Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Carter Bros - Ritual Business



Various ‎– Modern Underground Music V. 1

Label: Black Catalogue – BC003_303
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: Feb 2012
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Downtempo, Tech House, Deep House

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Double Exposure - My Love Is Free (Tom Moulton Mix)



Double Exposure / Salsoul Orchestra, The ‎– My Love Is Free / It Don't Have To Be Funky

Label: Salsoul Records – 12D-2016
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1976
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Disco

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

STABLO No. 9997 - A




STABLO ‎– No. 9997

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STABLO – STABLO9997
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Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, White Label, Limited Edition 
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Monday, September 3, 2012

Bitstream - Stream One




Bitstream ‎– Crab Nebula

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City Centre Offices – BLOCK 015
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Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM 
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Run-out A - Sam says it's one for stargazers... 
Run-out B - ... Merlin agrees and starts dancing. 


Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Caribou - Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)



At the tender age of 6, Danilo Plessow`s path in music started with playing drums. With his engagement in a school big band in Schwäbisch Gmünd (near Stuttgart/Germany) he found his love for jazz – and from 11 years of age on he started working on his own music using a computer and samples. Being influenced by Jazz, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop and House music, the first results were already released 5 years later -at the age of 15/ 16 ! -on Stuttgarts Pulver Records. Together with Joachim Tobias, Danilo had formed the House/Broken Beat project “Inverse Cinematics” (http://www.myspace.com/inversecinematics): Seven 12” Records, the highly acclaimed album "Passin’ through" and many remixes and compilation appearances followed. The project was and still is a favorite of some of the world’s most influential leftfield DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Rainer Trüby (with whom Danilo actually proves a productive collaboration), Michael Rütten or Benji B. After several other co-operations and solo projects in the Nujazz vein ('Hipster Wonkaz' with P.Valentino for Ubiquity Records or solo as 'Aphro Pzyko' for Raw Fusion), Danilo went back to his House music roots with the “Motor City Drum Ensemble” (MCDE).

This artist moniker refers to his home town Stuttgart, the world's cradle of the automobile and Germany’s very own motor city (w. Mercedes-Benz / Porsche / Bosch a. o.) and obviously is a link to Detroit as well. Taking influences from Soul, Disco and Detroit/Chicago 90`s House, the new moniker soon became his best known: He released five 12” in 2008, and especially his “Raw Cuts” series made him a shooting star in the Deep House scene, highlighted by the internet house/techno bible “Resident Advisor” for whom he did a mix-tape that is soon regarded as one of the best mixes of this significant podcast.
Having blown the world away with his ‘Raw Cuts’ series, released on his own label “MCDE” (run together with Pablo Valentino), Danilo has made an enormous impact on House and Techno. On ‘Juno Records’ all three 12" of the cult series are meanwhile charted within the top 8 of the all time 'Deep House' bestsellers and undoubtedly they are still belonging to the most played tracks on the dance-floors!
His other own label “Four Roses Recordings” has been doing also very good.

Thanks to his remarkable musical talent and overflowing creativity, Danilo has become a sought after and very successful re-mixer as well. With just 25 years of age and including all his projects he has already released on more than 25 labels.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Robert Owens - Gotta Work



Though electronica has always been a producer's medium (and the few vocalists keeping their head above water are usually women), Robert Owens became one of the figures most associated with the late-'80s golden era of Chicago house. Born in Ohio in 1961, he grew up singing in the church, but was working as a DJ when he met pioneering Chicago producer Larry Heard in 1985. The pair formed Fingers Inc. with Ron Wilson, and released a few excellent singles ("You're Mine," "It's Over") and the 1988 full-length "Another Side" .The group dissolved soon after, though, as Heard's burgeoning solo-production career (as Mr. Fingers) took over.

Owens had already released tracks on his own - "Bring Down the Walls" and "I'm Strong" for Alleviated, with production from Heard - and he signed a solo contract with 4th & Broadway. His 1990 LP "Rhythms in Me" was a solid effort, though it soon disappeared within the quickly disintegrating Chicago house scene. (One of his best-known features of the late '80s, the epic house moment "Tears," appeared under the names of Frankie Knuckles and producer Satoshi Tomiie.)

