On & On

Manni’s blog ‘Those City Nights‘ is one of the best researched and consistently well written music blogs out there. The level of detail and work that goes into it, puts most blogs to shame.

Today there is a great interview with House pioneer Jesse Saunders who talks at length about the evolution of house from disco-it’s fascinating stuff;

So whenever I played, my first record on the turntable would be this bootleg ‘On & On’ record because that was like my signature tune. When I put that on, everybody knew that I was in the place because nobody else was playing that side but me, no one even knew what it was, and I wouldn’t tell anybody, even though there were a few people that had it. When I would go up on stage I would make sure that security cleared it so that no one would know what it was that I was playing. It was amazing to me that they hadn’t flipped that record over and found it themselves.

The bootleg, Mach’s ‘On & On’, was put together in Miami by a local Cuban club dj (hat-tip discomusic.com) but remained unloved till discovered retrosptively by music historians and deejays wanting to pay homage to the roots of house. DJ Rahaan certainly falls into the later category as the video above so vivdly illustrates, reminding us, if nothing else, that one man with ‘a b-side and a plan’ can change the course of music forever.