The Best of Soul Underground 1987-91

Hey guys, the original article over on my blog has a bunch of nice pictures and hyperlinks but the board doesn't have copy-paste functionality with pics and I'm too lazy to manually do it :p, so you can read the full bit over on http://danceisafeeling.com/news/56, but the gist of it is: this is one fucking quality book and DJhistory is giving me a free copy to give to one of my readers, so have at it:


Win FREE Copy of "Catch The Beat: The Best of Soul Underground 1987-91" from DJHistory.com
CONTEST ENDS THIS SUNDAY





That's right! DJhistory.com, one of the web's top destinations for all things dance music--reviews, hard-to-find vinyl, raging message forums, helpful features, and more--will give one lucky Dance Is A Feeling Music Blog winner a FREE copy of their latest publication: "Catch The Beat: The Best of Soul Underground 1987-91". The incredible new hardcover book, released in October, traces the beginnings of dance music & clubbing culture in the U.S. and Europe, presented as a premium collection of over 400 pages' worth of DJ charts, interviews, features, and more from the seminal Hip-Hop and House Music magazine of the time, Soul Underground.




According to DJH, "anyone who wanted to know about dance music in the late '80s read Soul Underground. Nowhere else would you find Fred Wesley next to Public Enemy and Frankie Knuckles, northern rappers next to Sound Factory voguers, and month by month club news from London, New York, and Manchester." From interesting news of the day, like De La Soul getting sued by The Turtles for sampling four bars from a 1960s hit, to incredible anecdotal quotes about the 1989 NYC dance scene like "It’s very athletic. There’s no socializing. All interest is focused on the dance floor and the jams"... this is a tremendous window into a time that, while only two decades removed from our own, feels utterly classic by comparison.

If that's not amazing enough, the table of contents will rock any Hip-Hop, House, or Funk DJ's (or music enthusiast's) socks from here to Venus: there are full-on features, DJ playlists, or interviews on Hip-Hop icons like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Marley Marl, Jazzy Jeff, KRS-1, Afrika Bambaataa, Biz Markie, Stetsasonic, alongside those of House Music icons like DJ Pierre, Paradise Garage, Trax Records, Marshall Jefferson, Chicago house, Robert Owens, The Sound Factory, Ibiza clubs, Acid house, Balearic beat, Basement Boys, Tony Humphries, Frankie Knuckles, Hip house, Louie Vega. And that's just a small slice of it. It's pretty much 400 pages of "incredible".




So How Do I Enter for a Chance to Win A Free Copy?

Just join the Dance Is A Feeling music mailing list in the upper left corner of the website before November 21. One lucky reader will be contacted and connected with DJhistory.com to redeem their free book (a $50 USD value after shipping and handling). It's that simple! The winner will be chosen on November 22. If you NEED THIS BOOK IN YOUR LIFE now, you can purchase it directly from http://www.djhistory.com/books. You can also download a FREE 40-page sampler pdf (10MB) to try before you buy.

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