'80s-era Chicago Dance Music Comp Boogieing Our Way

By Jake Guidry in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 28, 2011 9:10PM

Chicago dance music continues to be the object of affection for labels and record producers around the world. The Amsterdam-based Rush Hour, an electronic music imprint pushing everything from techno to disco, will release a compilation of '80s-era dance songs called Gene Hunt Presents: Chicago Dance Tracks Vol. 1. The aforementioned producer, Hunt, has curated 14 songs from reel-to-reel archives of unreleased material written between 1982 and 1989. Many of the greats make the cut, including Larry Heard and Mr. Fingers. The compilation will be released on CD and vinyl on May 16, but you can listen to some snippets of it thanks to XLR8R.