Paul Johnson – Hear The Music

Bought a sealed copy of this at Ameoba on sunset in Hollywood a few years back for 15$. One of the few record stores left that doesn’t care what things sell for on discogs. There’s actually another shop in Hollywood that I’ll leave unnamed, they don’t take kindly to house music hanging around the shop so when they pick up a collection it goes directly into the 2$ bins lol. So happy places like these still exist.

~ ~ smokin a pj to this rest up king ~ ~

his music will live forever.. rest in peace :(

PJ for president 👑
Tikkle Me will have my fists pumping til the well runs dry

This era from early to mid late nighties were the Glory days for peacefrog and the label was untouchable in it's time pioneering new house and techno related music
This release sums up the label at that time and this sound will be replicated
but never be bettered in my opinion

so many memories attached to these tracks, simply brilliant

"Hear the Music" (1996) is probably one of the best song of the moviment from late '90 denominated French House. Class song, a train, with filter vocal and groovy bass on deep house music. I love it!

This 12 inch is a Paul Johnson rarity. Two tracks on it stand out as magic, the first being 'Tikkle Me' which is a quirky, bouncey track with a freaky morphed vocal used as a loop. It was a mainstay tune in the sets of Chicago style DJs including Mark Farina and DJ Sneak.

The real stand out track is 'Knob Twist', probably the most Peacefrog-ish tune Johnson made. It is a rolling deep tech-house track not dissimilar in style to some early Pagan Records/Terry Francis stuff. It is a very sought after tune. Johnson's 'We Can Make The World Spin' LP, which came out two years later, even had a track confusingly titled 'Knob Twist' which bared no similarity to the track on this EP.

The title track from the EP, 'Hear The Music', contains a samples from 'I Hear Music In The Streets' by Unlimited Touch.

I'd rate this as Johnson's finest release period. It may not have reached the commercial success of some of his later works but was absolutely brilliant nonetheless.