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A cena gay sempre despontou como alternativa, moderna e inovadora. Mas isso ficou lá pelos anos 70/80, quando as discotecas gays eram guetos frequentados por artistas e gente moderna sem preconceitos que queria dançar boa música. Talvez por isso seus DJs não fossem exatamente “os melhores”, mas tiveram uma grande liberdade de experimentação musical, graças a um público formado por dançarinos abertos a novidades sonoras.
A área das piscinas do clube Continental Baths, em Nova York, em 1969, onde Frankie Knuckles foi residente
A área das piscinas do clube Continental Baths, em NY, em 69: Knuckles foi residente
Com o passar dos anos, o público gay foi saindo do seu colorido armário e, consequentemente, os clubes LGBT também. A música foi se massificando e se popularizando. Assim, não era mais tão necessário lançar tendências nem causar inquietação com o último “lado-B do single-promo-private” recém-lançado. De olho na crescente liberdade sexual, na cultura das divas e no pop para as massas, DJs e produtores começaram a criar uma sonoridade direcionada especificamente para o público 100% gay: a tribal house, que mais tarde ganharia o apelidinho de bate-cabelo no Brasil.
Junior Vasquez era rei no início do bate-cabelo de NY
Junior Vasquez era rei no início do bate-cabelo de NY
Outro fator de peso no surgimento da tribal house atual foram os DJs e produtores (grande parte de origem latina) que viviam em Nova York e produziam latin house (com cerca de 124-126 bpm, geralmente tinham entre 9 e 13 minutos de duração, com muita percussão e vocais em espanhol). Para citar nomes de peso que mandavam nessa cena podemos falar de Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez e Louie Vega (os Master at Work), Toddy TerryJunior VasquezDanny Tenaglia , David MoralesRalphi Rosario e Abel Aguilerra (Rosabel).
Victor Calderona foi um dos primeiros DJs superstar da cena gay
Victor Calderona foi um dos primeiros DJs superstar da cena gay
Como cada vez mais a figura do DJ ficava em evidência, foi preciso também a cena gay ter seus próprios DJs superstar. Daí passamos a ouvir nomes como Victor CalderoneHex HectorJohnny ViciousThunderpuss e Peter Rauhoffer (os maiores responsáveis pela influência e difusão da tribal house tupiniquin), que quase nunca figuram nas listas de top 100 DJs, mas que para o público gay são deuses.
Madonna com Junior Vasquez numa de suas pajamas parties
Madonna com Junior Vasquez numa de suas pajamas parties em Nova York na década de 90
Eles se consolidaram aliando ao seu som a escola latina e as potentes vozes das divas (formada, em maioria, por negras treinadas nos corais das igrejas evangélicas americanas) como Martha Wash,Jennifer HollidayVernessa MitchellDeborah CoxJocelyn BrownIndiaSuzanne Palmer,Kristine WJoi CardwellCeleda etc. O sucesso entre o público gay foi tanto que esses mesmos DJs/produtores passaram a ser requisitados pelas grandes gravadoras para remixar divas bem mais pop, como CherMadonna,Kylie MinogueMariah CareyWhitney Houston...
Atualmente a cena tribal house atravessa um momento de estagnação no tempo, misturando a eterna influência das divas com a velocidade do progressive house, as percussões do latin house e a agressividade pop do EDM.
Mas pra você entender o início dessa evolução toda separamos 10 singles divisores de águas da tribal house no Brasil e convidamos DJs com anos de cabine na cena LGBT para indicar seus Top 5.
TOP 10 SINGLES DE TRIBAL HOUSE
Masters At Work Feat. India – I Can’t Get No Sleep (1993)
Até hoje surgem novos remixes desse hit da garage house com vocais da porto-riquenha La India, que também fazia parte do projeto Nuyorican Soul.
Danny Tenaglia – Bottom Heavy (1994)
Esse hit das pistas gays nada mais é do que um remix descartado que Danny Tenaglia fez para a faixaWorld – The Price of Love do New Order (que posteriormente autorizou Danny a lançar a faixa) sem os vocais. Danny então retirou o acapella e renomeu a faixa.
Junior Vasquez – If Madonna Calls (1996)
No mundo dos DJs tudo se aproveita. Quer maior exemplo do que o hit feito apenas com uma mensagem deixada por Madonna na secretaria eletrônica do DJ Junior Vazquez? Especula-se que a música foi produzida depois que Madonna deu um furo e não apareceu para uma performance surpresa em uma das festas do Junior no club Tunnel em Nova York. Madonna não gostou e não aprovou a brincadeira com o uso do sample da sua voz e terminou sua relação profissional com o DJ – eles nunca mais voltaram a trabalhar juntos.
Victor Calderone – Give It Up (1997)

