#80s house

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If the color "Harvest Gold" had a final boss, it would be this room. That carpet is so thick you could probably lose a small terrier in it for days. The floral curtains are doing a lot of work to convince us that it's always springtime, even if the room itself feels like the inside of a well-toasted marshmallow.

Source: Windows Beautiful, 1980 (v7)

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'80s Expansive Contemporary Home by CatherineTCJD

CatherineTCJD on Modthesims shared this split-level lot as part of their The '80s Called build series. It comes lightly furnished and with light build cc, which is all linked in their post.

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There’s something commendable about owners that keep their homes in perfect original condition. This is a mansion in Ohio that was built in the 80s. The current owner put in feature lighting throughout and a very expensive sound system (very cool).  He also installed smart cameras throughout the house. He did the perfect amount of modernization. Check this time capsule out.

This is the entrance, and I thought he removed whatever was here, but apparently, it’s the back of a fountain. What would you put here? Maybe plants?

The fountain faces the living room. This is nice- pink balconies. 

I like the architectural features- that rounded sitting area and the ceiling lighting above it are very unique.

This must be part of the sound system the owner put in.

Large dining room that opens to a deck. Great space for a summer buffet.

Sleek bar with comfy upholstered seating on the main level. This is a party house.

The huge rec room on the lower level is open to a home theater, and look at the mirrored dance floor- there’s a disco ball above it, too. Plus, another bar.

There’s a full kitchen down here.

There are lots of different sections of the house where you can entertain- One party can be going on in one room, another party in another room.

A full gym. 

Choose the pool or the hot tub.

The main kitchen upstairs has a mirrored “cloud” ceiling. It looks like he replaced the appliances with modern stainless steel and redid the cabinetry.

The master bedroom is HUGE. All the bedrooms are on the 2nd level.

And, check out the master bath in red and black. 

Two extra bedrooms are very roomy. 

This looks like it was a child’s room- how cool is that balcony? 

Lots of deck space in the back- look at them all.

Wow. This is nice. I would definitely live here. Love what he did with the lights.

https://www.realtor.com/

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Ralphi Rosario - “You Used To Hold Me” Best of Hot Mix 5 ‘88 1988 House

Folks, I got what you might consider to be a rare one today. Now, you could find this particular mix of Chicago legend Ralphi Rosario's all-time house classic, "You Used to Hold Me," pretty easily if you just bought the comp it appeared on, Best Of Hot Mix 5 '88, for literally a few bucks. So this isn't at all rare in that regard. BUT, this particular mix is also, headscratchingly, nowhere to be found on either Spotify or YouTube, so I guess it is kinda rare since two of the largest publicly available music libraries don't have it.

Anyway, from critic John Bush:

He became a famed mainstream/house producer and remixer by the 1990s, but Ralphi Rosario will forever be known as the author of house's most infectious hit, "You Used to Hold Me," as well as his status as a member of the illustrious Hot Mix 5 radio team that consistently lit up Chicago's WBMX during the 1980s with the best house tracks of the day.

Ralphi Rosario hasn’t let up off the gas ever since he started DJing with disco, soul, and pop records as a kid back in 1979. When he was just a freshman in high school, an hourlong mix he made was sent to Chicago radio station WBMX and played on the air. And before long, Rosario would become the youngest member of house music’s most iconic DJ collective, the Hot Mix 5.

Since then, Rosario has remixed countless artists, ranging from Matchbox Twenty(!) to just about every vocal pop diva imaginable (Donna Summer, Cher, Madonna, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Celine Dion, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, the Spice Girls, and Katy Perry, to name just some). And unlike his peers, he’s probably the only house pioneer who’s been able to consistently keep up, adapt, and stay relevant. As one half of remixing duo Rosabel, Rosario has earned a Grammy nom, and since 2000, has racked up seven #1 hits on Billboard’s dance chart. No single house artist has had the steadfastness and appeal that Ralphi Rosario continues to possess.

And yet, despite his strong career of divine house jams, his most famous accolade, as well as his first, is still to this day his 1987 dancefloor burner, “You Used to Hold Me,” featuring Xaviera Gold on vocals. A little word to the wise: if you’re making a playlist or mix of house classics and that song ain’t on it, then you fucked up; simple as that. “You Used to Hold Me” is the first song that really showcased what Rosario was capable of as a house artist, and also what he could do with a diva’s vocals. There’s no doubt that it's the track that put him on a path towards his decades-long tradition of remixing female superstars. Xaviera Gold wasn’t a star by any means, but she damn well had the confidence and gravitas of one.

