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20 track album
Support this blog: 20+ track compilation for $2.50 on Bandcamp (click here). ($0.12 per song) Retro-tinged synth dreams, synthpop, house and disco edits produced under different aliases. 💎📀 No Patreon, no monthly hassle. Just one and done 😊 Alternatively support for free by watching what I make on YouTube: Mamotreco YouTube Channel (click here👍).
It's that time of the week for a new Monday Mix.
Every Monday at Twistedsoul, we drop a new Monday Mix for your listening pleasure.
A-T-5 038 Opus Ten Loves Calling (Instrumental Dub)
Almost up there with Sun Palace's Rude Movements (I love that record) and anticipating dreamy Italian house. John St. John (Opus 10) would give up the dancfloor for beanbags and candles when he starts making new age albums. He's already using his synth talents to make library records
A-T-5 003 Paul Simpson Connection Treat Her Sweeter (Treat Me Dubmental)
It's around 40-years since house music as a distinctive genre began to appear. Jesse Saunders track "On & On" was released in early 1984. "On & On" is regularly held up as the first Chicago house music track to be released (Jamie Principles "Your Love" is earlier but isn't released to the public, Chip E produces the first Chicago track to mention 'House', that comes in 1985). House wasn't just about records though, it is a culture. There were clubs, dances, and dress codes that appeared before Jesse Saunders' "On & On". The music that was played at these formative house nights to black Chicago teens was disco, Italo, new wave and synth-pop (punk out, preppy) ... tracks like Skatt Bros. "Walk The Night", Martin Circus "Disco Circus", “One More Round” by Kasso, and “Spasticus Autisticus” by Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Frankie Knuckles was playing New York disco sets as a DJ at the Warehouse and then The Power Plant, heavily influenced by his friend Larry Levan. This is why when it was asked 'Where did house music come?' from at the Chicago House Music Conference last year someone shouted out New York from the audience. As you can imagine this didn't go down very well in Chicago
The point was though records like the one above and other records by Paul Simpson, Winston Jones, Boyd Jarvis, Timmy Regisford, and many others on the underground disco scene in New York got rinsed by Frankie Knuckles as a DJ in Chicago. There is a New York connection. Tracks like the one above get referred to as Proto-house or Garage House nowadays (more recent Post-disco is thrown on too)
These records were also being played in the UK too and were released here. "Treat Her Sweeter" was released in the UK by Virgin Records subsidiary 10 Records. Mick Clark was A&R for 10, he's the guy who signed Loose Ends and Soul II Soul (and many others). Clark was also instrumental in getting Neil Rushton's Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit compilation off the ground - Clark attempting to replicate what Pete Tong had done for London Records by cornering the market on the distribution of Chicago house music and getting it on the pop charts
A-T-4 127 James Mason
In the 1970s James Mason was a guitarist and keyboardist in Roy Ayers Ubiquity band. He releases his solo album Rhythm Of Life in 1977 and Sweet Power Your Embrace becomes a Rare Groove favourite . In the 1980s Mason releases a few tracks on Prelude as Wuf Ticket, he also continues to play sessions with other artists and turns his hand to engineering and production. There's pretty good history here
James Mason - Nightgruv recorded in 1984 as a demo for the follow-up album to Rhythm Of Life. The album never materialised and it wasn't until 1996 that Nightgruv first saw the light of day on the b-side of I Want Your Love, this 12" was reissued with a longer version of Nightgruv by Rush Hour in 2012
Earl Flint - People Hold On (Instrumental) co-written and produced by James Mason
