S/D: Strictly Rhythm

Off the top of my head, some of my favorite ever house tracks:

Underground Solution - "Luv Dancin"
E-Culture - "Tribal Confusion"
Logic - "The Warning"
UPI - "That STring Track"
Rageous - "Tyler Moore Mary"
Many of Morel's Grooves
Aly-Us - "Follow Me"
Hardrive - "Sindae (Kenlou Dub)"
Photon Inc. - "Generate Power (Wild Pitch Mix)"
River Ocean - "Love & Happiness (Yemaya Y Ochun)"
DV8 - "This Beat is Over"

and about 30 releases on Strictly.

last line should be "and about 30 others"

Label always scares the shit out of me. So many releases. There just has to be a lot of shit.

that is why i need this thread

True, and much of the best stuff was often dubs on the b-sides.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Strictly+Rhythm

trying to redo the link for you...

http://www.discogs.com/label/Strictly+Rhythm

Strictly Rhythm label profile on discogs.com

ha

christ, what a wonderful idea it was to enhance "security" by breaking the functionality of the code, lovely

to be fair, I think the new security features are working very well.

but on to Strictly Rhythm!

When I have more time, I'll go through that list.

Aly-Us, though I first got into it on that pink house bootleg with Mystery of Love on it, that version is even better.

i need this thread also!

a few i already know and love:

Roger S - "Get Hi"
Black Magic - "Dance (Do That Thing)"
Wink - "Higher State Of Conciousness"

oh yeah and

Hardrive - "Deep Inside"

Slightly boring list of classics:

Hardrive - Deep Inside
Barbara Tucker - Beautiful People, I Get Lifted
CLS - Can You Feel It (the "In House" Dub is very ravey)
Phuture - Rise From Your Grave
Lots and lots of DJ Pierre
Caucasian Boy - Northern Lights
Rare Arts - Boriqua Posse (SR goes freestyle)

and of course, just for fun:

Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It

Armand Van Helden - Witch Doktor

People in UK: HMV are selling the current reisssues of these 3 for a tenner.

Lil' Mo' Yin Yang -- Reach

Search:

CLS - Can You Feel It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Todd = God

Photon Inc - Generate Power

I've also a soft spot for Ultra Nate, especially "Found a Cure"

Destroy:

Reel to Reel and the fucking Mad Stuntman

The Mood II Swing dub of 'Beautiful People' is v good - a recent discovery for me - I was never that keen on the original. Most of my other faves have already been listed dang.

"Who Keeps Changing Your Mind" and "What You Need" are urgent and key.

A 4CD or so box set is called for with this label like it is with few others.

south street players - who keeps changing your mind
I LIKE TO MOVE IT
Black Magic - Freedom (Make It Funky) - liked this a lot at the time
Michael Moog - That SOund

is any of the old Wamdue Project on SR good/better than 'King Of My Castle'?

"Phuture - Rise From Your Grave""

Love 4 Eva

"Underground Solution - "Luv Dancin""

This too.

Will come back with some more suggestions later.

I have a test pressing of Groove 2's "Originality/Attraction" 12. I posted a track from it on my blog a while back-- the vocal versions SUCK HARD, but goddamn, the instrumentals and mixes are SO deep and Jan Hammer-esque, they really kill.

did you dl that from me, lfam, btw?

Aly-Us, though I first got into it on that pink house bootleg with Mystery of Love on it, that version is even better.

Dan, if you have an mp3 of this, then I am BEGGING you for it!

no but maybe I can rip it this weekend. It's reall good, a bit more raw with this transcendent break. It was one of these super common house bootlegs that every DJ I know got at Rock-N-Soul in NY when they first started playing house.

table, i did not, but now it's expired and i can't slsk it! hit me up!

yea bro, will do tomorrow. my legs still feel jello-like from the luciano set.

also, great thread.

hey lfam, i sent it to you, but here it is for the rest of y'all:

