Quote Originally Posted by crime View Post
heheh, it dragged the old school heads out here though eh? I remember first hearing Green Velvet's "Flash" at the end of '95, when everyone was going Chicago crazy, funnily enough on radio carediggion in south west wales.. I mean, ministy of sound actually compiled a compilation of relief and cajual records, and were doing their "Open" club nights at the time and had boo williams et al on there.. It was great music, but as it was where house met techno it had a certain cross-over appeal despite still sounding underground as hell... This what a time when you just had house, techno, and Jungle... And trance I guess.. not 600000000 micro genres with their own fans ready to knock down anything that isn't in their micro genre.. and there was such great range with the chicago stuff, I mean johnson's output alone went from garagy deep house complete with sexy vocals all the way up to the pounders he did for ACV...

I remember hearing Boo williams "seek and destroy" on Djax-Up on pirate radio in london circa 1994, at the time I was a gabba head, but this blew me away, it had the distorted bass kicks of gabba, but with a warmer, less clinical distortion, and those swung drums.. it had the funk.. wow, funky gabba I thought.. been hooked ever since...
That's exactly the sound/era that brought me to techno.
Listening to the Cajual/Relief stuff
Mixes from Derrick Carter and in NYC Miss Honey Dijon.
As for that Ministry of Sound Double CD I Still!!!!
Have yet to get my hands on that, and I've been dying for it since it dropped!!