http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtYTORj55I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQcg-dRg5h4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KukfgaNacCs

Really interesting how a lot of younger london DJs (especially Ben UFO from Hessle Recordings) are picking up on this sort of stuff and rolling it in their sets.

Check out?

Jamie Principle's original 1986 version of 'Your Love' on Persona Records:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu8hVn_0Lq4

And the better-known (and let's face it, hipsters, better) version with Frankie Knuckles from 1987:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLE1YE_oFQ

Which of course got turned into this thing of wonder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd0zY_DYxjE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hYX4XCzQ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarSRa19sZc

Get that Detroit stuff outta here! ;-)

Yes, I felt very much that?

Heh, it ain't where you from... :-)

Both the Chicago & Detroit sounds are kind of intertwined in a continuum in my head, sorry. I first remember hearing Love Can't Turn Around (I bought the 7" at the Sounds Unlimited at 256 after reading?

William Gibson?s slightly misquoted maxim that ?the street finds its own uses for technology"

The way these kids (and they were just that ? many 15/16 or?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMR41Lxb1L4

We went to Spectrum a couple of times (Monday nights!). Heaven was a gay club with an awesome lighting rig. Crazy place.

Loved my only visit, though did get swallowed up by those sofas

And not a Linn LM1 in sight. Then again, that was mostly a Los Angeles thing.

Love those moments too

Same, at The WAG one night around the same time. It worked, but Todd was electric during that period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ol80NVe2Jk

I particularly remember leaving the Box one morning at 5am and walking home, Cuba, Manners, Willis, Boulcott, and?

As it would at 5am after a night out with light rain falling! ...

And errr when it rained it would all turn ... they were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact, the?

Oh!

I remember going to an incredible Mutoid Waste Company party at some rail sheds they'd squatted in 1989.

I emerged from one of the very crowded outbuildings to find a fine mist of rain falling. There?

Ah Heaven. Never in my life have I brushed past so many naked male torsos. And the walls were dripping wet.

Todd was electric during that period.

Absolutely! Black Riot's A Day in the Life might just be all-time top 10 for me

I feel very lucky to have experienced something not fully formed... which is the beauty of?

One night at Spectrum I was on the (sunken) dancefloor and a beautiful black man reached down over the railing, slipped an arm over my shoulder ... and put?

There was a time, early to mid 80s, when you could spot Boy George, Marilyn and Richard Branson, who owed the place, on the dancefloor

<3

Too populist, you say? Bite me, house hipsters.

Tell us, Christopher, what were the skies like when you were young?

The skies were wonderful ? constantly changing thanks to that wind? and the sunset colours were indeed lovely, caught on the clouds, while in the winter chill the distant?

If you can't handle being touched by gay men, you?

I had a very similar experience at a party once. Everyone was having a sniff, and then putting their heads up through the holes in a parachute hanging from the ceiling. So you got the visual effect of a softly billowing cloudscape?

Before starting one song he declared "I'd like to dedicate this next song to Russell Brown..." then?

But clearly it doesn't do so for large numbers of people, including the rest of the posters here, so I'm not sure why that and the paragraph before needed to be said?

Headless Chickens

A band that enthusiastically embraced?

I was back for?

Apologies for being a popspotter and perhaps harshing your nostalgia buzz slightly, but Love Can't Turn Around 'only' made it to no.10 in the UK?

Except that Polish chicken-plucking folk music is actually quite tuneful.

Except for the chickens...

But clearly it doesn't do so for large numbers of people, including the rest of the posters here, so I'm not sure why that and the paragraph before needed to be said?

What's wrong with contributing an amusing anecdote?

Yeah, he clearly was?

I context it seemed a bit party-pooping.?

Heh. I stand corrected.

OTOH, that Chemical Brothers crack at the end of my post was a bit of a throwdown ...

'Big Fun' is just a beautiful sound to hear, any time.

Maybe because I never did drugs. What a goody goody.

You don't need drugs to have a good time. But they can be handy.?

