Nitro Deluxe ‎– Let's Get Brutal

At the time of it's release in 1986 this record blew me away. With it's ground shaking basslines, it's simplistic monotony and hypnotising synth chords it did everything to satisfy the dancer (and music freak) in me.
I remember getting into heated debates with my closest friend of the time as to whether this was a 'House' or an 'Electro' release. Thankfully my music tastes have broadened since 1986 and I no longer feel I have to put everything into it's specific genré. I can now see this for what it was. A genré breaking release that should not, and doesn't deserve to, be put in a category.
2008 and I still find I'm putting this on the turntable and trying to educate people in what real music is. An amazing release that, in the right setting, still sounds true to form to this day.

“Lets Get Brutal” is a stone cold Chicago house classic from Aldo Marin that seamlessly bridged the worlds of electro and hip-hop into the blazing new horizons of house music. Check out how the needle sharp keyboard riff instantly connects you to your booty shaking mojo! Quite why this awesome record has become a bit of a dust builder when it holds the keys another plane needs rectifying and will hopefully end forthwith! Released on his own “Cutting Records” label back in 1986 it was his one and only contribution to the cosmic dance collection but we can be rest assured that Zeus is giving it regular spins in the disco-tech of the gods! Oh turn it up! Here comes the rat-a-tat ripped sax noise shaking you just the right amount before the simple 4/4 beat pounds back in. It really does take your breath away as once again the monstrous melody mantras back in like the pied piper of Danceville. Taking us all skipping away, never to return to the matrix! We’re free I tell ya! Were all free!

In the UK this was a ground breaking crossover track that began in the New York Underground and transformed into being a foundation stone for the house music movement that many of us still love and indulge ourselves in today.20yrs later it has without doubt stood the test of time.

In the history of electronic dance music, "Let's Get Brutal" is a milestone record that sums up that crucial era between 1985, with Model 500's "No UFO's" and 1987 when primitive forms of house and techno were allied with the burgeoning genre of electro to produce a series of records that laid the foundations for a lot of what we listen to today. Aldo Marin's Nitro Deluxe project sunk as quickly as it appeared, but he left a lasting legacy with this record, which to these ears anyway, sounds as fresh as when it was released back in 1986. "This Brutal House" combines Chicago House, Techno and Electro to devastating effect, also introducing a keyboard motif that would become standard with "acid house" productions for years to come.

The analogue production of the record compared to today's efforts does sound stark, but this only contributes to giving it a harsh yet fragile nature that emphasises the limited sound that these fledgling producers could create from the hardware they had