Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk (A Touch of Class Dub)
Dr. Derelict - That Shit's Wild
Steve "Silk" Hurley - Jack Your Body
Black Box - Ride On Time
S-Express - Theme from S-Express (DJ Prince Old Skool Remake)
Marky Mark - Good Vibrations
Mr. Fingers - Can U Feel It
Adonis - We're Rockin Down The House
Adonis - No Way Back
Cappuccino - Hell Dance With Me
Jesse Saunders - On and On
Madonna - Vogue
Trazmick – Welcome to The Aerobics Center
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Ok. This mix has been a long time coming. I grew up outside of Chicago in Indiana and in the mid-80’s, like many suburban moms, my mother was an aerobics fanatic. She went a few times a week to this place called The Aerobics Center. For some reason I had to go along with her, probably because they offered free daycare. So while my mom was sweatin away to 80s house and dance music I was in the adjacent room absorbing the bass and beats while trying entertain myself with whatever other abandoned children were there in the daycare, which was really just a small room that I swear was right next to the subwoofers. I mean it was loud in there!
At this early age I was exposed to the grid-like repetition of those Roland drum machines and the rhythmic pulse of those cheesy, digital dance pianos, sounds I still love to this day. So with that, here is my latest mix. Its mid-eighties Chicago House, some tracks that influenced the genre and some pop tracks that stemmed from it. Enjoy!
