The goal: to gain entry to the second-floor room with a capacity of a few hundred, featuring gut-vibrating bass cabinets, sweat on the walls and nonstop rhythms.
The Hot Creations boss is the king on nonstop basslines and tantalizing house rhythms, and his recent cover mix for Mixmag packs the punch to prove it.
I hope those who plan the musicals of tomorrow have their eyes on Alexei Ratmansky: his "Concerto DSCH," created last year for New York City Ballet, has a nonstop abundance of humor, character, story, rhythm and virtuosity that are close to what I love in great musicals.
The women kept shaking and swiveling their hips virtually nonstop through the set, to a beat that merges rhythms from Mr. Kuti's home, Nigeria, with funk, swing and reggae.
Bass and drums made the music bounce almost nonstop, with swing and shuffle and Latin rhythms; it wasn't until the end that they got around to something approaching a ballad tempo.
In 2014's "Passinho do Faraó," one of Bin Laden's friends sets the rhythm by repeating "Tumba/ tumba/ tumba" nonstop while Bin Laden raps that "the pharaoh has left his tomb".
In "4" the dancers — always close together in the same diamond formation, always in unison, and often turning to face every which way — move nonstop for perhaps half an hour to a brisk rhythm.
As Tracy, Ms. Winokur has nonstop energy and personality, but she lacks what Lloyd Price's rhythm-and-blues hit told us girls also need -- "a great big heart".
For about 40 minutes they played nonstop, drums and bass making a thick braid of clicking, limping, swinging, lurching rhythm, the pianists passing back and forth kernels of melody.
Nonstop work--without sufficient downtime for family, friends, and solitude--violates the natural rhythms of life and nature.
