Its now 2021 but uploading all the old shows before we kick the new one off. Im in the process of having a website set up that will have all the track listings and links etc on. So watch this space.  hOUSE mUSIC Stav :)

Hello House Music People !!!,

I hope that we are all well and having fun.. This time around the selection is a bit more of a Detroit and Chicago nature, featuring tracks from artists such as Patrice Scott, Keith Worthy, Mike Dunn and even one from Armando, a lost and found track from a Chicago legend that sadly died in 1996 (If you are interested in the Amando track there is a small piece about the track and it origins, one for all you dance music geeks !!!) This mix is for Rat & Nod as I know that they love the deep dark stuff.. Recorded at home in Brighton on the 19th April 2012 using CD’s and a bit of vinyl. Think im well over due a dig through the records as I have been quite focussed on new music and CD’s for the last few years and have neglected the vinyl, maybe I will do a My Classics vinyl only mix at some point..

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#004 Track List - hOUSE dEEP Show By Stav Mason

1. Bassik Groove - Never Been To Cafe Del Mar
2. Love Birds - Brotha
3. Max Conte - Dark On Fire EP (Moodymanc Remix)
4. Tony Lionni – Astroblack
5. Mike Dunn - The Sound Of Lugano
6. Terrance Dixon - The Parkhurst (Vinyl)
7. Armando - Dont Take It (Stav cut up)
8. Armando - Dont Take It (Stav cut up)
9. Tony Lionni - Running away
10. Patrice Scott - The Voyage
11. Patrice Scott - Motions
12. Keith Worthy - Moon Dance

Armando - Dont Take It – Track Info

One of the few recently-released tracks that will seamlessly mix into any of Prosumer and Murat Tepeli's Serenity is, unsurprisingly, one that's nearly 20 years old. Armando's Don't Take It' is one of those "lost classics" that less-than-reputable bootleggers try to sell you from behind their poorly constructed 1995-era Geocities websites and consonant-heavy e-mail addresses. Except, you know, 'Don't Take It' is actually the real deal. (Even though it may still come from a poorly constructed Geocities-esque website anyway.)

Armando Gallop died in the mid-'90s, so it's unclear where Let's Pet Puppies' label head Thomos dredged it up, but be glad he did. His edit of the one-take Armando's acid epic and Sharvette's women's lib session is unimpeachable. (Sample lyric: "A strong mind and a strong car will get you anywhere".) The acid line twists, tumbles, decays, dies, resurrects itself and dies again over the course of its too-short eight-and-a-half minutes. On the flip, Johnny Fiasco reworks the tune, adding a bit of heft to the original and stripping the vocal. Fiasco doesn't do much, but then again with a track like this, the less fussing around, the better.

Thomos seems to have a good deal of Head Studios' tapes lying around, which can only be a good thing for collectors jonesing for that authentic old-school sound, but it's hard to imagine a track like 'Don't Take It' coming out of the coffers again any time soon. Sharvette's vocal is so deliciously strange, complete with the sort of vocal hiccups ("This is Sharvette and I'm here to, uh, bring a message to the ladies", "a classical example of 'wham bam thank you ma'am'") that would undoubtedly be edited out of the Ableton Age. Grab this one while you still can: it's not so much a classic as it is an antiquity. And those, unfortunately, are few and far between.