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Sek’s Hide and Seek – Free Download from Large Music

Chicago's Large Music is giving away a free track Greek producer Sek, who is releasing his second EP, Inside Out, on Large in two weeks. You can preorder the EP here from iTunes.     Text: "To celebrate...
Movement

Pay Close Attention: DEMF, Not Movement, Is July 4 Weekend and FEMT is Something New

This is what editors used to call "burying the lede", back when there were still gainfully employed editors who could tell you what a "lede" was. Four paragraphs into this story published today about...
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Video: Watch the FootworKINGZ in Green Velvet and Gant-Man’s Check U Out

Against a backdrop of Chicago's skyline, lakefront, high school gyms and downtown sidewalks, the FootworKINGZ provide the visuals for "Check U Out", the neo-juke track in collaboration with Gant-Man from Green Velvet (aka Cajmere's)...
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Good Morning. Here’s More Than 11 Hours of Mark Farina’s Mushroom Jazz

Mark Farina takes the turntables about, oh, 11 or 12 hours from now, playing an ultra-rare Mushroom Jazz set at The Mid tonight (RSVP here). Colette, Mark Grant and other DJs will be there...
Beatport Amplify

Beatport Amplify Sells Homepage Space to the Highest Bidder

Beatport has announced that they will begin selling "sponsored" banner positions on their homepage for prices starting at $2000. The program, called Beatport Amplify, was announced during the Amsterdam Dance Event but hasn't been widely...

Peppermint Jam Prepares Classic Boris Dlugosch Material for Anthology

What you see above is one of the most iconic label stickers in my collection (and the track is pretty good too) - Keep Pushin' by Boris Dlugosch and the One True Diva, Inaya...
Frankie Knuckles

Chicago Has Lunch with Frankie Knuckles

And so can you. The fabulous series of daytime lunch parties, the Absolut Lunch Break presented by Flavorpill, concludes for the season next Thursday October 24th with Chicago's own Frankie Knuckles. If you're not familiar...
Cajmere

Wanna Make a Track with Green Velvet?

Green Velvet is doing a spin on the (at this point, tired) remix contest. According to an image posted up on his Instagram, the Chicago producer, also and always known as Cajmere, is inviting young...
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It’s a Dirty Vinyl Weekend in Chicago

Feed your milk crates: two of our favorite joints in Chicago are holding weekend sales for the heads. First off, our friends at The Silver Room are holding a Basement Sale all weekend long....
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Beautiful Tribute to Audio Pioneer Ray Dolby (Video)

You know his name, even if you don't understand why it's stamped on every device, movie poster and CD you've purchased in the last 30 years. He was Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories....
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Moog Gives a Send Off to The Little Phatty Synth (Video)

Legendary synthesizer manufacturer Moog announced today the discontinuation of the oft-beloved "Little Phatty" synth, created in 2006 as a tribute to the life and legacy of founder Bob Moog. In a short documentary released today...

Video Shoot for Terry Hunter’s Message Track We Are One Tomorrow

I think you can tell an issue's reached critical mass when Stephen Colbert uses it as a punchline. Which happened with the issue of Chicago violence this week. Colbert suggested that if America was...

New Releases: Three of Our Favorite Detroiters Collaborate on Move

Oh snap: Several of our favorite people from Detroit are collaborating on "Move" - a Soulful House bomb and the 19th release from Detroit's WomenOnWax Records. An original production from DJ Minx and maybe...

Watch the Trailer for Wax Trax! The Documentary

http://vimeo.com/71354035   A new documentary from Chicago outfit Regressive Films will trace the history of the seminal Chicago record store, record label and aesthetic terrorist outfit Wax Trax!, the trailer of which was just posted up. I've...
Slum Science

Stream the New Slum Science Album (10 Years of) Virtue and Vice

Oh man, is it hard to tell you how many +1s, upvotes, likes and retweets this deserves. Hudderfield's finest, Slum Science, have announced a forthcoming album called (10 Years of) Virtue and Vice to...
Alinka and Shaun J Wright

Alinka and Shaun J Wright to Release Their Fantastic New Twirl EP on Classic

"It's the thing with Derrick being in Chicago and me being in London and traveling the world and meeting assorted weirdos along the way. There's this spider web of the Classic misfit family that...
Disclosure

Disclosure is Coming Back to Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTed_S_NUkA   It's been rumored for awhile, and know it's official.Chicago promoters React and Silver Wrapper are bringing acclaimed UK duo Disclosure back to Chicago coming this Thursday, October 24 at House of Blues. So far...

Concord Music Hall, New Venue Opens in Chicago

Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune reports today that a trio of promoters including dance music mainstays React Presents and Silver Wrapper have teamed up to open a new 1,600 capacity music club. The Concord...

You’re Invited to a Secret Daytime Party with Colette

This Friday July 26, Flavorpill is launching a new daytime party series held at venues throughout Chicago - and day one features our lady of the, er, mid-day, Ms. Colette. The theory is that you...
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Colette Launches Campaign in Support of New LP, When The Music’s Loud

Chicago DJ, vocalist, producer and Candy Talk Records owner DJ Colette has launched a Pledge Music campaign in support of her long awaited album, titled When The Music's Loud. The video above (and on the...

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