hot on the broken heels of nothing left, his smash debut lp for chicago’s clear records, cgi boss and atlanta’s own twins graces his own imprint with never know yourself, a three-track ep that treats listeners to a different side of the producer’s output.

berlin dj/producer daniel steinberg returns with his wonderful third album left-handed, a kaleidoscopic trip through house, electronica and jazz and imbued with the artists trademark warmth and adventurous musical spirit. left-handed vinyl part 1 includes opening track: corn dog - a melting pot of latin tech, funk, rap and jazz, the chicago inspired ctate of mind and bones to the bluesy nostalgia of peace. this is an albums album thats heavy on highlights, while working beautifully as a cohesive whole.

2015 reissue of essential chicago vocal house classic from the 90ties. b/w with sinister haunting instrumental jackin track im so deep....a huge favorite at rh. tip!

originally released on dance mania, i dream you is an absolute chicago house classic. it is one of the deepest and most soulful releases the label put out in their early days, and it totally captures vincent floyd s signature sound. tip! 2015 repress

a highly regarded producer and musician who used to be in the midst of the ny metro breeding reactor that spectatuclarely revived and modernized disco and italo disco since the turn of the century and added some hotliped live brass to their platters and whose sought after releases under his own appear appear much to rarely dons his house cloak and dagger for 3 sneaky new chapters on story. not wasting any time on unnecessary nicety the a-side track will send up a whole colony of ants right up your pants riding on a steamrolling percussive disco groove garnished with cut up vocals and fx trickery. b2 is another chicago style wedding of disco and house with a jubilant, string backed female vocal snippet tweaked over a heavy groove while the first track on the flip is a subterrenean, groaning dub house affair that reminds of a slowed down john ciaffone banger. no matter which chapter you jump to here it puts you right into the action.

more abstract, forward thinking house music courtesy of transatlantyk. mondo hehe is the fifth ep in a growing catalogue of the label and is one of its most adventurous offerings yet. lutto lento (real name lubomir grzelak) is an experimental musician from warsaw, poland, who specialises in dark, spooky, uneasy music that s hard to categorise. apart from running two experimental cassette only labels (sangoplasmo and dunno recordings), lutto lento records music for contemporary theatre and forward thinking european labels like ftd and where to now? he is equally inspired by avant-garde and surreal sounds from the bygone eras as well as raw house and techno music of today. his music tends to absorb the listener into a parallel, imaginary world, where sounds of a lamenting cry of a trumpet (b2) and a voice counting numbers on top of the rolling exotica style bongos (a2) are as important as jacking chicago house drums (b1) and energetic basslines (a3). from the jumping beats of the title track, to the late night deep roller casino , the * mondo hehe ep* is a superb collection of non-generic house music that sounds as good at a club, as it does at home.

ouer is more than just a new house and techno project by two producers based in berlin, it is about honouring the spirit of classic detroit and chicago sounds, without being afraid to look beyond deadlocked spheres, not only within the music. ouer is live, ouer is family, ouer is making records with a diy approach and being surrounded by all aspects of music, design and friendship.

chicago’s ike release returns to his label episodes with the watercolors ep.

original rio beach boy marcos valle returns with a brazilian masterpiece. evoking his carioca sound - where expansive orchestral sweep meets beautiful melody and complex harmony - valle mixes perfect romantic bossa-pop with cinematic brass and strings. this new recording explores a six decade career that has swung between pop, bossa nova, delicate psychedelia, jazz, and funk. responsible for bossa classic >summer samba (so nice)< valle has collaborated with leon ware, sarah vaughan, & chicago, seen his track >ele e ela< sampled by jay z for blueprint 3, and his songs recorded by the likes of frank sinatra and bebel gilberto.

environ boss morgan geist returns to his love for detroit techno, chicago tracks and generally exceptional dancefloor music with the first in a new series of eps: megaprojects 1

chicago party collective debuts their vinyl-only label with berlin based artists. 2 original tracks + remix from martinez. gem 1 takes off with upbeat stripped down groovy bass line, gem 2 + remix head for the deep after-hours sessions.

fresh from 1989. 3 classic chicago acid tracks from the man like gene hunt. re mastered and re pressed for 2015 in conjunction with trax.

slamming house vinyl , b2 = chicago * dancemania* basement style

new 6 track avian release from chicago based musician connor camburn. comes with a printed inner and outer avian jacket. big support from avian fans...
avian s first release since absorbing its sister label mira comes from chicago based musician connor camburn under the alias litüus, with an entirely beatless collection that well establishes avian as the home for the kind of searching electronic experimentation that would have been found on the ten-inch focused imprint that shifted recently announced would merge with its parent label. the ep follows previous cassette releases under the litüus name for brave mysteries, notice recordings and mazurka editions and comprised entirely of real time single-take recordings on hardware instrumentation. shorn of percussive elements yet not without their own rhythmic structures, camburn s six compositions are free of immediate electronic genre influences and instead draw primarily on non-musical inspiration in addition to various other contextual reference points, as he sought to express ideas of the unraveling or -de-composition- of musical or architectural spaces through musical forms imagined as inverted contours and negative spaces.

