this i thought was a great description of why danny t is the best dj in the world. It was bout the party last night : "as dance trends come and go (the dark digweed-l.a. prog of 2001, the current electro bomb trend of now, the super prog house of the sasha-ibiza era.....) DT plays what he wants. DT will play a gayer house, a more soulful house, dark nasty dirty house, and even straight up trance. He understands soul and bassline more then any other euro dj I've ever heard (with Howells coming in a far far distant 2nd place). When you're in the middle of a DT, you suddenly feel, "oh yes, this is New York house music." It's a history lesson. A "classic" for him is not Sander Kleinenberg - my lexicon, but some vocal from 1988 that I've probably never heard. Maybe the more important reason why he is truly a master is his teasing. While Zabiela is scratching and making loop points, DT will actually tease a sample or sound effect for about 3-4 hours, before actually dropping the full track. Can you imagine, listening to a sample from a track you love, hear it teased for 4 hours, and then at 9 am, it finally drops, and everyone goes nuts? It's heaven. It's classy. He is simply not playing CDR after CDR of upfront prog/break/electro (whatever is trendy nowadays) production. It is a DT house music. The only NYs dj with his *own* sound who almost compare are Roger Sanchez and Hector Romero."