And the irony of it all is that, originally, Rosario wasn’t even feeling his own track. From a translated interview in Voce Spettacolo:

Everyone in Chicago was doing tracks like ‘Jack this’ or Jack that’.. I decided to take a semi-serious approach. I was up recording & putting the final touches on ‘You used to hold me’ and after it was done, I doubted myself severly [sic]. I thought it was a fluke ; and that it was too serious for the tracks that graced the dancefloors. I really didn’t think much of it. But I soon learned that it was not MY decision to make. The responses were extreme, and I didn’t see the success it reeled overseas & the impact that it made. Like I do now, I just moved onward and forgot about it. It was interesting to see how it was imbraced [sic]. It was a song in the making ; and just like my past years of dance music, it had staying power. Staying power and the ability to become ‘Classic’ on the dancefloors is rare and not to be found these days.

So here's this "rare" remix off the Best Of Hot Mix 5 '88 LP, which has some very noticeable differences compared to the original version that came out the year prior. See, while the original version can be split into two parts—the Xaviera Gold singing-and-monolgue part, followed by Rosario dazzling clubgoers with sampled, chopped-up, and sprinkled bits of those same singing-and-monolgue pieces—this remix isn't nearly as linear. Gold’s regular vocals are instead sandwiched between samples and chop-ups. And those samples and chops, as well as Gold's vocals, are different from the original! She has a section in the first third where she sounds much calmer, almost resigned to the fact that her guy doesn't seem to love her anymore. More than that, a lot of the drums on this track are totally different from the original and there's even a segment that has some squelching and zippering TB-303 acid in it, which you can't find in the original version at all either!

Anyone out there who loves the original mix of "You Used to Hold Me" should check this mix out, too. The liner notes don't reveal who's responsible for it, but my guess is that it's Rosario himself. It's really not rare, but you also can't seem to find it to stream anywhere, so I guess we'll call it, uh, medium rare? 😅

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Adeva! by Adeva Cooltempo/Chrysalis / Capitol/EMI 1989 House / Garage House / Smooth Jazz

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2584. Technotronic - ‘Pump Up The Jam’ (1989)

While your feet are stomping And the jam is pumping Look ahead The crowd is jumping

from the album Pump Up The Jam: The Album

Milli Vanilli became the poster boys for musical fraud when they were revealed, in late 1990, to have been lip synching to session singers’ vocals, but they were far from the only act of the era to have sold a product with misleading visuals. Black Box, C+C Music Factory and Australian act Euphoria all did it, while Belgian dance project Technotronic, led by producer Jo Bogaert, went one step further: their 1989 breakthrough hit gave an official featuring credit to Felly, a model who had contributed not a shred of original vocals to the song. Lucky then, that much like ‘Ride On Time’ and ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’, ‘Pump Up The Jam’ would become an all-time dance classic, and the controversy was largely overshadowed by the sheer magnitude of the track’s popularity - it would be credited as a breakthrough moment for house music in the US, where it vaulted into the top three, and by mid-1990, they were supporting Madonna on the legendary Blond Ambition World Tour (with the actual ‘Pump Up The Jam’ vocalist, Ya Kid K, front and centre).

Enlisting Ya Kid K as the track’s commanding frontwoman, even if she was initially sidelined, was ‘Pump Up The Jam’s secret weapon - as a rapper/singer, she infused the single with elements of both hip hop and pop, giving it a leg-up over more “pure” house records that may not have appealed so broadly to international audiences. The tactic of tapping into a cross-section of then-current trends makes ‘Pump Up The Jam’ a microcosm of dance-pop in 1989, but it’s the strength of the composition itself - the drama of that instantly recognisable intro, the give-and-take relationship between the vocals and the beat, and the joyful spirit of what would become clichés of the genre (“Get your booty on the floor! Make my day!”) that guaranteed ‘Pump Up The Jam’ would endure far beyond Technotronic’s brief, but hugely important, moment at the top.

‘Pump Up The Jam’ music video:

Chart peaks: UK #2, US #2, AUS #4

Written by Richard Eric, 17/3/19