It seems to me that Fast Eddie might still be producing some music... I've seen his name among the credits on a record or two in the last couple of years as I've browsed through the vinyl at some of the shops in Chicago, but I can't think of anything he's put out under his own name in the last 4 or 5 years. He tried putting out a few Chicago hard house tracks, but like hiphouse, that genre seemed to fade as quickly as it came. (Meanwhile, I'm sitting on nearly two crates of vinyl pressed under the Jasper Stone and UC Music labels wondering where my obsession came from.)
Kool Rock Steady... ah, one of my favorite hiphouse artists of the "era", he unfortunately passed away from AIDS sometime in '95 or '96 I think it was. I never did hear how he acquired it or how long he lived with it, but it was a sad end, regardless. Matt E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.magicmattkelly.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [313] hip house > Hip-house really makes me laugh; what you had was a new genre of music that > lasted for about a year, tops. During that year, all hip-house records were > *about* hip-house, never really about anything else; all the records > expressed immense confidence in the future of the genre ("hip-house is here > to stay!"); everyone thought they'd discovered the promised land. Almost > overnight, though, it all collapsed, and hip-house died. Tyree ended up > delivering pizzas. God knows what Fast Eddie, or Kool Rock Steady, are doing > (Kool Rock Steady's work with Lidell Townsell is pretty good > hip-acid-house). Hip-house was no more. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