'twas Johnny Clegg I reckon. ;-)

The very excellent Six Volts!

http://www.youtube.com/user/plan9music#p/a/u/1/eIskFITv8Os

I seem to remember they did a lovely cover of the Aquamarina song from Stingray

Clegg?

ETA: Aarggh! Late again. Just seen it upthread!

'Big Fun' with bonus geezers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omfiVkkJ1OU

And 'Good Life', in which Paris Grey dances around the West End of London and Kevin Saunderson, for some reason, runs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998P6HEzCdI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFUUQ7mb_Qg

And fellow Jersey natives, Turntable Orchestra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agX3PKbRmBs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWPaCabQrlU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_RQ9ILumw

Recorded on a cassette....

edit: PAS doesn't recognise YouTube shortners it seems

It began in Africa ca ca ca (which I think was Russell?s initial reference)
Sooo, it could be any Band really. ;-)
Gimmee another clue.
Unless you were thinking of Toto,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCca5mPMp9A&feature=player_detailpage
Come to think of it, doesn't that guy?

Only slightly – Jack Your Body made number one and the two were intertwined in many minds (and on many dancefloors) at the time.

It's a tune that has perhaps been played to death over the years but for about fifteen years Peter Urlich and I formed a New Years Eve DJ tag team and that was our midnighter. The acapella?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_1sY8KRH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_JEy-3Hegk

The non-trainspotters may wish to pass, but two quite wonderful vids of the Robert Owens performing a pair of 80s Chicago classics almost acapella in Melbourne in?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ZXAM_dUNQ

Aha! Musical snobbery.
I, for one, thought when I saw the title of this thread "Now, is this going to be about Sociology or Economics" Alas no, more like "Last night a DJ stole my life"
Handbags at?

Dieter Meier and Boris Blank were, with Kraftwerk, the godfathers of all things Chicago and Detroit so it's a perfect fit, Jacqui

Whoops sorry, I wasn't trying to stomp on Toto or your taste. As musicians those guys were / are peerless. It was more that the thread, musically, had veered off and I was being protective.

Such of, course, is the nature of PAS.

I like some of?

Madman Across The Water was a wonderful record, although I think it sounds a bit overblown now.

I went to the Yellow Brick Road show at Western Springs around on 28th Feb, '74

Now that was a spectacle....

See, I'm pulling this thread off course?

Early Elton is the only Elton. I was surprised how many of my friends hadn't heard 'Tiny Dancer' until __Almost Famous__?

Yes. Check how Kaftwerky the Virgo 4 track that leads off Trax Re-Edited sounds.

I'll be in touch.

What the house culture meant for me in 1988 was a chance to break out of an indie rock scene that had become dark and dull. It was going from standing listening to drones (don't get me wrong,?

TBH, I've always loved the disco. Donna Summer and the Sex Pistols. At Rip It Up, I used to drive?

House music, as with techno – the pure stuff not the Europop variety that has usurped the word – is mostly just disco made with?

Cool at last, cool at last. :-)

The hell she wasn't/isn't. What madness is this? Plays lovely slide guitar. Did Little Feat stuff. She's cool, all right.

How did you know I liked jazz, andin?

Yesterday was my psychic day. I know it was cause my language transforms into Yoda-like utterances, and I grow hairs in my ears that give them a slightly pointed look.
I also correctly foresaw friends were going to see Rango.
Which I?

My Zanzibar favourite (yes, I was a bit young, but hey) was this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qzYzu6Bo80

Danced pretty randomly with a certain boy about town of Dutch decent, as I recall. DJs dropping off the wall songs like this in the mix were always?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KzORRrLxxo&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3flYZ6LOsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphUhLdHgyc

What I loved about Ten City (apart from the fact they may have been the only trio ever to have two guys called Byron as members) was that they so perfectly referred to and drew from the?

Big Fun 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0A9EydDX9Q&feature=related

And moving to Detroit?
Big Fun 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omfiVkkJ1OU

No relation, as far as I know, except I liked dancing to both.

