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Many Shades Of House (Selected By Lea Lisa)

Many Shades Of House (Selected By Lea Lisa)
Many Shades Of House (Selected By Lea Lisa)Many Shades Of House (Selected By Lea Lisa)Many Shades Of House (Selected By Lea Lisa)

Artists

Various Artists

Labels

Favorite Recordings

Catno

FVR192

Formats

2x Vinyl Gatefold

Country

France

Release date

Mar 29, 2024

Genres

Electronic

Styles

House Deep-House Reissue

Favorite recordings and Lea Lisa presents Many Shades of House, a personal selection of House music tracks that have a very special place in Lea Lisa's heart and in her record box.

Amongst this selection, Many Shades Of House is including many very rare and hard to find titles, mostly never reissued on vinyl until now.

Lea Lisa (Phonica Records, Wolf Music…) is a DJ, producer & vinyl addict who never stops digging and hasn’t since she first started in 1995. House music is so rich and varied that she naturally felt the desire to show and share this diversity. “Through this compilation I wanted to present artists and records that have greatly influenced me throughout my career. Whether through the strong messages they convey or through the emotions I felt discovering each of these vinyl.” said Lea Lisa.

Carefully packed with long-forgotten US house gems (Transient's groove keeper "Higher" and a 1997 NYC House tune from Kerri Chandler in his garage house days), iconic early house/techno treasure (Mark Goddard's "Truth"), intensive journeys (Passion Dance Orchestra) to atmospheric soundscapes (Pure Science), soulful grooves (Ron Trent's boogie infused "Can't Change Me") and timeless deep house gems (Slowhouse, Abacus).

Created in 2005, Favorite Recordings presents a rich catalogue combining the productions of new artists with reissues of forgotten masterpieces all along the wide groove music spectrum, from Soul/Funk, Jazz, Disco, to Reggae, Hip-Hop, House or Electronic genres. Before launching Favorite. Pascal Rioux, founder and label honcho, started in the mid-90s with the House music label Rotax Disques. In 2014, following his meeting and affinity with French House DJ Jeremy Underground, they quickly collaborated on a series of compilations (My Love Is Underground) curated by Jeremy and reissuing some of his finest Underground House music hidden gems. Today the story starts again with Lea Lisa with this finest compilation for House Music Lovers…

A1

Kerri "Kaoz 6:23" Chandler - Be There (Kerri's Club Mix)

A2

Slowhouse 2 – Untitled

B1

Truth – Emotional

B2

Passion Dance Orchestra - Inner Dance

C1

Abacus - Blax Thanxs

C2

Transient feat Sherman Benton - Higher (Club Mix)

D1

Pure Science – Ekeyz

D2

N'Dambi - Can't Change Me (Ron Trent Remix)

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