CAMILLE

I read years ago about Prince's gender-ambiguous alter-ego "Camille" who did the lead vocal for "If I Was Your Girlfriend."
You know that song. It's pretty much the best Prince song.
I know what you're saying. "Yeah, Prince is cool or whateva, but isn't he kinda... just like... PLAYED?"

No.

So it turns out Prince made an entire album under the name Camille, which came out as a promo, but was subsequently aborted. Some of the songs made it onto "Sign 'O' The Times" but possibly the best one, "Good Love," was left off for some reason. Here's a line-up of the Camille classics:






It should be obvious to anyone listening to these songs that Prince had at this point reached a peak unmatched by any other part of his career. "Sign 'O' The Times" is such a fucking great album, and Prince uses the legendary Fairlight CMI synthesizer throughout the whole thing.
Will someone PLEASE get on this level?
There would have been some amazing videos of Prince rolling around half naked on a piano, but I suspect Prince demanded that his visage be entirely erased from Youtube. He exists simply as a digital spirit. A very sexy digital spirit.

BREATHER

Finally a free moment.

Discovery:

HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT

I found this blog through DJ Rupture, as he's the reigning emperor of dance music theory. There are some interesting posts about gender and sexuality in dance music culture, focusing primarily on House.

Bookmark it.

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This is pretty much how I envision this summer unfolding:


(DIRTY SOUTH STAND UP.)


HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - "ROAR"



SNOOP ft. KELLZ - "That's That"

LIL KIM & LIL CEASE - "Crush On You"

MARTYN - "Twenty Four"

THE FORCE WILL BE WITH U. ALWAYS.

THAT'S THAT SHIT.