Easy Street Records (New York House) S/D

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I only have 'Share the night' by World Premiere, which the dub side is amazing, and 'You Dont Know' by Serious Intention. What are other good releases of early New York house that are as good. I just started a new night, playing records ,and I mostly play disco, but I want to play old house towards the end of the night. I know Chicago/Detroit house, but what about NY.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:00 (twenty years ago)

'ma foom bay' by cultural vibe is a house classic. ultra deep with tribal chants. i have a few other records on easy street - beltram, adeva, cassio, brooklyn beats, mental instrum etc. but 'ma foom bay' is the one i still play. i think de'lacy's 'hideaway' started life on easy street as did undo muzique's 'andromeda'.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Really love Adeva's "In and Out of My Life" on Easy Street and that Cultural Vibe track is great. Clausell's "Don't Let It Be Crack" is good (at least, for a laugh), too.

For New York house of that time, though, I think Quark is the way to go. The stuff on that label was generally more streamlined and "cooler," if you will, than Easy Street. The early Blaze and Jomanda stuff, in particular.

― Richj (Rich), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

just dug out adeva. i forgot how good 'in and out of my life was'!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

"i think de'lacy's 'hideaway' started life on easy street"

I love this sentence.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Hugg & Pepp's acid remix of the Adeva track from last year is probably even better than the original.

― Richj (Rich), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

i am baffled.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

"i am baffled. "

sorry, i was just noting how you inadvertently used the term "life on easy street" (is this not a common phrase for describing the good life in the UK? It certainly is over here). Explaining it makes it seem like a very small, silly thing to notice.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

ok, i see! is it a common phrase here? i'm not sure actually (maybe in england?) but i certainly know it from watching neighbours back in the day.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

"I Love Life" by Johan Square is the happiest of the Easy Street house singles...

Nervous is another of the great NY house labels...Nu Groove too, though they were a bit darker and dubbier...

anything with "Victor Simonelli" on it = great NY house...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

in my opinion nervous records (despite releasing a few gems) wasn't that great a label. nu groove was obviously great but i think of the nyc house labels, strictly rhythm doesn't get the love it deserves. most of the first 100 releases were awesome. then came the slide......

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. It's really easy to forget Strictly Rhythm's greatness in light of that slight. But shit, Aly-Us' "Follow Me," is a murderer to this day.

― Richj (Rich), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

SUP RICH

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I love Jomanda's "Make my body rock"...

Possibly a little later than you're looking for but there is some really nice stuff on Eightball (and also a lot of crap). I particularly like Joi Cardwell's "Trouble" and "Run to you" and also the Basement Boys remixes of the 250lbs of blue songs.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 28 April 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

What about Sleeping Bag Records?

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Friday, 28 April 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

"new york house": sonic distiction, or mostly geographic/labels? i also assume it meant different things different decades. lern me internet!

― le hague, Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm searching more for a certain sound, and was wondering whether more of it existed on certain labels.I think the records I've been playing are more proto-house, like Visual, Hot Streak, Tony Lee, Serious Intention. Someone told I should just start playing Garage. It made me realise I know nothing about new york house music. I had always thought of Garage as a mis-interpretation of the sound played at the Paradise Garage, based on certain disco records: but excluding other records played there. I'm not sure where i got that idea from, but it led to chicago instead of new york for old house records.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Sunday, 30 April 2006 10:02 (twenty years ago)

If you're coming at it from a trippy/weird disco angle, it's highly unlikely you'll like most of the stuff which gets called 'garage' as it tends to be fairly stripped back tracks with diva-ish vocals - working mostly off the 'soul' side of disco. If on the other hand, you generally love 90s US house, then you might well be into it.

The most famous examples of big 'garage' tracks are probably something like De'Lacy's "Hideaway" (mentioned upthread), Sounds of Blackness' "The Pressure" and Byron Stingily's "C'mon get up everybody"

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

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