Can You Jack Chicago Acid 1985-95 [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Soul Jazz
• ASIN: B0008F10TM
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #396,768 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. This Is Acid

2. Do You Want to Perculate?

3. Go Wild Rhythm Track

4. Beyond the Clouds

5. Acid Crash

6. Phuture Jacks

7. Dum Dum, Pt. 2

8. Acid Bass

Disc: 2

1. I've Lost Control

2. Take Me Higher

3. Box Energy

4. Video Clash

5. Acid Over

6. Explorer

7. Like This

8. Downfall

9. Acid Tracks

Editorial Reviews

TITTLE; ACID/CAN YOU JACK? CHICAGO ACID & EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE 1985-'95. SOUL JAZZ RECORDS. 2005.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chicagan folk noise, August 5, 2005

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G. T. A. Bath (New Orleans) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can You Jack Chicago Acid 1985-95 (Audio CD)

A montana-based no-friends like me the first to review this super collection? Behave!
Personally, I think this contains some of the most flat out exhilarating, psychadelic, other-wordly, coldly electronic yet viscerally human records made ever. Contains many classics of the genre, plus several lesser known good ones. I shall'nt bore you with my list of what i consider grevious ommisions, because you would end up reading a whole load of text, that was, quite frankly, unnecessary, superfluous, overblown, self-important, besides-the-case, and that would just go on and on and on without really enlightening Joe Public (why do they call you Joe public, is that your real name, whats the etymology of that, and why not call you something else, like the compilers of this compilation, such as Jack; they missed the comma though, ie. Can you, Jack? What it is that they're inquiring over is left eerily open) about the true contents of the record over which they'd hand their dosh.
I got this on lovely thick big pieces of twelwe-inch vinyl and whenever things quieten down or the audience get just a bit complacent (albeit maybe a complacency that I may have deliberately lulled them into, via a snippet of Sheryl Crow), at my rare-but-rarified DJ sets down at the Old Ranger, i stick one of these beauties on and sit back and observe the transcendent cardnage.
Dance/electronic music was rarely this exciting ever again, which means that music in general rarely was. How often does a genre come along that is seriously wicked, but also sound utterly unlike anything that preceeds it? Not often these days i'd wager.

I like to think of it as folk-dance music (like eastern european gypsy, klezmer, or irish reels), but uniquely fashioned in Chicago. Using a 303 instead of a mandolin or the like.

3.0 out of 5 stars A few classic tracks, November 23, 2007

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Old School - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can You Jack Chicago Acid 1985-95 (Audio CD)

I bought this cd for specific tracks, so i knew what I was getting. If you're familiar with old school house music from chicago in the early 80's, you'll enjoy some of the hot tracks on this cd.

5.0 out of 5 stars CHI-TOWN HOUSE MUSIC IN THE 80'S....FO' SHO!, March 26, 2007

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Mercedes "Truth Will Never Be Popular" (Right Next To You) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can You Jack Chicago Acid 1985-95 (Audio CD)

i just got my copy of this set and i gotta tell ya,.this takes me back to the clubs in the 80's in chicago.i too grew up on the southside of chicago and i remember radio stations like WBMX(now defunct from what i understand) and WGCI on saturday nights and they would play all this music.Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk,....all those cats are the TRUE PIONEERS of "House" music. music today dont' sound S*** like this now.

move your body.......move your body....jack your body....move your body...jack the mix. :)