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Various - In The Dark (The Soul Of Detroit) - 16-Aug-08 03:27 AM
This is one of the greatest collections of beatdown style Detroit sounds. I'm a huge advocate for beatdown being recognized as a unique genre. It shouldn't so much be listed as deep house since the bpms are much slower on a lot of the tracks and beatdown has a harder more aggressive,and often darker, techno edge to it. This compilation is a great example of this unique and intoxicating genre.

Courtney Jackson's Everybody is so lovely. I just absolutely love it. I keep hoping for more to come forth from here,but alas my wishes have not come true yet.

Marcellus Malik Pittman has become one of my new favorites along side my most favorite Theo Parrish,who btw is not on this comp.

Too bad downloads are killing music. Damn devil format that has made music so convenient,but ruined it for underground releases such as this to be more worth while.

Willie Hutch / Quincy Jones - Ugly Edits Vol. 7 - 21-May-08 03:30 PM
Side B is actually a re-edit of a part of the movie sound track from The Color Purple. It is actually Selie Shaves Mr./Scarification Ceremony re-edited. I don't know if the person who submitted this listed the correct listing or not. It is great. I am kind of upset though because I wanted to sample that track and had no idea theo had beat me to the punch. Damn that's upsetting. Its such a great piece.

Various - The History Of The House Sound Of Chicago - 20-May-08 02:25 AM
This compilation should really be called the history of the European rave scene.

Its far less a history of house music development in Chicago. A lot of the tracks are less then stellar. Many were obvious attempts by mainstream outlets to cash in on the hot club sound of the time. Though sadly many of the tracks did not really capture the sound of Chicago.

If nothing else his is certainly an exibition of how disco influenced house music and boogie and then later garage and Chicago house. Follow that development by how Chicago house and Chicago Acid house then Detroit Techno influenced dance music in Europe. We see Italo House contributions to the selection as well as early rave tracks and British attempts at acid.

It certainly a historical collection but maybe not in the way it was marketed.

Gloria Gaynor - Gloria Gaynor - 19-Apr-08 04:14 PM
Appearantly this lp was slept on. I've never heard of it until today. I was surprised. Its funky. It has a real JACQUES "FRED" PETRUS sound to it. What I don't like how ever was the concluding ballad that seems to have been just thrown in for good measure. The track "America" has a good sound to it but I don't know what an African American woman her age and in that era would have to love about America, she must have been off her rocker singing that song.

Various - Goody Music - Golden Age Best Of Vol. 1 - 12-Mar-08 11:07 PM
I paid $50 for this and I have to say I don't really think it was worth it. First off my feeling is anything dealing with strictly underground disco is going to be bought by underground disco heads. Well if other disco heads are like me then they want to hear the longest extended versions of the tracks being released. You might be able to see where I'm going, these are not the extended versions of most the tracks.

Also there are other more rare releases that were featured in the pamphlet but not on the cds. That sucked for me. Any ways its a rare release so I guess its worth having.