Virgo – Virgo
1 December, 2009
LP/CD, Radical, 1989
Also known as Virgo Four, Eric Lewis and Martyn Sanders made some of the finest early Chicago…. well, back then we just called it all techno, but it seems to have ended up being categorised as deep house. This is just very special, calm but intense, with a pulsing glide it shares with Larry “Mr Fingers” Heard but precious few others. Just have a listen to the glistening streetlight freeway cruise of ‘Ride’, maybe run it back to back with Bam Bam’s “Where’s Your Child?”, to get a flavour of the times. These guys did very little after this defining moment, just a three tracker in 1992 as Ace & the Sandman on Saber. Then they were gone…
For those who care, these tracks were originally released as two EPs by the legendary Trax label out of that Chicago: “Do You Know Who You Are” credited to Virgo Four and “Ride” as by M.E. (i.e. Martyn & Eric). This album collecting the pair was only released over in the UK, it seems…
… or at least it was, until Spring 2010, when a new edition was announced as forthcoming on Rush Hour. Go buy it.
01. Do You Know Who You Are (4:45)
02. In a Vision (4:40)
03. Going Thru Life (4:35)
04. Take Me Higher (4:35)
05. Ride (4:30)
06. School Hall (4:25)
07. Never Want to Lose You (4:39)
08. All the Time (4:20)
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An absolute classic album and a great post…there was always something mysterious about Virgo and twenty years later I still cannot put my finger on exactly why…worth downloading for the ‘Ride’ track alone, it reminds me of exactly why I got into house music in the first place…the dark Italo dystopian overtones fused with that sense of a nostalgia for the future to use Eno’s phrase.
You have some posted some amazing records on this blog, anyone who has Culturcide, This Heat and Virgo on the same page is OK by me.
Loved every track on this, takes me right back (only seems like yesterday)