This guy has made immeasurable contributions to dance music for the past 3 decades and beyond. Blessed with the sweetest male vocal in house music, a pioneering spirit and an ear for a great tune, this guy must be considered one of the founding fathers of house. To this day, he continues to make quality contrbutions - for example his vocal work on Cassius's Au Rêve release. Respect is due!

What can be said about this man? Whatever is said, it is not enough! Not only was he a musical pioneer whose influence still resonates in every area of dance music today, he also brought together formerly disperate communities from the most diverse city on Earth. He will be missed and remembered as a DJ for the people and for the DJ of future generations. R.I.P.

I'm not generally a fan of indie rock, college rock, garage rock or, indeed, any form of rock. This band and, in particular, this album remain an exception to that general principle. The production values are extremely high - tight and varied percussion shimmers clearly over funky disco-rock, yes that's right disco-rock.

Although only 2 tracks are attributed as being Maurice Fulton remixes, I am sure that his influence can be found in other parts of the album - the best trach (IMHO), Hello? Is This Thing On?, has an electro-disco stab in the intro that only Maurice Fulton seems capable of producing, elsewhere snares, hi-hats and kick drums co-ordinate in perfect synchronicity to build energy before the bass and guitar kick in to great effect - very Maurice Fulton, very nice!

What a tune - great to play to a messy dance floor to make it even messier. Starts of innocently enough with a Kevin Sanderson style rumbling, building bassline, before breaking down for a male vocal "Whatever you fuck your brain with ... Whatever that is ... It's a lie ... It's a lie!" Play, sit back, watch the mayhem. enjoy!

Great drifty album - the tunes really seem to mesh well with eachother, and the album flows really nicely - as if some of the tunes are fugues to the preludes of tunes preceeding them, whilst maintaining enough individuality to make them interesting. I would certainly not classify it as Acid Jazz, as is indicated above, but rather world music-influenced jazz, or something along those lines. The real Highlight for me is the dancefloor friendly "The In Samba.'

Latican Funk, Latican Funk, Latican Funk!!! - does exactly what is suggests. Has to be an all time favourite - Latin bassline combined with extreme funk. Goes on to more hip-hop scratchy type vibe. Will not fail to move the more eclectically inclined dancefloor. Unfortunately, I have not heard the rest of the album, but it is surely worth obtaining for this track alone.

With Metro Area's releases prior to this one getting better and better, expectaions for MA5 were high. Unfortunately, this release (for me) failed to live up to them. Typical clean, percussive Metro Area production including many of their trade mark sounds was not enough to compensate for the fact that these tunes (both of them) do not really hold any meaning - they fail to move emotionally. This has been the case with some tunes on their previous releases, but there has always been one tune that redeemed their releases before. A bit disappointing, but hopes run high for MA6.

For me, it's all about the Tiefscwarz remix - hard edged electronic funk, building live-sounding percussion and an electro bassline that simply kicks ass - sounds great until the cheesy overdriven guitar break - DJ BEWARE!!! Make sure you mix this one out in time.

A great debut album from Putsch 79. Despite the fact that the album contains 5 previously released tunes, it is still well worth getting hold of. Definitely inspired by yesteryear's electronic disco a la Metro Area, the album has highs and lows - Asian Girls and Cockaine Dub respectively - but succeeds in holding the interest of the listener throughout.

Pretty wierd release this. As the titile and sleeve notes indicate, this mix is not intended to be in the best taste throughout, but rather to render the highlights all the better for the elements of "bad taste" contained therein. For me, this approach kind of works. The mix begins with more straight-laced downtempo electro-funk, before getting a bit more into the electronic disco vibe and progressing to a couple of REALLY LUSH tracks by Pierre Perpall (the highlights of the mix for me) and finishing on a rather indescript note. with Gaznevada's track. Worth getting your grubby mits on, but does not really compare to I-F's "Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1" as an electronic disco mix-set.