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Incredible as it seems, this year marks twenty years since the launch of Johnny D’Mairo’s Henry Street Music label. To celebrate, BBE is marking the occasion with a sumptuous five- disc CD retrospective, a fitting tribute to one of the most important of all house labels. This is one of the most extensive grand summations yet done of a dance label.
Henry Street Music exemplified its era as much as Trax and Nu-Groove had theirs. Come the mid-‘90s, the disco cut-up became ubiquitous, as thousands tried to emulate the success of Henry Street’s first big killer, The Bucketheads’ Tha Bomb –still a dancefloor staple two decades on.
Many of the movers and shakers of the day had their best moments on Henry Street, and they’re all here: Johnnick, Armand Van Helden, DJ Duke, DJ Sneak, Dirty Harry, Davidson Ospina, Todd Terry, Mateo and Matos, Brutal Bill, Josh Wink, even the UK’s own Ashley Beedle, and many more –a veritable roll-call of the premiere-league of dance at the time, an era when dance music still seemed incredibly fertile and the link with its own past was still vital.
Some of the American originals can struggle to get props among the countless mutations of house out there vying for attention in today’s digitalized dance scene, but the real house-heads always knew to check them, and will recognize this as quality product, through and through.

Henry Street (named after Brooklyn homeboy Johnny’s neighbourhood) always had a ‘New York’ vibe, and even when drawing its producers from further afield, the label encapsulated the city’s melting-pot of talent and raw, bristling energy... energy captured here, and exploding off these remastered tracks like it’s 1999 all over again!

Alongside the massive dancefloor anthems from the likes of Kenny Dope and Armand Van Helden are some real gems that got away, some exclusive mixes, and the thoughts of Johnny D, one of the prime-movers of the New York dance scene even before he came up with his own label, responsible for countless hits as promotions man and as dance A&R at Atlantic. Never one for the limelight, Johnny’s own story is nonetheless inextricably bound up with the transition from disco through house to the ubiquity of dance music today.
So... dust off those dancing shoes, and get ready to feel the heat, it’s one more time for the Henry Street Hustle!


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Remixes

Je Pense A Toi, Mon Amour, Ma Cherie (DJ Alix Remix)

The Remix Strikes Back

Boogie (Teemid Re-Edit)

Roger Sanchez teams with Mike Vale and arguably create one of his finest songs of the year on his influential house imprint Stealth.

Treading a slightly more mainstream path, Sanchez masterfully revisits the euphoria of the hedonistic early 2000's house scene; combining Kelli-Leigh's jaw-dropping vocals with soulful piano chords and am ambrosial groove.

The result is a record so infectious you could hear it a dozen times in a row and still go crazy to the beat.

'Do It Well' is a perfectly executed production engineered by a true master of the house scene.

Premiere | Roger Sanchez & Mike Vale Feat. Kelli - Leigh - Do It Well (Extended Mix) Stealth

Bobby D'Ambrosio Feat. Michelle Weeks - Moment Of My Life (Osio & Jones Family Remix 2013)

Martin Solveig- I'm A Good Man feat.

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