Quit Mumbling

In order to start off 2012 properly, I want to go back to the beginning of the new millennium to the depths of 2001 to pull out Craig Alexander’s “Soul Revival,” a track that predicted the re-emergence of the soul-inspired Chicago House in the post Y2K world. Eleven years later, we find ourselves at a [...]

In their latest installment of the Snack Pack mix series, CRAP Eyewear reached out to southern hip-hop phenom Fat Tony for a selection of songs made for a Friday night.  Coming off of quite the year including a tour with Das Racist, a performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest, and a track on the A$AP [...]

Mosca has all the Night Slugs credentials but like Blawan, he has falling prey to the techno allure.  The intensity on this track strips away any of the UK garage heritage that Mosca had once exhibited.  And puts the bass in a boom room that techno masters from Underground Resistance to Shed would be pleased [...]

When David Kennedy (Ramadanman & Pearson Sound) dropped this track under his pseudonym, Maurice Donovan, last month, he engaged in a little press mis-information by pretending that he was a long-lost Chicago underground DJ who was releasing new material after two decades of celibacy.  The identity might be fake, but the intentions are surely not. [...]

Does Levon Vincent bump with the devil?  The pulsating bass and screeching synth lines of  “Impressions of a Rainstorm” would have you believe so. There is something rather dubby about Levon’s work, with a wall-of-sound cacophony that manages to increase in intensity throughout this track. The washed-out chords provide eerie atmospherics, while driving basslines keep [...]

Whoever Octo Octa are, they be making some slammin’ tunes.  The entire Let Me See You EP on the hot, house label 100% Silk is comprised of tracks dreamy enough to make you swoon and edgy enough to make you stomp. Octo chooses to veer away from traditional jacking hi-hats. The exquisitely understated sound design [...]