HENRY HALL feat. Paul Russaw
Label: Kult Records
Artists Genre: Dance
DJ HENRY HALL began as an intern for
Eightball Records, working in both the
Promotion/A&R department and their in-house studio. He
was then offered a sales job in The
Shop, Eightball's record store, where he
was quickly promoted and managed the store
for a year. Following his stint at
Eightball, Henry was recruited by Kult Records, (a
brand new label at the time)
where he played a key role in developing their
catalogue of music. While at Kult, he
served as A&R/Director of Promotions,
signing such artists as George Llanes, Jr, Filthy
Rich, and Louie Balo. Setting
the Stage, the first creation from DJ HENRY HALL was
called "Becky at her Best", which was
released by Kult Records as a white label .
An extremely humorous dark house track, Larry Flick at
Billboard described it as "Etched
with insinuating tribal percussion and a grinding
organ line, the track manipulates
Valley-girl-voiced lines like 'Oh my God,
look at her butt! It is so big!' in unimaginable
ways. This fun and festive effort, on New
York's Kult Record, will likely set the precedent for
other outlandish booty-girl music
videos in the future." A Flavor All His Own
Henry's production style has been described by Bill
Brewster, former editor of Update USA as "hard
and deep with a melodic sensibility that
raises it above other of a similar ilk." Henry
is best known for his vocals and arrangement on
Jackie B's "Now (Set it off)", which quickly
became a Sound Factory anthem in 1995. Junior
Vasquez would regularly work the track for at least
20-30 minutes, with the griddy base
line and Henry's deep tone vocals made the Sound
Factory revelers & many other clubheads go
wild. Over the years, Henry has spun at a
wide variety of venues and parties through out the New
York City area and U.S.. Today,
Henry continues to combine and t
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