2015 has been a huge year for dj-kicks, marking both 20 years of the series as well as our 50th release. but far from slowing down, we’re already looking ahead to another incredible mix from one of our favorite artists. over the past decade, seth troxler has become a visionary and authentic voice in dance music, his jovial personality cutting through the noise and continually playing by his own rules. growing up between detroit and chicago, his musical education carries enviable credentials, with his stepdad a local radio personality who championed the early sounds of house music. true to troxler’s character, the mix has a whimsical nature and a thoughtful and timeless narrative, bearing a tenacious episode for the dj-kicks series that gives a true insight into the man behind the well-preened moustache and cowboy antics.
the double vinyl with 8 unmixed tracks includes the dj-mix on cd.

poker flats forward to the past anthology returns in its 3rd iteration, as lean and mean as it ever was and precision-engineered to make you jack, dream and all things in between. the winning formula remains the same: task a selection of hotshot veteran and up-and-coming producers with recapturing the style and mood of early club music, paying homage to the golden years between 1985 and 1992 when chicago house and acid, new york house and detroit techno took the world and its dancefloors by storm. the result is a collection of new and exclusive tracks as addictive as the stone cold classics that influenced them - a tribute and, at the same time, the cutting edge of contemporary music production.

after making a great impression with its first ep, giant records serves up a second hot helping of house music from boss man grant dell, complete with fresh remixes by scottish techno stalwarts silicone soul. dell, also known as chicago transit authority, has been doing his do for 25 years now. as a dj he is at home in clubs in ibiza and barcelona as well as around the rest of europe, and is someone who always prefers to push his own brand of widely infused and influenced music than his own profile. once again here he comes up trumps with the emotive, glowing house cut ‘in your mind’. with a neat bassline and mid tempo house drums, subtle but effective synth smears add warmth and colour to the groove, whilst soul fuelled vocals add a real sense of personality. this is sure to get people grooving at any hour and comes with grant’s own space echo remix. as the title suggests it’s a more dubby and reverb rich affair with cosmic signifiers and sci-fi vibes pervading from start to finish. silicone soul need little introduction having been at the heart of real deep house and techno for decades on the soma label. their first remix is a darkroom dub - named after their own label - and is a seductively slo-mo and lazily unfolding house cut with languid synths that really suck you in. their lush hypnohouse mix is then a twinkling, late night bit of melodically rich deep house with starry skies twinkling above sombre chords. this is a patiently served but hugely alluring ep that is stuffed with plenty of tender feeling. one again then, both grant and giant have come up with the goods.

incl. markus suckut, parris mitchell & dj spider remixes! with the original release marking rekids return from hiatus, radio slave s the clone wars is now revisited with a trio of new interpretations from three distinctive talents on house & techno. on the a side, markus suckut moulds the original into the kind of no-nonsense rolling techno jam that has personified his releases for mosaic and figure. the b side enlists two us talents in the shape of parris mitchell and dj spider, with the former bringing a glitchy take on the jacking chicago house that mitchell perfected in his timeless productions for dance mania, and the latter shaping the track into crunchy weirdo techno that sits perfectly alongside his output for the trilogy tapes and his own ny-based plan b recordings.

theyre young and tough, and especially wonderful too, easily one of the most compelling harmony soul groups to ever hail from the windy city! the sets a chicago soul gem from the early 70s, recorded with a laidback, slightly tripped-out vibe thats different than the tighter styles of other groups from the same scene, definitely righteous at points, with some of the superbad modes you might hear from an east coast lineup like the delfonics or soul generation, especially when they were trying to get a bit more conscious in their message. arrangements are great – handled by tom tom washington, eugene record, and cliff davis, very much at the best brunswick mode, but again with a deeper sort of vibe too. the title cuts a monster, and a very fitting follow-up to their earlier sly, slick, & wicked track – and the album features 2 versions (vocal and instrumental) of a cut called this is the lost generation, a very righteous soul groove with a heavy production tip.

black booby is back with the mighty jordan fields from chicago, il and richard rogers, london, uk for bb-09 4 tracks of retro inspired, raw, stripped machine music. jordan’s a1 blaster is pure gherkinesq analogue, mind melting, building mayhem, designed for dancing richard rogers debut on bb gives a2 a workshop vs detroit styled bass workout with subtle paperclip percussion bringing up the rear. black booby tears up the seminal kenji tsujisaka produced shinobi coin op level music to new club dance floor heights on b1, b2. direct 8 bit coin op pressure with stripped 707, 808 and 909 rhythm sections. retroactive music for arcade junkies.