Groove 2- Originality (Rolling Around to a Sax Sound Mix)

here is what i wrote about it on the blog:
The last track of this post is another mystery along the lines of Villa Savoye (see first post below). Who are Groove 2? Sure, they put out a single record on the urban/deep house label Strictly Rhythm in the early 90s, but alas, no other information on the production is available. The track posted below, an instrumental mix of the horrifying vocal house of "Originality," sounds almost like a Jan Hammer production-- if you close your eyes, you can see Don Johnson making the moves on some hot Miami babe on his boat deck. The smooth jazz sax is theatrical to the utmost, and the pan-flute samples that eventually harmonize with the sax are rich and quite high in the mix. It goes without saying that the bass-line is cool, simple and resolved to get some action.

Yeah, the sound is a bit dated, but no matter: the beat and the synths are darkly sexy, and there is a muggy catchiness to the track that render it as irresistable as a cocktail on a warm evening.

Love the sound. See also the casio-tastic breakdown in "The Warning".

It's like Enigma but without the pretension, only the cheese (which means it's great).

yeah, i really love this track a lot. hell, i spent 8$ on the record for the track alone, so that shows something.

Hey table, what's your blog?

"Phuture - Rise From Your Grave""

table blog: http://deepmovements.blogspot.com/

whats with dude upthread saying 'destroy reel 2 real'

destroy 'we like to move it' haters

Seriously, I heard "I Like To Move It" about a month before it officially hit the radio, and I was all "Damn, that's a hit if I ever heard one."

I've always lovedlovedLOVED "The Warning", and on a somewhat more obscure tip "Love Storm", by Cynthia M.

Can anyone explain the deal with "Nu Nu" & "Yolanda"???

"Yolanda" is so awesome. It's got that so sickly syrupy sweet and cheesy that it's initially abhorrent, but ultimately endearing thing going on. It's very latin lovesick teenager.

Agreed, but it's basically a rewrite of Lidell Townsell's "Nu Nu", from 1991.

Don't know that one, but I can't imagine it being more charming!

Email me and I'll send it to you - it's fun!

Emails sent!

To reiterate - fuck "I Like to Move it". The Mad Stuntman is a vagina.

TAKE THAT, MAD STUNTMAN!!!

OOF

I Like To Move It is the pinnacle of the early 90s.

yeah man, that track is big killa.

to deny that such a presence exists in clubs is plain silly-- of course other people love going out and listening and dancing and getting it on (I'M ONE TOO), but there's a distinct caricature to the guido presence at clubs that is vry vry funny, to me.

Maybe you need to be more selective about where you go out!

uh, to me it don't matter, it matters who is spinning/playing. when i went and saw Dandy Jack & the Junction SM, there were guidos like those dudes above there, and they were either drinking themselves silly in private booths or dancing their faces off. who gives a shit as long as long as the music is good and the floor is really into it?

OK, table, I get you now.

This Groove 2 track sounds awesome sped up with Ableton (i.e. pitch remains the same).

yeah, that track has much going for it. at the moment, it just makes me want to drive around. in a convertible.

this is for all the guidos out in the nebula jerzey, broadcasting live from the oranges, as promised...

Follow Me (Import) from the ubiquitous "Impossible (House of Rare Classics)" bootleg. What happens at just before 5 min. is awesome.

WOW.

oh great tune! thanks dude!

Aw, crap. I totally forgot to upload that alt mix of "Nu Nu". I'm not in studio tonight - tomorrow, promise!

I just picked up this album on vinyl. It sounds pretty good on first listen:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-43277-002.jpg

you promised!

I know! But I've not been to the studio in a couple of nights!!! Am going tonight, will upload then.

Wamdue Project's Deep EP is ace. all 4 tracks killer. "Groove On" was a sub-label I think, was listening to the b-sides of Mood II Swing's I See You Dancin Slippery Track and Ohh.. masterful house music!

Spencer, DIDJA GET THAT THING I SENT YA?

yeah, that track was great in the car today, mista selza. i like that. in some ways, i want your DJ name to be 'mista selza,' and for all of your promotional material to have bubbles all over it.

that was probably too much explanation.

that would be seltza. I debated several names....DJ Jew Order, Sir Sweat-a-Lot, DJ Alka Seltzer, but will go with, simply...DANERGY.

