Jesse Saunders - On And On

What a disappointment! 20 years after his 1984 classic house cut "On & On" Jesse Saunders releases a 2x12" with remixes, celebrating the 20th anniversary of house-music.
But after listening to the remixes delivered here, I found myself asking, if Jesse is celebrating 20 years of money making rather than house-music. The vibe of house music is definitely not contained in this package.
On the 1st Vinyl some acceptable remixes are provided, taking the classic with respectfull treatment into the new century - but even being the best cuts here they are nothing more than standarized-house cuts, providing nothing special or new. The rest of this package is really annoying. The rubbish prog-house-trance crossover cuts on Vinyl 2 sound almost like if they were originally not intended to be remixes for Jesses track untill a manager came into the studio and said "Hey, throw the "On & On" Vocal in there", which resulted in tracks that contain a totally out of context placed sample.

Jesse Saunders has been too often uncredited. So, he got influenced by a certain Frankie Knuckles who used to loop beats so that he could better mix whatever he was playing at his club. So, he participated in the production of the Fantasy 12" above weeks before he released "On And On". But if I'm Mr Jo Blow from Canada, what is the first ever typical "House" record that I could have bought and own? "On And On". So IT IS the originating house music track. Period. It is telling also that the first ever release of TRAX Records, which claim to be the first house music label ever (I wonder what that makes of Jes Say Records) was by Le Noiz, a nickname for Jesse Saunders. I'm pretty sure Saunders know what part of what he did was influenced by Knuckles DJ-ing techniques, and what part was purely his own music, but this one should defenitely go down in history.

Although On & On is the first House track pressed on vinyl, this was the result as Fantasy by Z-Factor on Mitchbal was supposed to be the first House record. Numerous delays with the release of Fantasy in early 1984 prompted Jesse Saunders to release On & On under his own label Jes-Say which was out just weeks before Fantasy was finally pressed later that same year. Both releases were mastered and pressed by Precision Records also known as Trax Records.

Here probably it is, THE first recorded house release in today's sense ever! Everyone seems to know the first detroit techno track, but house? It is told anytime and everywhere that House Music has many founding fathers, but I'm sure, this record it is...