A LOST ERA IN NYC
re-release of this CLASSIC album!
| Genre | House |
|---|---|
| Format | CD |
| Cat. no | GIGOLO1093 |
| Label | GIGOLO |
| Artist | BOBBY KONDERS |
| Release Date | 29/03/2010 |
| Carrier | CD |
| Barcode | 5414165034766 |
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TRACKLISTING
1 . Bobby Konders - Massive Sounds fea t. Mutaburaka: The Poem
2 . Bobby Konders - House Rythems: Nervous Acid 3 . Bobby Konders - Jus Friends feat. Robert Owens: As One
4 . Bobby K onders - Massive Sounds: Expressions Flute Mix
5 . Bobby Konders - Dub Poe ts: Blak and Whit
6 . Bobby Konders - Rydims: Nice and Slow
7 . Bobb y Konders - Massive Sounds: The Future
8 . Bobby Konders - House Rythems: Let there be House
9 . Bobby Konders - House Rythems: Massai Woman
1 0 . Bobby Konders - Rydims: Mello
11 . Bobby Konders - Massive Sounds: Sla ckness And Sax
INFO
The beginning of that lost era in New York, which is the issue of this Gigolo-compilation, is marked by the end of maybe the most important, but surely the most legendary club of all time s: Manhattan's Paradise Garage. The place where disco got turned into a religion named Garage House by DJ LARRY LEVAN, "The Father", lived and breathed by his f aithful disciples, in their dedication quite similar to a bunch of early christi ans.
In 1987, the Garage closed its gate forever. The Garage sound and its believers had to go deeper, way deep. Down there, Deep House started to materia lise. The househeadz only started to resurface, at least into the twilight, when The Shelter opened, the downtown deep house institution where DJ TIMMY REGISFOR D carried the torch. In its holy halls, DJs like FRANCOIS KERVORKIAN and DANNY K RIVIT still celebrate the spirit in a pure fashion.
But for five long years , Deep House was homeless. Homeless, but not gone. In the underground, offside f rom big clubs, in tiny holes and secret locations, that were only known to the i nitiated, the contemplative sound found a temporary refuge, on nowadays mythical parties. The most important of them all was called Wild Pitch.
Here, the h ard core of the first Deep House DJs played. Names that still get whispered resp ectfully and who were dropped happily on the Basil-Hardhaus-Classic Hard For The DJ: VIKTOR ROSADO, DAVID CAMACHO, KENNY CARPENTER, NICKY JONES, JOHN ROBINSON. Also DJ PIERRE, who had just moved from Chicago to New Jersey, sometimes played there and even dedicated a whole track principle to those legendary sessions: th e Wild Pitch Mix.
One DJ, however, epitomises more than any other the massive sounds and the unique spirit of the Wild Pitch parties: Brooklyn's BOBB Y KONDERS.
In his spectacular mix he threw in everything from reggae, hipho p, house to disco. He aimed directly at the common factor, the true soul of thos e blood-related styles. At KONDERS's Wild-Pitch-sessions everything was possible , as long as the bass moved in deep enough, the beat was ruff and rugged and the vibes soothed the tortured souls of the headz.
Yes indeed: da rydim. KONDE RS's house music always was extremly rooted, cultured and conscious. It used the semantics of reggae in more than just a musical way. This attitude made him rev olutionary. ItÙs no wonder that after his farewell from house by Ù93, he almost exclusively focused on ragga, hiphop and low end jeep beatz, and instead of 12" records, on his label Massive B he now only released 45 singles and compilations .
Dis Poem originally is a spoken word track on a regular Muta Baruka album . From there KONDERS just took it live, as a DJ would be playing an accapella in tro, before bringing in the beat. KONDERS practically invented a school of intro s, many times starting instrumental tracks with Reggae-MC-sloganeering. Sometime s you even can hear him pushing the stop button on the studio turntable to make the transition from the intro to the sequencer program.
Classic and classy rude boy attitude. The Jamaican toasters liked it so much that they not only all owed it, but also more and more grabbed the mike exclusively for him.
But a lso in other styles he roamed and wildered to throw them into his melting pot of all Ùtings conscious. Though strictly dedicated to the deep, the raw, and the s oulfully nice, he produced one of the most slamming acid tunes of all times, Ner vous Acid. Allegedly only "to have done it." Nevertheless, that track gets rocke d massively up to this date, by DJs who sure know what time it is.
Un til the invention of his own Massive B imprint, his productions went under his s treet name Massive Sounds and were released by FRANK and KAREN MENDEZ on Nu Groo ve. A label where the term "open minded" really used to mean something. Apart fr om KONDERS deep reggae/house crossbreedings, future techno stars like JOEY BELTR AM, TOMMY MUSTO or LENNY DEE appeared, as well as Paradise-Garage-regulars like the BURRELL brothers or nowadays well-established big producers like KENNY "DOPE GONZALEZ or the early BASEMENT BOYS (as 33 1/3 Queen), as well as a host of fo|No rgotten talents like HOW & LITTLE, RICKY CRESPO, RICHARD LA MOTTE, EDDIE SATIN o r BRYANT VON WHITE, to mention but a few.
On Nu Groove the whole classic, n ice KONDERS shit appeared, long deleted material that gets assembled almost comp letely on this massive compilation, remastered and ready to be discovered by a n ew generation of headz, to be sucked in like a nice blunt.
Key Selling Points:
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Collection of hard to get classics
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16 pages booklet with many lost era treasures
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compiled by DJ HELL
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featuring such great artists as MASSIVE SOUNDS, DUB POETS , RYDEMS, PETER DAOU, BOYD JARVIS, JOE MOSKOWITZ
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this BOBBY KONDERS compilation is the original, most authentic document of the era of garage house music
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Live performances during the summer
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KONDERS releas ed on such labels as Mercury Records, Massive B, Nu Groove Records, and Desire R ecords
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KONDERS appears on compilations like Ministry of Sound: Satur day Sessions, Catalog of Telepopmusik, Electronicbody-Housemusic, International DeeJay Gigolos, Vol. 6, Mastercuts Early Hours, X-Mix Boxset, Vol. 3, The 5th El ement, X-Mix, Vol. 5: Wildstyle, DJ Red Alert's Propmaster Dancehall Show