Mix: TeemuP - Chicago

[stimpee]

A few words from Teemu:

"All of the tracks are from chicago or from chicago artists"

"The point of the mix was to play as diverse a selection of chicago house as possible"

"Some people are going to like the beginning and some people the end but i feel it was a pretty decent attempt at playing a set of different styles of chicago house from whiney soulful jesus house to sexually explicit dance mania stuff"

"i was going back to my roots", he concludes

I love the two tracks from near the beginning (11-23mins):
Johnny Fiasco - Subminimal - Cajual
Braxton Holmes - People Everyday - Cajual

the vocal on the first one and the keyboard solo jam on the second and the backing groove are just really chilled.

[viddy]

I really love house, and especially a lot of the stuff I've been hearing from local DJs over the past couple of years, but I don't like this kind of house. I was excited to get this mix on my ipod, you all made it sound good, but I was let down. Maybe this is just a mix of older stuff, but I find this kind of house music really cheesy. The cheese factor keeps me from enjoying nearly all of these tunes. The end gets a teeny bit better, but over all, very meh.

[stimpee]

horses for courses!

[Tyler]

Just for my own enlightenment, could you be more specific about what you find cheesy about some of those songs viddy?

[King of Snake]

it's house music, it's supposed to be cheesy

(in a good way. Or, as mr Rick Smith once said: "there's good cheese, and there's bad cheese!")

[m.g.]

Originally Posted by stimpee

It does what it says on the tin. Its chicago house.

It is indeed, but probably the best choice I heard. I wouldn't play this every day (as I'm more into techno/electro), but it's a very good mix.



ps : thanks Stimpee for the mac plugin, .ogg files are ok EXCEPT itunes is only playing them on my G4 loudspeakers (which are shite) & is not playing it on remote loudspeakers via an airport wireless connexion (like I mostly use itunes)

[viddy]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Just for my own enlightenment, could you be more specific about what you find cheesy about some of those songs viddy?

It is the very sonic palate that this type of house uses. I think maybe because it's from much older equipment. The kicks, hats, snares and synths all sound very 80s to me. The r&b style singing men and women really puts the cheeze factor over the edge. It's not that I dislike singing over house tracks, just this kind. The singing along with the sonic palate used, sounds corny to me. There are a few tracks in the mix that don't sound like this so much, but most do.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by viddy

The kicks, hats, snares and synths all sound very 80s to me.

Aren't some of the tracks from the 80s though?