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what do you reckon of romanthony? i've never really heard him, but i'm surprised at the lack of attention considering his contributions to the daft punk album.

last year there was a bit of fuss about him for a while, and he played fabric, but i was a) fux0red, and b) dancing to aphex and cylob in the rephlex room, so i don't remember seeing him.

opinion?

― gareth, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

He's allright, but also a bit overrated in certain circles (dance press, The Face and i-D). Last year's 'R.Hide in Plain Site' seems to be typical fare between Prince-like fonk (Prince influence works best on a funky track like 'Bring me down' and not so good a endless slower-than-shite ballads) and full-out tech-house, which sometimes sounds a bit like the more banging Daft Punk track or on his best track ('Floorpiece') comes close to a gentler Green Velvet. He got some other side-projects and some mix-cd's, but I haven't heard those.

I prefer Green Velvet btw. he's just a bit harder/stranger/funnier

― Omar, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

It is amazing how many of the C or D (etc) threads are about people I've never heard of. That is not a bad thing, as far as I can see (it might, conceivably, be unfortunate for me, but that's just tough). It's just strange, the unusual and obscure things that you people are all into.

― the pinefox, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

If you're only ever going to hear one Romanthony song, make sure it's Hold On, which was reissued on Thomas Bangalter's Roulé-label in 1999. Beautiful soul/house song with added preacher. I think Romanthony's potential is stillunfulfilled, I'm sure his best is yet to come. The Prince comparison is because their voices sound so alike, plus Romanthony also produces, writes songs and plays guitar. He's never had the major label push, but he could be a superstar.

― JoB, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Well, why strange? Let's face, nobody's born with full knowledge of music, so we're all new to something at some point! :-) So I'm not too sure about your point, Pinefox. Are you saying you don't normally get the chance to hear or investigate lesser known stuff, or...?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

_R. Hide In Plain Sight_ is patchy but close to excellent at points - "Bring You Up" is a fantastic uptempo Prince homage, and some of the house tracks are very nice indeed. There's even an interesting attempt at Timbaland-style R&B at one point, though it's not particularly successful. Really though the better album to go for is his earlier compilation _Romanworld_ - which I don't actually have physically but I know most of the tracks and they're Grate. Especially "Let Me Show You Love".

At that point (92-96 basically) he was a fab exponent of second wave house (think Cajmere, Felix Da Housecat, Masters At Work at their most uptempo). But yeah, Omar's right, when it comes to personality Green Velvet just beats him into the ground.

― Tim, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

erm, yeah 'Bring You Up' not 'Bring Me Down', also known as track 2 ;) Mmm, is there an obvious reason I got that title wrong?

But Job has a point, last year I was expecting 'Bring You Up' to be one of of those summmer hits, but somehow it didn't happen. No video? He's got the personality and the tunes.

― Omar, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i just picked up romanthony 'live in the mix'. this doesn't appear to be either of the records you are talking about. i hope its good though. will report back when i've played it...

― gareth, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Just picked this up yesterday in MVE for £3, and at that price I'd say it's a bargain. Why do we not hear more about Romanthony? I passed over it when it originally came out because I didn't like "Floorpiece", which is still a bit silly. Awful name, though. Roman Tony = Cheesy third generation Italian car dealer???

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

have none of you heard "falling from grace", "now you want me"/"make this love right", "ministry of love", "in the mix" or "the wanderer". romanthony was being bigged up by mags like update and muzik in the mid 90s as the second coming of prince and those tracks back it up to an extent. he was signed to azuli which was a decent label back then and also did some stuff for cajual. he's kind of gone off the boil since. "falling from grace" in particular is insane.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

bring back

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 22:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

Romanworld is spiffy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 23:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

LET ME SHOW YOU LOVE

whatever happened to romanthony?

― haitch, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

It's the system that makes you a wanderer.

― blunt, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 07:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

LET ME SHOW YOU LOVE

Did that get re-pressed or put on some new minimal mix, or did ritchie or ricardo start playing it recently? I have heard that from a bunch of the local hipster minimal dj's lately.

― sous les paves, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 07:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

Used brilliantly on Louie Vega's United DJs of America mix from way back when.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 07:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

i have this boot of 'let me show you love' from last year. (enough with the one-sided boots already!)

― haitch, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 08:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

even if i hafta KEEL 'er, put er life to an ee-eea-and

― elan, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 22:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

I like him

― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 22:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

i love him

― elan, Friday, 21 September 2007 01:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

One More Time (Romanthony's Unplugged), is worth checking out. Cheesy but great. You can find it on the Daft Club comp.

― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 21 September 2007 02:18 (5 years ago) Permalink

some of romanthony's songs give me an uncontrollable desire to jack my body.

― elan, Friday, 21 September 2007 03:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

wanderer fusion dubb
trust ghost mix
now you want me original dub

― elan, Friday, 21 September 2007 03:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

"let me give you up"

― Ronan, Friday, 21 September 2007 10:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

wait is it even called that...the long long gospel house type track. i used to play it in work in the mornings all the time when i had a hangover.

