You remember Deep Heat??
a bit of info'...
Launching in March 1989 with the Number 1 album Deep Heat - 26 Hottest House Hits, the brand achieved a successful four year run and set the footprint for Dance Music Compilations for many years to come.
What was initially unique about the Deep Heat collections was that they contained exclusive 12" Remixes of recent Club Hits, instead of Extended versions of Chart Hits featured on similar collections such as Now Dance 89 which was charting around the same time as the first Deep Heat albums. The success of the series was partly due to the CD boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s and it was the first time full 12" Mixes could be commercially bought on Compact Disc, offering the listener at home a whole new experience of enjoying digitally enhanched Dance Music.
During 1989, Telstar saw each of their 5 Deep Heat compilations reach the Compilation Top 5, the first four peaked at either #1 or #2, all gaining Gold BPI Awards for UK sales over 250,000. The December release Fight The Flame collected the biggest hits of the year and became one of Telstar's four Platinum selling albums of 1989.
Also unique to the Deep Heat Compilations was that there would often be 'Exclusive Remixes' of tracks, such as the Megamix of Technotronic's biggest hits. This appeared on Deep Heat 7 ~ Seventh Heaven several months before it was commercially released, while "Exclusive Deep Heat Mix"s of tracks by The KLF featured on later editions. It would be these 'exclusive tracks' that would form the focal point of Deep Heat's extensive Television Advertising campaigns launched by Telstar to promote each release. These would feature clips of videos of the albums biggest Club hits, usually with graphics in the style of the albums theme on the sleeve.
The packaging of each album was also a factor of the album's popularity, with often a striking design gracing the front and interior packaging. Earlier themes revolved around fire, heat, flames, temperatures and burning - metaphorically suggesting the tracks will make the dancefloor burn (an idea used again later with the Megabass track.) Later releases, such as Deep Heat 6 ~ The Sixth Sense used mystic symbols as a theme; Deep Heat 7 ~ Seventh Heaven cools down the collection with heavenly blue skies and Angelic artwork; Deep Heat 9 ~ Ninth Life Kiss The Bliss features Egyptian monuments praising heavenly skies and Deep Heat 10 ~ The Awakening contains graphics of an alien being.
... which was ur favourite?
a bit of info'...
Launching in March 1989 with the Number 1 album Deep Heat - 26 Hottest House Hits, the brand achieved a successful four year run and set the footprint for Dance Music Compilations for many years to come.
What was initially unique about the Deep Heat collections was that they contained exclusive 12" Remixes of recent Club Hits, instead of Extended versions of Chart Hits featured on similar collections such as Now Dance 89 which was charting around the same time as the first Deep Heat albums. The success of the series was partly due to the CD boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s and it was the first time full 12" Mixes could be commercially bought on Compact Disc, offering the listener at home a whole new experience of enjoying digitally enhanched Dance Music.
During 1989, Telstar saw each of their 5 Deep Heat compilations reach the Compilation Top 5, the first four peaked at either #1 or #2, all gaining Gold BPI Awards for UK sales over 250,000. The December release Fight The Flame collected the biggest hits of the year and became one of Telstar's four Platinum selling albums of 1989.
Also unique to the Deep Heat Compilations was that there would often be 'Exclusive Remixes' of tracks, such as the Megamix of Technotronic's biggest hits. This appeared on Deep Heat 7 ~ Seventh Heaven several months before it was commercially released, while "Exclusive Deep Heat Mix"s of tracks by The KLF featured on later editions. It would be these 'exclusive tracks' that would form the focal point of Deep Heat's extensive Television Advertising campaigns launched by Telstar to promote each release. These would feature clips of videos of the albums biggest Club hits, usually with graphics in the style of the albums theme on the sleeve.
The packaging of each album was also a factor of the album's popularity, with often a striking design gracing the front and interior packaging. Earlier themes revolved around fire, heat, flames, temperatures and burning - metaphorically suggesting the tracks will make the dancefloor burn (an idea used again later with the Megabass track.) Later releases, such as Deep Heat 6 ~ The Sixth Sense used mystic symbols as a theme; Deep Heat 7 ~ Seventh Heaven cools down the collection with heavenly blue skies and Angelic artwork; Deep Heat 9 ~ Ninth Life Kiss The Bliss features Egyptian monuments praising heavenly skies and Deep Heat 10 ~ The Awakening contains graphics of an alien being.
... which was ur favourite?
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