20 YEARS OF HENRY STREET MUSIC 3LP

Incredible as it seems, this year marks twenty years since the launch of Johnny D™Mairo™s Henry Street Music label. To celebrate, BBE is marking the occasion with a sumptuous 3LP retrospective, a fitting tribute to one of the most important of all house labels. HENRY STREET MUSIC TWENTY YEARS OF FIERCE HOUSE MUSIC Incredible as it seems, this year marks twenty years since the launch of Johnny D™Mairo™s Henry Street Music label. To celebrate, BBE is marking the occasion with a sumptuous fivedisc CD retrospective, a fitting tribute to one of the most important of all house labels. This is one of the most extensive grand summations yet done of a dance label. Henry Street Music exemplified its era as much as Trax and Nu-Groove had theirs. Come the mid-˜90s, the disco cut-up became ubiquitous, as thousands tried to emulate the success of Henry Street™s first big killer, The Bucketheads™ Tha Bomb still a dancefloor staple two decades on. Many of the movers and shakers of the day had their best moments on Henry Street, and they™re all here: Johnnick, Armand Van Helden, DJ Duke, DJ Sneak, Dirty Harry, Davidson Ospina, Todd Terry, Mateo and Matos, Brutal Bill, Josh Wink, even the UK™s own Ashley Beedle, and many more a veritable roll-call of the premiere-league of dance at the time, an era when dance music still seemed incredibly fertile and the link with its own past was still vital. Some of the American originals can struggle to get props among the countless mutations of house out there vying for attention in today™s digitalized dance scene, but the real househeads always knew to check them, and will recognize this as quality product, through and through. Henry Street (named after Brooklyn homeboy Johnny™s neighbourhood) always had a ˜New York™ vibe, and even when drawing its producers from further afield, the label encapsulated the city™s melting-pot of talent and raw, bristling energy... energy captured here, and exploding off these remastered tracks like it™s 1999 all over again! Alongside the massive dancefloor anthems from the likes of Kenny Dope and Armand Van Helden are some real gems that got away, some exclusive mixes, and the thoughts of Johnny D, one of the prime-movers of the New York dance scene even before he came up with his own label, responsible for countless hits as promotions man and as dance A&R at Atlantic. Never one for the limelight, Johnny™s own story is nonetheless inextricably bound up with the transition from disco through house to the ubiquity of dance music today. So... dust off those dancing shoes, and get ready to feel the heat, it™s one more time for the Henry Street Hustle! KEY SELLING POINTS œ Henry St catalogue is a who's who of house music, featuring releases from Kenny Dope, Armand Van Heldon, DJ Sneak, Terry Hunter, Little Louie Vega, Todd Terry, Ralphi Rosario, 95 North, Paul Simpson, Ashley Beedle, many of the versions included have never been available in this format before. œ BBE brought you Masters at Work 10th Anniversary albums, near 15 years on Defected Records have recently released a MAW retrospective, highlighting the contemporary importance of the golden era of dance music, which Henry St Music was so instrumental in shaping œ Full press and radio campaign UK, France, Germany œ Extensive sleeve notes telling for the first time the full story of Henry Street's meteoric rise winning numerous gold discs along the way œ Label originator Johnny D will be available for interviews For Fans Of Johnick, Masters At Work, Little Louie Vega, Kenny Dope, Armand Van Helden, Terry Hunter, Todd Terry, Ashley Beedle TRACKLISTING 3LP LP 1 Side A : Columbia Street A1 Kenny "Dope" presents The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) Side B : Hicks Street B1 Armand Van Helden presents Old School Junkies - The Funk Phenomena B2 Johnick - Play The World LP2 Side C : Henry Street C1 DJ Sneak presents The Polyester EP - Show Me The Way C2 Robbie Tronco presents Tronco Traxx - Walk 4 Me Side D : Clinton Street D1 Groove Culture / Arnold Jarvis - Feelin' It (Rhythm Section Main Mix) D2 Stron Jay - Feel The Thunder (Tommy Musto Mix) LP3 Side E : Court Street E1 Mike Delgado presents The Upstairs Lounge - Byrdman's Revenge E2 Tiger Blood - Like That Side F : Smith Street F1 BQE - Steal Your Love F2 DJ Duke / Roland Clark - D2-D2 (I Get Deep) (Timmy Regisford Shelter Mix)