another classic from 2000:
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro
five minutes of pure funk. kind of surprised to see this one has so many views, did not believe it was so widely known. maybe the fact it was used during the Olympics last year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nS0accElcA
#AlanBraxe #FredFalke #FrenchHouse #HouseMusic #House #Music
and of course, the other collaboration between Falcon and Bangalter - from 2002:
Thomas Bangalter & DJ Falcon - So Much Love To Give
this is incredible. epic. some records just sound like perfection. utter masterpiece here. the long intro, then when the beat kicks in - amazing. can just *feel* the sun, the terrace overlooking the sea, the joy, so powerful ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPKjlbXHP3E
#DJFalcon #ThomasBangalter #DaftPunk #FrenchHouse #HouseMusic #House #Music
Monday vibes:
Michael Gray - The Weekend (Original 12")
"I can't wait for the weekend to begin"
absolutely glorious:
Sounds of Blackness - The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAOQ0NojZI
#SoundsOfBlackness #FrankieKnuckles #HouseMusic #House #Music
oldie on the radio last night:
Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted
incredible, uplifting, soulful. love Tucker. this is pure class though.
also came on the radio last night, from 2021 maybe:
Louie Vega - Another Day In My Life
just fantastic, so groovy and feelgood.
really hard to put into words how good these last two are.
this is lovely:
Louie Vega feat Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music In The Streets
Vega's cover / remix of an old 80s disco record. he released this in late 2020, a few months after original bassist Sandy Anderson died of covid.
Vega gathered the remaining band members who all perform on this version. a nice tribute to their departed.
Provided to YouTube by Nervous RecordsI Hear Music In The Streets (feat. Unlimited Touch) (Extended Version) · Louie Vega · Unlimited TouchExpansions In The ...
another beautiful, hopeful 80s track:
Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge - It's All Right
released in 87, originally titled 'It's All Right' but later releases have it as 'It's Alright', another one produced (and co-written) by the legendary Marshall Jefferson
covered in 89 by the Pet Shop Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXtZ478nQI
#SterlingVoid #ParisBrightledge #MarshallJefferson #PetShopBoys #HouseMusic #House #Music
apparently today is Frankie Knuckles Day
so here's a few of his records i've not posted yet
first up:
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder (Frankie Knuckles 12" Remix)
disco classic, debuting on 1977's Delusions album, late disco, proto-house remix here by Frankie from 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCN9K3j1H0
#FirstChoice #FrankieKnuckles #FrankieKnucklesDay #Disco #Music
class remix from 1993:
Andrea Mendez - Bring Me Love (Classic Frankie)
uplifting, joyful house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR5ptbjXDsE
#AndreaMendez #FrankieKnuckles #FrankieKnucklesDay #HouseMusic #House #Music
and here's something nice from 2012:
Candi Staton - Hallelujah Anyway (Director's Cut Signature Praise)
gospel-infused house remix of the legend that is Candi Staton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JucgvS2eaWo
#CandiStaton #FrankieKnuckles #FrankieKnucklesDay #HouseMusic #House #Music
and of course, as i've not posted it yet:
Frankie Knuckles & Satoshi Tomiie feat Robert Owens - Tears (Classic Vocal)
just beautiful
RIP Frankie ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3a6fFzw5c
#FrankieKnuckles #SatoshiTomiie #RobertOwens #FrankieKnucklesDay #HouseMusic #House #Music
turn of the century classic from the wonderful Barbara Tucker:
Barbara Tucker feat Darryl D'Bonneau - Stop Playing With My Mind (Full Intention Club Mix)
glorious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00hd06UQVEw
#BarbaraTucker #DarrylDBonneau #FullIntention #HouseMusic #House #Music
so good:
Melvo Baptiste feat Phebe Edwards - Bad Company
six gorgeous minutes of modern disco / house
Edwards has a lovely voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyckJB8T2t0
#MelvoBaptiste #PhebeEdwards #HouseMusic #House #Disco #Music
she really is so good:
Seamus Haji feat Phebe Edwards - Better Come Again
lovely ❤️
another one:
Seamus Haji & Michael Gray feat Phebe Edwards - You Bring The Sun
just love her voice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8WQ5ry9zY
#SeamusHaji #MichaelGray #PhebeEdwards #HouseMusic #House #Disco #Music
and a great remix of that last one:
Seamus Haji & Michael Gray feat Phebe Edwards - You Bring The Sun (Groove Assassin Remix)
much heavier bassline, her voice floating over it 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMZsUb8vNok
#SeamusHaji #MichaelGray #PhebeEdwards #GrooveAssassin #HouseMusic #House #Disco #Music
in the beginning, acid did not exist.