three tracks here evoking familiar feelings heard before but still somehow they all sound fresh and drag you in wanting for more. as if this wouldn t do it, there is first but, not last appearance for barba label by mighty jtc who needs no further introduction delivering a remix. this time he cleverly uses sparse but recognizable parts of title track which he then transforms into relentless floor shaker where detroit meets chicago, if any such comparison needs to be made. aquatic stuff !

westbrook unleash the first ever mike dunn ep from 1987. dance you mutha co-produced by label owner bam bam this is raw chicago house just the way we like it. re mastered and re released in conjunction with westbrook records / bam bam.

rawax welcomes manooz to the family! manooz is a man on a mission. throwing down the sort of jackin house music that sounds like it was made with sweaty basements firmly in mind and still with a nod to his hip-hop roots, the manooz sound is making a firm impact on the global house music community. he constantly delivers a wide spectrum between raw & analog detroit/chicago/garage house and sophisticated warm deep house.

double header 12 inch feat two onra collaborations from the recent fundamentals lp. tip! over & over features chicago legends do or die complete with chorus from johnny p while daz dillinger guests on we ridin with long time onra friend olivier daysoul. instrumentals for both included, all wrapped up in a full colour sleeve.

2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the production of the black fairy album. holy grail jazz funk chicago musical reissued for the first time. original first edition artwork in hand made tip-on sleeve.

excellent phunky chicago infected house

chicago house, deep house and techno meet on this vinyl only ep of volksfreude & ellen sunde on manual music. including strong remixes by rennie foster & adrian barron.

tijn is the name for the third overall music limited series, the owner of -in haus wax- and -tijn records- , bring us 3 originals tracks where show us his love for the analogics sounds , a trip between oldschool house and techno the ep is closed with a -magic remix- of the chicago master dj jes, knows him for his relases in real state, nrk, siesta or his last work on tardis records.

this other space makes his viny debut on tasteful nudes with * the tom ep*. the veteran musician from sweden launches his new alias with three perfect portions of catchy machine funk. here the producer balances vintage sounds and contemporary angles, keeping his crunchy grooves fresh and floor-filling. the record artwork features original artwork by chicago artist steven vainberg.

we dig deep into trax s vaults to unearth some unreleased super rare versions of some trax classics. vol. 1 contains two ron hardy reel to reel edit s of jamie principle & frankie knuckles classics -bad boy- and -baby wants to ride-. very different to the final released versions these are personal edits ron made to play at the music box, chicago in the mid-late 80 s. released in conjunction with trax 2015.

razor-n-tape welcomes chicago native chrissy into the disco fold with an ep that gets down and dirty in all the right places. as a journey through various underground dance sounds, this record covers some serious ground - from uptempo space disco, to slow-chugging 70s r&b, and even an official edit of a dance mania housey freak-fest on rag tyme s fix it man. jump on it!

we started the classic series featuring tracks that we love, bought, played out and which we have the feeling more people should know about them. for this third, it is a great honor for us to welcome such a living legend, a pioneer from kalamazoo, michigan (city right in the middle between chicago and detroit): jay denham aka fade ii black. his style is a unique blend of these two worlds - chicago house and detroit techno, with a kalamazoo touch. he stays true to the underground, makes the music for the art of it and always remembers where he comes from.

2015 re-issueing slightly remixed chicago essential super classics - must have!)

vinyl only! pareidolia is proud to present the second ep of its catalogue,from sweden the young talented producer sean dixon,also the label owner of the great record label final chapter. thinked for the acid brains & electro addicted,voices ep rappresents the perfect combo of the chicago/electro sound of sean.

als unser guter freund lexx mit diesen tracks von look like auf uns zukam, wußten wir noch nichts von diesem jungen talent aus zürich. nachdem wir uns seine musik anhörten, blieb uns aber nichts anderes übrig, als sie zu veröffentlichen. seine musik ist beinflusst vom klassischen sound aus chicago und detroit, beinhaltet aber auch elemente der uk-bass music, sowie die aufgeschlossenheit von jemandem, der stets auf der suche nach progression ist.

repress 2015 !!the first release on this new label comes from chicago with specter. specter is andres ordo±ez, the owner of tetrode music, a cult label from chicago, that with only three releases has become a reference point for many people nowadays. four hipnotic deep house tracks with influence of mr fingers. atmospheric and erotic midtempo house that represents perfectly the sound of downbeat

banging chicago inspired house

brilliant disco with chicago & detroit flavours

this is the first of a 2 volumes series by crackboy dedicated to raw ghetto house and techno rooted in chicago (think armando rather than larry heard) on the thing and detroit on the dirt (think carl craigs project 69). both tracks come with useful dub tools for the real djs out there. pure analog power by a true master.

