All of a sudden, like a clap of thunder in a clear sky, house music exploded in Amsterdam. It was September 1988, the end of the summer that the British had already dubbed "The Summer Of Love," and the birth of a new era in the capital.

Shrouded in steam and smoke, lit by furious, flashing strobes, Eddy de Clercq stands behind the turntables at the RoXY. Beaded with sweat, in deep concentration and completely at one with the music, he builds a compelling, hypnotising soundtrack of electronic beats and basslines. Uplifting house tracks alternate with beautiful, vocal garage and abstract, futuristic Detroit techno. Waves of energy shudder through the crowd, who whoop and cheer with each subsequent track. Football whistles blare, a siren begins to wail. Can you feeeel it? The temperature reaches boiling point as the dance floor explodes in yet another ecstatic climax. But then the DJ makes a radical change in tack. The musical rollercoaster hurtles on into the depths of the night, driven forward by an intense, biting acid track that makes the floor shake. Strange and estranging and going so deep that we seem for a moment to step into an intoxicating dreamworld where time no longer exists.

In the late summer of 1988, over the course of only a few weeks, the RoXY, a stylish, former cinema on the Singel in Amsterdam, grew into a veritable house temple: the dazzling centre of the capital's young house scene and a club whose fame in the years that followed would take on almost mythical proportions. Not only because of the music, but also due to the extravagant clientele, who knew how to create an amazing party atmosphere.

[00:00] Rhythm Is Rhythm - Strings Of Life
[03:48] Djum Djum - Difference
[05:33] Nightmares On Wax - Aftermath
[07:06] ?
[10:27] 4 For Money - Its A Moment In Time (Rising High Dub)
[13:07] Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Etre...Pas
[18:12] Jamie Principle - Your Love
[22:25] Pete Shelley - Witness The Change
[26:31] The D.O.C. - Portrait Of A Masterpiece (Hip Hop 12" Extended Mix)
[30:45] ?
[33:50] Master C&J - Face It 
[35:55] Reese - Just Want Another Chance
[39:22] Lovechild - Sweet Ambience (Deep Dub)
[46:50] ?
[42:54] Chapter 1 - Unleash The Groove (E-Funk Mix)
[48:58] Suburban Knight - The Art Of Stalking
[51:01] Tyree - Acid Crash
[56:15] Ron Trent - Altered States

Comments, hints and suggestions are always welcome!

Derrick May @ RoXY, Amsterdam   28.09.1990

Tracklist

Killing Joke - Millenium
Sabres Of Paradise - Edge 6
Brother Love Dubs - Mighty Ming (Sabres Of Paradise Remix)
Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch (Beatless)
Plastikman - Spastik
LFO vs FUSE - Loop
Sabres Of Paradise - Lik Wid Nit Wit
Black Dog - Virtual
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Pull
Shiver - Nightshift
Experimentation - Flight 15
Morgan Fisher - Humtone No 4
3m - Accu H
Planetary Assault Systems - Twilight
Innersphere - Let’s Go To Work
Experimental - Afgan Acid
3 Phase - Rota
N.A.D - Habibi Halilu
Koenig Cylinders - Carousel

1993 - www.essentialmix.me

Andrew Weatherall - Essential Mix 13/11/1993

DJ Hell at Direct Drive (Chicago, 1997)

Wow... just last night I was going through all my mixtapes & 1 tape fell off my hands & it was this mix of DJ Funk. Only to find out he passed away this morning. That blew me away... for those that came to our KCP parties know how we used to drop some of them dope DJ Funk jointz on Chicago'z Dance Mania Records. May you R.I.P. my brother. 
Today we lost 2 House Music legendz, DJ Funk of course, & Roy Ayers. May you both be enjoying the bliss of Heaven.
Let'z keep their spirit alive through their music & mixes.

Manny Cuevas
aka
DJ M-TRAXXX


Psalms 150 = I Came 2 Make U Jack!!!

Manny'z Tapez

DJ Funk 'Ghetto Trax Mix' Chicago, 2000'

Mike Dearborn @ Zero Chill NYE 31 Dec 24 - Brooklyn, NY - Recorded live

Mike Dearborn - Zero Chill - Brooklyn NYE 31 Dec 24

1000Leaf (short ver)

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Luke Slater

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578 - Luke Slater - Fear And Loathing - Disc 2 (2001)

Lobos & Resolute Presents: CAP w Mister Joshooa

Mister Joshooa @ Baltimore gallery Detroit

A section of the night recorded live in Brighton, April 2014.

RIP to the greatest of all time. Thank you so much for everything
x

Andrew Weatherall b2b Daniel Avery, Brighton (2014)

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World Service [Disc 2]

742 - Dave Clarke - World Service - Electro Disc (2001)

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DE9 | Transitions

775 - Richie Hawtin DE9 Transitions (2005)

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Derrick May @ RoXY, Amsterdam 28.09.1990

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