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Category: Reviews: House

VA: Gene Hunt Presents Chicago Dance Tracks

  By Jacob Arnold May 20, 2011 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

At its beginning, Chicago house music was not a commercial product. Young artists recorded tracks to tapes.
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Tagged   craig-loftis, farley-jackmaster-funk, rush-hour, virgo-four

Virgo Four: Resurrection

  By Jacob Arnold March 2, 2011 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

To house music fans, unearthing these tapes is equivalent to discovering a cache of lost Rembrandts.
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Tagged   rush-hour, virgo-four

Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion K-S.H.E: Routes Not Roots

  By Jacob Arnold February 28, 2011 July 24, 2020 Reviews: House

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

  By Jacob Arnold January 23, 2011 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

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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Tagged   further-records, hieroglyphic-being

Chicago Skyway: Wreckage

  By Jacob Arnold December 13, 2010 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

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

  By Jacob Arnold September 22, 2010 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

This is the strongest collection of Midwestern dance music in years.
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Tagged   rush-hour, theo-parrish, urban-tribe

San Soda: Immers & Daarentegen

  By Jacob Arnold September 1, 2010 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

This is the sort of album that is perfect pre- or post-club.
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Steven Tang: The Verged Sessions

  By Jacob Arnold August 11, 2010 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

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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Tagged   aesthetic-audio

Reggie Dokes: House Is My Soul EP

  By Jacob Arnold August 5, 2010 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

Reggie Dokes’ latest single is on Ojo De Apolo, a relatively new label out of Chile.
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Tagged   reggie-dokes

Juju & Jordash: “Tattoo’s Island”

  By Jacob Arnold July 29, 2010 January 6, 2019 Reviews: House

I love Juju & Jordash because their music defies easy classification. (It’s all just really, really good.)
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Tagged   juju-and-jordash, philpot
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