Earth People - Reach Up To Mars

Released in the 1990 on Champion Records in the UK and Kool Groove Records in the US,

Pal Joeys-Earth People's Reach Up To Mars easily represents the warmer more groove based sound of house music that was the driving force within the genre around the time of the original tracks release

A favorite with both house music heads as well as a few Jazz Fusion crews such as Bristol's Floor Technicians, Reach Up To Mars appealed to varied dancefloor tastes around the time when the UK house music scene was just about to hit the fan big time and go mainstream over the proceeding decade

This edit extends the intro and out sections whilst stretching the fundemental components of the original that make up the back bone of the tracks 7 minute groove based formula

Pal Joey's Discogs Profile:

Pal Joey (aka Joseph Longo) came up in the heady days of New York street culture, amidst B-boying, boom boxes and an unusually entrepreneurial spirit of beat-making. Beginning with crude "pause tapes," he was soon making tracks with drum machines and sampled vocals, all painstakingly assembled with razors and reel-to-reel.

Working at Vinylmania, where Larry Levan might be found shopping for records in his pajamas, helped Joey's entrance into the city's nascent house music scene, and he was soon working with everyone from KRS-One to Sade to the Orb, whose "Little Fluffy Clouds" he tweaked for stateside tastes.

True to his city's inclusive spirit, Pal Joey consistently blurs the lines between disco, house and hip-hop, dropping scraps of old soul and recent rap alike over his skipping drum patterns and head-nodding keyboard lines. Joey's records (under his principal moniker and also aliases like Earth People and Soho) have appeared on Jive, Epic, Talkin' Loud, Wave and Coco Machete.

He also has run three labels of his own - Loop D'Loop, Cabaret and Footstompin' Records

Feel free to take a copy of our edited version of his killer track and feel the house music spirit once again