introduction to house music

1. classic salsoul mastercuts vol. 1
2. trax records: the 20th anniversary collection
3. hardfloor - jack the box
4. nu groove: here comes that sound again
5. little louie vega - strictly house mix
6. v/a - warp 10+2: classics
7. the future sound of chicago
8. deep dish - yoshiesque
9. sasha & digweed - northern exposure 1
10. body & soul vol. 1
11. andy weatherall - hypercity
12. matthew herbert - let's all make mistakes
13. dreem teem - in session vol. 1 & 2
14. crydamoure presents waves

and albums

fingers inc. - another side
todd terry - to the batmobile
murk - miami deep
herbert - around the house
daft punk - homework
basement jaxx - atlantic jaxx recordings
felix da housecat - alone in the dark
danny krivit - edits by danny k.
motorbass - pansoul
faze action - plans and designs
moodymann - a silent introduction
paperclip people - the secret tapes of doctor eich
romanthony - romanworld
arman van helden - greatest hits
faze action - plans and designs
bt - ima
baby ford - the world of baby ford
808 state - newbuild
the best of balihu
metro area - s/t

No Basic Channel, Jess?

yeah bung in the first monolake, decay product, and the basic channel cd then.

apparently it's broken up into the three cd "20th anniv. collection" and an "acid classics" or something, which is weird since "acid trax" is on the "20th anniv. collection"

http://www.deephousepage.com and

http://www.undergroundnyc.com

reinforced presents the deepest shade of techno 1 & 2
transmat relics
underground reistance - revolution for change
jeff mills - live at the liquid room
suburban knight - my sol dark direction
dj assault - straight up detroit shit vol. 4 (haha)

http://www.discogs.com/release/45565 may have just come out on CD again, the vinyl is terribly pressed and must be avoided

this double CD http://www.discogs.com/release/12116 is as good as it gets, and if anyone can burn me a copy, they can have my firstborn

likewise, this is rare but great: http://www.discogs.com/release/12071

its possible to quibble quibble or list list but i think that as far as scope is concerned, those discs will introduce a lot of different ideas to you quite qucikly. when you want more detail, look at the names of the labels listed in the Atkins comp and use slsk to hear more (from those labels).

Also, what are some really good mixes on www.deephousepage.com ? My eyeballs are glazing over at these huge lists ...

there is a "History of House" but I have yet to get my paws on it.

no firstborn required, but drop me a line dan.

look at the dates...there's lots of new mixes with boring new stuff, but there's also lots of new mixes filled with classics, which may be good primers, they are usually defined as such.

stuff from the late 70s/early 80s is often pretty low-fi and often a typical mix of classic disco. stuff from the mid to late 80s is often from the radio, most famously WBMX and other chicago radio stations.

look at the DJs, the big names like Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy etc, most of these mixes predate house but that is who house music was defined, by what these guys played and how it influenced people, and early house would creep in. Listen to Hot Mix 5 mixes from 86/87, I especially like those from Mickey Mixin Oliver, who mixed top 40 pop, italo-disco, new york club classics, early house and techno, british new wave etc, like it was all the same thing. Which it can be.

Other stuff of interest is live Lil Louis and a really cool set of Bobby Konders at Cheetah with a live performance from the Jungle Brothers.

It's got 2 discs which are mixes of some 35 odd (off the top of my head) classic trax releases, then a third disc that has some of the landmark tracks unmixed.

I think it's worthwhile to explore the classics and get a base of understanding.

http://www.discogs.com/release/48569

This is always my recommended starting place for people new to House.
A great comp, mixed well and covering a large spectrum of the "house" sound, from early acid stuff to later funky disco loops stuff.

Also seek out any and every Steve "Silk" Hurley production...he's under-appreciated, but during the '90s, he realized exactly how electronic disco should sound.

