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 Frankie Knuckles vs Candi Stanton:
Happy X-mas and New Year everyone, and well after playing Grand Theft Auto San Andrea's hard all christmas and hearing the orginal Frankie Knuckles track "Your Love" blasting in my pimped out "Bullet" while i do my drive by's and collect thaT "duoNshi" i figured i'd lay this in a battle mix down.
So it's Frankie Knuckles going up against Candi Stanton on this Christmas / New Year battle holiday special. Although not a Hip Hop track, I believe that Hip Hop and the electronica have a very close tie to one another. House music was a huge influence to me growing up in England. DJ Carl Cox, Mc Motivator and my main man hero Mc Natz who gave me the nod when i was just a kid trying to get on a mic. The warehouse was a tough spot and getting a crowd of 5000+ peaking and bouncing was a tough gig. So for a change of pace and as an ode to some of the hero's back home, here's a house battle for you headphone junkies out there. Crank the basS, turn out the lights and close your eyes..pick a winner for the battle and post your vote. Gonna be a toughie i think.  The man many call the godfather of house, Frankie Knuckles began DJing in New York in the early '70s while still a teenager, years before the disco boom which proved to be the first flowering of modern dance music. Ten years later he was in Chicago, putting together megamixes of old disco hits with new drum-machine percussion for an appreciative audience at crucial clubs like the Music Box and the Warehouse. Another decade on from those first formative steps for house music, Knuckles was back in his New York home, working as a producer and remixer for the biggest pop stars in the business. His career spans more time than any dance producer and without him, the landscape would be immeasurably different.
 Born March 13, 1940, in Hanceville, AL, Candi Stanton sang with the Jewell Gospel Trio as a teenager. They toured the traditional gospel circuit in the 1950s with the Soul Stirrers, C.L. Franklin, and Mahalia Jackson. They recorded several sides for Nashboro, Apollo, and Savoy Records between 1953 and 1963. In 1968 Staton launched solo career as a Southern soul stylist, garnering 16 R&B hits for Rick Hall's legendary Fame Studios and gaining the title of First Lady of Southern Soul for her Grammy-nominated R&B renditions of country tunes "Stand by Your Man" and "In the Ghetto." In 1975 Staton saw Southern soul falling out of fashion and began collaborating with producer Dave Crawford, who propelled her into a disco diva with dance songs such as "Young Hearts Run Free" and "Victim." In 1982 Staton had been disgruntled with Warner Brothers' passing interest in her career and a career slump, so she returned to the gospel field. She and her husband, John Sussewell (drummer for Ashford & Simpson), founded Beracah Ministries in Atlanta with help from Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL Ministries. She has since recorded eight popular gospel albums, two of which have won Grammy nominations. In 1992 she was back in the pop mainstream with a Top Ten British hit, "You Got the Love," a club-styled dance hit which sold two million copies abroad. Since joining Intersound Records in 1995, Staton has begun to sing some of her old R&B hits again and recorded some new message-oriented pop songs while gaining a new title, the Sweetheart of Soul. In 2000, she released her 11th album, "Here's a Blessing"
Frankie Knuckles vs Candi Stanton: |
