Gisteren was het precies
10 jaar geleden dat DJ/Remixer/Producer Peter
?Hithouse- Slaghuis overleedt aan de gevolgen
van een
auto-ongeluk.
[img1]http://www.clubcharts.nl/upload/slaghuis.jpg[/img1]Deze
deejay staat bekend als de persoon die als een
van de eersten ?House? introduceerde in
Nederland en sterker nog, de eerste vaderlandse
house-productie staat tevens op zijn naam.
Titel: Samplification uitgebracht onder de naam
?Wise Guys?. Als vaste deejay van de Rotterdamse
discotheek ?Bluetiekinn? was deze man een
inspiratiebron voor velen. DJ Paul Elstak o.a.
heeft de kunst van het mixen door deze man onder
de knie gekregen. Tevens was Peter Slaghuis
verantwoordelijk voor de productie van het album
van ?Holy Noise? waar de hits ?JB is still
alive?, ?Get down everybody? en ?The Nightmare?
vanaf kwamen. Dit album werd op z?n eigen label
?Hithouse? uitgegeven
.Slaghuis was al vanaf
1984 bezig met het mixen van muziek, van Madonna
tot Michael Jackson. Tot hij eind jaren ?80 de
nieuwe uit Amerika overgewaaide stroming
ontdekte: House! In 1989 maakte hij de
house-klassieker ?Jack to the sound of the
underground?, die recent nog door o.a. de
Klubbheads geremixed werd. Dit was z?n grootste
hit en verkocht wereldwijd duizenden exemplaren.
Een ander leuk weetje is dat zijn remix van
?Kelly Charles? ?Your no good for me? later
gesampled zou worden door niemand minder dan
?The prodigy? voor het nummer ?No Good?.
In
zijn korte leven heeft deze man heel veel
bijgedragen voor de Nederlanse house-scene zoals
wij die tegenwoordig kennen. Maar ja helaas?
Friday, May
11
Peter Slaghuis
is a meteor in the world of dance music in mid
and late eighties.
Based in Holland, Slaghuis
gets known in the world of underground djs for
his fourteen albums of "Disco Breaks", and
builds a credibility with a series of remixes,
like Abba's "Lay all your love on me", Maria
Vidal's "Body rock" and especially the one the
million selling Nu Shooz hit "I can't wait", in
1986. In 1984 he is also involved in dance act
The Video Kids, releasing the single
"Woodpeckers from space".
When the house
music phenomenon reaches Europe, not only
Slaghuis is one of the first dutch deejays to
spin house (at the Blue-tiek Inn in Rotterdam,
in team with Leon M.Terlouw,
which will also be his partner for several
projects on the Rotterdam-based Hotsound label)
but also one of the pioneers of sampling, with a
couple of 1988/89 hits made under the name
Hithouse. His first hit record is "Jack to the
sound of the underound" (the term "jack" comes
from Chicago house slang and recalls the act of
frenetically dancing to a house beat - see US
titles like Steve "Silk" Hurley's "Jack your
body") and at the beginning it lifts some
samples from Coldcut's "Say kids what time is
it". The track goes to no.14 in the UK charts.
"Jack to the sound..." also is one of the first
records to have an "acid" remix treatment, and
finally the track itself gets sampled on Italian
underground dance hit "Judicta" by Mod
n.4.
The sequel ("Move your feet to the
rhythm of the beat") isn't equally lucky. The
formula is basically the same (a catchy
hi-energy loop covered with a collection of
samples) but it lacks of those catchy hooklines
that were present in the first one. One of these
was a large excerpt of Kelly Charles' "You're no
good for me".After these two singles and a bunch
of some other minor productions (like a weird
remix of Lynn Collins' version of the classic
Isley Brothers-penned "Shout", obscure dj-only
mixes like a DMC remix of Madonna's "La Isla
Bonita" and the Holy Noise project with his dj
friend Paul Elstak, later known as the godfather
of gabber and owner of Rotterdam Records),
Hithouse mixes one of the versions of the
Technotronic megahit "Pump up the jam" (both
acts were on the same Benelux label, Ars) before
disappearing into legend.
Peter Slaghuis
sadly dies in a car accident a couple of years
later, but honest historians of dance music will
never be able to deny that he gave a small -but
essential- contribution to the birth of sampling
and electronic scene. The Kelly Charles sample
resurfaces in 1994, as the vocal hook on a major
international hit: "No good" - by none else than
The Prodigy.
It won't even be the last time.
The same idea is recycled in 1998 by a German
production, Bruce Wayne's "No good for me".
I Will always Remember Peter Slaghuis ,
and what he contributed to the House
Scene
One of my favorite House Tunes Ever
"Jack To The Sound Of The Underground"
Biografie Peter 