Owens had basically retired from music by the early '90s, preferring instead to run his own Christian bookstore. By 1996, he'd returned to dance music with "Ordinary People", a two-part EP for Musical Directions. He teamed up with Tomiie and Cevin Fisher for a track from Tomiie's "Full Lick" LP in 1999, and one year later Owens appeared on the Photek smash "Mine to Give".

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Roy Davis Jr - All I Do



Added on board the Chicago house production team Phuture, as a replacement for DJ Pierre, Roy Davis Jr. later followed his mentor to New York and worked at Strictly Rhythm, recording his own singles for Force Inc., Big Big Trax and Power Music. Originally born in California, Davis moved to Chicago's south side early in his childhood. After being turned on by legendary acid-house pioneers like Phuture and Lil' Louis, he became a DJ and began producing as well, with his first single, "20 Below," recorded for the Jack Trax label.

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Cottam - Work It (Quintessentials)



Paul Cottam

UK based DJ and Producer.

Cottam has been spinning other peoples records from the age of 14 - after ‘borrowing’ his brothers 80s soul and early hip hop he discovered house music and was hooked. Clubbing in the north through his teens, as acid became rave became progressive DJs like Dave Clarke introduced him to harder techno and electro, a love that still lasts to this day with DJs like Surgeon and the black country crew introducing dubstep into their sets.

After so long loving the music and tinkering with his own ideas, 2009 saw his first house experiments emerge, often re-working soul and hip hop tracks.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Zoran Relic - 6 letter word



Zoran Relic emerged as a electronic outcome of a logic consequence from the urban mentality which floated by air channels as notes from London, Berlin and Detroit. He is trying to develop his own style by experimenting and even thinking about unlogic assets and using uncconventional methods, so that he could try to figure the other side of the sound objects that consead that point of gas in space called sound...

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Solomun - After Rain Comes Sun



Real Name: Mladen Solomun

DJ and producer from Germany. He is one of the founders of Diynamic Music.

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Beethoven - Fur Elise



Perhaps one of Beethoven's most popular pieces-"Fur Elise" (translated into For Elise). The picture is one of Beethoven when he was a middle-age man (fairly old, but nowhere close to done as far as musical accomplishments are concerned). Thank you for watching.

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E-Dancer - World of Deep



Title: World of Deep
Release: Velocity Funk / World of Deep

Artist: E-Dancer (Kevin 'Reese' Saunderson)
Released: 1997
Genre: Techno, Detroit
Country: US
Label: KMS
Catalog: KMS-061

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Theo Parrish - Summertime Is Here



Theo Parrish was born in Washington D.C. in 1972 and raised in Chicago, IL where his passion for music developed. MIles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, George Gershwin, Bob Marley, as well as his uncle, jazz musician Dexter Sims, all had strong influences on Theo's early musical life. Chicago's radio influences and House artists such as Ron Hardy , Larry Heard, Lil Louis, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Gene Hunt , Mike Dunn, Frankie Knuckles , Walter Get Down Brown and Andre Hatchett, helped to spawn Mr. Parrish's early career.

He began spinning and producing tracks in 1986, at the age of thirteen... After graduating from the Academy for the Arts, he recieved a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute where his interest in music was taken to a new level through his study of sculpture. In 1994, he recieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from KCAI with a concentration in Sound Sculpture, a form of orchestrationusing live instruments, looped recordings, the human voice, and numerous other sound generating devices. While in Kansas CIty, Theo continued to impact and be impacted by dance music, helping to bring a dormant underground music scene to life. In 1994, Theo Parrish moved to Michigan where he became heavily involved in Detroit's underground music scene. Producing music and delivering his unique and dynamic sets in venues throughout the Detroit and surrounding areas, as well as abroad he has gained the attention and respect of dj's, producers, listeners and dnancers worldwide.

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Sound Stream - Makin' Love (Sound Stream)



Sound Stream – Love Jam / Makin' Love

Label: Sound Stream – SST 03
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: Germany
Released: Sep 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House, Disco

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A Love Jam
B Makin' Love

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Braxton Holmes - 12 Inches Of Pleasure (Ron's Foreplay)



Chicago-based record producer, remixer & DJ.

Braxton Holmes – 12 Inches Of Pleasure

Executive Producer – Hula & K. Fingers
Producer – Braxton Holmes, Ron Trent

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