― Ronan, Friday, 21 September 2007 10:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

"bring you up" was it...got my stock house words mixed

― Ronan, Friday, 21 September 2007 10:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

'live in the mix' would be pretty good if he didnt feel the need to remind us every three minutes that we are 'LIVE! IN THE MIXXX!! WITH DJ! ROMAN! ROMAN! ROMAN! ANTHONY!!!'

― ☪, Friday, 21 September 2007 16:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

Wanderer 12" is really great i love him also

― jergïns, Friday, 23 May 2008 07:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

even if i hafta KEEL 'er, put er life to an ee-eea-and

haha

would kill for a copy of it.

― haitch, Friday, 23 May 2008 07:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

"Da Change" still gives me goosebumps.

― Tantrum The Cat, Sunday, 22 June 2008 07:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

that record is RUFF

+ hold on on the b-side?! gold

― elan, Sunday, 22 June 2008 20:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Hold On" is also excellent, yes!

― Tantrum The Cat, Monday, 23 June 2008 05:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― rio (sean), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 17:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

romanthony box set due later in the year on rush hour!!

― 'athletic' bill bowe (haitch), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 07:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

Hype!

― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

hope they fully reissue "romanworld", cause it might be my favorite house album

― sisilafami, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Would like a copy of Romanworld with some track marks on it.

― mmmm, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Was gonna say.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― the late great, Sunday, 30 September 2012 03:53 (7 months ago) Permalink

found this remix today, so bonkers i had to post it to my youtube, let me know if you want me to take it down r

― the late great, Sunday, 30 September 2012 03:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

the video is private! i really want to hear it

― elan, Monday, 1 October 2012 00:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

fixed elan

― the late great, Monday, 1 October 2012 08:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://soundcloud.com/fabio84-1/romanthony-floorpiece-i-am-the

original version

― the late great, Monday, 1 October 2012 08:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

it's fixed?

― the late great, Monday, 1 October 2012 20:15 (7 months ago) Permalink

Wow, this is bonkers.

― elan, Monday, 1 October 2012 23:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

I like the last minute

― elan, Monday, 1 October 2012 23:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

or the part from 3:00 to 4:00

― elan, Monday, 1 October 2012 23:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

i like the break!

― the late great, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

i like the whole song yah

― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 03:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

i think rev would like it

― the late great, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 03:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Insane amount of rumors swirling that he's passed on Twitter. Anyone?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:06 (4 days ago) Permalink

i hope not. i just listened to "one more time" for the first time in a while like twenty minutes ago.

― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:18 (4 days ago) Permalink

Okay I am officially more worried now in that Paul Johnson posted about it:

https://www.facebook.com/paulchongson

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:23 (4 days ago) Permalink

Hasn't followed up since that post or answered to comments.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:23 (4 days ago) Permalink

Okay there's this...

http://5chicago.com/news/2013/05/18/report-states-romanthony-legendary-house-music-artist-passed-away/

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:37 (4 days ago) Permalink

DJ MikeQ also starting to confirm it on Twitter/Facebook

https://twitter.com/TheOnlyMikeQ/status/335977755986501632

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:42 (4 days ago) Permalink

― monotony, Sunday, 19 May 2013 05:00 (4 days ago) Permalink

This is so fucked. This is just not RIGHT.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 05:46 (4 days ago) Permalink

yeah i've been listening to tracks w/ tears welling up in my eyes, and i'm not at all the type to get super emotional over these kinds of things (donna summer meant more to my life and her death barely over a year ago was just as shocking and out of nowhere for me and i still didn't shed a tear). i think that maybe after opera house music (good house music) is the most emotional and unavoidably cathartic music there is.

― balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 05:51 (4 days ago) Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=6kN6Ix9lv_k

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 05:57 (4 days ago) Permalink

Rather:

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 05:58 (4 days ago) Permalink

V. sad news, playing Romanworld this morning..

― mmmm, Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:25 (4 days ago) Permalink

yeah this is shit. maybe the first time a musician whose work i really love and connect with has passed away, an incredibly strong character in a world of anonymous vocalists.

― ... (LocalGarda), Sunday, 19 May 2013 09:15 (4 days ago) Permalink

I never really engaged with his solo work that much but this is really sad. Strange timing as well, what with One More Time suddenly everywhere again, kinda sad that he's all over this huge record that millions of people know and love and that his death will probably go relatively unreported outside the usual dance music places.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 19 May 2013 09:49 (4 days ago) Permalink

RIP, this truly blows

― the league against cool sports (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 May 2013 11:20 (4 days ago) Permalink

First Dana Kelley and now Romanthony, still unclear what happened in either case (unless its been reported now).. RIP

― suare, Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:04 (4 days ago) Permalink

A number of people seem to be saying he had been having lupus for a while, but nothing that looks official yet.

― StanM, Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:29 (4 days ago) Permalink

The 5 Magazine link up above now has info on how his sister quietly mentioned his passing earlier in the month so this is all as good as confirmed. Wretched.

Nice further piece here:

http://5chicago.com/news/2013/05/19/remembering-romanthony-for-the-first-time-again/

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:46 (4 days ago) Permalink

2 weeks ago. so sad, wonder what happened to him.

― So: The Answers (or something), Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:37 (4 days ago) Permalink

― the late great, Sunday, 19 May 2013 17:18 (4 days ago) Permalink

― The Reverend, Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:55 (4 days ago) Permalink

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