Urulu & Steve Huerta: 25 Cent Color EP
This record is incredibly sexy - something that never goes out of style and inevitably gets better with age. Knowing nothing about Urulu and Steve Huerta, hearing the music and observing track names...
Mazi & DJ Motion: When Time Becomes a Loop
Audio Soul Project and Fresh Meat are back and it feels good to say it. This is but the first of two superb records the Chicago label is releasing in the next 30 days...
Brame and Hamo on The Parish Rumors
STRAIGHT OUTTA SLIGO, Ireland, Brame & Hamo have dropped two EPs in 2015 and both of them have been stellar.
#001 for Splendor & Squalor (sometimes called Clockwerk for its A side track) was...
Alex Agore Record Store Day Release: Keep it Coming
When is it ever enough? Alex Agore has armed more DJs with more dope wax in the last few years than anyone. Show me the record collection of anyone making folding money as a...
The Atlanta Weekender Returns Labor Day Weekend 2015
The dates for the 2015 Atlanta Weekender have been announced. The event - now in its fourth year - will take place over Labor Day weekend, September 3 through September 6, 2015.
Featuring a line-up...
Mistress 5 Is The Most Ambitious Record Released This Year
Amidst all of the doom and gloom of the music industry - as a few dollars are replaced with a few dimes and now a few dimes by a few pennies, courtesy of streaming...
Kate Simko & Tevo Howard Team Up for a New Album
Two of Chicago’s finest are collaborating together on a new album from Sasha’s rejuvenated Last Night On Earth label.
PolyRhythmic is the title of the forthcoming LP from Chicago’s Kate Simko and Tevo Howard -...
Hunee Previews Tracks from His Debut Album Hunch Music
Notorious crate-digger Hunee will be making his debut as an album-based artist this Spring with the release of a somewhat experimental but thoroughly combustable LP, titled Hunch Music.
Rush Hour has shared a short "trailer"...
It’s Karizma’s Birthday and He Has a Present For You
DJ, producer and proud freak from Planet B*more, House legend Karizma has released the next edition of his Beats & Bobs series for free as a gift to DJs and fans for his birthday.
Beats...
Strong Souls: Deep Sensation
You know those mysterious black slabs you see in the shop with little ID other than a smudged stamp and a single fingerprint on the sleeve? Where do they come from? France, in this...
Twirl! Talking with Shaun J Wright and Alinka
BEFORE THERE WAS A PARTY or a record label or anything else, it was the music that got them together. There was Alinka - then of the electronic band Shuteye - and there was...
Raw Jam: Back On The Street
Forget what you read elsewhere about the decline and fall of the House nation: as long as there are people like Raw Jam making tracks like this and people like Marc Cotterell releasing them,...
Cinthie and Ed Herbst: Beste 005
I've been finding some dope split EPs and choice cuts from the always prolific "Various Artists" lately, and this split between Cinthie and Ed Herbst for Beste Modus (Berlin) was near the top of...
The Genius of Romanthony, Revisited
Trojan Horse feat 69 Mercedes: Years O' Pressure
Downtown 161 (Reissue)
Trojan Horse: What $ Love
Vinylmania (Reissue)
The word I'm searching for is "elegant." "Regal" is another. Steady and patient was the hand of Romanthony, and...
Garrett David’s A New Room on Gramaphone Records
The good people of Chicago really don’t need an Englishman to talk to them about a local institution like Gramaphone Records, any more than I might require your advice on how to make a...
Franck Roger: Home Invasion 006
Home Invasion is Franck Roger’s main outlet for new production these days, and he attacks his work with the joy of a man whose beloved hobby has become lucrative enough that he could quit...
Moodymann Remixes Ralf Gum’s “With Her Hand”
Ralf Gum always provides heavy ammunition for his DJs. The third single from his 2014 album In My City dropped yesterday in promo release on Traxsource with a surprising mix from Detroit's Kenny Dixon,...
First Look at Brawther’s Endless LP on Balance
Brawther has opened the kimono on the tracklist of Endless, his quasi-album/compilation to be released on 3x12" vinyl and on CD by Chicago's Balance in April.
Endless made up of material from Brawther's previous Balance...
Four Walls & Funkyjaws vs Saine: Triple Stakes
I'm coming to grips that preaching to the choir may be the only sensible way to go about things now. Advocating for authentic music that touches my soul - the essential role of a...
Listen To Aiby’s ‘Can’t Make You Happy’
There's a story behind every track. Or at least the good ones. Listening Room is a regular feature devoted to discovering new House Music and learning the story behind the tracks from their creators.
Aiby,...
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