Phuture - Acid Tracks
imagine hearing this the first time in a dark club. when nobody had ever heard anything like it before. surely the roof would have been torn off the place.
mind. blown.
it's not a song, it's brutal, it's incredible. one of the most important records of the last 50 years.
on the flip of Acid Tracks was this:
Phuture - Phuture Jacks
much less well-known than Acid Tracks i guess. not even sure i heard it many times before. but this has more of a groove / funk than the rawness of the a-side.
also on the b-side of Acid Tracks was this:
Phuture - Your Only Friend
dark, frightening, melancholy. vocals imagine cocaine talking to the listener. "in the end, i'll be your only friend".
love this:
Cinthie - Roberta Johnson
pianos like it's 1990 ❤️
this is cool:
Jamie Jones & Baby Rose - Rolling Thunder (Franky Rizardo 'Day' Remix)
Rose's vocals really give a hint of Nina Simone here, very nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSjjOz6H_I
#JamieJones #BabyRose #FrankyRizardo #HouseMusic #House #Music
this is glorious:
Soulsearcher - Feelin' Love (Soulsearcher Club Mix)
been loving this remix lately and it's now out:
Jonas Blue & Malive - Edge Of Desire (Jazz-N-Groove Club Mix)
(incidentally, one half of Jazz-N-Groove is Marc Pomeroy, who is also behind that Soulsearcher track before this one)
heard this on the radio last night:
Maurice Joshua feat First Sundays - Fly Away (Tedd Patterson Organ Solo)
like, almost shockingly good. the funk, the organ, the hints of gospel. everything just sounds so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5nO0brVQWo
#MauriceJoshua #FirstSundays #TeddPatterson #HouseMusic #House #Music
wonderful new release:
Nic Fanciulli - La Luna
such a lovely sound. end of the night, sun rising as you look out across the ocean after dancing the night away - that's what this sounds like ❤️
another from 93:
The Anthill Mob - Black Rushin' (Anthill Remix)
🤯🤯🤯
top comment on there is from one of the producers coming across the upload 25 years later
epic:
Kathy Brown - Joy (David Morales Classic Club Mix)
love Kathy Brown's voice, she's a real treasure. and the uplifting lyrics ❤️
and Morales is just on it as always
wonderful, wonderful record ❤️
Robert Hood is the godfather of minimal techno
in the early 10s, awakened by a religious vision, he produced a few gospel-style house infused with his minimal techno vibes under the alias Floorplan
in the late 10s he revived the alias, along with his daughter Lyric
here's a new release:
Schiela - In The Morning (Floorplan Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzFioPFlo7U
#RobertHood #LyricHood #Schiela #Floorplan #HouseMusic #House #Techno #Music
and here's a release from a couple of years ago:
Dames Brown feat Waajeed - Glory (Floorplan Remix)
this is so good. Dames Brown are a Detroit trio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDST5HCiuk
#DamesBrown #Floorplan #Waajeed #RobertHood #HouseMusic #House #Techno #Music
do not allow yourself to be programmed
resist at all costs
Underground Resistance - Electronic Warfare
wild that this is 30 years old. sounds as fresh as it ever did. impeccable record.
