Nu Groove is one of the most important and yet overlooked labels in the history of electronic dance music. They had well over 100 releases and yet I hardly hear anyone talk about them any more.
Voices "Over Me" is one of a handful of records that really stirred me up early in my time in all this. Still in my heavy DJ rotation after more than a decade. The Nu Groove catalog is full of gems, lots of near-misses and a bunch of clunkers, and every one that I have heard has *something* fresh, interesting or just plain odd enough to catch your attention. A lot of the best tracks are on the compilation that came out a few years ago, including one that's a big favorite for me, "The True Story of House" by L. B. Bad, which epitomizes that dark and deep sound and has an absolutely unique semi-processed spoken voice track. This style was honored and parodied in a nice way by Danny Tenaglia in many of his tracks, like "Walk" -- "it's dark in here, it's hot in here, it's wet in here ... I *like* it here!!" There are few labels that have had the stylistic reach, within a given genre, that Nu Groove did. I miss that sense of adventure in house music. Little bits of it pop up now and then but the identikit possibilities in cut-and-paste software has overwhelmed the quirky results of experimenting with cheap gear and pushing it to the max while still making it, without irony, "dancefloor friendly." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
