While 00.09% of the US population actually knows how to properly dance to this stuff, the percentage of those taking notice of the Chicago footwork (aka juke) scene is starting to get a little bigger. Figureheads of the movement like DJ Rashad, and DJ Sluggo, have been keeping it real in Chi Town for well [...]

What vinyl platters could wake 20JFG prematurely from its cryogenic slumber in 2010? What repetitive beats could make its unconscious and partially thawed corpse shuffle towards the nearest dancefloor? What warm-hearted heaters could possibly defrost that heart of stone and illuminate that mind of disillusionment? What songs offered comfort when we were sat down and told that our plan to freeze ourselves in search of a better life in the future, had received some major setbacks? In the year that moved at 60 b.p.m, magic at higher tempos shone like the opening ceremony of the Ark of the Covenant. ////////////////////////////// //////////// 2 Dogs In a House [...]

20. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today MP3: Round And Round // out through 4AD // myspace 19. Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal MP3: Ouroborous // out through Editions Mego // myspace 18. Pac Div - Don't Mention It MP3: Broccoli // out through itspacdiv.com [...]

. Hypothèse : le beatmaker le plus influent de l'année s'appelle DJ Screw. Problème : il n'a sorti aucun nouveau morceau et pour cause, il est décédé en 2000. Malgré l'évidence du handicap, l'homme règne de façon fantomatique sur des pans entiers de la musique électronique déviante depuis des mois. Mixeur hip-hop originaire de Houston, soit le lieu saint le plus vénéré de tout fan de rap yankee à la fin des 90's, DJ Screw a créé de toutes pièces sur ses innombrables mixtapes un [...]
A couple weeks ago, my friend Don sent me a couple footwork tracks and ever since then, my feet have been going crazy. Though I may be a little late, each city has it's own unique dance styles and if you don't live in that city, its hard to be exposed to the culture. Just like Philly has the wu-tang (which I am still convinced is going catch on nationwide someday), Chicago has footwork and they really know how to move. Most footwork tracks are simple and similar to one another - most feature a recognizable triplet tom tom pattern. [...]
September can be a tough time for anyone so State has selected some of the best current dance tunes to ease you into this difficult back to school period. Tiga - 'Gentle Giant' (Martyn's Heaven Remix) Tiga put on a great performance at this years Electric Picnic and here his track 'Gentle Giant', off recent album Ciao! , gets the Martyn treatment. Filling the song with lush throwback stabs the Dutchman turns the track into a euphoric yet retrained piece. James Murphy and Mathew Jonson's vocals are barely recognisable as they [...]

SachO SachO SachO SachO SachO SachO Sa Sa Sa Sa SachO SachO SachO… Sometimes a lack of context can be revealing. When I played DJ Nate tracks for an unsuspecting friend, his first reaction was to assume that this was the work of some avant-guard art-wank working out his issues with post-modernism through rap samples. I was in the process of telling him that this was actually the work of a 20-something kid from the west side of Chicago and that a community of teens actually dance to this stuff when I realized [...]
Sep 13, 2010, 8:00am
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DJ Nate , jeune DJ/producteur de vingt ans qui a commencé à produire il y a tout juste 5 ans. Il nous arrive de l'ouest de Chicago après avoir été repéré par Mike Paradinas , le boss de Planet Mu . Il a déjà une sortie à son actif avec un EP de huit titres sorti chez l'écurie Mu, mais c'est son premier album (qui est plus un recueil de pistes) qu'il avait sorti sous forme d'EP/CD-R ou balancé sur Youtube qui a permis à Mu de le découvrir et de le signer sur leur label [...]

[Planet Mu] (buy CD tk) ( buy mp3s ) For the uninformed, a basic rundown: the ghetto house blueprint drawn by Dance Mania and other labels in the 1990's begat juke, a slightly faster, more dance-specific (Youtube "Chicago juke" if you're unfamiliar) style that incorporated pop sampling to a greater extent - vocals looped at hyperspeed for an intense, blurry effect. Sometime in the last decade, Chicagoan juke productions started to become even faster (now sitting around 160 BPM) and more broken, with a deeper emphasis on sub-bass and the bleakest [...]
Aug 25, 2010, 12:25pm
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Suite de mes billets sans queue ni tête. Que du « Brand New » cette fois ci, avec les titres qui m'ont fait le plus vibrer ces derniers jours. On attaque cette série par Koan Sound , qui sur cette piste remonte à contre courants ces habitudes qui sont plus axé sur un concentré 100% pur jus de violence auditive.Ici il propose une mystérieuse piste qui repose sur un sample de voix folklorique du pays du Yoghourt accompagné d'un beat classique et de basses bien ronde. Koan Sound - Le Mystère Des Voix [...]

Man With Feathers - DJ Pierre vs Oneohtrix Point Never Man With Feathers - DJ Nate vs Oneohtrix Point Never Couple new "Jukenogogic" traxx (LOLOL) from Man With Feathers and even if neither of them work out quite as cool as the DJ Slugo re-work from last week (and perhaps not as strong as Machinedrum's Neon Indian x misc juke jam as heard on this mix ) there's still certainly some factor that lends ambient synths to weird-ass skittering beats, probably the total lack of space (duh) [...]
Look kid, we don't give a fuck about the exact co-ordinates that bound your taste. We are not trying to convince you of anything. Feel free to shackle yourself with as many style chains as you please, it's your life. What we say is that, if you understand where we've been coming from since day [...]
DJ Nate - Give Dat Man Room.mp3 Right let's keep the hip hop flavour. Some evil beats courtesy of DJ Nate Da Trak Genius . This guys production is relentless, he weaves repeated vocals into something very atmospheric and broody. Imagine listening to the last Burial album on the wrong speed and your pretty close.