Anyone know if Mood II Swing has ever recorded anything with Blaze??
That'd be a killer combo!:)
Laters,
m*
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From: "Jonny McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "laura gavoor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Org" <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:03 AM
Subject: [313] Blaze
> > An outfit called Phase II in the late 80s/early 90s, had substantially
the
> > same members
>
> Most famously, Reachin'. From around the same time check out their other
> work on labels like Quark "If You Should Need A Friend", Movin' (check
> Before The Storm's "I Got The Music" and aforementioned Phase II
"Reachin'")
> or Easy Street (my favourite Blaze track from this era's In-Sync feat
Jerry
> Edwards' "Sometimes Love").
>
> > in collaboration with Dave Lee (who one could say is a well-known 'Brit
> Fad
> > freak', but I wouldn't dream of it ;o). The rest of the tracks were
mostly
> > by Blaze under different names. I can post details Weds.
>
> Dave Lee (aka Joey Negro), I think, is about as far removed from a fad
freak
> as you can get! I don't know of anyone as deep in the disco spirit as this
> man. Sure, he's had his pop hits, but this man is disco through and
through.
> Success or no.
> Check out his excellent Sunburst Band releases on his own label Z, or many
> of his wicked remakes.
>
> > I've come across the names Hedge, Milan, Herbert so often on 'anonymous'
> > disco-house records from the early '90s, I've almost stopped noticing.
>
> Far from "anonymous disco house", Blaze are, if any group are, the most
> deserving of a chapter to themselves in the big ol' book o' house, from
the
> 90s. Check out any of their classic work for Shelter, Funky People,
Simplex,
> Area Code ("Love For You" never leaves my bag). Their production of Debbie
> Pender's "Movin' On", alongside fellow New Jersey musicians, Smack and
Kerri
> Chandler, helped define that UK garage sound (like it or no). Check out
the
> comps on Easy Street, Blaze Productions vols 1 & 2 to see how massive they
> were in
> the 90s. Those signature Moog solos on "Moonwalk" and others are far from
> "anonymous disco" :) A closer analogy would be with "That's The Way OF The
> World" era EW&F, I reckon.
>
> Funnily enough, Blaze themselves are probably entirely unaware of their
> influence. They admit to knowing hardly anything about contemporary house
> music (KDJ? who's that?) beyond what they get at the Shelter. Or so said
> Timmy Regisford. Apparently they have a massive loft studio in New York,
> which they rarely get out of.
>
> Oh, and their Motown album was heralded by Motown execs - after they
dropped
> them! - as one of the best 20 albums (I think) that the label had
released!
>
> Of course, Blaze didn't stop making fine music in the 90s! They're at it
> more than ever now.
>
> Jonny.
>
>
>
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