deep, wayward and utterly groove-notic. optimo trax is starting off 2015 the right way…

*i cant even afford bed linen, let alone a 909*. the unpretentious of jay donaldson is disarming in many different ways. we consider donaldson aka palms trax to be one of the most promising new artists to date. his sound situates him firmly along the chicago-detroit axis, cooking up pad-driven jams, off kilter drums and hazy synths that shift like a gentle musical tide. in 2013 he inaugurated the lobster theremin label, the london-based imprint that quickly became one of the most talked about record labels around. when not travelling the world for prime-time gigs donaldson holds a residency at the widely respected berlin community radio. it is with great pleasure that we welcome golden boy palms trax to dekmantel records.

otis is a slightly camp and some might say agressive cat from chicago. he has always liked the old acid house. he has only just found the means to put down his musical ideas, and this is his first offering.

currently causing quite a stir on the underground, the jerome hill remix of marshall jeffersons s trax classic lost in the groove is a complete re-interpretation, solid jacking (hard) house music using the original vocal that s cut loud onto the vinyl and worms inside your head and has been doing serious damage in the clubs and festivals last year. now with all licensing and red tape cleared away, it s set for release. dancer boom boom is actually a collaboration between acid legend adonis and sidney winters, with a mix down by house legend frankie knuckles. this sat on the b side of am a dog on trax records and is rare & obscure to say the least, but once the needle touches the groove you know it s a killer. massive kick drums and mysterious organ scales, this one is a mad mad tune ! produced in 1987 (and sounding like nothing else from that year) it s been given a very slight and very respectful re-arrangement by jerome hill, remastered and cut super loud. strictly limited and if the previous titles on the label are anything to go by, this one will sell out equally quick.

deep emotional house tracks . this record needs no introduction! one of the most classic house records ever made! the legendary pairing of frankie knuckles (rip) and jamie principle delivering two devastatingly ahead of the curve anthems. * baby wants to ride / your love*, both still sounding as fresh, vital, original and contemporary as they did on their 1987 release.
truly one of the dream pairings in modern dance music, the knuckles / principle team brought us many classic moments but the two tracks contained here are among the most recognizable and well loved tracks in the house music lexicon.
often sampled, covered, edited and re-worked, but never, ever bettered here are two absolutely essential cuts, re-issued as they were released originally in the late 80s on trax.
re-released for 2015, re-mastered and re-pressed with all the original trax label artwork present in conjunction with the official rights holders / owners. an essential addition to any dance music lovers crate! dont snooze on this

classic chicago track with male vox.... bad boy on the flip..

this february nightdrivers deliver three first-rate cuts on holic trax for the quando party dove vai ? ep. following on from burnski s the hours ep which saw love from names like mr g, catz n dogz, dam swindle and eats everything, holic trax returns this february with nightdrivers quando party dove vai ? . since delivering their debut release on bosconi records back in 2013 the berlin-based duo nightdrivers have been going from strength to strength stacking up further releases on claap, their own nightdrivers label and now holic trax. to get things underway the light pads of resta pure dove sei give the opening track a floaty quality while the weighty percussion and subtle rhythms build proceedings into a steady and infectious groove. nightdrivers appear to go up a gear as the ep progresses with the rippling drums and dynamic arrangements of la ronde suite (but not for me) while fast cars maintains the lively vibe of its predecessor and frenetically bubbles along over busy modulations, wacky intonations and infectious licks to dish up a suitably punchy close to this bouncy ep.

nach marco returns to ovum to kick off 2015! warm trax vol 1 sees the welcome return of nacho marco to ovum and the follow up to his critically acclaimed ghosts ep from 2013. one of the most acclaimed djs and producers from spain, nachos rich musical history is evident in all of his productions.

we are happy to present you drewskys own new imprint, skytrax. mr. andrew t. cole delivers on the *lost trax ep* some unreleased trax from the vault!

armando gallop, the legendary chicago producer & dj whose career was tragically cut short by his death in 1996 left behind a legendary reputation as one of the windy citys finest. having released on seminal labels such as, trax, musique, westbrook and his own warehouse imprint, armando brought his own rough hewn brand of machine funk and acid to the table and the dance music world has been much better off for it since.

