CAJMERE LIVE IN LONDON - SAT 8TH DECEMBER
The fifth Beyond The Clouds party celebrates "Only 4 U: The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual Records" hosting Cajmere´s dj set at Corsica Studios in London.
The man behind the most unique and enduring records in house history will be supported by Eglo's FunkinEven and Joe Hart for a Saturday night of funk, dance, acid, electro, garage and anything else that's good!
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Download A Chicago House Classic From Cajmere
The dance floor has always served, at least in part, as an ideal location for a potential romantic conquest. On the classic yet somewhat overlook track "Chit Chat," Cajmere goes slightly meta, showcasing his pick-up skills over classic house beat which likely provided the background to a number of real life conversations along the same lines. The Chicago producer (born Curtis Jones) recalls, "Chit Chat always makes me think of Tony Humphries because he showed that song so much love. It’s really because of him that the song became as popular as it did.” The track, along with two discs full of equally essential productions from the Cajual Records catalog, appears on Only 4 U: The Sound Of Cajmere And Cajual Records 1992 - 2012, out October 30th.
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This Ain't Chicago Interviews: An Oral History of UK House
One of the most rewarding parts of working on This Ain't Chicago was the ability to learn about the golden age of the UK underground party and acid house scene from the people who were a part of it. By virtue of the word of mouth nature of the scene, the inside story hasn't been widely shared in same manner as, say, accounts of the early days of hip-hop in New York. As a supplement to the music on the compilation (and the excellent liner notes by Dave Swindells), we sat down with some of the major players, including Lesley Lawrence of Bang The Party, P-Mac (producer for May), Kiss FM DJ Colin Faver, and of course Richard Sen, to speak about the parties, drum machines, labels, and drugs that inspired the music. These guys are a wealth of knowledge and talent, and it was an honor to listen to their stories.
This Ain't Chicago is available now:
iTunes • Amazon • Boomkat
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Twenty Years of House Classics On Cajual Records
Having explored some of the amazing house music coming out of the UK in the mid-80s on This Ain't Chicago it's a pleasure to come back to the city that originated the house music style, and to some of it's most notable practitioners. Only 4 U (out October 30th on double CD, double LP & digital download) collects two decades of music on Chicago's Cajual Records, including indisputable classics such as label founder (later to be known as Green Velvet) Cajmere's "Percolator" & "Brighter Days," all the up to fantastic music the label is still releasing today. The collection brings together the many shades of Cajual for the first time in a definitive label overview presented with rare photos from the Cajual Records archive and liner notes by Bill Brewster of DJ History.
CD 1
1. CAJMERE - PERCOLATOR (Remastered Original mix) 4.44
2. CAJMERE - CONFLICT 7.17
3. CAJMERE - CHIT CHAT (Clubhouse remix) 4.33
4. CAJMERE feat. DAJAE - BRIGHTER DAYS (Louie’s Masters At Work mix) 10.41
5. CAJMERE feat. DERRICK CARTER - DREAM STATES 7.06
6. CAJMERE feat. TERENCE FM - FEELIN’ KINDA HIGH (Vocal mix) 5.21
7. DAJAE – GET UP OFF ME (Cajmere’s mix) 5.39
8. GEMINI – IF YOU GOT TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING 5.26
9. DAJAE - DAY BY DAY (Chez ‘N’ Trent vocal mix) 6.04
10. CAJMERE - HOUSE-WERK (Original mix) 7.54
11. CAJMERE feat. WALTER PHILIPS – MIDNIGHT (Original mix) 4.44
12. DAJAE – U GOT ME UP (Danny Tenaglia’s Club version) 8.05
CD 2
1. GLENN UNDERGROUND – BEYOND 10.00 – UK jazz dude
2. GEMINI – LE FUSION 6.17
3. JOHNNY FIASCO – TAURUS 6.49
4. BRAXTON HOLMES presents JOHN REDMAN – PEOPLE EVERYDAY (12” mix Basement Boys Style) 10.32
5. ADAM – MOMENTS IN TIME 8.00
6. G.U. – THE WHEEL 7.31
7. DEEP SENSATION – GET TOGETHER (Deep Vocal mix) 6.41
8. ANDRE HARRIS – I CAN’T TAKE IT (Andre’s Original) 10.45
9. CAJMERE - SAY U WILL (Original mix) 5.29
10. GREEN VELVET presents JAMIE PRINCIPAL – LALALALALA (NSIDE MY MIND) 7.45
11. CAJMERE & RUSSOUL – LET’S DANCE 7.11
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Even More Factory Records Love On Fac. Dance O2
Even though the first volume of our celebration of Factory Records' dance catalog was a full double album worth of music, we couldn't help feeling that the legendary label's dance-leaning output was still fertile ground for exploration. One look at the track list for Fac. Dance 02 should show that there is still plenty A-list material to be collected. In addition to indisputable classics from groups like ESG and A Certain Ratio, we've also gathered some wonderful oddities, including Cheba Fadela’s Algerian rai blast, “N’Sel Fik”and the heavy dub and reggae stylings of The Wake, X-O-Dus and ACR alter ego Sir Horatio. Fac. Dance 02 will be out September 18th, with detailed track notes by Factory biographer James Nice, together with rare photos. The digital version of the album features five tracks not featured on the physical formats.
