Mr. Fingers

In the hazy shadow of r&b's ultraviolet hip hop inflections, its mirror image lingers like a haunting moment still hanging hazy in the air.

If there's one figure who stands above all else as house music's singular visionary iconoclast from year one, then it must be Jamie Principle.

In the annals of great soul men, Alexander O'Neal stands astride the worlds of smooth soul and modern r&b like a colossus.

This time of year — when late autumn begins giving way to the dawning chill of winter — often takes me back to the year 2001, a swirling vortex of electronic jazz and machine soul.

This music is like Detroit — a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator. The subject turns to techno, house and other things...

It's a sprawling selection of 21 shimmering dancefloor dubs from the first half of the 1980s, all lovingly presented in an indispensable 3½ hour anthology.

Picking up where the original Parallax 100 left off, this list represents the next hundred entries in my top 200 records of all time.

I once said that I could write a whole book about this record, so how about a lengthy post to start the ball rolling?

The lovely Sari launches her new music blog Musical Sauce1 with a post on Larry Heard's classic Mr. Fingers tile, Ammnesia.

A few years back, I started a limited series in which I'd post a weekly tune that was locked into the celestial. I called it Deep Space Music.