I WANT TO THANK ALL OF MY FRIENDS FOR REMEMBERING FROSTY FREEZE, THE LEGENDARY ICON OF ZULU NATION, ROCK STEADY CREW, AND TC5!
FROSTY YOU WILL LIVE ON FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS!!!!
ABOUT THE CMA AWARDS IN CHICAGO
I WANT TO GIVE SPECIAL THANKS To JESSE SAUNDERS, For personally flying, out from Vegas, to give me " THE AWARD OF HONOR"!!!
He proved that The HOUSE REUNION & HOUSE UNITY
Mean a lot more than words.
AND OF Course, I REALLY GOT TO ROCK THE HOUSE WITH
Tafoya's Lost Boys!!!! XXXXXXXX 00000000!!!
MIKE TAFOYA KEEPS THE REAL SPIRIT OF ROCK ALIVE
BAMBAATAA & ALL MY ZULU BROTHERS & SISTERS
I HOPE I DID U PROUD!
GEORGE CLINTON & THE FUNK FAMILY, I WILL ALWAYS FLY THE FLAG!
JAMES BROWN'S SPIRIT WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Everyone & Please Remember
you may be Black, White, House, Rock, Or Juke,
Those who live in Peace and Unity are all 1HOUSE.
History in the Making:
Picture the early days of house music with packed, hot, sweaty parties in Chicago. A brand new sound was growing in abandoned warehouses. It captured the gritty local culture and computer savvy of the city's youth.
"We were like a little gang then," says Screamin' Rachael, "with only one thing on our mind. We were determined to do our music, our way, no compromise. We didn't give a damn about Billboard charts or radio, our sound came from the heart and went straight to the street."
At the same time, up in the Bronx, NY, a young DJ who loved rock records and Kraftwerk did free parties. Soon, MC's rapped, artists created graffitti, breakdancing began and crowds grew to huge proportions. This was the humble beginnings of Afrika Bambaataa and the world sensation, known as hip-hop. Kids turned from street gangs to music and Universal Zulu Nation was born.
Larry Sherman, a well known musician in Chicago's music row scene, opened a vinyl pressing plant on Chicago's south side. Some kids, named Jesse Saunders and Vince Lawrence, brought him a tape of "Fantasy", featuring a new artist, Screamin' Rachael. This song became the first house record. Soon, the Trax label was born.
"When no one else heard the Magic in the records, I did," says Sherman, "I built my label on music that others considered cast off. Even the artists'".
Thus began the legend of the house that Trax built.
The popularity of "Fantasy", and her follow-up "My Main Man", took Rachael to New York City where she got a chance to work with her musical idols, Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Master Melle Mel, Dougie Fresh, Colonel Abrams and many others. The songs, "Planet Rock", and the "The Message", changed my world, said Rachael.
"We were at the core of the new American movement of dance music. Rock had become homogenized and and boring. We had a fresh new sound. Many people thought house and hip-hop could never come together, but Bam and I knew better. We collaborated on the song, "Fun with The Boys" and the Hybrid of hip-house started.
Influences
HOUSE MUSIC, Funk, Real Hip Hop, THE Universal Zulu Nation, Ko Ko Taylor, Bad Brains, Space Place, Andy Warhol, Ramones, Robert Indiana, Black Flag, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Bambaataa, George Clinton, Eric B, CBGB's...........
MY FOREVER'S HERE TODAY
BIO : Screaminí Rachael has been named the Queen of House Music by Billboard Magazine. She was the first house artist to sign a major label deal and also launched the Hip House sound when she recorded Fun with Bad Boys with her mentor and friend, Afrika Bambaataa.
Born Rachael Cain - Rachael's collaborations with notable artists including, THE LEGENDARY GODFATHER OF FUNK GEORGE CLINTON, Bambaataa, Marshall Jefferson, Colonel Abrams, Grandmaster Melle Mel and others has resulted in a string of hits such as Real Thing and Rock Me which have made her club royalty. She has been the subject in a number of books, documentaries, and films including The History of House Music, Nightclubbing, The Last Party, Techno Style and the recent Hollywood release Party Monster.
On Donít Make Me Lonely, Rachael returns to her strong Chicago alternative roots by working on the production with Van Christie of Die Warzau, whoís sound stretches the limits of house with its electronic textures and homage to acid. The house mix is brilliantly executed by Jere McAllister / Mr. Ali. Also be sure to check of DJ Crash & Collinoís banging extended mix.
Source~All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com
What they're saying about Screamin Rachael
Billboard
"The Queen of House"..."trully inspired"
Chicago Sun Times
"Everyone's screamin about Rachael!!!"
Paper Magazine
"Somebody scream - view the cable television revolution raw and uncensored - through the eyes of Manhattan Lifestyle's house artist/hostess/bombshell, Screamin Rachael."
Rolling Stone
"Screamin Rachael's "Fun with Bad Boys" was made in New York. Purists might be upset to find the Chicago sound taken so far afield (other tracks are from London and Washington DC)... but this includes plenty of it's further stylistic stretches and excesses."
Streetsounds
"...Sultry blonde bombshell Rachael, screamin' and whispering over a bed of seething house melodies..." "This girl does it all!"
Spin Magazine
"...Blondie on a Beat Box budget..."
D.J Times
"Screamin' Rachael began producing hip house records... two years before anyone else thought of laying rhymes to a house groove. 'Fun with Bad Boys' established Screamin' Rachael and her posse as the undisputed originators of hip house"
CAB
"Like Janis Joplin, with whom she is frequently compared, Rachael possesses a trully remarkable voice... No one else can sing the way she does, let along hum."
Chicago Magazine
"...Rachael is House..."
Chicago Tribune
"...Screamin' Rachael lit up the dance floors from New York to Berlin!"
"Rachael's show [in] Manhattan with her band proved that house has a future on the concert stage. Her house hits sounded even grittier and more powerful live as she pushed her formitable bluesy voice to it's limit...into hard rock territory."
Chicago Social Magazine
Seen at Destiny's Child Party at Le Passage
"The always recognizable and electric (if not flammable} President of Trax Records Screamin' Rachael"
Chicago Music Magazine
She introduced Europe to the sound that has changed the face of dance music and was the first artist of this genre to be signed to a major european label (teldec)
East Coast Rocker
The foremost female proponent of House music
Sister Sister
Hello Rachael! Just passing through to show some love. Here's to one of the warmest, nicest people you would ever hope to meet. You are so House! Keep screamin', you rock!
HOUSE ALL NIGHT(LIVE).LOG ON TO www. praradio. org THIS SATURDAY NIGHT ON APRIL 12th @ MIDNIGHT CENTRAL TIME & TUNE IN WITH 6 NON STOP HOURS OF TECHNO & HOUSE ALL NIGHT LONG:MUCH LOVE from JAMMOTRON.PEACE.
HOUSE ALL NIGHT(LIVE).LOG ON TO www.praradio.org THIS SATURDAY NIGHT ON APRIL 12th @ MIDNIGHT CENTRAL TIME & TUNE IN WITH 6 NON STOP HOURS OF TECHNO & HOUSE ALL NIGHT LONG:MUCH LOVE from JAMMOTRON.PEACE.
I just want to share news with you,...I got a new release in Dirty Talk recordings which is available now in Beatport, I hope you like it.. ;-))
by the way you can also check: www.myspace.com/dirtytalkrecordings to know news and more releases from my label... big hug and thanks for you support and your friendship.