FEEL IT!

but dan, that sounds like some sort of energy drink made by the danone corporation.

Tantrum, yes, but haven't listened yet. will do today. Are they different than the ones you sent before???

"Nu Nu" is in a different, much rawer mix (bass/beats/vox), "Yolanda" is just a better quality rip.

Awesome. I'm totally going to play Yolanda on thurs at Hiro.

sorry but the club mix of "follow me" PWNS the dub that dan posted (though it's close!). i picked it up today for a pound and have listened to little else since.

haven't listened to it more than once yet to say c/d but was sorta happy to pick this ( http://www.discogs.com/release/197033 ) up for £3 just before a used cd store closed a few weeks ago!

ok listened tonight, pretty good! must not have been in the mood before...

however...

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3791/indexphphq0.jpg

:(

i don't think i have ever heard a josh wink song, but, regardless, i have a negative opinion of him.

well i have heard a few

god josh wink is such a fucking tool. i am positively ashamed of the fact that he's the most well-known contemporary DJ from philadelphia.

whatever you think of josh wink, you can't really fuck with higher state

yeah, that's my "few"

<i>god josh wink is such a fucking tool. i am positively ashamed of the fact that he's the most well-known contemporary DJ from philadelphia.</i>

King Britt?

argh html

King Britt, yes, I always forget about him.

But Wink is awful, and yes, I mean "Higher State," too. I really see no merits to any of his stuff.

erm.. was kinda lol'ing more about the awful electro-rock remixers there (Tim F?) but go ahead...

"Yolanda" was a total floor filler the other night.

was kinda lol'ing more about the awful electro-rock remixers there

i don't really have an opinion on josh wink either way but this early strictly 12" is classic.

http://www.discogs.com/release/91191

Ha ha hard to get a hold of - that Australian Jurgen Paape 12" is of course absolutely everywhere here.

Dirty South or TV Rock have also remixed the latest Mark Ronson track?!?! Chicken Lips remix is much better obv.

the new and totally awesome Quentin Harris single, "You Don't Know," is out now. posted it on my blog a few minutes ago. strictly are certainly back with a vengeance for sure!

okay i'll upload it later but the B2 on Urban Rhythm - Luv Will Make It Right / Feel It Baby All Night has the same keyboard stabs as in jupiter jazz, but it's from 1991. i always figured UR wrote that bit. did they sample urban rhythm or is there another source for it?

okay, here is that urban rhythm track. still interested in that keyboard riff.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/g1tix0

also, thanks for turning me onto logic, spencer. i love all i've heard.

Not sure where that sound comes from, it seems like it was sampled on this one and is being played back pretty simply. It's probably from some hardcore track.

i always figured UR wrote that bit. did they sample urban rhythm or is there another source for it?

the sequence/notation is not exactly the same as in 'Jupiter Jazz' and a minor variation of this sound comprises the main hook of The House Crew's 'Keep The Fire Burning' from '91 also. it was probably a Korg preset.

http://www.chartway.com/MediaLibrary/The%20More%20You%20Know%20LOGO.jpg

anyways, i'm jamming the Equinox record by Danny Tenaglia as Code 718. it takes the melody from E2-E4, but not the bassline, which i've never heard done. i kind of like it better than Sueno Latino, except for the Derrick May remix. this version has a great chandler-esque drum sound. it's like the kick and the clap/snare are a million miles apart and you have to move your body between them on the downbeat.

i don't know how to describe that drum style

Yeah that track is included on Ame's Coast to Coast mix (which is excellent) - I love it.

i notice that strictly have just released a couple of henik schwarz remixes of that 'equinox' track. attn tim f!

Worth picking up for someone such as I with fairly limited knowledge of SR?
https://bleep.com/release/44274-various-artists-50-tracks-of-strictly

fav SR track, right now at least is this (and super easy and cheap to get on discogs still)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZHdV4_3Ew