1997-98-99 The PIU club classics

Hello Everybody!
Here I am with a new house mix, perfect for a christmas or new year's eve party.

This mix is inspired by the club which makes me keep in touch with the house music.
The PIU club (Princedom in underground)is a club based in my hometown (Sabadell) an industrial city at 20 km. from Barcelona downtown.
Without PIU it's just a boring place to sleep, eat and work. But during 20 years (1985-2005) PIU changed the nights in Sabadell, with colour, art and passion.

PIU was the perfect place to spent the sundays, yes sunday nights, a new party concept for me on that moment. After the massive Saturday, it was the temple of club workers, who were free in Sunday night. The presence of those vicious expert clientele made the club became a unique place in Barcelona. Every sunday from the evening until midnight, PIU was the meeting point of all the fashion freaks around Barcelona.

Artisticly PIU was wonderful, PIU audience was very strong on that point, around late 90s PIU invited DJs such as Roger Sanchez, Louie Vega or Bob Sinclar. It was a cult temple for Speed Garage and French Touch later. The princedom (PIU) was in a direct connection with The ministry of Sound, and Ibiza movements...

PIU made me fell in love with House, Garage & Groove music. The audience was so different...Teens, Cyberpunks, Go-Go dancers, expert nightclubbers, Club workers, gays, artists, musicians, freaks, rolling-stones, old rockers...
After the year 2000 the club became too popular, the audience was younger and the music was more commercial, until the owner sold it.
Actually is sad, but PIU club was ruined and replaced by a new building. Everytime I pass around there with the car I just can remember the wonderful nights I lived there...

This mix is dedicated to all the people who make it to be a real princedom of the underground culture.

Playlist;
Fred Everything - On My Own
Michi Lange - Brothers & Sisters
Gambadubs - Disco Theme
Byron Stringily - Get up
Cheek Venus - Sunshine People
John Julius Knight - Dancin' in paradise
Atmosfear - Dancing in outer space
Show me - Hoxton Whores
Soul Grabber - Pt.3
Armand Van Helden - Mecca Taost
DJ Sneak - Keep on grrovin'
Eddie Amador - House Muisc
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Sneaker Pimps - Spin spin sugar
Phunkie Souls - The music
Itza - The trumpet man
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Acid Jazz Breakbeats

Acid Jazz, an independent record label based in London, was a big influence in the late 80s and during the 90s.

The name of the label became a music genre, a symbol of the 70s Funk nostalgia who joined many different musicians, producers, MCs and Djs... such as Jamiroquai, DJ Greyboy, 4 Hero, Galliano, James Taylor quartet, The Brand new heavies, The Future organisation, Incognito, Freak Power with the DJ and Producer Norman Cook...(better known as Fatboy Slim).

During some time, Acid Jazz was considered as a non orinigal style, just a 70s revival, even confused with the Acid House movement.

Unlike this critical moment, Actually Acid Jazz made the first steps on 90s electronic music resurrection,creating the first intelligent way to use Old Skool samples, and creating the most avant-garde sound in the 90s. Nowadays still sounds contemporary, the label is still working and most of the artists are still rockin'.

Without classic hits, for this mix I've choosed electronic & groovy Acid Jazz underground artists, trying my best to mix it in a Funky Style. I hope u'll enjoy

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Variations in House Music

Hello Everybody!

This is a double mix I made one year ago as an exploration of alternative & Commercial House Music ways.

The first time I keep on touch with House Music, it was in the Sunday Evenenings of PIÚ CLUB, in my town, when I was still in the high school. On that moment I was only interested in Rock, Pop or Soul music. In PIÚ CLUB (some day I must dedicate a mix to PIÚ) I had the chance to keep on touch with the UK Speed Garage and French Touch waves occasionally visited by great DJs in the mix such as The Masters at work, Bob Sinclar or Roger Sanchez there.

During the next years I spent many time invistigating about the groovy sound of House until I got it into The Shelter Club (New York), under the guidance of DJ Timmy Regisford when I touched the sky.

This mix "Variations in House music" is only a tranning to mix different styles in House such as Electro, Deep and Funky House.
I hope you'll enjoy it!!

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Dance in Italy (80s Italo-Disco Classics)

Hello everybody! I recorded this mix in October of 2008 preparing a mix for D'aran Club Italo dance party. Most of Italo Disco I knew years ago, sounded a bit ridiculous in my mind, I just remembered the "oh-oh" chorus from 80s FM radio when I was a child, and Sabrina or Samantha Fox prominents tits... until I re-discovered the original italo-disco masterpieces.

In early 80s, some Italian (or Italian blooded) producers as Giorgio Moroder, Bobby Orlando or Gino Soccio, under the influence of Kraftwerk and US Disco, introduced a new concept in Electronic music, and made reborn the dancefloor culture in Europe, after the 70s Disco was officially murdered in Yankees Stadium.

Sci-fi synths, minimal sounds, vocoders, Disco Divas, high energy beats, and even some electronic experimentation had a place in Euro Disco or Italo Disco. It was a big influence in the creation of Chicago's House Music, never missed in the WBMX mixes (home of the legendary Hot mix 5 Djs) Euro and Italo Disco was perfectly convined with the early house tunes.

This mix is a trip back to the 80s...I hope you will enjoy it too!

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A mix with feeling (70s-80s Disco)

This mix is so special to me, and after many takes I've got some satisfiction with this one. Human drums are hard to mix, Larry Levan knew it, so he bassed his mixes on his own feeling with the groovy melodies and the beats. The great quality and the bravery of those musicians, Djs and producers from the 70s was amazing great. They really made miracles with the poor existing technology, It was pure talent.

Disco comes from the meeting between Funk and the new electronic technology. Officially Disco was born in the NY underground night clubs, with the support of black, latin and gay audiences from early 70s. After the Bee Gees smash "Saruday night fever", Disco became a massive and commercial culture, and finally became the classy-fashioned music from the 70s.
Disco was a big influence in the creation of many new styles such as House, Techno, Hip-Hop, Post-Punk or New Wave.

In 1980 Disco was officially murdered in the Yankees stadium when thousands of people burned Disco albums as a demonstration of conservative values. But really, Disco was murdered by the over-production, the AIDS expansion, the drugs abusse by the followers, the new conservative minds, and the fashion changes.
Actually Disco wasn't dead, it reborn again in early 80s under the new waves of electronic music such as Euro-Dance (in Europe) or House Music (in US).

Disco, Soul, Funk... I love it! When I get the feeling of those wonderful soulful songs I can't stop to mix until my ears and fingers can't stand the work. Let me guide you by the dark corners of the "Garage" or the "Warehouse" in late 70s and enjoy with the mix with all my best feeling.

This underground Disco mix is dedicated to Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, Farley Jackmaster Funk and all those wonderful DJs from the early years of House music. They were so grate!

TRACKLIST

Johnson Products - Johnson Jumpin'
Skyy - First time around
John Ozila - Funky Boogie
Earth, Wind & Fire - Brazilian Rhyme
Billy Frazier & Friends - Billy Who
Peech Boys - Don't make me wait
Billy Ocean - Nights
Stephanie Mills - Put your body in it
Roy Ayers - Running away
War - Galaxy
Instant Funk - Bodyshine
Tony Cook - On the floor
Candido - Thousand finger man
LEB Harmony - Feeling love
Exodus - Together forever

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