LNR - Work It To The Bone (Dub Classic Mix)

No retelling of the roots of house music is ever complete without mentioning a man who today has been elevated to the role of godfather of the genre. That man is Marshall Jefferson.

While New York's infant house scene was dominated by the influence of Larry Levan and the sounds he let loose on the dancefloor of his club, the Paradise Garage, over in Chicago, a different variety had sprung up.

This sound did away with the pretentious horns and strings of the Garage sound. It relagated the vocals to a supporting role, accentuating the drum-driven beat. Even New York was not immune to the infectious sound coming out of Chicago. The Garage sound was a singer's style, the Warehouse sound was a dancer's style. And everybody wanted to dance.

One of house music's enduring classics is what we bring you tonight...Marshall Jefferson's rework of LNR's "Work It To The Bone (Dub Classic Mix)".


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Rain,
exModia Staff

Marshall Jefferson

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Gwen McCrae - Funky Sensation

By the time Gwen McCrae's "Funky Sensation" hit dancefloors, the sound that would ultimately be called "house" had already begun to split into two seminal lines...the Garage Style of Larry Levan, and the Warehouse Style of Levan's childhood friend, protegé, ballroom house "sister", and early dj'ing pupil, Frankie Knuckles.

On this track you can hear the dominance of the drum beat over horn, piano, strings or brass sections which were so prevalent in disco. True to its title, the song is a funkified masterpiece. But more than that, this song exemplifies the funk influence in house and the emergence of the drum beat as the central element of a dance song.


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Rain,
exModia Staff

Gwen McCrae

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Instant Funk - I Got My Mind Made Up (Original Larry Levan Remix)

Your next selection is really going to confuse you. Instant Funk is regarded as a disco band. However, for this classic Levan remix, elements of disco, funk, early rap call and response, and the 4/4 beat of early house drums are all incorporated.

In true Larry Levan style, this song starts out as a disco instrumental and then lurches back and forth between samples of musical styles that were just beginning to emerge. Levan was notorious for throwing in any genre of music he wanted into a mix, sometimes to the outright anger of club patrons. By today's standards, he would be considered a horrible dj. But by the standards of the early 1980s, he was a visionary that made room on the dancefloor for a sound that had never been head before while helping to mold and direct the future of that sound.

Now you listen and decide...what does this sound to you?


Enjoy!


Rain,
exModia Staff

Instant Funk

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Aleem - ReleaseYourself (Original Mix)

Welcome to the Classics. We did promise a reprise of our first Classic Friday.

Your first selection is a true classic from 1984...from a date and period in music when the term "house" was only a technical dj term.

Opinions are divided over the actual spot on the musical genre scale of this song. Is it disco? Is it funk? Is it an early precursor of house?

We have argued about this here on exModia. What we DO agree on is that it is an example (and a very good one) of Larry Levan's Garage style. And that's what tonight's Classic Friday is about–the immortal Larry Levan and the legendary Paradise Garage.


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Rain,
exModia Staff

The Aleems

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TV Rock ft. Rudy - Been A Long Time (Laidback Luke Remix)

Frist we gave you the Axwell version. Now we bring you Laidback Luke's version.

If the first was on fire, this one is pure dancefloor heat.


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Nena,
exModia Staff

Laidback Luke

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Tom Stephan feat. Laidback Luke & Romanthony - Show (Nari & Milani)

This is without a doubt one of the hottest tracks that Superchumbo has had a hand in producing. But he didn't do it on his own...the major assists here come from Laidback Luke and Romanthony.

Their remix of the Italians, Nari and Milani, just WORKS. This is dancefloor fire!


Enjoy!


Nena,
exModia Staff

Tom Stephan aka Superchumbo

Romanthony

Laidback Luke

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TV Rock ft. Rudy - Been A Long Time (Axwell Remode Mix)

And welcome to Friday night!

First on Axwell's Remode Mix of TV Rock & Rudy's "Been A Long Time".


Enjoy!


Nena,
exModia Staff

Axwell

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Offer Nissim ft. Maya - Happy People (Friscia & Lamboy Remix)

OK, Funny Bunnies...

