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-And Todd Terry dispensed with a vocal narrative altogether on Royal House's "[[Can You Party]]," as he created a dance classic out of a delirious, near chaotic collage of electronic samples -- Greg Kot.+
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-Terry's year of relentless production began with Royal House "[[Can You Party]]" (which included the infamous police siren coda and "Can You Feel It?/"Ooh, baby" chants), Black Riot "A Day In the Life" (which revolved around a steady groove and riveting synth line) and the Todd Terry Project "Bango" (which sampled Lola Blank's stranger-than-strange vocal on Dinosaur L's "Go Bang"). Then, in close succession and an impossible-to-trace sequence, he delivered "In the Name of Love" (Swan Lake), "Weekend" (Todd Terry Project), "Yeah Buddy" (Royal House), "Just Wanna Dance" (Todd Terry Project), "Back to the Beat" (Todd Terry Project), "Dreams of Santa Anna/The Texan" (Orange Lemon) and "I'll House You" (Jungle Brothers). Albums by Royal House, the Todd Terry Project and Black Riot appeared in a synchronised storm at the end of the year. With no interest in pausing for breath, Terry promising a fourth LP — by Swan Lake — at the beginning of 1989. --http://www.timlawrence.info/linernotes/2005/toddterry.php [Aug 2006] +
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-"What we're gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time"+
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-The sample features at the very start of Weekend by Todd Terry Project from 88. The original smaple is from an old 70's record by The Jimmy Castor Bunch called Troglodyte.+
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-[[Party People]]+
-It was into this exciting and transitional environment that a young, would-be producer walked up to Vega and handed him a cassette. "This guy came up to the booth and said, 'My name is Todd Terry. I just wanted to give you these new jams.'" The night was drawing to a close, so Vega had a quick listen to the track that was about to turn Terry into New York's hottest house producer. "I was like, 'Wow! This is powerful!'" With its quick-fire sampling techniques and harder beats, 'Party People' introduced an edgy, hip hop aesthetic to the Chicago house sound, and Vega wasted little time in securing a reel-to-reel copy. "There was an instant reaction on the dance floor," he remembers. "I was playing 'Party People' six to nine months before it came out, so I got everybody into that sound." --Tim Lawrence, 2000+
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-[[Freeze Records]]+
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-Terry moved into label-entrepreneurship in 1992 when he formed Freeze Records with [[William Socolov]]. Several of Terry's early singles had appeared on Socolov's Fresh/Sleeping Bag label, also the home of rap acts like EPMD, Mantronix and Nice & Smooth. Freeze became the obvious home for many of Terry's productions, including several volumes of his EP series Unreleased Projects beginning in 1992 and running through 1995.+
-Todd Terry's top ten+
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- # Todd's Essential Top 10 House Classics (1996? In No Order)+
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- * - 'Running Away' - Roy Ayers (polydor) - " This Came Out In the early eighties. It's got one of those great choruses that always sticks in your mind and the bass is a good groove."+
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- * - 'Mainline' - Black Ivory (mercury) - " Leroy Burgess Sang On This And The Group Was Rocking" Patrick Adams, Leroy Burgess+
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- * - 'Aint Nobody' - Rufus & Chaka Kahn (warner bros.) - "This Brought Me Into A More Melodic Type Of Thing - A Funky Beat Type Vibe. I Definitely Play This Record Out."+
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- * - 'Jingo' - Candido (salsoul) - " I Think This Came Out Around '81. A Friend Of Mine Was In A Record Pool And He Got Sent It And I Begged Him For It.......I Don't Think He Really Knew What It Was, Especially As It Was A White Label DJ Promo. He Wouldn't Have Given It To Me If He'd Have Known. It's A Latin Percussion Type Thing - No Verses."+
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- * - 'Don't Make Me Wait' - Peech Boys (west end) - " This Came Out In 1980 although I didn't Get It Until A Couple Of Years Later. It Was A Big Record Both On The Radio And In The Clubs. The Singer, Bernard Fowler, was great; he rocks those kind of records."+
- * - 'Just Us' - Martha Wash (rca) - " This Came Out In '93 And Was A Remake Of An Old Song She Did - She Used To Be In A Group Called 'Two Tons Of Fun'. I Like This One More; It's Faster - The Old One Was Slow, 112 BPM, You Couldn't Mix It With Anything - This One Is Brought Up By 10% At Around 122 BPM."+
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- * - 'Walking On Sunshine' - Central Line (mercury) - " This Came Out In The Early Eighties, It's Another Sunshine Record - I Like These Sunshine Records. Its Has That Dance Groove - Raw Sounds Over A Skippy Beat With A Swing To It. It's Not Really Straight, It's Like A Swing Groove. If I Am Playing In Florida, And If It's A Classic Set, I'll Play That." Larrry Levan mix!+
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- * - 'Do I Do' - Stevie Wonder (mowtown) - " I Went Into A Store In Brooklyn And Bought This In The Early Eighties. He Made This A Club Record, Not A Radio Record. It Has Dizzy Gillespie On It - It's Like A Jam Session. Its Has A Good Feel: Great Hooks And Lots Of Great Melodic Sounds."+
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- * - 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' - Roy Ayers (cbs) - " I believe This came out earlier ghan 'Running Away. It's a groovy type track. You can almost feel the high strings in it - It's a summer record."+
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- * - 'Watching You' - Slave (coalition) - " This came out around 1983. It was like a New York roller skate record. Not that I roller skated - I didn't want to break my legs. I play this in a classic set."+
'''Todd Terry''' (born [[12 November]] [[1966]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[DJ]] and [[music]] [[Record producer|producer]] and [[remix]]er, one of the producers who helped to define [[New York house music]] during the [[1980s]]. Terry's productions is a [[melange]] of [[sampling (music)|samples]] of [[classic disco]] with the more introspective [[chicago house|Chicago]] sound pioneered earlier in the decade, plus plenty of [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] attitude and sampling piracy. '''Todd Terry''' (born [[12 November]] [[1966]] in [[Brooklyn, New York]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[DJ]] and [[music]] [[Record producer|producer]] and [[remix]]er, one of the producers who helped to define [[New York house music]] during the [[1980s]]. Terry's productions is a [[melange]] of [[sampling (music)|samples]] of [[classic disco]] with the more introspective [[chicago house|Chicago]] sound pioneered earlier in the decade, plus plenty of [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] attitude and sampling piracy.
==Career== ==Career==
 +===Early career===
 +Much of Todd Terry's early work in the late 1980s is considered a milestone in the development of both progressive and modern deep house.
-Much of Todd Terry's early work in the late 1980s is considered a milestone in the development of both progressive and modern deep house.+:"Terry's year of relentless production began with Royal House "[[Can You Party]]" (which included the infamous police siren coda and "Can You Feel It?/"Ooh, baby" chants), Black Riot "A Day In the Life" (which revolved around a steady groove and riveting synth line) and the Todd Terry Project "Bango" (which sampled Lola Blank's stranger-than-strange vocal on Dinosaur L's "Go Bang"). Then, in close succession and an impossible-to-trace sequence, he delivered "In the Name of Love" (Swan Lake), "Weekend" (Todd Terry Project), "[[Yeah Buddy]]" (Royal House), "Just Wanna Dance" (Todd Terry Project), "Back to the Beat" (Todd Terry Project), "Dreams of Santa Anna/The Texan" (Orange Lemon) and "I'll House You" (Jungle Brothers). Albums by Royal House, the Todd Terry Project and Black Riot appeared in a synchronised storm at the end of the year. With no interest in pausing for breath, Terry promising a fourth LP — by Swan Lake — at the beginning of 1989." --[[Tim Lawrence]] [http://www.timlawrence.info/linernotes/2005/toddterry.php]
 +===Crossover success===
Todd Terry has been responsible for releasing two of the most respected crossover remixes of the house era: "I'll House You" by the [[Jungle Brothers]] and "[[Missing (Everything but the Girl song)|Missing]]" by [[Everything But the Girl]] by the mid 1990s. Todd Terry has been responsible for releasing two of the most respected crossover remixes of the house era: "I'll House You" by the [[Jungle Brothers]] and "[[Missing (Everything but the Girl song)|Missing]]" by [[Everything But the Girl]] by the mid 1990s.
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==See also== ==See also==
 +*[[Todd Terry's top ten]]
 +*[[Freeze Records]]
*[[List of number-one dance hits (United States)]] *[[List of number-one dance hits (United States)]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart]] *[[List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart]]
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Todd Terry (born 12 November 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American DJ and music producer and remixer, one of the producers who helped to define New York house music during the 1980s. Terry's productions is a melange of samples of classic disco with the more introspective Chicago sound pioneered earlier in the decade, plus plenty of hip-hop attitude and sampling piracy.

