Number 104 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th Century
First Floor
1998 · Detroit house · deep house
Peacefrog Records · PF076CD
Why it's here
Sound Signature's founding double; house deliberately mixed wrong and better for it
Theo Parrish mixes house 'wrong' on First Floor and gets something more alive than correctness. Dust, imbalance and raw edges remain in the frame, giving the tracks a hand-made warmth that cleaner production would have erased. The dirt is part of the rhythm. The rawness is an acquired taste. Acquired, it is hard to give up.
Also ranked
- Dancefloor
- № 72
- Influence
- № 56
- External poll
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Tracklist
- 1First Floor Metaphor9:36
- 2Sweet Sticky7:16
- 3Paradise Architects6:03
- 4Love Is War For Miles9:02
- 5Electric Alleycat10:01
- 6JB's Edit5:33
- 7Dark Patterns11:08
- 8Heal Yourself And Move10:17
- 9Sky Walking8:57