Mr Lee & Kompany - "Jackmaster" (Jerome Derradji edit)
Mitchbal & Larry Williams - "Do That Stuff" (dance mix)
Mitchbal & The Housemaster - "When I Hear The Music"
Risque Rythum Team - "The Jackin Zone"
Jeanette Thomas - "Shake Your Body"
Libra Libra - "I Am Music" (instrumental)
Unfinished Business - "Out Of My Hands" (club mix)
Dezz & Grant - "The House Is On Fire"
Mr Lee & Kompany - "Can You Feel It"
Z-Factor - "Fantasy" (feat Jessy Saunders - instrumental/Jerome Derradji edit)
Jeanette Thomas - "Shake Your Body"
Mitchbal & The Housemaster - "When I Hear The Music"
Unfinished Business - "Out Of My Hands" (club mix)
Dezz & Grant - "The House Is On Fire"
Mitchbal & Larry Williams - "Do That Stuff" (dance mix)
Libra Libra - "I Am Music" (instrumental)
Mr Lee & Kompany - "Jackmaster" (vocal mix)
Z-Factor - "Fantasy" (feat Jessy Saunders - instrumental)
Risque Rythum Team - "The Jackin Zone"
Mr Lee & Kompany - "Can You Feel It"
Z-Factor - "I Am The DJ" (feat Jesse Saunders)
Libra Libra - "I Like It" (club mix)
Risque Rythum Team - "More Than Just A Dance" (Backyard mix)
Libra Libra - "Where Did My Love Go" (vocal)
Z-Factor - "(I Like To Do It In) Fast Cars"
Mr Lee - "I Can't Forget" (vocal mix)
Z-Factor - "I Synthesize"
Risque Rythum Team - "That's The Beat"
Libra Libra - "I Am Music" (Ninja mix)
Mc Ghee - "I Got Broke Breakdancing" (instrumental)
Mitchbal & Friends - "Love Is The Answer" (Farley "The King Of House Music" Jackmaster Funk remix - bonus track)
Review: For anyone with an interest in the history of house music, this excellent compilation from Jerome Derradji's Still Music imprint should be essential listening. It focuses on the output of two long forgotten Chicago labels, Mitchbal and Chicago Connection Records, during the early to mid 1980s, when electro, new wave and boogie were morphing into house. As such, 122 BPM offers a mix of rare, largely overlooked cuts that bristle with analogue dancefloor intent. There's proto-jack in the shape of Jeanette Thomas's "Shake Your Body" and Z Factor's "I Am The DJ", dubbed-out Chi-town proto house from Mitchbal and Larry Williams, and some terrific bodypoppin' electro from McGhee.
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