Shortly after starting my music collection, I started hearing all these souped-up versions on the radio at night during mixshows and Open House Party. Not being satisfied anymore with the regular album versions that I had, I started acquiring 7" vinyl and cassingles(remember them?) to obtain these alternate versions that I couldn't live without.
Then around 1990, I was living in Chicago and started listening to B96(back when it was a Dance Music station) and hearing artists like Black Box, Cynthia, Johnny O, and Technotronic. I suddenly realized that there was something emerging on radio that Top 40 was slow to catch on to. This was when I first started hearing the terms "House", "Freestyle", and "Techno". From there, it was all down hill as I became a near-obsessive collector of cassette maxi-singles and CD5's.
Today I stand in my bedroom which is filled with 6 CD towers and a two-story shelf full of CD's. I have to say that I think I'm one of the few people in this world that really knows what Dance Music is as I love everything from Basement Jaxx, Rockell, LL Cool J, Lasgo, Janet Jackson, BT, Kylie Minogue, and Junior Jack.
My top three favorite songs of all time are:
1.) "Be My Lover" - La Bouche
2.) "It's Not Right But It's Ok"(TP2K Club Mix) - Whitney Houston
3.) "If" - Janet Jackson