The Roots of Crooked Disco: Fever Vol 1 mixed by Charles Fields

Crooked Disco’s really hard to explain sometimes… its house, its breakbeat, its dub reggae, its electro… its really whatever we’re feeling at the time. So I wanted to start doing this sort of “Roots of Crooked Disco” series to sort of explain where it all came from. I can’t think of a better way to kick it off with the Charles Fields (aka Charles Feelgood aka DJ Feelgood) side of Fever Vol. 1.

The Fever parties beginning in 1992 are known up and down the east coast as landmark events introducing the masses to electronic dance music. During the course of their seven year run, hosts Scott Henry and Charles Fields produced 8 mix tapes that were distributed to the first 100 people at on select nights. This tape is DJ Feelgood’s side of the very first one handed out in Fall of 1994!

This is some classic house not in the way it relates back to disco but in the way house and techno used to be married together. It’s hard hitting, eclectic, and a totally infectious 45 minutes of classic samples, uplifting rhythms and mixed up beats. I still play a lot of these songs - in one form or another - today. “In the beginning there was jack…”