TRIBUTE TO KEN COLLIER by V/A

Three killer disco tracks on this Tribute to compilation 12!What Larry Levan is to NY and Ron Hardy is to Chicago, Ken Collier is to the city of Detroit. Playing in predominantly gay and black clubs scattered across the Detroit metro area, Collier pushed the boundaries of genre definition and segregation as all the great programmers of our age have, infusing the landscape of American uptempo soul with the cold analog repetition of Europe’s growing synth musics, the recognizable formula that occurred at that specific moment in American culture that lead down the inevitable road to House, Techno and Garage. But Collier was more than a historical agent that helped to create the predestined formula for electronic dance music to grow; he was, without a doubt, a brilliant and absolutely visionary disco DJ who epitomized the grassroots music community of 1970’s & 1980’s Detroit, a man of impeccable aural genius that introduced, championed and eternalized many of the indisputable classics that typify this very special city of the middle North.