I’ve always been quite disappointed that music publications, especially electronic ones, don’t dedicate their June issue to the global contributions the gay club scenes have had on music. I’m thinking about places like the Warehouse, the Harlem and Manhattan vogue scene from the 1890’s to the 1990’s, clubs in London, Detroit, Paradise Garage etc. We owe so much to gay culture in forming our mainstream taste, I feel like we should acknowledge it every June in remembrance and honor to all GLBT people around the world. I feel proud to think that black and hispanic people in the United States are tastemakers and thanks to them we are able to have electro-pop dominating mainstream radio. Just last week I was driving and I saw a dad blasting “OMG” by Usher on the crossroads by Walmart and I giggled and thought about the journey of the music. I remembered Paris Is Burning and all the scenes with voguers vogueing to House and you see the crowd and it’s all gay black men and women, before that straight people went slumming into Harlem in the 1890’s to the 1920’s to gawk at the fairies and just have a great old time. I feel kind of sad we’re in the days where people who may or not support any GLBT initiatives enjoy a music that started out being blasted through the speakers of gay underground clubs. A music that was spat on, a music of the people, a music that was created out of extreme sorrow and became the soundtrack of fantasy and escape.

As DADT fails to be repealed and still all around the world we fail to protect gay rights, I think this podcast is a nice way of celebrating the spectrum of joy and happiness that second class citizens such as myself have supported, fostered and created.

I asked Logo (ironically also the name of a gay television channel) one of Kitsuné’s latest signings to make a vogue-ing inspired podcast. Whether you’re ‘old way’, ‘new way’, ‘Vogue Femme’ or a lover of House, Logo made a piano cliche mixture jammed packed with sass, House divas and all. Find out more about Logo in an interview on the next page. You can download the podcast here.

GO VOGUE (PODCAST) by monamiejorgedotcom

TRACKLIST

1/ Intro Paris is Burning

2/ Murk – Bugged Out V2.0 (Deep Double Acid) (Instrumental)

3 /Arnaud Rebotini – 777 (revised by Discodeine) / Sweet Mercy Featuring Rowetta – Reach out (Acapella)

4/ Voltage – All night ( Azari & III Remix)

5/ Inner City – Big Fun ( Simian Mobile Disco Remix)

6/ Danton Eeprom – Thanks for Nothing ( Logo Remix)

7/ Sue Wilkinson – ???

8/ Shit Robot – I Found Love

9/ Diskokaine – Hall of Shame ( King of Kong Remix)

10/ Logo – La Vie Moderne ( DyE Remix ) ( “Strike A pause” Treatment )

11/ Noell Abedul – This Beat is Technotronic (Instrumental)

12/ Rocha – Feel The Love ( Joakim “It’s So Real” Remix)

13/ T Coy – Carino ( Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)

14/ Jee Day – Like A Child ( Run Rock Dub)

15/  Blaze – My Beat ( Derrick Carter Remix ) ( “L.V.M” Treatment )

16/ Long Fellow – This Is Penis

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