Mike Dunn – I Wanna B House

‘I Wanna B House’ was originally recorded during the formative period of Mike Dunn’s career in the late 1980s, though it was only in 2015 that it first saw the light of day. Here it gets a deserved reissue. The side A ‘original demo mix’ is a typically sleazy and weighty, late 1980s Chicago jack track, with Dunn’s own spoken word vocal (paying tribute to Frankie Knuckles and the Windy City scene at the time) riding sweat-soaked machine drums and a nagging bassline. Over on the flip, we get Johnny Aux’s sweat-soaked, bassline-driven re-edit – a rough and ready tape affair that’s as infectious as it is weighty and mind altering – and TB-303-laden acid workout ‘I’m The Houze’.