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Career

Early career

Much of Todd Terry's early work in the late 1980s is considered a milestone in the development of both progressive and modern deep house.

"Terry's year of relentless production began with Royal House "Can You Party" (which included the infamous police siren coda and "Can You Feel It?/"Ooh, baby" chants), Black Riot "A Day In the Life" (which revolved around a steady groove and riveting synth line) and the Todd Terry Project "Bango" (which sampled Lola Blank's stranger-than-strange vocal on Dinosaur L's "Go Bang"). Then, in close succession and an impossible-to-trace sequence, he delivered "In the Name of Love" (Swan Lake), "Weekend" (Todd Terry Project), "Yeah Buddy" (Royal House), "Just Wanna Dance" (Todd Terry Project), "Back to the Beat" (Todd Terry Project), "Dreams of Santa Anna/The Texan" (Orange Lemon) and "I'll House You" (Jungle Brothers). Albums by Royal House, the Todd Terry Project and Black Riot appeared in a synchronised storm at the end of the year. With no interest in pausing for breath, Terry promising a fourth LP — by Swan Lake — at the beginning of 1989." --Tim Lawrence [1]

Crossover success

Todd Terry has been responsible for releasing two of the most respected crossover remixes of the house era: "I'll House You" by the Jungle Brothers and "Missing" by Everything But the Girl by the mid 1990s.

Among his fans, Todd Terry is known as Todd the God, God Terry, Todd Godrry, Godd Gerry (or, occasionally, simply God, because he might be a Five Percenter, but this is unconfirmed).

Todd's tracks "Something Goin' On" and "Keep on Jumpin'" were both UK Top-10 hits as well as Us Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1's, with the vocals provided by Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash. freestyle diva Shannon was the featured vocalist on the Top Twenty hit "It's over Love" in 1997.

In 1999 Todd Terry released Resolutions, successfully embracing the then-still avant-garde drum 'n' bass aestethics.

Terry also has several aliases such as Swan Lake, Orange Lemon, Royal House, Amy Studt, Black Riot, CLS, Masters at Work (although this moniker he gave to Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez & "Little" Louie Vega in 1990), Dredd Stock, House of Gypsies, Limelife, Hard House, Tyme Forse, and the Gypsymen.

Todd Terry became one of the best-paid DJs in both Europe and the United States. He normally performs on four turntables, mostly playing his own tracks.

In October 2004, "Weekend" by the Todd Terry Project appeared in popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on House Music radio station SF-UR.

Selected Remixes

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