the 'MTV of the Netherlands and broadcasted several times. It was a series of dj live acts and manifested what was going on in the underground house scene for a while already: live musicians and mc's/singers jamming together along with house dj's.I remember that this concept worked really well in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague but it was kind of scary to play outside of these cities, the randstad, which is the urban agglomeration in the (west of the) Netherlands: Sometimes our gigs would be super short because the crowd was not familiar with our kind of music and the club owner advised us and the Barclay promotion team to stop, for our own security... a local dj would then take over and play the usually more trance or hardstyle kind of music people were used... I remember sometimes we were a little bit depressed because they were not ready for it and we had traveled all the way there to make them dance!Later, Ibiza would become one of the fancy places to go to on holiday. Since then, house music became much more normal, even for people from non-urban regions because they discovered house music on holiday on Ibiza and from then on only got positive thoughts about it. Nightlife, getting lost in the sounds and sound effects of this music and of course dancing. These days, except for big festivals with house music, wealthy people on the countyside love to have their Ibiza-style garden party... funny and nice how things can change!
