VA: Gene Hunt Presents Chicago Dance Tracks
At its beginning, Chicago house music was not a commercial product. Young artists recorded tracks to tapes.
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Category: Reviews: House
Virgo Four: Resurrection
To house music fans, unearthing these tapes is equivalent to discovering a cache of lost Rembrandts.
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Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion K-S.H.E: Routes Not Roots
Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) concocts some of the most original deep house I’ve ever heard.
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Hieroglyphic Being: The Urantia Project
Appropriately, Further continues its series of limited cassette-only releases with a demo Moss recorded to 60-minute tape in 1996.
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Chicago Skyway: Wreckage
Sean Hernandez is one of a handful of artists in Chicago making music inspired by an earlier, trackier era.
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VA: Rick Wilhite presents Vibes: New & Rare Music
This is the strongest collection of Midwestern dance music in years.
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San Soda: Immers & Daarentegen
This is the sort of album that is perfect pre- or post-club.
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Steven Tang: The Verged Sessions
Steven Tang is best-known for his Chicago-based label, Emphasis Recordings, where he releases house/techno hybrids under several different aliases.
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Reggie Dokes: House Is My Soul EP
Reggie Dokes’ latest single is on Ojo De Apolo, a relatively new label out of Chile.
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Juju & Jordash: “Tattoo’s Island”
I love Juju & Jordash because their music defies easy classification. (It’s all just really, really good.)
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