Various - Diy 2922 Days

Back in the mid - 1990's I was tired of the bombast of Brit-rock so sought out more underground grooves and feasted on numerous releases by labels - Pagan, Paper, Euphonic, Glasgow Underground, OM, Imperial Dub, and DiY. I couldn't get enough and felt I had truly discovered something cool, inspirational, fresh, and a major diversion left-field. Plus my affinity and love for house music had finally found a groove that had been missing since forever.

2922 caught my eye on the shelf and went home with me that day. It was a great collection of artist I was just becoming acquainted with. Charles Webster had material showing up on several Pagan compilations, and his work here served as the lead into and focus on. Nail another contributor would go on to become 1/2 of the terrific Bent. These guys did it for love of their scene, from the heart. For an album that was long on quality I'm surprised not more of these surfaced. It has always been exceeding hard to find. I'm glad I kept it along with another half dozen CD from them. They are all good, especially the first two editions of Served Chilled.
They also had a terrific website for it's time. True pioneers of late night finesse in what would become an international phenomena by 1999.

Excellent deep house compilation from the DiY crew, a collective of non-commercialised and anti-consumerist DJ's and musicians, whose underground dance parties in the early 90's were largely a response to the stuffy and unpopular market-driven concept of Thatcherism. This was their first compilation to mark 2922 days (7 years) of the movement. Politics of dancing aside, any fan of UK deep house will find something close to heart here with quite a few big names to mention, such as Charles Webster, Essa, Kevin McKay and label owners Digs & Woosh.