What is House?

Every song you've ever screamed along to, dragged into the club and given a second life.

This hour of Velvet Nation is Boy Joey doing what he does best: taking the records already living rent-free in your head and rebuilding them for the floor. It opens with his own remix of "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" — because of course it does — then drops straight into the deep end with Rihanna, Kim English by way of John Summit, and Celeda asking the only question that's ever mattered on a dancefloor: what is house?

From there it gets darker. Depeche Mode, Blue Monday, Gypsy Woman, Ronnie Spiteri's "Papi," Eli Brown — the stretch where the lights go low and nobody's checking their phone. Then Danny Tenaglia's Planet Tweak Mix of Circuit Boy's "The Door" cracks the whole thing wide open, Ultra Naté reminds you you're free to do what you want to do, and Queen, Faith Hill's Hex Hector club mix, and Michael Jackson take it home.

And then, right when you're gassed, "The Boys of Summer." The lights come up. You feel something. That's the point.

Sixteen tracks. Sixty minutes. Zero filler.

Transcript

SPEAKER_11 7:46

Come there, Ruby boy, you should be now Take it, take it, baby, baby, take it, take it the belly.

unknown 7:51

Come on, boy, can you get it up? Come on, who boy boy, you should be out.

SPEAKER_11 7:55

Take it, take it, baby, baby, take it, take it the belly.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

When I woke up this morning, feeling came over me. Last time we met the first time. Hope it's not the last time you got me crazy on you. And there's no one like you, no one like you, no one like you, no one like you.

unknown 15:46

It's like crazy. All I don't know, all ever wanted, all I ever needed is very scary. So does that make some remote and walk? All it wants, all the need is here. What's up, everyone? They can only do the mass.

SPEAKER_12 19:38

I thought I heard your words. Tell me how do I feel.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

Tell me now how do I feel me like you do?

SPEAKER_12 20:51

How doesn't you know? You treat me like you do when you played your hands on me and told me who you are.

unknown 21:09

I thought I had you worse.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

She was just like she can be right with all the fate. She's that she's just like you and me, but she's homest. She's homeless. And she's that come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

unknown 24:46

I could come on. I could be commanded after the back of the back of the day, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

In Colombia we say, algo importante, algo importante, algo importante, algo importante, algo importante, algo importante, algo importante we don't say that.

unknown 30:09

Ate it up and gave it back.

SPEAKER_13 30:10

Get you good, good for text to wanna know we're making it. Softy like a war with you, but you won't put your baby back. See me in that dress, but he feels like he almost tasted that. Number one, I'm eating up. Hopefully, okay, three to one.

unknown 30:25

You know I'm the hottest, you ain't never got it. Eat me up. I'm hurting when I'm absent, speaking when I'm not there. Call him Eric, I call him hero fast.

SPEAKER_13 31:28

If it's me, they gon' click it, if it's me. All my fen getting these through the quarantine, down everywhere.

unknown 31:36

Home my s as you can tell. Any bit I be for years ago, is beeping by herself. If we took the truth on the real creep, still Rule number one is don't repeat that the five.

SPEAKER_13 31:49

Rule number two, if they all came with you, they better know exactly what the f they came and do Body I'll be able to do.

unknown 37:31

Can you move on? Okay, we're gonna start your engine. This side, your side, and I'm the right side. You to the right, you to the left. Can you move? My cattle. Please assist me in rounding up the cattle. Not you. Perhaps you. And never you. Yes, over there with the large heads. Yes, yes, yes. Always our robot. You're the right. You're right. You might have my friend. Make way. You know what I'm talking about. Please. Don't bother us right now. Next. Okay, we want all these people to the left of the free elevator. No, must stop. You're not giving us a quarter flash. I think you're gonna get like that.

SPEAKER_07 39:27

Next, yes, step to your right. We want you, darling. Forefront and outright, darling. You've got the judge and you got the tits. Darling, it's all fake. You're giving us the spring of raft. You're in the go.

SPEAKER_03 39:49

You're in the go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, let's go, but you're not gonna put it on the bottom. Wait, it's lose our day. My brother is in me, but can't you depend on me? Do you think it's worth a five? Maybe you could find a better friend than any other. Able than you took. Life would be so good. Come on and try. Now the time for your free To do what you want to do. You got to live with your life. We have to live in this world together. Love your finally done. Come on and try. Now's the time, cause you're free.

unknown 45:12

To do what you want to do. Do what you want to do. You got to live in your life. Do what you want to do. Do what you want to do. Cause you're free. You got to live in your life. Do what you want to do.

SPEAKER_09 47:08

I feel like my self-line.

unknown 49:05

Stop the beauty. Stop. Stop. Stop.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

Is the beating of your heart? I can feel you flee. Washing over me. Suddenly I'm now in you. Nothing left to do. Maybe all we need is just to be right. That is a bad way. Wash it over me. Suddenly I'm now in the rest of the food. Baby all of me is just me. Slowest getting right.

unknown 54:07

That's the thing. That's the thing.

SPEAKER_03 54:49

Washing up for me. Suddenly I'm not a flu.