repress 2015 , americans hakim murphy and ike release are two chicago house addicts who produce solo and as a duo under the name innerspace halflife. here they turn up on one of europes finest deep house labels in mos deep with a two-track 10 inch vinyl release.. tip!

repress 2015 ... a very special set from james t.cotton and d marc cantu on mos deeeeeep. desolate cities drops hard on a system. the classic sound from tomorrow! tip! more mos deep goodness! after their collaboration with traxx on a previous mos-release, james t. cotton and d marc cantu team up as 2am/fm for more serious chicago house roughness. quality chicago house!

the first trackman ep went out on ideal trax in 1995, a six track, two vinyl ep spanning trippy, classic acid cuts, detroit and chicago influences, sheffield bleep and manchester hacienda rave era overtones. trackman has now been lovingly remastered and re-issued on infrastructure, with a bonus track paradise included, which featured later on the 1996 dont stop ep also a classic in it s own right.

new years deal - with toby tobias debut lp for delusions of grandeur dropping on the 16th october we wanted to give you a little taste of what to expect with a couple of tracks plus a brilliant remix from dog regular franc spangler. kicking things off we have the twisted machine funk of the wonder featuring vocals from atwell. 808 beats bringing the vintage electro vibes whilst atwell’s vocal hints at the golden era of chicago house, adding a soulful touch to the rigid groove. next up is only getting better, diving into deeper waters with bubbling pads and pulsing bass line. finally, we have franc spangler getting busy on the remix, turning in a floor focused jam which brings the vocal to the fore and a big beefy bassline to bounce to.

seminal chicago acid house compilation fully remastered and spread over 2 x 12- for the first time. dj pierre... maurice joshua... lidell townsell... jack frost... mr. lee classics all here... re issued in conjunction with trax 2015.

vanguard sound! returns with its first full ep by a vanguard crew member other than chris or amir. g. marcells model music ep is a special tribute to the legendary chicago artist named paul johnson who has been both a friend and mentor to g. for quite some time.

well cut records return with another deluxe vinyl release with dubble d presenting under his irrepressable moodymanc monniker. side a opens with comfort me, a deep and gritty sounding soulful jam, followed by a retouch of war and peace, a deep and dirty disco dance floor monster which has done serious damage in the past. luke solomun opens side b with his love and death re-make, toughening up the drums and adding some analogue twists to take the energy levels up to the point of frenzy! the record closes with hashtag, a no nonsense, tough chicago inspired groove which plays backdrop to a conversation between snoop dog and g unit about the music game today which we thought said a lot about the state of play in house music today! a beatapella is an addition to the digital version of the release for those djs who want to get more creative with the message!

the summer heat is still on our minds and we all do miss the sunny days, the beaches and the endless open air parties… thanks sascha dive for the right soundtrack and this summer flashback: dives new release for cocoon beams us back to the high days of the summer of 2015: especially into the woods seems to be the perfect sound for all these deeply missed summervibes. into the woods is a pristine tech-house production that comes with a cool straight forward beat programming, very nice reverse strings-sounds and hypnotic house chords. a nicely flavoured chicago club housefeeling and exactly how we like it! werewolf appears slightly more spaced out, however we are still deep in the house universe here. dive is pushing it a bit harder now - he uses crazy chord sounds and turns the track into an 11 minutetech house journey. after the summer flashback with into the woods this one beams us definitely more into the darker and hotter inner city clubs. a massive tech-house-striker by the diver and we are proud to say it is one of his strongest works so far!

the first vinyl edition of the label moonrise hill material presents the differents artists work which will composed the label. funk to ambient, with proper jazzmen groove, where the house music predominate and appears like gold in every tracks with something which united them. the vinyl starts with « fucked up jazzmen », powerful track with jazz and hip hop influences from folamour, french producer which the last release on fauxpas musik is a love declaration to the sampling and to the 20s grooves until today. next listen with « jack my sista » from kaffe crème, french producer who takes the auditor in a perpetual modulation of the pads and bass under a syncopated rhythmic, between a real game and the tr-808. there is passion and percussions talent that comes to his classic formation in acadamy. the other side begins with « manhattune » from ethyène, soul anthem from 70s mixed to a proper chicago deep house rhythmic. after a empty period, the french producer annonces his next releases for the coming months, where samples and groove found a paramount place. the release ends on « cosmic spirals » from the lyonese okwa, who reveals his love to the electronic sounds for a half path ballade between dark walks and dance floors. after a great ep « preacher », in which he develops a returns to the 90s house music. focused on poetic house music, from the one that you can t stop dancing on to the one that you want to keep for yourself, the label defends the preciousness of every musical journey and the sensibility through beautiful stories.

true chicago legend dj jes joins up with the karlovak boys and delivers a four tracker with his trademark swaggy west coast sound for krlvk 2.