The irony is that producer and mentor of Ten City, Marshall Jefferson – one of the most important creators in the whole scene and vastly influential – personal tastes veer towards heavy metal and hard rock.

Well, as a teenage metalhead, I got into?

Was that you?

I liked Coil too, and a bit of SoM. For some reason this reminded me of these guys. They were a bit revolutionary (pun intended) in their?

Christopher Dempsey
Dave Ryan
Mike Tasman-Jones

Get back to me with your mailing address, guys.

Damn, I thought in a randomness contest I had a pretty good chance.

[coat]

Oh cool... I'm stoked!

Yep, I was That Guy. Although possibly it wasn't so much the clothes as it was the headbanging, to music characterised by a series of repetitive beats.

Sorta like the dark mirror image of the nascent happy house scene.

Party at Christopher's place...

My copy of Coup flew off the roof of a car as I was unlocking it in Harlesden and under the wheels of a Routemaster bus.

I retrieved it and it still plays perfectly. The cover has a wide tread?

I so totally do remember you, unless there was more than one of you.

I retrieved it and it still plays perfectly. The cover has a wide tread mark on it.
Awesome! Seems sort of appropriate. Of course there has been much discussion about [[http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/364/The%20Chemical%20Brothers-Block%20Rockin%27%20Beats_23%20Skidoo-Coup/|that?

She's cool, all right.

Well. She's emphatically not "cool", but she was really *good*. A beautiful interpreter of others' songs. Until about 1980something, anyway (duetting with Bryan Adams is where it all goes wrong). Give It Up is one of my favourite albums, ever. And her version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWzWTqjW0_0

I will give anyone here one thousand dollars if they can find me that hat.

You don't already have a copy?

Son, I am disappoint.

You'll be telling us next that you don't own a copy of I.O.U by Freeeze.

We are Legion.

I.O.U by Freeeze.

As far as I can tell, while you mentioned it, you didn't post it. Deserves an outing, I reckon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-1DYwaxrE

You don?t know how low I can go.
I?ve just designed and built a solar hot water system for $50 :-D

Patent it. No don't, please. Share it indiscriminately for the betterment of humankind, and I want one.

No, I will never part with the drawings, Sofie has a big handbag. ;-)

Nah, seriously.
I'll put it up on my Blog when I've drawn it up, it is sooo simple.

HT to GeorgeFM this afternoon for reminding me how much I love this song.

Presumably not a large hotwater bottle on the roof? :p

There's a bit more to it than that and I was a bit conservative on the price but Hey.
Check out the project Peria Blog Burma Road
Now, get back to Music, Simon gets a bit ansty when?

We can't have that! He might get antsy, as well.

So what about this then? (Better sound than a recent one, live, in Berlin, imo, so apologies for the "no vid"-video)

Oh yes – there's no pleasing some people!!

Challenge accepted.

Was that because you bought them all, or is Danielle saving herself from having to front. ;-)

We are sorry, but this product is not available at this time

"houndstooth+mod+cap" seems to bring up some close results.

Or 'houndstooth+jockey+cap'.

Shouldn't be too hard to find them. Ebay has a couple of 'close but no cigar' listings, like this and?

And this. Then there's this whole Alabama Houndstooth website, including Houndstooth for dogs.

I waaaaant the Fedora. Oh, not the dog one.

I'll put my hand up and confess to a perhaps grumpy overreaction to Toto but I did jump in and and wave the Elton John flag a post or two later to make up for?

I love Sufjan Stevens. It's about Chicago. Sue me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1PUqZyeuAk&feature=related

that'll do, pig, that'll do

Well, my first child *is* a masculine child...

Also, holy shit, you are all terribly awesome Hat Questers! (Has anyone started a Fuck Yeah Houndstooth tumblr?)

That was also for Danielle, as kind of surprised she didn't get there first. ;-)

ETA: Canada is just a little north of Chicago isn't it?

Sounded like they couldn't decide whether to make it a rock song, a disco song, or a new wave song. No worries, let's throw it all into a blender!

Rotorua skating rink. And yes do remember Loverboy...