Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Pleasure Control
2. What's up Rocky
3. Move Your Body - Marshall Jefferson
4. Can U Feel It - Mr. Fingers
5. House Beat Box - Steve "Silk" Hurley
6. Jungle - Jungle Wonz
7. No Way Back - Adonis
8. Jackin' Me Around
9. Ride the Rhythm
10. 7 Ways to Jack - Hercules

Disc 2:

1. Love Can't Turn Around - Farley "Jackmaster" Funk
2. Iminxtc
3. You Used to Hold Me - Ralphi Rosario
4. I Like It - Razz
5. Can't Get Enough - Liz Torres
6. House Nation - House Master Boyz
7. Jackin' National Anthem - Ramos
8. Do It Properly - 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man & A Dominican
9. Mind Games - Quest
10. Bad Boys - Screamin' Rachael

Disc 3:

1. Rock Steady - Dallas
2. Don't Make Me Jack
3. Let the Music Use You
4. Baby Wants to Ride - Frankie Knuckles
5. Let's Get Busy - On The House
6. Stay the Night
7. Children of the Night
8. Come to House - Mr. Lee
9. Get the Whole - Lidell Townsell
10. Undercover - Dr. Derelict
11. Bip Bop - Screamin' Rachael

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284027 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-16
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Import

Customer Reviews

These CD's are ON, But....
This is a very good intro collection for anyone that's interested in original Chicago House. If you really want to dig deeper, there is a Jesse Saunders CD out that goes way back to the Warehouse days. There are so many more songs and tracks from this sub-culture. It would really be the BOMB if some DJ, Producer, etc. would find and issue out some old Ron Hardy tracks.

This is Original House Music
As everyone else has said on here, this is a compilation of ORIGINAL HOUSE MUSIC (aka Chicago House). This is what all current House music was built from - this is the foundation. Another reviewer states that Little Louie Vega, MAW, Pete Tong are CLASSIC HOUSE artists/music. He is correct, but this is the stuff that influenced them, as well as sooo many other artists... TODD TERRY, PAUL VAN DYKE, DERRICK MAY, KEVIN SAUNDERSON, GREEN VELVET, OAKENFOLD, SASHA, DIGWEED, MADONNA, MOBY, take your pick and you ask them what influenced them, 99.9% of them will credit 95% of the artists and tracks on this compilation. Little Louie Vega got his big break when he began DJing back in 86/87 at a place called HEARTHROBs (later home to TWILO), and THIS IS THE STUFF he spun.

So before you critize this compilation for it's simplicity of the tracks, you must remember, this is the beginning of house music. No one used samplers or drum machines back then for dance music. The only ones who did were of the European variety (Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Faust) and it was considered NEW AGE music. Very few DJs, when all this started, could even beat match. Disco was all created with live instruments so it was hard to beat match, and no one really thought of it. With the craze of the Technics SL1200MK2 turntable, the synths, and midi, all came about, everything changed. These artists were the few to begin using the stuff to create dance music. Influenced by these HOUSE MUSIC artists, as well as the European New Age scene, Juan Atkins, Eddie Fowlkes, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson created TECHNO. Techno and House music grew side by side, but TECHNO was born out of CHICAGO HOUSE MUSIC. Every dance track you hear now, was born out of CHICAGO HOUSE MUSIC. So appreciate these tracks for their simplicity as well as their historical contribution to all things 'DANCEABLE'!

- OPTIC

true house
First,Let me say that I have'nt heard the CD as of yet...I'm in the process of ordering these classic hits...I'm a former Paradise Garage head and just the titles alone on this CD is remarkable and artist like Fingers,Liz Torres, 2 puerto ricans etc...is eye watering.Just reading the artist names is taking me back to the Garage days where Larry Levan use to make your body jack. If you like true house this collection is the one to get.