Matthew Dear

Hands Up For Detroit

Hands Up For Detroit

The first release on the Ghostly International label by Matthew Dear and Disco D, under his Daisha alias.

Less than 1000 copies were made.

Review: Mixer October 1999
3/5

“Promising debut from this new Detroit house imprint. Ann Arbor ghetto-tech prodigy Disco D gives the booty stuff a break and calls himself Daisha to team up with Matthew Dear for these four filter-heavy house tracks. While the pair’s “Hand’s Up For Detroit” takes a while to get cooking with its stuttering, syncopated electro-house intro and stammering-to-life disco riff, when the vocal hook kicks in, it’s all filtered frothy neo-disco fun, complete with a nice little drum build. Can’t wait to hear Disciple spin this one at Motor. The other three tracks get the faux-French thing pretty much down, but it’s the “Detroit” cut that’ll get all the attention.” – Hobey Echlin

About Matthew Dear

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  • Ghostly International
  • GHS-001
  • formats:
  • 12"
  • release date:
  • August 1, 1999
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Tracklisting

1Hand Up For Detroit
2Downtown Nasty [Live/Short version]
3Some Other Track
4Moonlight Magic