Here's a pleasant surprise this morning. The New York Times has an extensive write up in their arts section on New York city DJ wunderkinds The Martinez Brothers:
The smell coming off the dance floor of Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday night, that was the baby powder.Dropped by a handful of people, who disseminated it in Lebron James-like clouds, it minimized friction on the floor, making it possible for a certain strain of dancer to spin and slide and twist with ease.
Such is the sort of fan attracted to the house-music prodigies the Martinez Brothers ‹ Stevie Jr., 20, and Christian, 17 ‹ who began a summer residency at the club with a three-hour D.J. set that treated dance music as an actual breathing, kinesthetic experience.
In recent years dance music has survived rave and electro revivals, the persistence of mash-ups and incursions into hip-hop and pop. But too often it has become merely a trigger for the collective memory of a room of hipsters. Dance music, in the classic nightclub sense, has become almost old-fashioned.
But the Martinez Brothers ‹ Puerto Ricans raised in the Bronx and now living in Monroe, N.Y. ‹ are firm traditionalists, playing what has become by and large an old-timer's game.
