TERRENCE PARKER Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The young Soul Touch Productions label knocks it out of the park once more with this new 12" featuring Motor City royals at the top of their game. Terrence Parker kicks off with the beautifully uplifting 'Tonight We Luv' with its streaming and soulful melodies and nice smooth drum loops. Drummer B then steps up with the mad piano action and slamming house of 'In My Zone' (feat Javonntte) and last of all, the man so often left out of the early history of Detroit's underground, Eddie Fowlkes, comes through with a spine-tingling vocal deep house delight in the form of 'Hold Me Down'.

Review: A true classic by the Detroit house legend Terrence Parker on his influential Intangible imprint here. It's none other than 'A Emancipation For My Soul', a seminal track originally released in 1995. Properly soulful and life-affirming house music that captures the zeitgeist of the mid-'90s just perfectly. Over on the flip there's 'A Track 4 O.J. Simpson', recorded around the same time as the criminal trial which gripped the world - this is one deep, down and dirty stomper sure to rock the dancefloor.

Review: Detroit legend Terrence Parker originally released this one back in 1994 on his very own Intangible Records & Soundworks as Tia's Daddy. The Diaper Bag EP features four timeless house cuts, all capturing Parker's idiosyncratic style. From the uplifting dancefloor energy of 'Tighten Up Your Thang', not to mention that life-affirming chord progression on the emotive power of 'Act A Fool Tonight'. On the flip, we have the EP's most poignant moment, where he produced the track 'A Song 4 Tatiana' for his daughter. Thus far, this has been the one and only release by Parker under the Tia's Daddy alias.