It's time for this queen to get her beauty sleep. I leave you guys with a remix from one of New York's best-known and best loved djs...Glenn Friscia.

Glenn Friscia is legendary around these parts for being the original dj at one of New York's legendary house clubs, Emerald City, and the creator of the original "Saturday Night Dance Party" on New York radio.

He still hosts his own house radio show on WKTU as well as dj'ing for a local Gay club which I will not mention because frankly, I'd rather not give them any publicity because I just don't SEEEEEEEEEEEEE them!

To make it sweeter, the song is Offer Nissim's (featuring Maya) "Happy People". Friscia and his partner, Lamboy, do this song justice.

Next up later today, Zion from London, Nena, Rain (with a flashback set of Garage and Warehouse classics), and our latest addition, staff member JungleBooty.

Good morning, guten morgen und danke (for Benni who's on right now), goeie môre, goeie morgen, god morgon, god morn, bon matin, buenos dias, bom dia, buon giorno, kalimera, shubha prabhaat...and all that jazz.

Thanks for logging in and...


Enjoy!


FashionQueen,
exModia Staff

Friscia & Lamboy

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DJ Cummy - Celebrate The Summer

This just came in with a request (or a prayer) that I would make it available from one friend to another.
The sender actually doubted that I had the cojones to post it.

You underestimate my dementia.

Antonio R. from Sitges, this is dedicated to you by Jordi S. from Llerida.

I've heard this before and always laughed my ass off. And a dj named Cummy is always a good thing.

Just ask Miss LuLu.


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FashionQueen,
exModia Staff

Thanks For The Request

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David Guetta - Love Don't Let Me Go (Exclusive Remixes)

Up next as we close in on 2:30 on this Friday morning...David Guetta's "Love Don't Let Me Go (Exclusive Remixes)".

I had lined this remix set up earlier today, seeing as how I knew I wasn't gonna get laid tonight. But, as luck would have it, a little birdie dropped an email requesting the "Scream Remix" of this song. Little birdies do that some times. They also drop shit on your head when you're not looking.

I promise not to drop shit on your head, but I'm gonna drop this remix set on you right NOW!

Your play selection is the "Scream Remix".


Enjoy!


FashionQueen,
exModia Staff

Love Don't Let Me Go (Exclusive Remixes)

David Guetta

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Zameer - Mere Yaar (House Mix)

Earlier one of our exModians gave you his selection of ethnic fusion house music. Now, I'm giving you mine. Don't expect me to try to match the eloquent words of our Rain. I'm just not that good.

So, to hell with it...here's the damn track. It's by Zameer and it's a bangin' house mix called "Mere Yaar".

Now, somebody out there please tell me what that means. What da fuck...the beat's hot and that's the important thing.


Enjoy bitches! (muahahahaha!)


FashionQueen,
exModia Staff

Its Rockin On The Fourth Floor

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Pussy - I'm A Sleazy Pervert (1996 Shake My Tribal Mix)

Special request: For Thierry M. in Étampes.

We had to call on Benni to hunt this one down for us. And we literally had to call the Berliner Polizei to drag her sleazy ass out of that bathroom in Weekend Club. But the slut came through. And it only figures THIS would be the song to get her off her knees.

Well, we're always talking about wet pussy around here, so this song is straight (or Gay) up everyone's alley!


Enjoy!


FashionQueen,
exModia Staff

Cherry Moon - Bertrand de Carey , Pascal Henninot

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Haji And Emanuel - Take Me Away 2008 (Wildboys Mixes)

Yeah, we've talked about this dishy Brit before. You do know that Seamus Haji is one HOTTTT mofo! Hell you don't even have to pay me no dirty money to do him. I'll jump on him like a flea on a stray dog!

Here you go...Seamus Haji and Paul Emanuel's retooling of "Take Me Away" has been retooled by the Wildboys. The download zip file contains two mixes...the bassline mix and the bassline dub. Your play selection below is the bassline dub.

Enjoy!


FashionQueen,
exModia Staff

Haji & Emanuel - Take Me Away 2008 (Wildboys Mixes)

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