As we await the imminent launch of London Pacha at the old ROAR club, just off Tottenham Court Road, the man who we always thought was a big, black soul-god (and turned out to be a white English chap called Dave Lee) wets our buds with proper, sexy, grown-up house.
Coming out on Black Market's Azuli records, Mr Negro manages to mix the best of balearic with the most trad US house, jazz and disco. Going through cockle-warming classics like 'Teardrops' by Lovestation to Brick's 'Living From The Mind' to Jakatta's 'American Dream', all the tracks have the Negro remix or involvement stamp.
The man who came to fame in '88 with M.D. Emms's 'Get Busy' and Raven Maize's 'Forever Together' (latterly turning into payola producer of Take That's 'Relight My Fire' (!) and the odd other dodgy hit, here tags together a string of more recent disco-garage classics for the more mature clubber. Class.
by Kirsty Allison