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Various - Best Of House Music - 23-Dec-08 07:21 PM
Ok this is nothing but classic Chicago House. I don't know what that person down there was thinking when he said this wasn't anything less but fabu. I mean this is a golden, nay platinum classic. I might even have to be classified by some yet to be discovered extra-terrestrial element.
The cassette version of this comp was my first introduction to house. I bought it in 1990. At that time in bum-fuck Northern California it was nearly impossible to find house. I used to order anything that might be possibly considered house from my local record shop. That tape definitely got worn out. I played that thing for years. There isn't one cut on here that couldn't be called a classic. Back then house was fun and it had a much harder edge then it does now. This crap they call house now is a whole lot of easy listening bullshit, produced by many European producers who are so far removed from the source they wouldn't know soul if it bit them in the ass. Now I'm not saying all Euro producers produce crap, but a lot do.
This is in my top all time favorite releases. I talked about the cassette tape I used to have in the 90s but I want to make it clear that I do own the record. Just bought it as a matter of fact and wow the sound is soooo much better on vinyl then it is on the cd which I also have.
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.
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