Cajmere - Percolator (Cajual Records 1992)

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Curtis Alan Jones aka Cajmere is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. His style of house and techno music has been compared to and inspired by the likes of Kraftwerk, Prince, Gary Numan, and Nitzer Ebb.

Jones is also known as Geo Vogt, Green Velvet, Half Pint, Curan Stone, and Gino Vittori.

Before becoming a professional musician, Jones studied chemical engineering at the University of Illinois. In 1991, he left a Master's program at UC-Berkeley to move back to Chicago, releasing his first song ("Coffee Pot" on ClubHouse Records) the same year. Up until this point, music had been a hobby fueled by cobbling together tracks on his "sixty-buck keyboard, a cheap four-track and a cheap drum machine" set-up while still an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. This DIY method of production was never taken seriously, and when childhood plans to become a doctor were shelved, Jones was firmly committed to a career as a chemical engineer. His father was an occasional DJ and eventually became a budding musician. As time went on, Jones discovered what was his innate love and understanding for house music, a sound that had grown throughout the mid-1980s out of Chicago's deep-rooted house music scene. He played the saxophone at school and had a talent for trying to play with a keyboard but remained largely un-interested in what he saw as his father's passion. It was this cut-up and tacky production style of the early house sound that Jones absorbed and translated into the Underground Goodies EP, his first release as Cajmere (the CAJ derived from the artist's initials) put out in 1991 on his own recently started Cajual label. A year later he had his first massive hit as Cajmere with the house tune "Coffee Pot (It's Time for the Percolator)," which was also released on Cajual and distributed by NYC-based Emotive Records. He then teamed up with Chicago-based vocalist Dajae for "Brighter Days," which entered #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, a high-impact and mellower house tune that was released on Cajual and distributed by NYC-based Emotive Records.

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By 9:00 pm, the energy in the room shifted to celebration mode as the 1992 house music classic “Percolator” began to flow out of the speakers. People all over the room began dancing in unison.

The energy in the room didn’t dissipate. The room was still celebrating as Chicago Mayor-elect Branson Johnson took the stage to address the crowd after Paul Vallas conceded.

“Chicago, tonight is just the beginning, ” Johnson told the crowd. “With our voices and our votes, we have ushered in a new chapter in the history of our city.

stevesewall

We use to go skating all the time as a kid, and everytime this song came on every one would take there ⛸ off and start dancing

teanna

Late 80s early 90s balloons in South Jersey Laurel Springs they open at 3 in the morning and closed at 6 in the morning This song reminds me of that place all your favorite bartenders and barmaids were there after hours the good old days😮😊🎉😢

billgrogan

i remember this song, way back in the early 90s. brings back memories.

aryyahuwilliams-memz

Never heard this song until someone at work played it. I'm almost 60 yrs.

a-zlinguistics

Thanks for the background history👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

syckindahead

I thought I was the only one who remembered this song !!

sgbene

This used to be the jam. Remember when it first came out.

flymomthatsmems

Though I've been around since this came out and used to dance to it when it came on new wave / house radio... I really wish there was a squidward animation set to this x)

Nobody-of-Cowsequence