House Party (5)

Is there anyone who can splitt them in different countries?
This is one big mess right now.
Please put only together:
Dutch / Benelux
Spain
German
Now it's all together...

What to say about those mix compilations , they're good for some of them the others are very fast to forget since imho they're garbage . I will only talk about the first 13 House Party megamixes .

First : those i like are House Party 1,2,3,6,8,10,12,13
those i don't like are House Party 4,5,7,9,11

Secondly : positive = to hear all our favourite tracks in a mix as those megamixes compilations were more made to listen in our cars , privé parties at home , when working or cleaning the home and such .
negative = many titles got seldomly used only less than 20 seconds to really enjoy a certain track ( somewhat like "GoodNF" describe in his/her comment below )

All those megamixes compilations got made digitally in some studio hence the so called Dj/artist which was obvious as to sell the CD more easier .

The Hardcore/Gabber mixes found on House Party 8,10&12 offer the similar product , of course the titles are different but quality wise it is the same .

The only House Party that differs from the others is House Party 6 which offered the fahrwell of an era ( 1988-1992 ) to enter a new one ( 1993-199? )

On it's whole the megamixes are made pretty similar with an "Intro" the top 20 or top 40 hits of the moment a "Middle Chill" a few more tracks from that top 20/40 hits of the moment with some b-sides and and "Outro" .

The duration/lenght of those megamixes are also pretty close to the same between 65 minutes up to 75 minutes .

The front cover made it all back then in the 90's ( like many electronic Records and CD's ) by using a beautiful sexy semi-naked girls/women to make us teenagers we were back then drooling and to buy the item very fast because we were excited ;-) ;-)

Back then those compilations were very cheap between 7.50 Euros - 15.50 Euros and it second hand stores you usualy could find them for less than 5 Euros as today ( these last fifteen years ) you can find them for less than 1 Euro .

To sum it up easy If you're new to those materials from the late 80's and early to mid-90's and wants to experience those sounds without spending heavy money this is the journey to start with , then someone can figure if he or she wants to continue the adventure and start buying every tracks separately .

As an answer to GoodNF (3 years ago ;-))
1. Cramming 45 hits into a 74-minute mix is not really what you call a House party. Sometimes, the next track comes in within the minute, so you only get a shred of what would otherwise be a great track:

I have compiled a full length mix (3 hrs) to be found here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/wotaxgreen/house-party-1-the-ultimate-extended-megamix/

After celebrating big success with 6 volumes of "Turn Up The Bass", Arcade decided to expand this sucess with a new concept to reflect the atmosphere on House parties better = to bring that atmosphere into your living room. So to say: the regular TUTB series were the raw materials and the House Party albums the final product. The result was "House Party", a series of compilation albums featuring 45 tracks segued together into one continuous 74-minute mix, preceded by an intro, interrupted halfway by a "middle chill" and concluded with an outro (and on some albums even an encore). The albums became massive sellers (even internationally), although there are some critical side notes to them.

1. Cramming 45 hits into a 74-minute mix is not really what you call a House party. Sometimes, the next track comes in within the minute, so you only get a shred of what would otherwise be a great track. People like Lady Aida tend to mix the tracks in the beginning and the end, allowing one to enjoy a nearly full composition.

2. These compilations only focus on the hits (at least, for the very most part). From Arcade's perspective, totally understandable. Many of the tracks on the albums were previously used for the TUTB series and other compilations (and others scheduled for future TUTB editions), so they could be re-used with little to no additional licensing costs. But a house party usually combines well known hits with less known tracks.

3. As a result, these albums have very little personal taste in them. TCM, Ronald Molendijk, EgMa, Koen & Addy and all the others who mixed the albums were restricted to what Arcade could license. In some cases, tracks important enough but unavailable for licensing were "reconstructed", so you get fake versions of "Gypsy Woman", "Cubik", "No Deeper Meaning", "Don't You Want Me", "Open Sesame" and "Son Of A Gun" (although some of them closely resemble the originals).

Over the years the albums are still very enjoyable; Volume 6 is one of the best in the series, combining "mellow" and "hardcore" (OMG, I hate those words; for me, it is just "music"). After that, each division was give their own album until Autumn 1994, when "House Party 13" only had a club edition and Arcade ed all hardcore activities to ID&T. From then on, the editions were numbered by year and volume. The concept ended in 1996 when there was no market for it anymore; the dance scene had become too fragmented, even if one would limit himself/herself to club. Other concepts such as the Work compilations, the Fresh Fruit Cocktails, Static/Spiritual tracks and EVA's series "iT, The Album" showed that the DJ had also become responsible for putting his sounds into the market, adding personal taste to the mixes and fitting better to what the market was asking for. Deejays were no longer choosing tracks out of a licensed pool. Instead, they were choosing the tracks themselves and requested a company to license these for them.

Why not split them per country. There all part of series but not the same series!