Victor chegou a remixar oficialmente mais de um single de Madonna, e na época era um dos DJs mais requisitados das grandes festas do circuito gay do planeta. Give it Up é seu maior sucesso nas pistas gays.
Vernessa Mitchell – This Joy (1998)
O single This Joy ganhou disco de platina triplo e foi uma das músicas mais executadas de 1999. Dez entre dez travestis já dublaram esse que deve ser sem dúvida o maior hit-gritaria da história da tribal house.
Razor N’ Guido – Do It Again (1998)
Se você tocar hoje esse hit tribal que flertava com hard house, ele ainda será lembrado. Foi executado à exaustão e saltou das pistas gays para o mundo.

Johnny Vicious Feat. Lula – Ecstasy (Take Your Shirts Off) (1988)
Os vocais da austriaca Claudia Radbauer(aka Lula), cantado em broken english, era uma tribal house nervosa e hipnótica que, como o próprio nome da música diz, levava a pista ao ecstasy literalmente.
Jennifer Holliday – A Woman’s Got The Power (1999)
Outra cantora gospel que soltava a voz sem pena para deleite do público gay. Famosa pelo seu hit AndI Am Telling You I’m Not Going, Jennifer Holliday é da escola de musicais da Broadway e premiada com o Grammy em 1983 por Dreamgirls. Porém, foi com o nervoso single A Woman’s Got the Power que talvez possamos culpá-la pelos rodopios das drags em seus giros de bate-cabelo.

Peter Rauhofer+ Pet Shop Boys =The Collaboration – Break 4 Love (2001)
Peter talvez tenha sido o melhor e o mais admirado produtor que a cena LGBT tenha ouvido. Desde o seu chic e sexy projeto com a vocalista Kim Cooper (Club 69), ele usava outros vários nomes, comoDanube Dance, Dirty Monkey, Saxmachine, e Size Queen. Chegou ao mais alto patamar dos produtores de dance music remixando todos os superstars (Whitney, Annie Lennox, Toni Braxton, Goldfrapp, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Britney etc) e esse trabalho em parceria com os Pet Shop Boysresume bem toda a sua brilhante trajetória. Um hino que foi inclusive trilha do seriado Queer as Folk.
Altar – Sexercise (2003)
Não apenas porque eles são a única dupla de brasileiros a chegaram ao top chart Dance da Bilboard americana, mas porque essa música rodou o planeta e foi licenciada para mais de 17 coletâneas e virou o maior hit tribal da história nacional.
TOP 5 DOS DJS AINDA NA ATIVA DESDE AS ÉPOCAS DE OURO EM CLUBES LGBTT

DJ Paulo Pacheco (SP)
William Umana – Tribal Evolution (2004)

DJ Paulo Agulhari  (SP)
DJ Chus pres The Groove Fundation – That Feeling (2002)
Piliavin & Zimbardo & D-Formation – Tie Me Down (2004)
D-Formation – The Third Dimension (2004)
Club 69 – Twisted (1997)
Simon & Shaker – Into The Room (2005)

DJ Las Bibas From Vizcaya (Recife/SP)
Gisele Jackson – Love Commandments (1996)
Funky Green Dogs – Fired Up! (1996)
Danny Tenaglia feat. Celeda – Music is the Answer (1998)
Armand Van Helden – Entra em mi Casa (1999)
Live Elements – Be Free (2001)

DJ Morais (SP)
Size Queen – Music (1998)
Chus & Ceballos – Echoes from Doruma (2003)
Kristine W – Save My Soul (2004)
Suzane Palmer – Home (2005)
Offer Nissin Cha cha cha (2008)

DJ Zozó (Amsterdam)
Sextravaganza – (I want to) Take You Home Tonite (1993)
Danny Tenaglia – Elements (1997)
Junior Vasquez – Get Your Hands Off My Man (1994)
River Ocean feat India – Love & Happiness (1994)
Alcatraz – Give Me Luv (1995)
DJ Edson Pride  (SP)
Skunk Anasie – Brazen Weep (1997)
Whitney Houston – It’s Not Right But It’s Okay (1998)
Kelly Clarkson – Because Of You (2005)
Club 69 feat. Kim Cooper – Drama (1997)
Danny Tenaglia – Elements (1997)
DJ Paulo Ciotti (SP)
Ralphi Rosario feat Xavier Gold – You Used To Hold Me (1987)
Ultra Nate – Free (1997)
Patti Austin – Reach (1994)
Humate – Love Stimulation (1998)

