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Gotta Hear This, #5

• Stuart Bailie
• 21 Nov 07, 09:53 AM

New York in the Spring of 2001 is pure energy. The city is making remarkable music again, with The Strokes at their best, and a series of other acts such as The Moldy Peaches and We Are Weapons also bringing style and sass to Manhatttan. The rising heat is bringing people out to celebrate on pier parties while the Lower East Side is full of freshly liberated bohemians.

The best club in town is Body & Soul, a Sunday afternoon session in a dry venue, where people relate passionately to their music. It’s not a fancy place, but it’s full of smiles and euphoria. And one of the big club anthems is ‘Let's Start The Dance’ by a celebrated drummer from the deep south, Hamilton Bohannon.

The record has been around for years, an original disco tune, and Belfast venues such as The Delta, The Plaza and The Cresent had been rocking it plenty. But this is Hamilton’s third version of the track, a personal journey into one groove that has changed to meet each decade. This in turn has been remixed by DJ Francois Kervorkian, a B&S legend. He’s taken out the vocals, made the track more supple and moderne, and so it fits perfectly with the age.

The FK mix of ‘Let's Start The Dance III’ is all over New York that spring – tumbling out of car systems, in clubs, shops and late night bars. The entire city seems to plug into that new optimism as we make plans for a media event later in the year, starting on September 13. Which never happens, of course.

Stu Bailie presents The Late show on Radio Ulster, every Friday from 10pm until midnight. See his playlist here.

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