2009 Top 10
10 albums, 10 EPs, 5 reissues
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Author: Jacob Arnold
Bocca Grande: Intensive Spot EP
Like all great music, this single defies easy categorization, but it seems like perfect home or iPod listening to me.
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Chicago House Roots: NYC Dub Mixes
If you want to make a case for house originating in New York, these are the records to cite.
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Leron Carson: Red Lightbulb Theory ’87-’88
In his follow-up to a split EP with Theo Parrish, Carson provides us with five more early Chicago house tracks recorded to cassette in his youth.
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Miles: Introspective Soul EP
It’s been a while since a new release has gotten me this excited.
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Carpe Diem: The Story of Viola Da Gamba
Frank Youngwerth started his own label during the height of the Chicago house frenzy in hope of U.K. exposure.
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2009 Fall Singles
The latest from Black Jazz Consortium, Omar-S, Disco Nihilist/Daetron Vargas, and Hieroglyphic Being.
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Chicago House Roots: Last Days of Disco
Everyone knows house music is a direct descendent of disco, but to most, disco is still a dirty word.
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Chicago House Roots: Italo
To most older Chicagoans, the music listed here is house.
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Marcello Napoletano: The Space Voodoo
This is one of those albums where I sense that the artist enjoys the same old records I do.
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