Early summer calls for summer heat. I don't know if our readers are mostly of the ages wherein the summer break still exists as a beacon of gettin nasty, but I hope for their sake that in some way, summer means easy living, sweaty drinking, and half-naked lovelys. For me, the beat of the summer calls out in deep and ghetto house: Peacefrog, Relief, early Dance Mania, the sort of stuff you might have heard for the first time on Daft Punk's essential mix back in 97.
This track goes back to 96. TRP clearly has huge props for Armand Van Helden in all of his psychotic glory and house-based fury. Plus, he gets tremendous respect for having his biggest success be a leftfield hard-house remix of a Tori Amos song. DJ Sneak is another master of the art of making sweaty house, I know him mostly thru AVH, as a remixer, and from his track Funky Rhythm, which I've heard rear its spoken word call-to-arms in many the club (particularly in its AVH incarnation, because these guys work too well together). I need to get more Sneak. This 9 minute beat-em-up epic, from Relief 767 Hardsteppin Disko Selection, has more progressions than your average nervous breakdown. Pardon the short skit, murderously disco horns soon ensue, giving way to the bounciest pinball bass-line you need for maiming your girlfriend or dog. Mongoloids in the mothafuckin house!!!
Armand Van Helden and DJ Sneak - Psycho Bounty Killaz' [alt link]
I really appreciate that icons like Paul Johnson finally have an outlet like Myspace to post the giant collages they make of different pictures of themselves. Paul Johnson is the man, I'm pretty burnt-out so you should just do your homework on this one. The guy is a house legend, and his shit goes deep. You know a lot of his tracks even if you don't 'know' them, and- in addition to having the perfect title for this post- this song off this classic album on Peacefrog, Feel the Music, will be essential listening in a couple weeks when that new Mr. Oizo EP drops and Patrick 122 starts blowing up the club, because that Gary's Gang sax has been worked over at least once before, 10 years ago.
Paul Johnson - Summer Heat [alt link]
Now to end on that DM tip. Let it be said that Pop Rawkus totally beat me to this label, I really have only just started collecting their catalogue while he's been at it a good while. But in terms of ghetto-house and techno, Dance Mania is the bar. Here's a classic off DM113, the unforgettable Ghetto Shout Out EP (you can find the immortal A-side here), wise words to guide your summer, straight from the man Mitch.
The Parris Mitchell Project - Bitches and Money [alt link]
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buy me a round of drinks. "do it at the disco" garys gang.
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Dude seriously, do yourself a favor. Go to http://ezeskankin.com/ and download the Sneaks Green Bush mixtapes for free, smoke a joint and boogie. Those tapes were and are the shit. Fun fact if you didnt know, Sneak co wrote Digital Love. Thanks for the Paul Johnson, I knew Id heard that sample used before.
whoa, thanx for the sick lead man.
haha... peep Stretch in that pic! And Armand rockin a shirt with Kid on it. Dope.
This dude Lazaro Casanova dropped Psychic Bounty Killaz at Banana Split a few weeks back and it destroyed!
And donson tells the truth... The Green Bush series rules. Did you peep my edit of Sneak's "Funky Rhythm"?
absolutely, mb, you always bring dem bangers
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