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Royal House

A studio alias of the New York house producer Todd Terry, whose 1988 single "Can You Party" reached 14 in the UK.

A Todd Terry alias

Royal House is one of the names used by the Brooklyn-born house producer Todd Terry, alongside Black Riot, Swan Lake, Orange Lemon and the Todd Terry Project. It is a studio project, not a band, and we found no line-up history. Terry was born in Brooklyn in 1967; his first love was hip hop, and he was influenced by freestyle, Italo disco and Chicago house. With Tony D he ran Idlers, an affiliate of Warlock Records that released rap by the Jungle Brothers and the Choice M.C.s while Terry concentrated on dance music.

In 1987 Terry made "Party People" by stitching existing house tracks together for fun, and it was an instant hit; he later learned he had sampled Marshall Jefferson material from a cassette a friend gave him, as he told the Red Bull Music Academy in 2013. "Can You Party" (1988) was a remake of it, and "Come Over Here, Baby" (1990) is listed in his selected discography. Terry later had UK top ten hits with "Keep On Jumpin'" and "Something Goin' On" and remixed Everything But the Girl's "Missing" in 1995.

Albums

Songs

  • Can You Party Can You Party · 1988

    A collage of samples that reached 14 in the UK in the summer of 1988 and fed the Jungle Brothers' "I'll House You".

Sources

  1. Todd Terry, Wikipedia
  2. Todd Terry is the most underrated man in house music, Linenoise
  3. Royal House: Can You Party, Shuga Records
  4. Todd Terry interview, Red Bull Music Academy (2013-05)