I started listening to a little underground house in the late 1980s such as Two Dominicans, A Black Man, and a Puerto Rican (I think I got it right, I may be wrong ), J.M. Silk, and folks like that. It wasn't the main thing I listened to because there were still a few funk groups in mainstream R&B at the time, even though they were scarce. Adult contempory shit had taken up a lot of R&B in the late 1980s so I was looking for anything danceable, mainstream or underground.

Around 1989 or 1990, house music exploded onto the mainstream for a little while and lasted until around 1993 or so. In my area, it was more on pop radio moreso than R&B radio even though most of the artists were black. Pop radio was calling the genre "dance" at the time. R&B radio was playing more new jack and later, shit hop. I was listening to folks like Martha Wash, Crystal Waters, Cee Cee Penniston, Robin S., Cajmere, Brothers In Rhythm, The 49ers, 2 In A Room, etc. This was the kind of stuff I was hearing in the black gay clubs. In the white gay clubs, the house music sounded different, more like what it later became. Kind of an acid type house, and instead of mixing it with old disco songs every once in a while like black clubs did, the white clubs mixed it more with people like Depeche Mode, which bore me.

Yeah, house music did evolve and change around the mid 1990s but I didn't like the direction it took. Less and less black artists were recording it so a lot of the rhythm and flow left from it. It stopped having a funky feel to it. It started sounding more and more European and the tempo actually became too fast to dance to. Even when black artists were recording it during the mid to late 1990s, the music behind their voices was sounding more like what I had heard in the white gay clubs in previous years. It just didn't have anything funky in it whatsoever. People had stopped calling it house and were calling it things like acid, or techno, or trance. I never liked that sound and when house music completely converted over to it, I stopped buying it. However, I could stand to be in the same room with it so when I went out, I stopped going to black gay clubs and started going to white gay clubs. The black gay clubs had started playing shit hop. Most of the black gay people my age started going to the white clubs also during this period and haven't gone back to the black gay clubs since.

Cinnie said:

It sure is. Tony was wrong. The BPM is slower than 95.