produced solo by former Parliament / Funkadelic bassist 'Mad' Mike Banks after Mills and Hood left the collective in the early-90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyocb53Pdnw
#UndergroundResistance #UR #MikeBanks #MadMike #Parliament #Funkadelic #Techno #Music
heard this on the radio earlier and thought "that sounds like Frankie" and "that sounds like Jocelyn", and of course it was
from 2012, but a new one on me:
Richard Earnshaw feat Jocelyn Brown - Worthy (Frankie Knuckles & Eric Kupper Director's Cut Remix)
beautiful record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiMkufdyMFU
#RichardEarnshaw #JocelynBrown #FrankieKnuckles #EricKupper #HouseMusic #House #Music
beautiful indeed:
Peyton & Director's Cut - Beautiful
❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gqRuUI4uLQ
#Peyton #DirectorsCut #FrankieKnuckles #EricKupper #HouseMusic #House #Music
goodness, this is so good:
Frankie Knuckles presents Director's Cut starring Inaya Day - Let's Stay Home (A Director's Cut Classic Club Mix)
Inaya's vocals are absolutely gorgeous
today i learned she's the singer on the classic 98 hit Horny
but this is on a whole other level as a vocal performance, more like r&b or something, just fantastic, the way she makes the melody from her voice, magnificent ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMViZFOnmeU
#FrankieKnuckles #InayaDay #DirectorsCut #HouseMusic #House #Music
Heard this on the radio just now
Out next week, 24/10
Brian Jackson feat Rich Medina - Winter in America
Produced by Masters At Work (Louie Vega / Kenny Gonzalez)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cor_UB6HbE
#BrianJackson #RichMedina #MastersAtWork #LouieVega #KennyGonzalez #GilScottHeron #Music
during the first lockdown, 2020, Vinyl Fanatiks put out a free album. Hardcore Lockdown.
whole album is worth a listen, like a snapshot of expression in those dark days. don't think it's free anymore though.
this is probably my favourite track from it:
Silver Fox - Gunman
just sick, so good. hard breakbeats, filthy synths, pure raving energy.
from darkness into light...
Tone Def and Ci Ci Hunter - You Got It
probably my second favourite from the above Hardcore Lockdown compilation. bit slower, much more uplifting, pianos raining down...
turn of the century this was big
got loads of play, felt like it was everywhere for a while
Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses at Night
youtube description says 2002, Discogs says 2001, that feels more accurate, can remember where i was living
this one too, around the same time
Fischerspooner - Emerge
destroyed everywhere
oh God, and this one too
Vitalic - La Rock 01
not sure this was as widespread but yeah. did some real damage in the old discotheques of the day 😎
that electro kind of sound was really big around 01
last one for now, bit earlier release but got loads of play around 01 / 02 where i was
Umek - Lanicor
five minutes, no intro, straight up banger from the moment the needle hits the record
turn of the century, what a time
nice new release
Pastaman - Strictly Dubplate
always love this kind of reggae-infused sound, this is a good one, fantastic bassline, just feel when it kicks in with the breaks 🤯
classic from 96
Hollis P. Monroe - I'm Lonely
not heard this for best part of 30 years i guess at this point, not even sure where i know it from
absolutely fantastic record, though
just beautiful ❤️
there's a new Casanova remix coming soon that's really nice, why i remembered about this, don't see it anywhere yet though
all time classic
Pete Heller's Big Love - Big Love
epic ten minutes of joy
remember this from the 90s, reminds me so much of summer, i guess 98, feels like the same summer as Stardust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i5D2_XNSw
#PeteHeller #PeteHellersBigLove #BigLove #HouseMusic #House #Music
listening on a loop could have been written for me
Nia Archives - So Tell Me...
I get so stuck inside my head
This overthinking sends me west
Obsess 'bout everything you said
And what I could've said instead
❤️
Glastonbury version because why not
gorgeous song
Louie Vega feat Audrey Wheeler & Cindy Mizelle - You Got Me Dancing
real disco feel to it
Wheeler was in late disco band Unlimited Touch
Mizelle worked with greats including Mariah, Whitney, Luther, Aretha
Vega got the (surviving) members of Unlimited Touch back together for his album Expansions In The NYC, from which this is taken
such a lovely, catchy song, joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za6asmdJY44
#LouieVega #AudreyWheeler #CindyMizelle #UnlimitedTouch #HouseMusic #House #Disco #Music
Just... sublime:
Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart (Frankie Knuckles Franktidrama Club Mix)
so good
Sophie Lloyd feat Dames Brown - Calling Out
gospel vibes, just so uplifting, lovely organ, absolutely *fantastic* piano and vocal work
some songs just really hit deep
so good
posting that Toni Braxton song up thread reminded me of this one too
The Braxtons - The Boss (MAW Remix)
The Braxtons were sister group Toni was in before she went solo. think she'd left by the time they released this though
MAW - Masters At Work - produced this masterpiece, cover of an old Diana Ross hit
just an absolutely *gorgeous* song, like absurdly good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMKyPJpNszo
#TheBraxtons #ToniBraxton #DianaRoss #MAW #MastersAtWork #LouieVega #KennyGonzalez #HouseMusic #House #Music
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