You want a groove you can feel and a hook you can sing. Hip hop came out of Bronx block parties in the 1970s, where DJs looped the drum breaks of funk and soul records so dancers could keep going, and in 1982 Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force made Planet Rock for the breakdancers, which is where electro started. By the 1990s producers were building whole records out of soul samples, and singers like Mary J. Blige were putting R&B vocals over hip hop drums, which is roughly where hip hop soul got its name. You land here because you like music that sits in the pocket rather than racing ahead, because you would rather sing along than stand and analyse, and because a night is better when the whole room knows the words.

The cost is that the familiar can become the whole night. You tend to trust the record everyone knows over the one nobody has heard, and a set without a singalong can feel like a set that failed, even when the DJ was building something. You can also treat the rest of dance music as somebody else's scene, though house, garage and amapiano come from the same soul and gospel records you already love. The best nights for you are the ones where the tempo drops late and the bass stays warm.