Track List
1. A CERTAIN RATIO – THE FOX 3.47
2. ESG – MOODY 2.46
3. MINNY POPS – BLUE ROSES 2.33
4. THICK PIGEON – BABCOCK + WILCOX 3.44
5. BITING TONGUES – MEAT MASK SEPARATIST 4.57
6. SIR HORATIO – SOMMADUB 7.18
7. X-O-DUS – SOCIETY 4.20
8. THE DURUTTI COLUMN – SELF PORTRAIT 4.40
9. SECTION 25 – KNEW NOISE 4.43
10. SHARK VEGAS – YOU HURT ME 6.59
11. FADELA – N’SEL FIK 7.06
12. KALIMA – LAND OF DREAMS 6.47
1. 52nd STREET – CAN’T AFFORD (Unorganised mix) 10.02
2. NYAM NYAM – FATE 8.06
3. A CERTAIN RATIO – LUCINDA 3.53
4. ESG – YOU’RE NO GOOD 3.09
5. SWAMP CHILDREN – SOFTLY SAYING GOODBYE 4.09
6. QUANDO QUANGO – GO EXCITING (12” mix) 5.57
7. SURPRIZE – IN MOVIMENTO 5.33
8. ANNA DOMINO – TAKE THAT 4.13
9. THE WAKE – HOST 7.57
10. ROYAL FAMILY AND THE POOR – VANEIGEM MIX 6.22
11. SECTION 25 – SAKURA 3.58
12. AD INFINITUM – TELSTAR 3.13
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This Ain't Chicago London Release Party
As savvy listeners return to the joys of classic Acid House, revelers with their fingers on the pulse are taking inspiration from the energy and spontaneity of the late 80s warehouse / underground scene for a fresh run of quality events. Accordingly, a mere one day after our NYC celebration Richard Sen will be joining the absolutely killer line-up of A Little Summer Of Love to celebrate the golden age of UK House Music. Feel the love!
Saturday June 30th @ Westbourne Studios (242 Acklam Road, London)
A Little Summer of Love w/ A Guy Called Gerald, Noel Watson, Richard Sen + more
7:00 PM - 2:30 AM
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Stream a Rare Tom Moulton edit of Bang The Party
Tom Moulton is a dance music legend and pioneer in the same realm as Walter Gibbons, whose work we explored on our Jungle Music collection a couple of years ago. When we found out that we had the opportunity to release for the first time on vinyl a rare Moulton edit of Bang The Party's "Bang Bang You're Mine" (which appears on Richard Sen's This Ain't Chicago collection), you can imagine our excitement. This is lovely slice of dance floor bliss, and a great example of the cross-polination of the nascent UK House scene with the American producers who helped inspire it. This version will be released on limited vinyl 12" and digital single on July 23rd, along with May's "Love Me Baby" and a new Richard Sen edit of K.C.C.'s "Future III."
Bang The Party - Bang Bang You're Mine (Tom Moulton Edit) by Strut
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Richard Sen DJs This Ain't Chicago Release Party in NYC
It wouldn't do to put out a record like This Ain't Chicago without adding a live DJ experience, would it? For the lucky folks in New York City, Richard Sen will spinning classics from the early days of the UK Acid House movement at Cielo, home of one of the best sound systems in the city. And if for some reason you needed more incentive to come party with us, he'll also be joined by Dennis "Citizen" Kane, of Disques Sinthomme fame. If you were there for the original days of Acid, this should be a welcome return. If you missed out, now's your chance to turn that frown upside down!
Friday June 29th @ Cielo (18 Little West 12th St. NYC)
This Ain't Chicago Release Party w/ Richard Sen & Dennis "Citizen" Kane
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Hear Colm III's "Take Me High" from This Ain't Chicago
One of the joys of working with a connoisseur like Richard on putting together a collection like This Ain't Chicago is being hipped to some great tracks that might have flown beneath the radar. Colm III's "Take Me High" (Mansion Mix) didn't make the biggest splash for the West Midlands production duo, but it's a hell of a track, and we're happy to share it with you. We'll let one half of the group, Mike Evans of Ruby Red Records, contextualize it for you:
(from the album notes)
“Ruby Red was one of the best known shops in the West Midlands for many years – we did well with dance music and catered for whatever anyone wanted, really. We sold a lot of bootleg Northern soul records. Colm III was myself and a DJ called Malcolm Heath who also worked in the shop and 'Take Me High' was one of the first records we released. It was really only picked up by Midlands and Northern DJs at the time. The follow-up single which had a track called 'Acid Cracker' was picked up by a couple of shops in London.
“It was the early stages of that type of music. After that, we did score a chart hit with ‘Addicted To Love’ by Powerzone and I started Cleveland City Records (Ruby Red was in a road called Cleveland Street in Wolverhampton). We had some big records there – Tony Di Bart ‘The Real Thing’ was a national Number One and we scored dancefloor hits by Chubby Chunks, Direct 2 Disc and a few others.”
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