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[ Emphasis Recordings ] Steven Tang has covered a lot of ground since debuting on his own Emphasis Recordings in 1998. Whether as Obsolete Music Technology, Misguided, or under his own name, the Chicago producer has tackled several sides of Chicago house and incorporated wider influences. He dove deep into dreamy techno and whipped up a frenzy with more jacking house, often finding the complimentary points between the styles. Yet in all that time he's never [...]

[ Uzuri ] Sean Hernandez is apart from a lot of the producers of Chicago house in that unlike many who favor the genre, he is actually a native of the city. To date his output has included a couple of ethereal sounding EP's on M>O>S as well as harder-nosed fare on Eargasmic and Uzuri. The Londonium EP marks Hernandez's second outing for Uzuri and only one of two EPs he released in [...]

Graphic by Mark Hofmann 2011 will not be remembered as a particularly good year for the world. Between a myriad of horrifying natural disasters, the uncertain outcome of the Arab Spring, political gridlock in the U.S., the EU's seeming unraveling state, austerity protests, and a generally ugly economic period, the events of this year have not offered much to smile about. But for dance music fans, 2011 was a year rich with exciting music coming out of house, techno, bass music, and everywhere between and around. While it might not be remembered as [...]

Kez YM - Alley Of Mind - Faces Orland B - Motor City - Yore Tevo Howard - Crystal Republic - HHYR Dubbyman - Sunday Manifesto(Rick Wade Sunday Fear mix) - Deep Explorer Sai - Black - Sthlmaudio K Soul & Muteoscillator - Take 1 - Uzuri Kez YM - Smoke Reflection - Faces Chicago Skyway & DCook - Lager(Obsolete Music Technology remix) - MOS DEEP Orland B - Back 2 Basics - undertones Weekend Express - Somethin's Up - stilove4music [...]

[ aDepth Audio ] Crystal Maze's self-titled debut on aDepth Audio is so self-assured it hardly resembles a first effort. Like Roof Light's In Your Hands for Styrax or the first EPs by the Aniara crew, Crystal Maze sounds like the work of producers who have put in serious time researching deepness before making their music available. Unsurprisingly, the project isn't made up of total unknowns; it's a [...]

happy birthday LWE! Patience is not the most common feature among up and coming producers these days, but for Sean Hernandez it was the only way. A Chicago native who joined its house scene in the late 80′s, first as a teenage party-goer and then as part of a DJ duo with his older brother, Hernandez learned the art of working a crowd for years before starting in on production. Once he did, he lavished attention upon his [...]

Patience is not the most common feature among up and coming producers these days, but for Sean Hernandez it was the only way. A Chicago native who joined its house scene in the late 802s, first as a teenage party-goer and then as part of a DJ duo with his older brother, Hernandez learned the art of working a crowd for years before starting in on production. Once he did, he lavished attention upon his hardware, mastering the basics and absorbing every intricacy. It was only in 2007 that he began seriously submitting his music to labels both in Chicago [...]

[ M>O>S Deep ] ( buy vinyl ) ( buy mp3s ) Sean Hernandez released his second record, Heavens , for M>O>S in 2009, and Lager , a partial collaboration with fellow Chicagoan Dcook, marks his return to the Dutch imprint. He's a bit deeper in the game now, having even released an album, but his project's style is as surefooted as ever. The tracks here play with classic Chicago tropes, but are produced with a lot of contemporary polish, more updates than throwbacks. "Lager Nord," with Dcook, [...]

01. Marcel Fengler, "Rapture" [ Ostgut Ton ] ( buy ) In a roster crammed with stars, Marcel Fengler is Ostgut Ton's dark horse whose material kicks just as hard as the rest of the pack's. Where his peers provide bigger and more brutal beats, Fengler's music is disciplined and efficient, exerting itself just enough to get crowds sweating without beading up itself. The title track of his Rapture EP is a prime example of his aesthetic that also delves into house territory with truncated organ notes and hypnotically looped and [...]

[Uzuri] ( buy vinyl ) (buy mp3s tk) The spiritual brainchild of Lerato Khathi, Uzuri is usually associated with emitting a more ethereal breed of house. But with From Chicago, Turin, Amsterdam and Dublin with Love , the label offers up a somewhat tougher offspring in a collaborative love letter to countries in which its artists reside. Although a raw essence of Uzuri has always been a mainstay of the imprint's sound, the four tracks here share a more obvious raggedness than much of the label's previous output. With "Take [...]

Chicago Skyway - Glasswerks Crystal sharp melodies from Chicago's elusive Acid-House project ' Chicago Skyway '. It seems they have the standard mid-80's weaponry available to them, with the staple acid veterans making an appearance. Expect an all star line up of the usual suspects on the soundbyte... Roland TR-707, Roland TR-808, Roland MC-500 Sequencer, Roland MC-202, Roland MC-09, Clavia Nord Lead 2, Casio CZ-101, Yamaha DX-7... The Stoner - The Most Acid (Original Mix) Speaking of acid, this [...]

[ Uzuri ] ( buy vinyl ) (buy mp3s tk) Sean Hernandez's Chicago Skyway project is only three releases deep at this point, but already it seems to have solidified into something quite reliable, purveying clean-cut takes on classic Chicago house without sounding especially derivative. On Wolfgang Hair , Hernandez incorporates a bevy of classic signifiers, though rather than spacing them out from track to track (i.e. one track acid, another deep), he tends to stack them atop one another. Its clubbier pieces draw most of their crowd-pleasing legitimacy from this [...]
アメリカ/シカゴのプ ロデューサー Sean P. Hernandez のプロジェクト Chicago Skyway (Eargasmic Recordings, MOS Deep) の新作。ブリティッシ ュ・ハウス/テクノ・ レーベル Uzuri Recordings よりリリースされます 。Phuture、 Larry Heard 、Derrick May 好きにおすすめ 続きを読む

pic: Threadless DJ Nasty Boots vs. The G.O.A.T. - Listening Wind ( buy ) Absolutely loving this track out on the FrequeNC label, it dates back to 2005 and is taken from the La Resistance C'est Homegrown 12" . It's a lo-fi/experimental house track that samples Talking Heads track Listening Wind... love Byrne's vocals work so much. Chicago Skyway - Heavens & Angels ( [...]