Gotta have house...music!!!

[roger]

Hello all ..

I've found this clip on You-Tube where some of the legendary House Music producers explain where the sound came from ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=famO6KMm0K4

Roger

[ollie]

Hi everybody, it's a Houseparty.
Very cool Thread Juice. Thanks!
Lot of fun and pleasure this classy house music brings too the listener.
Undoubtly ya'll know your portion of house, and choosed some of the finest.
Kraftwerk had a influence on the developement of the style early on.
And some of the New Wave industrial elements such as
Front 242 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JVjf...eature=related

Nitzer Ebb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq-Pm2AqJWw

Check this 1982 peace from ZaZa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHwGT...eature=related

The Normal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QEr...FB34735E250743
DAF [[Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft), or other New Wave bands gave some input as well.
Again cool stuff on here. Here another old housy club hit for ya'll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHAliA8b4U

[roger]

I'm noticing that my pages are loading a bit slowly, so I'll only add the links & not embed them here.

While most people think of House/Dance Music as being frenetic, it offered some nice slices of downtempo music, as well...

Ten City - One Kiss Will Make It Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWcUvLRUcgc

The Chimes - 1, 2, 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16EuVMVQzR4

Inner City - What'cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llBdP...eature=related
The Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7qdinx_kPM

Innocence - Let's Push It [[Big Beat Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvv9k...eature=related

as well as 'Shine' by Kriss Coleman, as already posted by Roger!

Hi Juice ..

Its interesting to note that the two of those selections of yours which are British acts .. INNOCENCE .. and .. THE CHIMES .. are acts that very few U.K. Soul/R&B fans would associate them with "House Music".

Which makes me wonder if you would regard SOUL II SOUL as having anything to do with "House Music"?

I'll try to explain ..

Back in the mid/late '80s/early '90s "House" and "Dance Music" was very much part of the U.K. "Pop" music mainstream .. in much the same way that in the U.S. "Motown" was part of the mainstream in the late '60s and "Disco" was in 1977/8.

As I mentioned in a previous post "Jack Your Body" made #1 on the U.K. charts early in 1987 .. the previous year one of the ten biggest selling 45s in the U.K. was "Trapped" by COLONEL ABRAMS.

Here is the good Colonel appearing on Top Of The Pops in 1985.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915a1F-PTck

If I look at U.S. chart positions "Trapped" made #20 R&B and did nothing on the "Pop" charts. In Britain it spent 23 weeks on the "pop" chart and peaked at #3.

There are A LOT of other examples of this from the 1980s, where relatively obscure [[ in the U.S. ) R&B records sold much better in Britain than in their homeland.

Basically, in Britain we had hardly any of the ridiculous "Anti Disco" backlash that the U.S. experienced in 1979/80 .. indeed I would say that in 1981/2 R&B based Dance Music was more popular in Britain than it had been back during 1977/8.

Consequently, when "House" put in an appearance it quite quickly became part of the mainstream, as a sound it certainly was never really "underground", though most of your selections would mean nothing to the typical U.K. music lover .. some were new to me too!!

And quickly there were U.K./European records being made that followed the lead set by NYC and Chicago.


The following 4 U.K./European efforts were ALL big "Pop" hits [[ Top 3 at least ) in Britain in the "House" era ..

"Pump Up The Jam" .. TECHNOTRONIC .. Belgian Group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI

"Respectable" .. MEL AND KIM .. #1 U.K. Hit produced by STOCK/AITKEN/WATERMAN from 1987.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmy2fCuTjs

"Pump Up The Volume" .. M.A.R.R.S. .. Number 1 in Britain in 1987.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87snXgV7Pg

"Ride On Time" .. BLACK BOX .. really a remix of "Love Sensation" by LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY by an Italian act.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJ2B8PFjqU


However not all Soul/R&B fans were too pleased by the new development and there was somewhat of a backlash .. with a "Rare Groove" scene emerging that concentrated on exposing little known '70s recordings .. "Funk" and "Steppers" in particular .. a kind of "Antidote" to "House".

SOUL II SOUL grew out of the London "Rare Groove" scene, and both THE CHIMES and INNOCENCE are seen here as part of that same movement.


This is the first INNOCENCE hit .. "Natural Thing" .. it made the U.K. Top 10 .. lovely cool sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6epX28R4tc

And here is the write up on them on Wikipedia ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_[[band)

And this is the big hit THE CHIMES had here .. their version of U.2.s "I Still Havn't Found What I'm Looking For".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-KAnnG_vPc


I think its difficult for U.S. residents to comprehend just how HUGE "House" became in Britain .. the British press labeled the summer of 1988 "The Second Summer Of Love" as a result of the Acid-House craze. The first "Summer of Love" being 1967.

That was after promoters started to organise huge unlicensed parties, either outdoors or in abandoned buildings, playing "House", and sparking off a huge controversy ..

Here is a rather sensationalised BBC news report from 1988 about the "Acid House" phenomenon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgjog28R9_0

And a rather more objective report from ITN's "World In Action".

Part One ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJkT...eature=related

Follow the you-tube links to see the whole program ..


Roger

[GeeTee(HPK)]

Alright, here's some House classics that can still turn a party out. Ever though some of these songs were released during the Disco era, they took on a "new life" in the House scene.


The original



The J-5's version of The Supremes hit.



















Even though these are jazz cuts, they're now adopted by the House music scene






This is a original funk track,but the House community has turned this into a House song.


I hope you enjoyed these examples of what we still rock in the clubs as House Music. If I can think of any more, I'll add to the list.

[GeeTee(HPK)]

I forgot to mention, a man who brought a lot to House Music. Although he's no longer with us, his mixes are legendary.
Pick up the latest issue of Wax Poetics magazine, there's a nice story on this DJ.

Here's one of his classic mixes of a not so popular Dells song,but he made it a hit on the dance floor.

[marv2]

Ok there are some very good examples here so far. Here is another one from ME! Quest featuring Liz Torres and "Mind Games"!

[GeeTee(HPK)]

I forgot to add these two James Brown songs on the list,but they are known as House songs.


"I'm Satisfied" [[From the "Bodyheat" album,but this song has been remixed)



They will speed the tempo up a bit,and sometimes folks will be "slam dancin' [[bumpin' into each other,not in the violence style of punk rock slam dancin' lol)