2nd volume of our series -moog your body-. this time we have the french minimum syndicat who bring us a techno-acid-rave theme with samples of v (tv series), with fellow frenchman umwelt, with electro dance hall with acid lines and reminiscent of the -final frontier -ur. on the flip side we have 6tma, repeating with another neoacidrave pump house brand and to top the album, another lash of breaks, acids and impossible melodies from german roger van lunteren. limited edition of 300 copies (150 black vinyl / 150 yellow vinyl) pressed at record industry. mastered by yves roussel mastering

vinyl only release, limited to 300 copies.

limited vinyl only pressing

chaotic, acidic jack tracks are the order of the day here, dancer aka sidney winters, dropped this obscure bomb on trax in the peak year of 1987. both sides are mixed by the late, great frankie knuckles and have all the trademarks of his touch, tough drum machines, italo inspired melodies and thundering bass-lines. these monster tracks sound absolutely massive and will surely do damage when dropped today.

armando was nothing short of a chicago house & techno pioneer and many producers since have been inspired by his raw punchy style. his seminal classic ep new world order has now been remastered from the vaults of trax records for your jackin pleasure

third son made his name synomynous to dancefloor techouse bombs! here is the proof!

optimo trax 11 is all about the drums.

tribute to the legendary moog club in barcelona! limited copies

we re back and this time with a super cool various artist s release, bringing musical variations together from london, berlin, paris and copenhagen. alexi delano is back again on kolon:trax (his first release was big) with another smashing and cool techno track. our man in berlin, oliver deutschmann delivered a jacking acid track, already heavily tested at berghain mainfloor. copenhagen based patrick bateman, here under his new alias broxgaard, sent us an amazing straight up stabs n haunting track (watch out!). finally paris man franck valat gives us bass in his souljahs track!this release is for you, if you like your techno to be played in a dark basement. early support and play by: marcel dettmann, answer code request, joris voorn, slam, the advent, pig & dan, sasha, ilario alicante, jorge savoretti, noah pred, sebastian roya, alessio mereu, deep space helsinki

dubbig atmo stuff

lola trax limited is the new record label from the infamous shanghai venue lola club, one of the best locations in asia to enjoy electronic dance music.

the second of the three vinyl eps featuring tracks from perc trax’s ‘slowly exploding’ compilation groups together three of the label’s main artists and closes with a producer making his perc trax debut. the a1 slot goes to label boss perc, whose ‘hyperlink’ builds on the sound of the dancefloor tracks of his last album with a huge kick giving way to swooping 8-bit chords whilst sawf’s ‘goves’, already tried and tested by perc over the last few months is an unrelenting breakbeat monster. on the b-side truss delivers one of the stand-out tracks of this series, with the surgeon supported analogue juggernaut that is ‘brockweir. closing things off is drvg cvltvre, who lowers the tempo but not the intensity with one of his trademark 303 workouts.

perc trax unleashes the first of three vinyl eps showcasing the new tracks from the label’s tenth anniversary ‘slowly exploding’ compilation, mixing up label regulars with established names making their perc trax debuts. forward strategy group begin proceedings with the grinding broken beat rhythm of ‘dragons tooth’ before happa opens his perc trax account with a percussive assault that is amongst the most aggressive tracks on these three eps. martyn hare, another perc trax debutant, delivers the awakenings festival slaying ‘the new normal’ to kick off the b-side and us producers mick finesse and pinion team up for the first time on the b2 with the industrial amen groover that is ‘dead boyfriend alley’...

think of this release a quadruple a side. none of these will fail on the dancefloor.

from the heart, from the soul, this is where the jiminis music comes from. jimini is a french producer who started djing early 90s, during the last 2 years he released music on blind jacks journey, série limitée, lo-deep, simple things and others.

gavin russom returns to ecstatic recordings sister label entropy trax for the fledgling labels second release. building on the brooding atmosphere of the purge / enthroned with a pair of throbbing, synth-powered & acid-infused cuts, the telemetry/the benificent, the merciful 12inch draws together sonic touchstones found in russoms many projects, black metoric star, the crystal ark, and his work with delia gonzalez, melding them into two singular productions that pump and drive like the sequenced machines that power them.

2015 repress! nima gorjis new vinyl-only club-tools label launches here. the somewhere in-between ep showcases his trademark hypnotic techy grooves across two club-designed-and-tested sonic chuggers. more will follow on a regular basis both from gorji and other trusted contributors.

funkin with the drums again- sees the legendary producer and wbmx disc jockey farley -jackmaster- funk turning in some absolutely killer jacking drum tracks, chicago style. each track is an essential dj tool that has it all, italo disco inspired bass-lines, skittering drum machines, eerie analog synthesizer melodies and of course, farleys trademark percussive vocal stabs punctuating the mix.

takeshi kouzuki is back on macadam mambo trax, he delivers here 3 powerful tracks completely futuristically weird and unusual, mixing acid, jakbeat and techno styles with a funky touch and fantastic vocoder voices. b2 has a balearic touch in more, with its guitar parts. again a great ep, welcome back mr. takeshi!

