Party Favorz — Dance Music Podcast
Party Favorz — Dance Music Podcast
Party Favorz
Holiday Tea Dance Edition 2020 | Get Your Disco On!
3 hour 10 minutes Posted Dec 5, 2020 at 2:33 pm.
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Between 2008 and 2009, Party Favorz created a series called the "T-Dance Edition," which in hindsight hues more towards what is known today as Disco House. You may ask yourself what the difference is between the two so I'm here to set you straight (no pun intended).



Tea Dance used to begin as a brunch party with mimosas and later evolved into a late afternoon Sunday party that went on into the early evening so gay men could get their disco on and still be in bed early enough for work the next morning. Over the years, the tradition had pretty much faded but is still in place in various metropolitan areas around the country. In fact, you'll see Barry Harris frequently playing at many of these events and Houston's Dirty Disco (who own their own club) has also maintained the tradition.



The past few years have brought out more vocal disco house tracks typically associated with these weekly events as opposed to the big room tribal house you normally expect. Because music has evolved, you can still throw in some modern future house tracks that have a younger gay appeal and still keep your audience.



A good example from this set is the AWESOME Matt Consola, Aaron Altemose and Brenda Reed collaboration on "Every Moment." Every thing about this track screams GAY. For this set I closed it out with the house-friendly remix by Larry Peace but the Russ Rich an...