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Adventures In Sound And Music 3 May 2012

May 2012

Host Derek Walmsley excavates the foundations of House and Acid in the US and the UK in the late 1980s using two new compilations as guide: This Ain't Chicago: The Sound Of Underground UK House & Acid 1987-1991 and Ron Hardy Muzic Box Classics #1.

Sleezy D
"I've Lost Control"

from Ron Hardy: Muzic Box Classics #1
(No label)

Baby Ford
"Crashing"

from This Ain't Chicago: The Underground Sound Of UK House & Acid 1987–1991
(Strut)

M D EMM
"1966 (Pyro-Maniac Mix)"

from This Ain't Chicago: The Underground Sound Of UK House & Acid 1987–1991
(Strut)

Playtime Toons
"Shaker Song"

from This Ain't Chicago: The Underground Sound Of UK House & Acid 1987–1991
(Strut)

Bizzare Inc
"Technological"

from This Ain't Chicago: The Underground Sound Of UK House & Acid 1987–1991
(Strut)

Ron Hardy in the mix, Chicago, 1980s
(via Gridface.com)

Ron Hardy in the mix at the Muzic Box, Chicago, 1985 (I)
(via Gridface.com)

Ron Hardy in the mix at the Muzic Box, Chicago, 1985 (II)
(via Gridface.com)

Sebastian Lexer/Eddie Prévost/Seymour Wright
"Trilinear α"

from Impossibility In Its Purest Form
(Matchless)

Margarida Garcia
"The Leaden Echo"

from
The Leaden Echo
(Headlights)

Philip Corner
"Ear Wave"

from Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal
(Ricera Sonora)

Will Montgomery
"Heygate"

from Split
(Winds Measure)

Joe Colley
"Lonely Microphone"

from Lonely Microphone
(Senufo Editions)

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