-love can t turn around- is a chicago house anthem! a true classic of the genre. universally recognized and loved, it made history as the very first house record to reach the uk singles charts in 1986 and continues to find new fans today. inspired heavily

chicagos trax records has gone down in history as being one of, if not the most important house labels.

time now for something a little different! farley jackmaster keiths x-rated jackmaster dick alias is in effect right here with the * sensuous woman goes disco*, essentially a cut-up of jesse saunders * funk u up* and the comedian rudy ray moores > the sensuous black woman meets the sensuous black man< this record takes no prisoners! a solid proto-ghetto house classic it is not for the faint hearted or the easily offended! take heed though, it will make you dance!
re-mastered, re-pressed and re-issued in conjunction with trax records.

audiojacks gruuv label returns this october with a four-track package from french producer okain, featuring a remix from tuccillo. parisian artist samuel thalman aka okain has quite the standing in contemporary electronic music having been a prominent name as a dj and producer for the past fifteen years. playing at some of the leading nightclubs across the globe such as fabric, watergate, space ibiza, rex club and electric pickle to name but a few. thalman has also built quite the respectable back-catalogue in his time, releasing material via the likes of tsuba, bpitch, memento and cadenza, and here we see him add gruuv to his affiliations.

one of londons most vital parties, continues its growth as a label with the next vinyl instalment of the highly sought after hot ep series from their co-boss : hot 004 by rushmore

coming on 500 limited edition coloured vinyl is this new ep from sierra sam on tomoki tamura s holic trax. analogue machine loving sierra sam is probably best know as a techno specialist but this ep - made up of original tracks that were first produced 15 years ago - showcases his house music side and does so in some style. one new edit comes from sierra sam in cahoots with tamura, and the label head also turns out a great dj tool edit to complete the package

panel trax has grown international due to the producers and the trax being played abroad. the label is releasing trax in the spectrum of techno, acid, minimal, detroit, ambient and dub. it is into oldschool a new things as well but doesnt want to follow the actual trends. it just has a focus on atmosphere and sounding.

limited 2018 repress
stop…press…an extraordinary radio slave donation for running back! the man like matt edwards took care of a matter near to his and our heart: an ep dedicated to the crafty dj duke, his infamous power music label empire and those massive sounds dat ruled di sound factory nation. one side holds a modern track in an old fashioned style of lovin (quote freely adapted from courtney melody): think rs >tantakatan< straightened out. >thats all the record do? yeah, bitch, thats all the record do.< special thanks go to omar-s for clarifying these matters once and for all. already huge with big room boys Âme, natty dread josh wink and a few others. surprise, surprise! flip for a portrait of a young and restless todd terry circa 92 slipping on his bathroom rug while listening to some x-102. dirt mcgirt! those 3 people out there who still buy audio plastic might be delighted to find out that they get a special bunch of bonus tracks: super heavy efx sirens, street noise and soothing rain sounds. can you dig it?

limited clear vinyl in poly bag with colour insert. excellent remixes of this techno classic from thomas heckmann!

super rhythm trax follows up mike ashs immense return to acid ep with another smasher. with a slew of releases due to drop on some very respected labels in the coming months, djs dj, jerome hill steps up and serves up 3 tracks of pure groove acid music. owner over at dont recordings and fat hop, jerome zones in on that ultra-vibe and takes you back whilst keeping you up to date in a style all of his own. never one to release music for the sake of it, paper bag acid is finally seeing a vinyl release after being tried and tested extensively on the airwaves of londons finest rinse and kool fm and in the clubs and festivals over the summer. this ones a killer!

fantastic re issue of this 1986 trax classic. remastered from original tapes for 2014.

liddell townsells debut 12inch on trax (co-produced with adonis) is a non-stop call to arms to the dancefloor set to a hype chicago backing track that presses all the right buttons! originally released in 1987, this is the first time it has been re-mastered and re-issued and it still sounds as heavy as it did back then, a sure fire dancefloor killer in true chicago fashion, party people jack your body is an essential weapon in any djs bag. let the rhythm move your feet

its the yeark trax from gunma japan. mazar is an impressice code synth sound with a female voice synth mixed in. durga mata is future acid sound. this mazar remix is by tevo howard, chicagos latest house music expert. chemdog gives a dubby impressions, and maintains the expression using a filter. a track that gives us the feeling that something has begun.

crooked man is richard barratt from sheffield, better known as parrot. he was first off the blocks playing house music in sheffield back in the 80s, had a top 10 hit in 88 as part of funky worm, collaborated with richard h kirk on the seminal sweet exorcist releases on warp and had another top 10 hit in the 90s as part of the all seeing i.

an amazing, rare beauty of a track from deep within the trax vaults, eric bells your love originally came out in 1987 and features a stellar instrumental version courtesy of the legendary frankie knuckles. since its original release it has been a heavily sought after piece of wax often changing hands on-line for hundreds of pounds and it remains one of the most cult chicago house records and rightfully so re-mastered and re-pressed here for the first time, your love is an unmissable re-issue complete with original trax label artwork, utterly essential.