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The Original Chicago House Classics

Various Artists Audio CD
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Product details

  • Audio CD (25 Mar 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Music Club
  • ASIN: B00005YXJ2
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,626 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A lesson in House 12 Nov 2003
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I'm not quite sure how the previous reviewer came to his 2 star review. There are some SOLID gold tunes on this album.
There are some INCREDIBLY influential tunes on here.
Can U feel it is House at it's finest & Frankie Knuckles 'Your Love' is just sublime, as is Raplhi Rosario's 'You used to hold me'. Marshall Jeffersons 'Move your Body' is another killer cut.
All these tunes are entitled to their Hall Of Fame status.
A 2 star review just doesn't do them justice.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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If you see anything published by the previous reviwer who dismisses this becuase he doesn't like it; don't bother reading it. You can't produce the history of something only from the bits of it you like. That's like missing out on the big bang when writing about the historty of the universe.

This early Chicago house was the start of a collosal movement that went worldwide and is still around twenty years later (at time of writing).

Sure it sounds dated now, but in the clubs in the late eighties (not early nineties that scarygeorge says) this was tremendously ground breaking and we danced our shoes off to this stuff. From hearing the first Jack Your Body and Love Can't Turn Around many of us were in the record shops on Saturdays buying up all this stuff week in week out.
I've got all the tracks from this album from origianls in the eighties.
It's all home grown black Chicago house and is pure.
(The only track that doesn't belong is "Pump up London" as this was Acid House but still produced by Mr Lee a Chicago House founder.) If I were on a desert island I might take Ralphi Rosario featuring Xavier Gold's U Used to Hold Me...absolutely fantastic soul lifting spine tingling track.

Anyway listen to this as a sample or a document of what spawned EVERY western non hip hop dance genre since.

I have the box set of this era from London Records series "House Sound of Chicago" label and it has 12 albums of this stuff - the amount of music being produced in Chicago at the time was prolific.

These are just a few of the big hits that made it big at the time. A pity there aren't more comprehensive and definitive catalogues of this retrospective stuff.

If you want a book that tells you a little about this time in music history you can start with the Channel 4 book Pump Up the Volume but there's only a couple of chapters about this era but it does tell the story of the history and proliferation of house with a UK bias up to the early 2000s. I'm looking for more detail of the Chicago House era as it's without doubt the very most important phase in the history of House and dance music.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Original Chicago House ClassicsThis is great cd for people to get a feel of the roots of house music.which I can say is a religeon.all over.the world people buzz with excitement passing on the latest dance mixes.real house is not polished music.its slightly dirty sounding.it does not matter what it is.people who really know house music.say its a feeling.and that's true.house music will live forever.because .its ever changing.remember hardcore dance.is nothing like sweet disco.in house we absorb.all the great music around us.house is really a way of living.my favourite house song is.what would we do-original mix}d.s.k I love this song because it sounds like its just.been recorded in a garage.its slightly gritty.house has absorbed every other form of music in to it .remember that saying.if you don't know you are in love.your not.well that goes for house you are in it or not.in house .if someone moaned about house.you would take it has a personal insult.the originaters of house threw down the seeds.and those seeds flowered into ever mutating dance.all dance music should be is giving people a better existence.the american indians believe you become what you believe.it does not matter what house is.its what you want it to be. Bye stephen paul neave.I can't recommend this cd which I like.because young people will have their own version of house which in my opinion is great.
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