Ben Annand Brings The Vocal Funk (Live in Eureka 11-22-19) by Ben Annand

If you ever wondered what a vocal house set from me would sound like... here ya go! It's a bit fast, due to where I was left off and how well that was working I did not change ;)

This set is from the genre, "FUN" - was played live at the FUNderware party at the historic Eagle House in Eureka days ago :)

Playing a closing set after Jphlip starting in the wee hours of the morning seemed one of the larger challenges I could take on.

Why do I say that? Well we know that Dirtybird is such a popular brand that in smaller towns it's some people's whole concept of house music. It's funky, it's dirty, it's easy to dance to.

But not so easy to follow with another style. Thinking of what from my arsenal would work I decided to explore my more vocal, funky side of house and see what happened. I got really into this, pulling tracks from the past decade or so that fit the mood I wanted to create.

Spent a lot of time on the playlist and I'm glad I did. Cause here's what happened... I even went on a half-hour late, at 4am, which really worried me. But the dancers did not look tired :) So I danced a bit more to Jhlip and Marjo on the 2 x 4, promised that we did not have to end on time at 5.

I got into my set rt away and people were vibing. About 5:15 someone showed me their watch, said it was getting late or something (I can't understand much behind the booth). I thought maybe it was someone from the venue, but then the dude walked onto the floor and started dancing which was confusing.

But it was getting a bit thin so I decided to wind up my set at it's original 1.5 hour length and stop at 5:30

Either the dancers smelled this, or they just really liked where the flow was going, but they just kept coming back to the dance floor

I got to my final track and the floor was full. Nobody was telling me to stop. I got to about 1.5 minutes left in the track and decided to mix out. You can here this in the mix at 1 hour 34 minutes in.

You will notice I made the executive decision to play another hour :) . I was really having fun with the music and happy to continue. Eventually I did outlast the dance floor, and wrapped it up.

Oh, also towards the end there was some dude who either was trying to get on the decks , or else to get me to play a track from his usb. Let it be known the answer is always no. If you are not on the lineup you don't play. Period. And I have plenty of my own music, I don't need random extras. Thanks.

So I guess another part of going til the dance floor couldn't handle it anymore was actually protecting the dance floor against some rando trying to get on the decks at the end. Happy to defend dance floor integrity anytime :)