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The 3 P.M. Brunch With the 4 A.M. Vibe By BEN DETRICKNOV. 16, 2011 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Pin Email More Save Photo An enthusiastic reveler parties to a performance by Roxy Cottontail, a promoter, at Eat Yo Brunch at Yotel on 10th Avenue, where the $35 brunch allows patrons to eat and drink for two hours. Credit Deidre Schoo for The New York Times BRUNCH, an occasion for flapjacks, Bloody Marys and meandering conversation, is traditionally the most sluggish of meals. But a smorgasbord of clubby New York restaurants have transformed lazy midday gatherings into orgies of overindulgence with blaring music, jiggling go-go dancers and bar tabs that mushroom into five figures. No, boozy brunches aren’t new. Inspired by the daytime debauchery on Pampelonne Beach in St.-Tropez, where jet-setters arrive by Ferrari and yacht, early iterations began at Le Bilboquet on the Upper East Side in the early ’90s, and spread to meatpacking district flashpoints like Bagatelle and Merkato 55 in 2008. But more recently, these brunches have been supersized, moving from smaller lounges to brassy nightclubs like Lavo and Ajna. The party blog Guest of a Guest has taken to calling it the “Battle of the Brunches.” “Not everyone gets to run to the beach or jump on a plane,” said Noah Tepperberg, an owner of Lavo in Midtown, which started its brunch party a year ago. “If you want to leave your house on the weekend, brunch fills that void.” On a recent Saturday, Mr. Tepperberg stood in Lavo’s basement kitchen, surrounded by meat slicers and employees readying confectionary “poison apples” for a Halloween party for a pre-split Kim Kardashian. Upstairs, patrons in costumes danced atop tables and chairs, bobbing to the carnival syncopation of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Paris.” Confetti and blasts of fog filled the air. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage slideshow The Brunch Party Takes Over Clubs NOV. 16, 2011 Advertisement Continue reading the main story It was 3 p.m. “People walk in and say, ‘I can’t believe this is going on right now,’ ” Mr. Tepperberg said. The brunch bacchanalia shows no sign of running dry. The Mondrian SoHo is starting Scene Sundays this month at its Imperial No. Nine restaurant. In Las Vegas, the original Lavo started a Champagne brunch a few weeks ago. Similar affairs have bubbled up in Boston, Los Angeles and Washington. For those looking to replicate the formula, here’s a guide to some of New York’s frothiest. Day and Night Ajna Bar (25 Little West 12th Street, dayandnightnyc.com); Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. This extravagant French-themed party landed in October at Ajna Bar in the meatpacking district, after dousing the Hamptons, Art Basel in Miami and the Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel with rosé. Beneath an industrial skylight and fluttering flags from the United Kingdom, France and Israel, well-heeled patrons pumped their fists and posed for purse-lipped Facebook photos, racking up huge tabs every Saturday. “I understand there’s a lot of people out there going through hard times,” said Daniel Koch, the promoter who helped start the Day and Night parties at Merkato 55. “But what you want to do with your money is your business.” SIGNAL TO DANCE ON TABLES “If you’ve been sprayed with Champagne, make some noise!” a hype man will shout between piercing dance tracks from Robyn, Calvin Harris and Oasis. Dancers in orange bathing suits will emerge; pipes will blast jets of fog. In a dangerously drunken take on a bar mitzvah ritual, a man spooning dessert out of a giant bowl will be seated on a chair and lifted high into the air by his cronies. BRUNCH SET Club-savvy guests seem piped in from Miami, Monaco and Merrill Lynch. “I’m from the South, so drinking during the day is not new to me,” said a woman who wore a Diane Von Furstenberg dress but not the necessary wristband to enter the V.I.P. area. Outside, near a black Aston Martin coupe, a young man wearing paint on his face and sunglasses delved into socioeconomics. “We’re the 1 percent,” he said to a woman, matter of factly. THE BUFFET The Nutella-stuffed croissants ($12) cater to Europeans, while a gimmicky $2,500 ostrich egg omelet (with foie gras, lobster, truffle, caviar and a magnum of Dom Perignon) is for aspiring Marie Antoinettes. Champagne bottles start at $500; packages with several bottles of liquor and mixers for mojitos or bellinis are $1,000. The check can be sobering. “You didn’t look at the price of the Dom bottle!” a man barked into his iPhone, to a friend who apparently ditched before paying. “It’s $700!” STILL-HOT ACCESSORY Slatted “shutter shades” live on at Day and Night. DID THE D.J. PLAY “WELCOME TO ST.