dattrax: Here is a Classic house mix that will bring back a flood of memories if you were partying to house from 1990-1996. Jim and I both starting partying to house music at 16yrs old. We met, while both separately looking for a party when we were 19yrs old on the streets of downtown Toronto, and that's when we became friends. In search of good house tunes to dance to. An escape from both of our crappy restaurant jobs.
Before collecting records, then DJing, partying to house was a drug. You'd go to 3-4 crappy parties to re- live the one good party before that series. And you'd keep doing it over and over again.
But 'WOW', when there was a good party, there was nothing like it. 200 people dancing, laughing, having fun, hands in the air. House basslines and vocals just drifting through the dark. Doing whatever it does to your brain. Imprinting it with good feelings and memories when you hear that song again or smell cigarette smoke. House tracks got ATTENTION those days. The songs grew on you from week to week, mixtape to mixtape (yes, cassette tapes & constant HISS), and party to party. These days you may hear a wicked track, but never hear it again- there is just so much out there and so many people who make it or spin it. Remember dancing till the sun light came in and they were taking apart the speakers?
Then we started connecting good parties with the DJs who played the great tunes the way that they did. We started DJing when we were sick of going through 3-4poor parties. We thought, "hey, let's throw our own party and play the tracks that we love, and at least we'll have fun. Then we'll invite friends and maybe they'll have fun too, who knows?"
We hope that you have fun listening to our mixes. Please comment if you do, so that your comment might help someone else take a chance on listening to our podcast in a sea of house music podcasts. Thank you in advance and Take Care, Dattrax
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This was an all vinyl house mix.