Fantazia presents The House Collection Volume 1

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The house scene in cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and London were also provided with many underground Pirate Radio stations and DJs alike which helped bolster an already contagious, but otherwise ignored by the mainstream, music genre. Again I’m tempted to say ‘they don’t make ’em like that anymore’ but I can say that about most of the stuff on my blog, this set is a collection of the finest music of this type at that time I doubt you’d find a better example all in one place. Let No Man Put Asunder (Love To Infinity’s Yellow Cab Mix) – First Choice (featuring Rochellle Fleming).

It’s been a while since I listened to both of these discs back to back in full and it’s been an enjoyable couple of hours. One of the early anthemic tunes, "Promised Land" by Joe Smooth, was covered and charted within a week by the Style Council.

The slipcase has FHC3CDL / FHC3 CDL printed on the spine/back but the jewel case spines are printed as FHC3CD as per the standard release. Until 1986 the club was financially troubled; the crowds only started to grow when the resident DJs (Pickering, Park and Da Silva) started to play house.

A mate first owned this and as four of us cruised to the arches glasgow in his 205gti back in the day, these house tunes would get us raring to go. Founded in 1982 by Factory Records, The Haçienda in Manchester became an extension of the "Northern Soul" genre and was one of the early, key English dance music clubs. As I said this is a positive thing as it gives you in one disc a nostalgic trip through clubland in the mid 90’s I would say better than any of those cheesy retrospective cash cow TV ad compilations ever could, mainly because this mix is authentic and actually of the time, rather than looking back at it.Non-personalized content and ads are influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing and your location (ad serving is based on general location). I bought this one for my Christmas box through the Metro Centre in Newcastle if I remember correctly and it was the real catalyst for getting me into clubland and house music.

Daphne and Judy Cheeks still have it though, text book 90’s sound and really that’s what Electronica Restoration is all about! Many underground venues and DJ nights also took place across the UK, such as the private parties hosted by an early Miss Moneypenny's contingent in Birmingham and many London venues. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The Phoenix’ just because it has this big room filling sound, then opens up into a beach party all of its own, it’s like dark chocolate with a strawberry fondant centre. As EDM has matured and settled in to what it is today the early stuff really shows just how freestyle and loose everything was back then. Jeremy is good for ,guts to do something different to most of the mix CDs around at that time by sticking his neck out with his experimental mixing style even if sometimes it didn't work out too well. Europeans embraced house, and began booking legendary American house DJs to play at the big clubs, such as Ministry of Sound, whose resident, DJ Harvey brought in Larry Levan. Well at least AH can restrain himself sticking with uplifting vocal (soul + choir in places) piano house pretty much throughout, it makes reviewing so much easier!

The mixing isn't brilliant by a long way, many of the tracks have slipped away in time but what jeremy does is take it off in many directions delivering something quite special. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Featuring artists that defied genres and the underground/overground such as Leftfield, Living Joy, Wildchild and Inner City.

P. • March 88 Previews • Soul Daze • The Guitar Dance EP • The House Sound Of Chicago - Megamix Vol. or so years has taken its toll though and some of the tracks which were perhaps once sophisticated and cutting edge are sounding a bit camp and cheesy now, but that’s not to take anything away from it, it’s not intended to compete with today’s stuff, just be warned if you do pick up a copy. My opening statement could easily be misinterpreted but I mean it in the positive sense so I will explain. Graham Park was bang on form on this one, Luvdup spinning some corkers and working those decks to the max.