-TROPEZ”? Yes. Lavo Champagne Brunch Lavo (39 East 58th Street, lavony.com); Saturday, 2 to 6:30 p.m. Smog guns. Confetti cannons. Piñatas. Masked masseuses. Dancers in Daisy Duke shorts (some on stilts, obviously). Since last November, this Italian restaurant has roiled with the energy and pageantry of Mardi Gras. At the recent Halloween party, Slick Rick, an old-school rapper with an eye patch and glinting ropes of jewelry, lethargically performed several ’80s hits. Some of the younger “Black Swans” in attendance were unsure of his identity. “Is he big in London?” asked an Australian woman wearing a top hat. SIGNAL TO DANCE ON TABLES Caffeinated anthems like Pitbull’s “Hey Baby” and Roscoe Dash’s “All the Way Turnt Up” are accentuated by processions of bouncers carrying women above them in tubs, like Cleopatra on a palanquin. Polenta pancakes taking up precious square footage? Just kick them aside with your stilettos. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Open Thread Newsletter A look from across the New York Times at the forces that shape the dress codes we share, with Vanessa Friedman as your personal shopper. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. See Sample Privacy Policy Opt out or contact us anytime BRUNCH SET Share Champagne spritzers with willowy model types and inheritors of wealth. The scrum on an October afternoon included the son of a Mongolian dignitary, six scions of Mexican plutocracy wearing novelty somberos, and at least one supermodel. “She’s everywhere,” said Mr. Tepperberg, as the nymph, whose name he couldn’t remember, disappeared into the jungle of merriment. THE BUFFET With the emphasis on tabletop dancing, Italian trattoria offerings (margherita pizzas for $21, and lemon ricotta waffles for $19) are often abandoned underfoot and sprinkled with confetti. Proving alcohol reigns supreme here, ice buckets are carefully shielded with napkins. Bottle service rules: Moët Brut is $195 and liquor starts at $295. Balthazar and Nebuchadnezzar sizes surge toward the $10,000 mark. RISKY ROSé Alcohol and high-altitude dancing can be perilous: there was a brief hullabaloo in one corner when several women took a tumble. DID THE D.J. PLAY “WELCOME TO ST.-TROPEZ”? Yes. Eat Yo Brunch Yotel (570 10th Avenue, yotel.com); Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. If spending thousands of dollars makes your stomach turn, this newish party at Yotel is more easily digested. This affably cartoonish affair, held at the space-age hotel in Hell’s Kitchen with the design aesthetics of a Pokémon, draws a gay-friendly crowd lured northward by Patrick Duffy, a promoter. “There’s a lot of pressure in night life,” Mr. Duffy said. “But I feel like Sunday is a comedown. It doesn’t have to be perfect.” SIGNAL TO DANCE ON TABLES These connoisseurs of brunch wear designer shoes too stylish for tromping atop omelets. With a D.J. spinning dance tracks from LeLe and Earth, Wind & Fire, guests sip bellinis at the bar or banter at long communal tables. The performers are looser. One afternoon, Roxy Cottontail, a pink-haired promoter, vamped around the sunken dining area with a microphone. “Don’t make kitty pounce,” she rapped, before climbing atop a table. 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The 3 P.M. Brunch With the 4 A.M. Vibe By BEN DETRICK NOV. 16, 2011 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Pin Email More Save Photo An enthusiastic reveler parties to a performance by Roxy Cottontail, a promoter, at Eat Yo Brunch at Yotel on 10th Avenue, where the $35 brunch allows patrons to eat and drink for two hours. Credit Deidre Schoo for The New York Times BRUNCH, an occasion for flapjacks, Bloody Marys and meandering conversation, is traditionally the most sluggish of meals. But a smorgasbord of clubby New York restaurants have transformed lazy midday gatherings into orgies of overindulgence with blaring music, jiggling go-go dancers and bar tabs that mushroom into fiv

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