I actually just picked this up. Missed buying it back in 1994.
Title: Just Can’t Get Enough
Artist: Mixx Vibes
Label: Vibe Music
Genre(s): House
Year released: 1994
Back when it seemed the rave/hardcore scene had fallen out of mainstream love, a new era of house music raged into the scene, bringing many back into the clubs. While pioneers like Cajmere, Derrick Carter, Sneak, Mark Grant, and Lego led the way, artists from the previous generation of house redefined themselves with the new sound.
Mixx Vibes is an alias for George Andros, also known as Georgie Porgie (“Let The Music Pump You Up”). He helped found Music Plant Records, with Vibe Music as a subsidiary, and put out several releases as Mixx Vibes and Georgie Porgie. He also helped Johnick get a start before they moved to Henry Street Music.
The tune itself isn’t anything deeply special, as it’s just a sample of “Dance” by Earth People with vocal snips, but it’s one of those tunes that really defined the 90s for me, as I’d hear it all over radio mixsets and cassettes.
Speaking of JohNick, here’s my favorite from them:
Title: Play the World
Artist: JohNick
Label: Henry Street Music
Genre(s): House, Deep
Year released: 1995
What I most remember about this time (when I picked up JohNick) is in how I was 22, and finding myself deeply immersed in the deep house scene of Chicago’s Wicker Park. Meanwhile, many of my colleagues were embracing the hardhouse sound that Chicago ignited in the mid-90s. Funniest times were how I was brought out to open these hardhouse parties, playing deeper tunes like JohNick…all because the other DJs didn’t want to play to a near-empty room. I had fun and hopefully enlightened those teenagers into some of the sounds that were filling the air in the adult clubs.
I always just liked the smooth dark sound of those Henry Street recordings.
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