DJ Spinna: The Sound Beyond Stars: The Essential Remixes auf 2 LPs

Die besten House-Remixe des amerikanischen Produzenten.

Nicht vielen Produzenten gelang der Wechsel von Hip-Hop zu House so erfolgreich wie Vincent Williams alias DJ Spinna. Wobei seine Hip-Hop-Karriere bis heute meist besser dokumentiert ist.

»The Sound Beyond Stars« fasst zum ersten Mal die besten House-Remixe des 1973 in Brooklyn geborenen Produzenten und DJs zusammen. Als Heranwachsender sog er alle Einflüsse ein, die New York zu bieten hatte: karibische und Latin-Vibes, Hip-Hop, Soul und Disco. Mitte der 90er-Jahre machte er sich als DJ, Produzent und Remixer und als Teil des Hip-Hop-Underground-Duos The Jigmastas einen Namen. Danach zog ihn House in den Bann, Remixe für den britischen Sänger Shaun Escoffery (»Days Like This«) mehrten seinen Ruhm. Dieser Track findet sich hier ebenso wieder wie Remixe für Zeitgenossen wie u. a. Kerri Chandler, Karizma und Louie Vega, für Künstler wie Raul Midon, Bah Samba, Jimmy Sommers und Rahsaan Patterson. Beim Hören wird klar, warum DJs seit Jahren zielstrebig zum Spinna-Mix greifen. Das Booklet erscheint mit Linernotes.

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Few if any producers have managed to make the transition between hip-hop and house as successfully as Vincent Williams, a. k.a. DJ Spinna. But until now his hip-hop career has been better documented. Here, for the first time, is a collection of the cream of Spinna’s house remixes, a collection likely to win a place in the homes of anyone who loves their house music with a deep and soulful twist. Brooklyn-born Spinna absorbed all the influences that were available to a young man growing up in 1980s New York, from the Caribbean and Latin vibes found in his own home (his father’s record collection a major stimulus), through the block-rocking beats that were being dropped by the nascent hip-hop scene at neighbourhood parties, to the soul and disco being spun by Frankie Crocker and Shep Pettibone on the radio, and by Larry Levan at The Paradise Garagewhere Spinna became a punter. Spinna took this rich musical heritage and ran with it, learning to DJ and quickly gaining a rep for himself on the hip-hop scene of the latter-half of the ‘90s, a reputation cemented by a string of classic studio productions as part of The Jigmastas. When the hip-hop scene split so radically between its commercial and underground wings towards the end of the decade, Spinna, a hero of the underground, found himself frustrated by its inherent insularity. »I didn’t want to be playing to the same two-dozen guys every night«, he says. Disco and soul had always been part of his repertoire as a party DJ though, and as he became disenchanted with the smallness of the underground hip-hop scene, he found himself drawn increasingly to their contemporary…