DJ International 1986. LON LP 22
House music was pretty exciting when it first appeared. The problem though was buying it – there were few “names” to follow and the record shops which stocked it were very intimidating for a geeky indie kid trailing around record shops in a cheap suit in his lunch hour. I did brave those shops from time to time asking for something I’d heard on the radio, but most of the time it was compilations like this one which made the genre accessible. This is a very early example and it includes most of the important early movers. It sounds primitive and not all the tracks work so well nearly 30 years after the event, but the best of them are superb. Steve “Silk” Hurley’s monumental Jack Your Body charted as I recall, but it’s the thumping bass line which really makes it work. Mr Fingers has appeared here before. As as for the rest, Marshall Jefferson’s contribution is a monster and more-or-less defines the genre, while JM Silk and Farley Jackmaster Funk aren’t too shabby either.
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