We were in love. And booking international guest djs for heavens sake. We'd been bitten hard by the house music bug and it was time to nail it to the wall. Our sets were always fairly international but the dubs of a lot of the NY/Chicago Garage tunes were often exquisite in their own right and, to our minds, overlooked. Producers like Todd Terry, MAW, Kerri Chandler, Mood II Swing, Murk etc all fed our insatiable appetite. That heavy swing and almost hip hop production that lived happily alongside the roughest techno and the deepest soul. It was this 'hidden world' of US Garage that really brought Tribal Records
to our attention. They seemed to like the same things.
So when we caught wind they were touring europe to promote a spate of now timeless releases we jumped. The tours official dj was Danny Tenaglia. There was very little in the Tribal catalogue we didn't have in our collections. Or so we thought.
The night itself was incredible. Mere words cannot do justice to the impact it had on me. I was not alone. This was real house music played the way it should be played. That perfect period of Danny's career where he was still very NY and not so Ibiza. A bridge between the two. Emotive, exciting, hypnotising, both alien and familiar, deep and ecstatic. Mr Tenaglia played an incredible four hour set . He literally rearranged my djing DNA. His experience, patience and restraint gave every rise and every fall a near spiritual significance.
So I've decided to offer up both halves of that evening for your downloading pleasure. Part one and part two. You'll hear now classic house tracks making their official auld reekie debut and rare beasts you wish you knew the name of even now. Listening back it's clear Danny Tenaglia was not the only star that evening. Tribal Records had hit their stride with an incredible rosta of artists and an unparalleled run of releases and they knew it. They wanted to be the ones to drop those monster tunes on you for the first time.
Label boss and founder Rob Di Stefano was present at every night of that tour. To him even now that night in auld reekie at that delightful whore of a nightspot was the perfect Tribal night. At Tribal.
The night itself was incredible. Mere words cannot do justice to the impact it had on me. I was not alone. This was real house music played the way it should be played. That perfect period of Danny's career where he was still very NY and not so Ibiza. A bridge between the two. Emotive, exciting, hypnotising, both alien and familiar, deep and ecstatic. Mr Tenaglia played an incredible four hour set . He literally rearranged my djing DNA. His experience, patience and restraint gave every rise and every fall a near spiritual significance.
So I've decided to offer up both halves of that evening for your downloading pleasure. Part one and part two. You'll hear now classic house tracks making their official auld reekie debut and rare beasts you wish you knew the name of even now. Listening back it's clear Danny Tenaglia was not the only star that evening. Tribal Records had hit their stride with an incredible rosta of artists and an unparalleled run of releases and they knew it. They wanted to be the ones to drop those monster tunes on you for the first time.
Label boss and founder Rob Di Stefano was present at every night of that tour. To him even now that night in auld reekie at that delightful whore of a nightspot was the perfect Tribal night. At Tribal.
