What’s the house music look? According to house fan Charaf Tajer , there isn’t one, so he created it based on the kids, clubs like the Haçienda in Manchester and raves he’s known through the years.

“There’s no one style, everyone is welcome in those clubs, and there’s a sense of unity,” said Tajer, who said house culture couldn’t be more different from fashion. “There’s no judgment, no snobbery about what you wear, or how you look. You just come to the floor and dance.”

Tajer tapped his friend Louie Vega, the DJ, record producer and godfather of house, to create new songs for the show, which was staged at the American Cathedral in Paris. There was a reason for that. “House is all about sampling the old and adding the new. For me, the cathedral was like a Gothic shell, which we filled w

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