This guest mix is a really interesting one. Longtime ISM homeboy Lerosa decided to do a tribute mix to one of house music’s all time legends, Todd Terry. In all the hoopla over house music’s “revival”, Mr. Terry has been relatively overlooked. Why? It could be the dated sounds of his early sample-based house tunes, which have not necessarily held up as well as other drum machine and synth based tracks from the same time period. Having said that, I would recommend opening Terry’s Discogs page to see just how dominant he was in house music, however it is so huge it will likely slow down or crash your browser. That’s how big time Todd Terry is.
This mix focuses on his earliest productions from ’88-’90, including most of the classics from that period. These tracks really are made like hip-hop tracks in their sampling style, most likely done on the classic Emu SP1200 sampling drum machine. If you like it rugged and raw, you should definitely check this one out!
Tracklist:
1 hard house, check this out, champion
2 royal house, dirty beats (extended mix)). idlers
3 funtopia, let us rise, (a different macid mix), idlers
4 black riot, warlock (club mix), fourth floor records
5 limelime, i wanna go bang (old time dub), loud house records
6 black riot, a day in the life (bonus dub), fourth floor records
7 sax, don’t turn your back on me (funny bone mix), loud house records
8 swan lake, don’t stop, loud house records
9 swan lake, the dream (54 dub mix), bad boy records
10 The Todd Terry Project, it’s just in house, fresh
11 The Todd Terry Project, bango (club bang), fresh
12 The Todd Terry Project, just wanna dance (club version), fresh
13 royal house, get funky (dub) idlers
14 The Todd Terry Project, weekend (UK remix), fresh
15 limelife, cause you’re right on time (old school mix), loud house
16 royal house, yeah buddy (extended mix), idlers
17 The Todd Terry Project, back to the beat (club mix), fresh
18 royal house, can you party (club mix), idlers
19 black riot, a day on the life (a day in london mix), champion
You can download the mix here. Big ups to Leo once again for this mix!
7 Comments
dope !!! 🙂
Damn this is tight!!
Checked out that discog page and :O fk that’s a massive list of tunes!!
Class mix – one of my favourites in a long time… brilliant
wow! always loved this kinda hip-hop style house music! and Todd was one of the best of it!
great mix and so are your house classics mixes.would be interesting to hear your take on labels like nugroove,strictly and nervous(to mention a few)if you followed their stuff back in the early to mid 90’s
[…] Enemy, Run DMC, various East coast hip hop, and a good few acid house records, same ravey stuff, all of my Todd Terry records, probably 200 records out of about 1000 or so. I got some of those back from Discogs since and […]
still one of my favorite ISM mixes to date.