- Audio CD (Mar 12 2004)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Azuli
- ASIN: B00004YRXM
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #134,110 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Product Description
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"For your listening pleasure", Mr Knuckles informs us, "I've put together a program that I think chronicles two very important periods in Dance Music." Note the capital letters. Coming from the Godfather of House, these words should get anybody with an interest in the history of the genre going, while the music itself will do it for everybody else. CD 1 is Chicago circa 1982--all hail the birth of house music. This is when disco's strings lost out to a battle of supremacy against the driving bongo rhythms, pared down vocals and staccato chord sequences house-heads know and love. CD 2 meanwhile, chronicles Frankie's return to New York a decade later and illustrates what 10 years can do to a sound. This is more recognisable stuff (although still not the "classics" you night expect)--the sound of early Ministry of Sound compilations. What we used to know as "garage", the pure uplifting, vocal house comes courtesy of the likes of Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield--remixed beyond all recognition. By keeping the selection truly "underground", Knuckles avoids the "classics" compilation problem of presenting a tired, heard-it-all-before anthology. But you know that what you're listening to is history in the making. --Ruby Shepheard
Album Description
Disc one concentrates on the early years of house music with lots of piano led boogie-disco cuts such as, Covertion-'Let's Do It', Nick Straker Band-'A Little Bit Of Jazz', Candino-'Thousand Finger Man' and Billy Frazier & Friends-'Billy Who?'. Disc two takes us from the late 80's through the mid 90's. 2000 release. Slimline double jewel case housed in a slipcase.
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Remember Back in the Day...
Nov 26 2003
Format:Audio CD
Remember Back in the Day...
when you would by an album and listen to it over and over and over? This is the first time since i was a teenager that that's exactly what I did... and continue to do. Da Knuckles man is pure genius. Period.
when you would by an album and listen to it over and over and over? This is the first time since i was a teenager that that's exactly what I did... and continue to do. Da Knuckles man is pure genius. Period.
Godfathers taste
Aug 20 2003
Format:Audio CD
There is not much to say regarding this collection: If you know Frankie, the godfather of house, you definitely know you can trust him and his dj-experience since the 70's about what's HOT and what's NOT. - Worth purchasing if you are into deep (house),classics and disco.
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