For this week’s column, I start with a confession. There was a rave track called “The Anthem” by N-Joi which came out in 1990. I hated it at the time,…
Believe it or not, but there was once an artist called Joey Negro. When I first learnt that the word “negro” had racist connotations, I found it utterly bizarre that…
Sarah Washington put out a few records under that name in the middle of the 1990s. “Heaven” was probably the most well-known of those, a big singalong anthem which came…
Whenever I discover someone whose making a lot of tunes or remixes that I really like, something happens to me. At some point, I decide to start trawling through their…
This Monday evening, let’s go back to the turn of the millennium. Weirdly, I still remember the first time I heard this song – Saturday, January 8th, 2000. French house…
This week, I go all the way back to 1993 and a track which came out on Chicago Style Records that year – “Let Yo Fro Gro” by Bush Man.…
For this week’s edition of Here’s One They Made Earlier. it’s Natalie Williams. In 2006, she released a song which at the time was in the neo-soul genre. It included…
This week’s selection involves a producer who is sadly no longer with us. His tunes excited me back in the mid-1990s and I honestly believe he would have become a…
Every now and then, a remix comes along that totally turns the original song on his head. Most of the time when this happens, the results are terrible. But occasionally,…
Today, Amateur’s House introduces a brand new series. Every Monday evening, I’m going to select one song from somewhere in the history of dance music which you might have forgotten…
