Customer Reviews

Can You Jack Chicago Acid 1985-95

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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.

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.

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. :)

This is a must for any serious "electronica/dance" nut. I totally agree with the reviewer above. This stuff still points the way to the future in music. Plus..this super-powered double delux CD also comes with a huge in-depth book telling a facinating story of how this Acid-techno-house-electronic dance-scene coolness came about. Made me really jealous I wasn't 22 years old in Chicago in 1986 with $200 Roland TB 303. Oh well.
The tunes on these discs make the description "funky" sound quaint. This is way way past any paradigm ...of thinking along those lines....basslines?
The other reviewer really says it...music is sadly ..rarely this exciting. This is inspired stuff....everyone could learn from...to get that devine spark. The music here..sounds like it's from the voice of humanity..and the voice of God. Man..oh man..get your acid groove fired up. The only reason I didn't give these cats a 5 instead of a 4 is that I need some more chords and melodies..but that's just my own thing..it's well past excellent nonetheless.