House Foundation

Like Legos, none of this really matches and somehow it still locks together. Different sounds, different cities, different ideas of what this was supposed to be, but it all fits anyway. That’s this house pick, before anyone bothered sorting it out or deciding what went where. The pick holds as long as you leave it alone. Start pulling it apart and suddenly it’s everywhere, all over the floor, and I'm the idiot stepping on it barefoot. Reminds me of a song idea… I’ll have to make that next...

House Foundation

01 JM Silk - Music Is The Key (Original 12' House Key Mix)

02 Derrick May - Nude Photo

03 The Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You

04 Ralphi Rosario - You Used To Hold Me (Original Kenny's 12 Mix)

05 Mr. Lee - Get Busy

06 Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey (Love Chant Version)

07 Raze - Jack The Groove (Hit Mix)

08 Juan Atkins - Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)

09 Jamie Principle - Baby Wants To Ride

10 Sterling Void - It's Alright (Original 12 House Mix)

11 Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings Of Life

12 Farley Jackmaster Funk - Jack'n The House

13 Cybotron - Clear

Crazy House

Is this crazy? Unlike Sheldon, my mom did not have me tested, but she probably should have. Turns out what I call a good time other people call crazy, and this house is full of it. The funny stuff, the rude stuff, the stuff that has no business being this danceable. Still part of the house cleaning, still my pick, still crazy after all these tracks. Luckily, I don't have Billy Joel standing outside my glass house right now.

Crazy House

01 Green Velvet - Flash (Original Mix)

02 Who Da Funk featuring Terra Deva - Sting Me Red (Clever) (Main Mix)

03 DJ Assault - Ass-N-Titties

04 A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd - Total Confusion (Heavenly Mix)

05 Armand Van Helden - Witch Doktor

06 The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom (UK Radio Edit)

07 20 Fingers featuring Gillette - Short Dick Man (Red Jerry Mix)

08 Pood Bhud Pflug - Duelling Techno

09 Screamin' Rachael - Fun With Bad Boys

10 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat

11 Pat & Mick - Let's All Chant (Something For The Kids Mix)

12 The JAMs aka The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis

13 DJ Sneak - Fix My Sink (Original Club Mix)

14 Detroit Grand Pubahs - Sandwiches (Original 12 inch version)

Acid House

This is a redo of my acid house pick that I posted up here in 2023. Also part of my house cleaning efforts. You can see the old and the new at that link. So lots of overlap, but different order and I will have part 2 coming soon (for many of these). You can see that there is some new threads running through the covers. All different, but a connection. I took out a couple of songs that were good and actually got played at acid shows, but weren't really acid tracks. If it didn't have a prominent Roland 303, I got rid of it. Actually, I moved it to a better slot.

Acid House

01 808 State - Flow Coma (Afx Remix)

02 Bang The Party - Release Your Body (Mayday Mix)

03 Bam Bam - Where's Your Child

04 Baby Ford - Oochy Koochy

05 Phuture - Acid Trax

06 Code 3 - Code Of Acid

07 Abe Duque featuring Blake Baxter - Acid

08 Pierre's Pfantasy Club - Dream Girl (Wet Dream)

09 Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness

10 Charles B - Lack of Love

11 Armando - Land Of Confusion (Confusion Mix)

12 Psychic TV - Tune In (Turn On Thee Acid House)

13 Da Posse - In The Heat Of The Night (Acid Mix)

14 Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid

Core House

I've been doing some spring house cleaning and now we're getting to the epicenter of the house movement. This kind of movement isn't an earthquake. Nope. And the movement is not one of poo. None of these are shitty. All of them are THE shit. Consider this pick the one that flushes out the best of the genre. No worms, just ear worms. Good to the core. 

Core House

01 ESP - It's You (Vocal)

02 Moloko - Sing It Back (Boris Dlugosch Remix)

03 Todd Terry Project - Weekend

04 Ron Hardy - Sensation (Original Mix)

05 Raze - Break For Love

06 Jesse Saunders - On & On (Original 12 vocal mix)

07 Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me

08 Daft Punk - Around The World

09 Frankie Knuckles - Move Your Body

10 The Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (Mk Dub Revisited)

11 Ten City - Devotion (Extended Version)

Deep House

Around here, my senior boxers run the place, but I have the last say about when the subwoofers hit, even though they can't nap during that time (and they want to.) Ok, my wife has the last say, I just think I do. But when she's not around... The house here goes deep, soulful, chord-heavy, late-night stuff that never gets frantic and hits that bass just right. Heard that Larry was also called Mr. Fingers, I wonder why. You get both either way. Good pick from the spring house cleaning if the room needs to breathe without shutting down.

Deep House

01 Larry Heard - Missing You

02 Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym

03 Chez Damier - Can You Feel It (M.K. Dub)

04 Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (Df's Attention Vocal Mix)

05 Masters At Work Feat. India - To Be In Love (Original Maw Mix)

06 Storm Queen - Look Right Through (Mk Remix)

07 Blaze - Lovelee Dae (Original)

08 Steffi - Sadness (Vinyl Version)

09 Kings Of Tomorrow - Finally (Original Extended Mix)

10 Mr. Fingers - Mystery Of Love

11 Axel Boman - Purple Drank (Original Mix)

Piano House

I took piano lessons as a kid. Let's just say I topped out at doe a deer and called it a career. Good thing somebody else kept going, because this house is built on keys, uplifting, hands-in-the-air stuff with just enough gospel in the DNA to make you feel something you weren't expecting. Good pick from the spring house cleaning if you need the room to move without thinking too hard about it. And I certainly am not. All I can think of is a big piano dropping on someone's head like a house in a Roadrunner cartoon.

Piano House

01 Black Box - Everybody Everybody (Ultimix 35)

02 Ultra Nate - Free (Mood II Swing Live Mix)

03 Aly-Us - Follow Me (Club Mix)

04 Hardrive - Deep Inside (Original)

05 Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)

06 Robin S - Show Me Love (Extended version)

07 Degrees Of Motion featuring Biti - Shine On (Original 12')

08 Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Come On In)(Classic Mix)

09 Ten City - That's The Way Love Is

10 CeCe Peniston - Finally (12' Choice Mix)

11 Inner City - Good Life

12 Joe Smooth - Promised Land

What's The Connection? Kings 2

I did part 1 of this Kings connection in November of last year, but today is actually King's Day, so here is part two. Nothing special to post about these songs with King in the title, but I hope you get to have a little something Dutch in celebration of the King of Nederland. That's all. I suppose I should have more, but I am celebrating.

What's The Connection? Kings 2

20 Go West with Kate Bush - The King Is Dead

21 Tackhead with DJ Cheese - King Of The Beat (Tackhead Remix)

22 Aerosmith - Kings And Queens

23 Jimmy Liggins - Boogie Woogie King

24 Barbara McNair - He's a King

25 Styx - Long Live The King

26 Gamalon - The King

27 Focus - House Of The King

28 UB40 - King

29 Steely Dan - Kings

30 Billy Barry - I'm A King

31 Michael Schenker - To Live For The King

32 Renaissance - Kings & Queens

33 Sade - Your Love Is King

34 Ringo Starr - King Of The Kingdom

35 Golden Earring - King Dark