We all know the lyrics to the Blaze song "I Remember House" (I remember House/when House was Soul music and R&B/before House was Disco), and we all know the evolution from Disco to House that's been written about 10,000 times. But still, the Philly Scene rose and came out of nowhere and beat the big-time players like Motown for awhile, and then it vanished. Why did the Philly scene fall so quickly?

You know, everyone we asked that of said that things had really gotten out of hand from those years of early success.

The Philly scene started Disco. There were things like the "soul with strings" sound that were unique to Philadelphia. But - and this is a familiar story - I believe that there was too much money and people got too greedy. When there's that much money involved, things become non-artistic, more political. Creativity becomes the last thing that you think about, after everything else.

Everyone we talked to also mentioned that when Teddy Pendergrass had his accident - that this was the event that marked the decline. Before but especially after he had his accident, everyone started going their own way. There was also the "Disco Sucks" movement and all of that, and that had an impact too of course.

I've heard almost those exact same words said by the first wave of House producers from Chicago about the 1980s.

Well, history repeats itself. You look around and you see that this person is getting more money than you and it just ruins everything. It's not unique to Philadelphia or Chicago. But Philly Disco had a solid 10 years of success - from 1972 to really the early 1980s.

Get Down with the Philly Sound, Dimitri from Paris' lovingly curated collection, was released on CD and vinyl in June 2010 and is available everywhere (and receiving rave reviews from DJs and producers as well as fans). The above is a specially made promo mix - for more information, visit bbemusic.com.