The Garage, Nottingham, 1988, Pt. 1

Reading about the UK acid house explosion as a suburban Midwesterner in junior high, it seemed like an amalgam of every exciting dance-oriented thing going (house, hip-hop, industrial), with a huge side order of psychedelia, and this Summer of Love primer delivers on all counts. Graeme Park may have been the best UK DJ of the late eighties; this four-part mix, totaling close to three hours, is his most expansive showcase, a dance-forward survey of the era. Part one alone kicks off with a sinuous Mory Kante groove, moves into Mr. Lee’s “Pump Up London” swiping its rap from, who else, Prince, and climaxes with one snazzy edit of the Todd Terry Project’s “Weekend.” Further treasures await on parts two, three, and four.