Hard News: Friday Music: The Godfather of House Music
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Yep felt very strange on Tuesday......
And the weekend came starting with Your Love, a track which I swear just brought the joint to a halt when we first played it. But we white boys in the UK caught on quick and off to Black Market Records we went.....
Its fair to say a number of us owe House music if not Chicago a living; given the above, my list is inspired by rather than a tribute to.
Playing in the background of te doco posted earllier. The same crew gave us the sublime break for love.
Adonis stitches nicely with the bookend of this set.
Lets not forget that Frankie was born in New York. This from the late Manny Skretching; I figure that anyone who mixed Jungle owes this one.
And the boys all sorted for E's and whizz ran off with the ball and came back with this (its all in there somewhere). This track kept me in a living for a whole year..... the break starts at 3:00 and who could fail to be inspired. The "pump it up boy" sample came of course from Chicago.
Stuff the Isle of Wight the real Woodstock of a generation in the UK was found around the M25 it was something else to see 2000 or more spotty herbetesses and herberts dancing to this as the sun rose.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Chicago and and especially Frankie Knuckles. -
Kings of Leon?
It must be 1984. That’s me by the red door, all wrapped up, and that’s Ian Dalziel next to me.
So that’s where I was 30 years ago!
I’d forgotten that ….
:- )But who took the photo?
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Band saw...
...another flashback (from 34 years ago) , I'd forgotten Toy Love played here, until I saw it again on friday - The Esplanade (St Kilda) hasn't changed a jot since 1980!
Shihad were playing next week ... -
Really nice tribute to Mr Knuckles. I am not really a fan of metronomic 4/4 house (I like breakbeat better), but his style was never metronomic. And kept those feet on the dancefloor, indeed.
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Well, shit. This is pretty amazing.
A Frankie Knuckles set from 1981 at The Warehouse
Around 44 minutes, there’s Modern Romance’s ‘Everybody Salsa’ – a UK chart hit for the group formerly known as the Leyton Buzzards – which was remixed by the late Richie Rivera and released in America as ‘Can You You Move’. It’s quite a tune!
I totally confess, I didn’t just know this off the top of my head, but it’s been fun working it out.
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Had no idea about the connection – when you said Leyton Buzzards I thought of “I’m hanging around” and the picture of Russell Harty on the cover.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Russell Harty
Saw him being his usual patronising plonker in an excerpt on the Bowie doco Five Years last night on Prime...
(Warning: You may feel like throwing things at the screen!)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Had no idea about the connection
Until I looked it, me neither!
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Talking of Frankie, reasonably pleased with this ( and far too many other 12" singles) today at Disk Union in Shibuya.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Talking of Frankie, reasonably pleased with this ( and far too many other 12” singles) today at Disk Union in Shibuya.
Fuck! That's more that reasonably pleasing ...
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