Can Puff Daddy Still Save Dance Music-

Puff Daddy's upcoming dance/ hip hop album, which includes collaborations with Darren Emerson, Richard X and Nellee Hooper, could help carry house music to an entirely new audience, German producer Timo Maas suggested this week.

"People are listening to Puff Daddy in connection to dance," Timo told Australia's Onion magazine.

"It's very interesting, it's hip hop and dance, I said this three years ago, that it's gonna' fuse at some moment, and we are right there. Thank God I'm involved."

Less convinced, however, was DJ Magazine editor Lesley Wright, who wrote a unusually graceless editorial in her current issue, mocking the decision of Muzik magazine to put the Bad Boy rapper on their penultimate cover.

"On another note, Muzik magazine has gone tits up (failed)," said Wright.

"Looks like P. Diddy wasn't the saviour of dance music after all."

If P Diddy doesn't save house music, however, he could always lend a hand to ghetto-tech, certainly judging by a report in this week's Standard on a soiree the lady-loving rapper recently threw in the States.

"Puffy instructed women party-goers to go topless," the Standard claimed.

"Or leave."
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