Sunday
Guest Blogger & SOTD: House Master Boyz: House Nation
A little background first.

My name is Keith and I’ll be your guest song-of-the-day blogger this week. You may know me from http://www.kaizophoto.com/ or the guy with the infinite Cressida build. I was innocently jamming out to some music on my Zune last week when a song came on that I hadn’t heard in years (more on that song later this week). I sent it to Chris and told him he should use it for a daily song pick. Turned out he was planning on featuring classic House tracks this week. One thing led to another and here I am.

In the late ’90s through the early ’00s, I was involved with promoting & DJing raves and club events with Mile High and then Sound in Motion. During this same time, Chris was involved with another group doing the same thing, Family Werks. I knew a few of the other guys from that group a little bit better, but this was essentially when and how I met Chris.

I’m not a House expert. I started off spinning trance and ended my stint with more techy/progressive trance. There are probably hundreds of top ranking and crowd pleasing house tracks from this general era. Hopefully you’ll agree that the seven I pick are memorable, for better or worse.

We’ll kick it off with House Master Boyz & The Rude Boy of House: House Nation
You can’t have a classic house track without a vocal mentioning the word “house.” It’s just not possible. This was produced by Chicago’s Farley Jackmaster Funk and has some serious early ’90s synth & percussion feel to it. This is probably one of the first tracks to do so much repetition with a vocal and pull it off well, something imitated often after this. This track has more remixes than you’d believe and my favorite may not even be a remix, I can only remember hearing it. It was a mix with the piano and vocal from Marshall Jefferson’s Move Your Body over the beat and vocal of House Nation. Two ultra-catchy tracks that meshed well and my head nearly exploded. Anyways, enjoy the original: