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Member Since: Jan 19, 2003 Rank: 32 Rated 308 releases, average: 4.51 Location: Emmitsburg, MD/Washington DC/Baltimore, USA Profile: 
This was one of the luckiest days of my life when I finally met the grammy award winning godfather of house; Frankie Knuckles for the first time at DJ Hut record store in Washington, DC on Friday, January 13, 2006! And it was his 51st birthday too! Susperstition will get you nowhere. I am a 23 year old part-time disc jockey from Vienna, Virginia living in Maryland. I've always been hyperactive and found hyperactive music the most appealing. I truly love exposing people to unheard music. The late John Peel along with so many UK pirate radio broadcasters from the past 40 years have massively inspired me to treat so-called un-commercial music with the utmost respect. And in the US it's been college radio stations that did the same, including U of MD's College Park and Morgan State in Baltimore. Let's show the media-opoly that we can compete without becoming too "Sirius". If we can dance together we can live together. I'm an amateur ethnomusicologist. Ethnomusicology is the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts. Although I have have heard far more international folk dance music (NOT talking bout bob dylan) than most people and love it to death, I can not say this is where my expertise lies at this time. What I actually own releases of and have expertise of is house, garage and detroit techno music from the period of 1985-1995, with an occasional early 80's/70's jazz-funk-disco gem added to keep mixes fresh and with the grass roots visible. The era for The Classics of "Underground Dance Music". Since time marches on I've realized that I should keep up with the present too. I am attempting to build a larger collection, familiarity and most of all RESPECT for the best house/garage released from 1996 to 2006. I have Baltimore/Washington DJ's Sam Burns, Geoffrey C, Charles Cooper, Henry Da Man, Mandrill, etc. to kindly help me out in this area. I have to also mention that I am straight and in prudent pursuit of courtship. I was baptised Latin Catholic as an infant and have always found much intellectual and spiritual fulfillment from The Church, however I am exploring the Melkite (Antiochian) Catholic Churches traditions and theology as well. Especially the chanting. For the typical Latin Catholic to not know his history and where his traditions came from (which was often east) is a huge embarrassment. If we want to see fusion with 300,000,000 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches we westerners must become better catechized. The world is waiting. Our Lady of Soufanieh is waiting! Genres which float my boat: GOSPEL, soul, ska, funk, psychedelia, rocksteady, blues, dub, reggae, disco, DC go-go, electro, chicago house, italo hi-nrg disco, kraut rock (Manuel Göttsching), ny garage, detroit techno, uk hardcore breakbeat techno, merengue, south african kwaito, batucada samba, cumbia, anything funky with spacey synths.. I collect all these. May the spirit of Ron Hardy be with us! Unlike many people here I am not "vinyl only". I also enjoy trading copies of obscure out-of-print un-purchaseable classic trax in standard audio CD-R or .flac file format(http://flac.sourceforqe.net/). FLAC is a acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec. It is a true pure cd quality "lossless" compression which is the opposite of mp3 which is never perfect no matter what bitrate used. you can never have too many .flac's! but that doesn't stop me from being a discography freak, I like complete rips of all tracks per release (unless terrible enough to omit, which happens more often than it should.) I am available for dj services/music production at low, low, low prices and high, high, high quality, feel free to ask. Sam Burns, James Graham, Tony Mundaca, Sr and Julien Smuts (Julien Love), I eternally grateful for your friendship. | |
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James Bratton Project, The* - Sound Of A New Era - 06-Nov-06 01:31 AM
James Bratton seems to be well liked by certain classic house conniseurs. I can see why that is, having heard 2 12 inch versions of songs on this compilation. But for the most part this compilation isnt strictly garage/house, it is %50 mediocre new jack swing. And the two later to be released garage 12 inches "My love is Right" and "Loneliness" are here in their most basic demo versions which arent nearly as good as the remixed ones. Menz Club is the only one that really matches the quality of the later to be remixed singles by Shalea Turner and Kelvin Pizzaro. This is James Bratton taking "baby steps".
No Joke - Feel The Music / Midnight Moon - 11-Aug-06 01:44 PM
The B Side here "Midnight Moon" is one among the best Deep House/Garage cuts Ive ever heard, better for instance than many Strictly Rhythm releases of the same year. Its 116 BPM and 100% instrumental. The Main synthesized instruments are a panpipe and pianos soloing over a vibraphone riff and string pads in the background. The production reminds me very much of Wayne Gardiner and Andrew Rags Richardson, but it is in fact Ed The Red Goltsman owner of Bottom Line Records in charge.
Larry Levan - The Definitive Salsoul Mixes '78-'83 - 24-Jan-06 03:35 AM
For a fact this entire cd was compiled from .mp3s, I tested the algorithms with the free audiochecker program to be found at: http://www.dester.hu/eng_index.html. The sound quality is dreadful, it is obvious to the ears it was low quality .mp3 for that matter too! If this is what all Sussd releases are doing, someone needs to stop them! Nevertheless great selection..but youll be best off with "Larry Levans Greatest Mixes Volume Two" original LP release from 1980 instead.
Various - First Generation Rap - 30-Oct-05 07:36 AM
Its unusual to find hip hop records of the period 1979-81 remastered in such sonic clarity from the original tapes. All tracks here come from the Enjoy Records catalogue and thus make a fabulously superior companion to the more overtly commercial yet similar 5 CD Sugarhill Records Story on Rhino Records. Bobby Robinson, owner of Enjoy Records and various other labels, was probably the only person on earth to go from recording electric mississippi blues in 1959 to bronx hip hop in 1979. My hero.
S.U.N. - Hypnotiki - 13-Aug-05 03:52 AM
I bought this cd after reading escapists enthusiasm over it. My impression is that it has too much of a cheesy "video game soundtrack" production with a hint of madchester alt. dance feeling here and there. Most of these tracks would NOT have survived being played at any rave in the UK. Although I agree that "Spirality" is the best on it and I dont mind it. The overall tone might be called "commercial".