Oh, and there's no such thing as MAW overkill.

http://music.hyperreal.org/library/history_of_house.html

http://www.jahsonic.com/House.html

http://core.ele-mental.org/ele_ment/said&did/history_of_house/roots.to.1985.html

They certainly have a "pop" accessibilty that could act as an easy gateway into house for people not well versed in track-based music. Obviously Kompakt weren't one of the originators, but still, if you have to ease people in, ease them in!

I can see Kompakt as a gateway for electronic music listeners...for pop fans, I'd probably point them in the direction of Trax or International DJ for early stuff, and Defected or Soulfuric for current -- just soul/R&B/pop pumped up with four-on-the-floors. But it all really depends on how lush and/or cheesy you want to get.

There's enough pop/rnb crossover stuff that can get people started - I mean in all truth the easiest place to start is a good houseified remix of a chart hit

I assume mr. sherburne knows a thing or two about the nightlife as well!

looks to be different trax on each cd.

i got 5005 last night and it is great! The Byron Stingley track is great, that midpoint between house and r&b but pre-deep-house. live bassplaying, etc. from 1985. the Basement Jaxx remix of Adonis is good as well. they really picked out some gems, its feels very fresh. im so sick of hearing the same trax records on every fucking comp ever.

The Byron track is pre-Ten City, no? Weird.

The unmixed track is "You Got The Love", which has a female vocalist singing a slightly different song over largely the same backing track.

Jess - "One More Time" was pretty huge man. Obviously, yeah, the most well-known american house is "Jock jams" style but daft punk made it pretty well with that one.

Fatboy Slim and Moby were easily the biggest dance music stars in the united states of the past decade.

i prefer "baby wants to ride" too but its nice having both on one 12"! I played "baby..." at my colelge radio station once and it was nice to see the disgusted faces on people i disliked but i didnt play the record for that effect.

yo i honestly had not heard gypsy woman in 10+ years until i d/led it just now to find out what the hell it was!

http://deephousepage.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000013

It's a british documentary called Pump Up the Volume Part 1 and covers the birth of house music in Chicago. It talks about how Jamie Principle wrote Your Love and made tapes of it which circulated through the clubs where Frankie Knuckles and all would play it. Everyone figured it was some more of that european electronic disco that was getting so popular and when they realized that it was a local guy doing it on a budget, the result was something akin to the Sex Pistols influence. But like the Damned to the Pistols, it was Jesse Saunders who got the first vinyl release out. Anyway, watch it yourselves...

Marshall Jefferson didn't think so when he played it here in Toronto last Friday
night, and neither did the room full of house heads who proceeded to go nuts upon hearing the intro. So, no, not a copout at all.

http://www.championparties.com/images/THANK-YOU-NOTE.gif

very useful thread for my prodding, very new (<24 hrs) interest in house.

thx guys.

BIG HOUSE aka the jackmaster.

hoos is a feeling

hoos music all, night, long

hoos your body, hoos your body

The Hoos That Steendriver Built

You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference to our HOOS.
And this is fresh.

Come on guys, stop being such jerks. let there be hoos

Girl I'll Hoos you!

You're in my HOOS nowwww

great work everybody.

hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo-oo-hoo-oos nation

http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseMasterz

ahem

*coughcough*

ahem

the above is a link to dl disc 1 of larry levan/paradise garage, if i'm being too subtle.

thats nice and one of my favorite cds but not really house music

but yeah selection is impeccable, i bought this new for like 9.99 when some local coconuts was going out of business maybe 4-5 years back and its been a constant in my life since ... immediate party starter

ive slowly obtained virtually every record on disc 1 (or a reissue of such, i dont really give a shit about 'collectability') and im about to get started on disc 2. Hoos I highly recommend the Change record that 'angel in my pocket' from disc two is off of, if you see it somewhere; you can usually find it for like 6-7 bucks used.

its got an early appearance from luther vandross

hm just linked to it cause i saw it recommended upthread and thought it'd be appropriate. you tipped me to it first though!

yeah no offense i just was disappointed i couldnt really make any hoos puns out of it