GTO Recordings is a new Chicago house label that just dropped their first 12″ vinyl release, a jack attack called The Penthouse EP from DJ Tommy Starck.
On the afternoon of Sunday, February 25 2024 they’ll be kicking off with an in-store show at Chicago’s Gramaphone Records featuring Starck and Mel Hammond from 1 to 4pm.
“This is a project thirty years in the making,” Tommy Starck told 5 Mag. “I got my first decks in high school in the mid nineties, went out to Colorado to finish school and used to play events around the front range.
“I returned to Chicago in 2003 to pursue a career in financial markets in the commodities futures pits. During this period I held a residency at Betty’s Blue Star Lounge. It was around this time I went back for grad school and I never made the switch to digital DJing. I felt like it was time to put these tracks out on wax.”
The label’s debut EP, The Penthouse, is the first from Starck’s back catalog. “I have more material in the vaults [though] I’m also open to getting some other house artists on the label.”
The Penthouse EP is being distributed by Groove Distribution and should be available wherever you buy black wax worldwide.
Gramaphone Records is at 2843 N. Clark Street and the in-store with Tommy Starck and Mel Hammond will be held from 1pm to 4pm.
