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House Heroes | Joey Negro
House Salad Music Tributes
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JOEY NEGRO | London, UK
ZR Records
@soundcloud.com/joeynegro
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Joey Negro is the most well-known pseudonym of master British DJ/producer/remixer Dave Lee. Under a plethora of other monikers including Jakatta, Akabu, Doug Willis, Raven Maize, The Sunburst Band, Sessomatto, and Z Factor, Dave was one of the first artists to incorporate disco samples in house music when he began his production career in 1988. Indeed, he was in the studio making credible and outstanding British House music when many luminaries around him were still busy getting to grips with their decks. Little has changed since then and Dave is still widely regarded as one of the most commercially successful and in-demand artists on the global scene.
A producer first and foremost, his work ethic is legendry, having been involved in well over 200 productions, countless albums and a healthy stack of hit singles with tracks such as ‘Must Be The Music’, ‘Make A Move On Me’, ‘Can’t Get High Without You’ and Jakatta’s ‘American Dream’ and ‘My Vision’.
Intrinsically linked with the birth of Soulful house in the UK, Dave Lee set up the dance music division of Rough Trade, Demix and through this link, he began working with the Rhythm King label, which had had a number of hits with acts like Bomb The Bass, S-Express, Cookie Crew and Beatmasters. This experience and intimacy with other leading house labels led to the establishing his own imprint, Republic Records, in 1988. Now defunct, Republic was one of the UK’s first soulful house labels releasing classics such as Phase II “Reachin” and Turntable Orchestra “You’re Gonna Miss Me”. Republic also put out M.D.Emm.'s ‘Get Busy’, which reached #88 in the UK charts and #18 in the club charts at the time. His most widely received work during this time was ‘Forever Together’, released under his Raven Maize alter ego.
Joey Negro, as an entity, was born in 1990 with the release of “Do It Believe It’ on US cult house label Nu Groove. The track was a breakthrough success and was followed by ‘Do What You Feel’, which was released on his second label and successor to Republic, Z Records. ‘Do What You Feel’ eventually crossed from a club hit to a top 40 pop hit. Another Top 40 track followed with “Love Fantasy” and an album “Universe of Love” soon after that. Throughout the 90’s and milenia, a continual stream of releases followed on Z Records as well as other choice indies JBO, Azuli and NRK. Dave Lee continues to release a single per month and draft in the highest quality remixers such as Dennis Ferrer, Henrik Schwarz, Ame and Jimpster.
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Tribute selected and mixed by Andrew (Santiago / Chile)
@soundcloud.com/andrewscl
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1. Jiva - I Realized (Joey Negro Remix)
2. Joey Negro pres. Mistura - Better Things To Come feat. Kadija Kamara
3. Zo! feat. Erro & Phonte - We Are On The Move (Joey Negro Revival Mix)
4. Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band - The Secret Life of Us (Director's Cut Signature Mix)
5. Jon Cutler & Eman - It’s Yours (Joey Negro Remix)
6. Joey Negro pres. Doug Willis - Doug Ya Wanna Boogie (Original Mix)
7. Ben Westbeech - Something For The Weekend (Joey Negro Special Dubb)
8. Joey Negro pres. Akabu feat. Ovasoul - Raw Love (Joey Negro Club Mix)
9. Joey Negro pres. Akabu feat. Linda Clifford - Ride The Storm (Joey Negro Club Mix)
10. Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band - He Is (Joey Negro Club Mix)
11. Joey Negro - Do What You Feel (Steve Mill Remix)
12. Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band - I'll Be There 4 U (Garden of Love) (Spiritchaser Remix)
13. Joey Negro pres. Doug Willis - Spread Love (Alex Kenji Future Disco Mix)
14. Joey Negro pres. Doug Willis feat. Kristi Lomax - Universe Of Sound (Original Mix)
15. Joey Negro pres. Akabu - Another World (Andre Lodemann Mix)
- Genre
- House