Global Underground 005: Tokyo

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Global Underground 005:
Tony De Vit
Tokyo
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Compilation album (mixtape)
Released06 November 1997
Genre Progressive house, progressive trance, hard house
LengthDisc 1: 73:02
Disc 2: 75:37
Label Boxed
Compiler Tony De Vit
Global Underground chronology
Global Underground 004:
Live in Oslo
Paul Oakenfold
(1997)		Global Underground 005:
Tony De Vit
Tokyo
(1997)		 Global Underground 006:
Sydney
John Digweed
(1998)

Global Underground 005: Tony De Vit, Tokyo is a DJ mix album in the Global Underground series, compiled and mixed by Tony De Vit. It was released after his death which occurred on 2 July 1998.

Global Underground is a music label founded in 1996 by Andy Horsfield and James Todd. The label symbolized the international explosion of dance music during the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s and first manifesto for high-end DJs such as Tony De Vit, Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman, Darren Emerson, James Lavelle, Carl Cox, and Solomun.

Tony De Vit British DJ

Anthony de Vit was an English DJ and music producer. He is considered and one of the most influential of his generation. He was credited with helping to take the "hard house" and fast "hard NRG" sounds out of the London gay scene and into mainstream clubs. His single "Burning Up" reached number 25 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1995, with "To The Limit" making number 44 in September 1995. During that year he won BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix of the Year Award, as voted by listeners of the show, and Music Week's re-mix of Year Award for Louise's (Naked). He remixed many UK Top 40 hits during his career with artists like Taylor Dayne and East 17. Between 1994 and 1998 his popularity with the clubbing public was rivaled by only Paul Oakenfold and Carl Cox. In September 2010, Mixmag UK announced the nominations of 35 DJs chosen by other big names in the world of dance music as those they considered the best DJs ever. A subsequent 15-month survey, which polled hundreds of thousands of global votes, asked who was the Greatest DJ of All Time and when the result was announced in January 2011, Tony De-Vit was ranked No 9 and one of four British DJs who made the Top 10.

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The set was taken from a gig Tony played at in Liquid Rooms, Tokyo, Japan.

At the time of its release Tony de Vit had progressed from his Sunday morning sets at Trade to a global stage. He was a resident at Cream in both Liverpool and Ibiza, had a show on London’s Kiss 100FM and a stream of distinctive tracks and remixes out.

The sound he had championed had made the leap from the underground into big Saturday night main rooms and Tony’s name on a flyer ensured a guaranteed roadblock. But pre-digital downloads, the music was still relatively unknown in Japan, so when GU rolled into town for an unsuspecting Liquid Rooms crowd in Tokyo, the reaction provided one of the most memorable of all GUs foreign adventures.

This mix stays true to the spirit of that gig. It also serves as a suitably fine tribute to the DJ behind it.

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Disc one

  1. Dave Randall - Bombay – 7:08
  2. Chris C - Whitewolf – 4:12
  3. DEX - Groundswell – 5:36
  4. The Freak & Mac Zimms - Make A Move – 4:39
  5. KGB - Cagey Groove – 6:17
  6. DJ Oberon - Brainwave – 5:04
  7. Barr & Winchester - Chekin The Cuts – 5:15
  8. Funkhole - Tryptic – 5:58
  9. Montreal Sound - Sure Of You – 5:15
  10. KGB - Scorchio – 6:25
  11. Shakira - Let Your Mind Get Free – 5:41
  12. Tony De Vit - Feel My Love – 6:47
  13. Knuckleheadz - Turn That Fucking Music Up – 4:45

Disc two

  1. Knuckleheadz - Turn That Fucking Music Up – 3:20
  2. Joy Foundation - Work It – 5:18
  3. UK Gold - Nuclear Shower – 5:54
  4. Point 2 - Wait 1 Minute – 5:11
  5. Dyewitness - What Would You Like to Hear – 4:50
  6. Mark N-R-G - Don't Stop (Baby Doc Mix) – 5:10
  7. Marmion - Schöneberg (Tony De Vit Mix) – 7:45
  8. Tony De Vit - Get Loose – 4:58
  9. The Source - Clouds (Jon The Dentist Mix) – 4:58
  10. Chupher - Systems Pumping – 5:11
  11. UK Gold - Nuclear Shower (UK Gold Mix) – 4:31
  12. Nuclear Hyde - Accelerator – 4:57
  13. Incisions - Beyond Motion – 6:25
  14. DJ Randy - Fusion – 7:10

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