Ron Hardy: Muzic Box Classics #5 CD

CD comp number 5 from Muzic Box Classics! Heads should know the deal, but here’s a primer for those who don’t know: Ron Hardy is a hugely influential DJ, up there with Levan and Mancuso, who helped usher in the era of House music at the Muzic Box in Chicago (where he was resident from ’82-’86) and the current re-edit craze. His sets are the stuff of legend as he would mix everything from disco, soul, new wave, EBM, and proto-house music together in a way that would make everybody lose it on the floor – often times playing his own edits off a Reel-To-Reel player! Here you get some of his potent edits along with classic dancefloor killers and rarites rocked at the Box from Tyree, Jamie Principle, Quando Quango, Armando, plus a bunch of other tracks we can’t put our finger on. Recommended.

• Muzic Box Classics 2012

reviewed by snackmaster 1/2013