Various - DJ Deep Presents City To City

ahbijef, Jul 24, 2006

Those who have become accustomed to DJ Deep's deep, lush mixes (e.g., for the Distance label) have a major surprise in store when they get this album (or its sequel "DJ Deep presents City to City Part 2"; BBE/2006). Almost all of CD 1 and much of CD 2 take the listener back to the early roots of House and Deep House music and their principal influences, namely the Detroit Techno, early Acid House, and early Chicago House schools of underground dance music (hence the titular references to cities). Compared with modern incarnations of Deep House, the late-1980's/early-1990's sound here is dry and lean, often acid-tinged/spacey/dubby, and truly continents away from what we now know as Deep House. However, Deep House enthusiasts won't come away entirely empty-handed: the tracks by Mr Fingers, Kerri Chandler, Byron Burke, and Braxton Holmes come especially to mind in this regard. This retrospective mix-compilation is, therefore, recommended only to historians of underground dance music and those purists who like their House music well-aged, acidic, and minimally lean. These folks should also check out several similarly-themed retro-mixes by other authoritative figures in House, including Danny Tenaglia's "Choice: A Collection of Classics" (Azuli/2002), and Masters At Work's "The Kings Of House" (BBE/2005), which came out at around the same time as "City To City".

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1.01	Da Posse	The Groove (7:37)
1.02	DJ Pierre	Acid Tracks (3:28)
1.03	Phylyps	Trak (2:13)
1.04	Jeff Mills	Expanded (1:39)
1.05	Pierre's Pfantasy Club	Dream Girl (5:22)
1.06	Chosen Ones, The	Destiny House (2:41)
1.07	Rhythim Is Rhythim	Kaos (Juice Bar Mix) (2:03)
1.08	Mayday	Sinister (Pheerce City / Trolley Mix) (6:43)
1.09	Lil' Louis	How I Feel (5:16)
1.10	Mr. Fingers	You're Someone Special (6:54)
1.11	Psyche	Elements (5:37)
1.12	Terry Housemaster Baldwin*	Don't Lead Me (Nexus 21 Mix) (3:21)
		Featuring - Paris Grey Remix - Nexus 21
1.13	Underground Resistance	Jupiter Jazz (2:51)
1.14	Underground Resistance	Your Time is Up (Dub / Accapella / Main Mix) (4:33)
		Featuring - Yolanda*
2.01	Glenn Underground	House Music Will Never Die (Mark Grant's Paramount Room Mix) (7:39)
		Remix - Mark Grant
2.02	Mike Perras	Keep Movin' (6:23)
2.03	B.M.E.	Fallin In Love Again (4:55)
2.04	Cajmere	Dream States (7:02)
		Featuring - Derrick Carter
2.05	Charles McDougald	That's Life (7:05)
2.06	Kerri Chandler	I Feel It (DJ Deep Edit) (6:06)
		Remix - DJ Deep
2.07	Marcus Mixx	House Flashback (6:36)
2.08	L.B. Bad	I Like To Move (6:46)
2.09	Byron Burke	String Ensemble (7:14)
2.10	Ruffneck	The Power - The Rhythm (Last Dance At The Dise Mix) (12:15)
2.11	Ron Trent & Braxton Holmes	12" Of Pleasure (Ron's Foreplay Mix) (6:17)

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