Members Only is back for 2024 with another entry in what must be one of the most creatively off-the-wall series of edits ever committed to wax. The 4 cuts on offer here deftly blur the lines between disco, house, and EBM reminiscent of The Music Box or Medusa’s.
Mystery Friend is a DJ from Argentina who lives in the west of Buenos Aires. His search and musical selection delves into the origins of House, Techno and Synthpop music, reviving the nostalgia of the club sound of the 80’s and early 90’s, but maintaining that youthful freshness of the new generation. This is a collection of edits from Mystery Friend. Jack Your Body To The Beat.
For the next release to come in 2024 on Nation, we R ecstatic to preview the 1st of its kind split record cover artwork for our label with both songs as 1 min clips personally carved sound-bytes, each with critical textual description that we urge you to read as the music plays within the frame. The project is Modern Analysis. a vintage analog duo comprised of duKe and AFQ.
For the 4th chapter from the definitive days of house music, as the previous 3 chapters is education that a lot of alleged “House” DJs and Producers are obviously lacking.
Traxx plays again from the early 80s, 90s and today from vintage and out of print record labels: Westwood, Trax Records, Bright Star, Rockin House, Dancemania, Alleviated, Subscape and Neroli….
to productions from: Ron Hardy, Boyd Jarvis, Virgo, Tyree, Marcus Mixx, Pharris Thomas, Mr Fingers, Kenny Dope, Nightwriters, Deep Concentration and we have arrived..
a new joint from {3MM} as 3 musical minds bridging and building blocks of the early dance music scene honoring a legendary institution landmark still standing with selections of today and yesterday incorporating musical blueprints of Chicago, New York and the UK’s timeless heroes we admire, honor and inspired by their education.
We hope this will give people the chance to listen to music many may have never heard on this side of sound that provides a provocative and thoughtful musical workout in your mind with vinyl turntables, a vintage mix console…effects box and 2 cd players.
Viernulvier Records presents its new LP release ‘Quadric Surfaces’ by iconic electronic producer Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal R Moss. It collects the soundtracks Moss wrote for ‘Parallel Spheres’ & ‘Figures in Mynd’, two parts of an abstract animation film by visual artist Gabriela González Rondon. The film premiered in October 2023 during Videodroom / Film Festival Ghent.
DirtybLends edition is another 3 track release combining 3 different ideas together from heavy Jakbeat to old school slower style tracks of the label: Chicago Underground to early 80s proto-house instrumentals of Boyd Jarvis. The A siDe kicKz oFF wit the return of kincaid presenting a daRk n meNaciNg composition played n created wit bLood n sweat behind the vintage music boxes to come with this 12 minute riPPer of beauty entitled: Circuit Collapse. The 1st production on the B-side comes from new member of The Klan of The Beatheadz: Cliff Solomon on this production the caT honors the timeless work of the originator Boyd Jarvis & Timmy Regisford from 1985 on next plateau. Developing drum and bassline ideas with elevated drama and deepest respect for the true pioneers of the underground. The final tune on Dirtyblends 11 on the B side is a collaboration from The Jak and Lex Lathan recorded at Nation HQ presenting their idea to keep the spirit of the early releases on Chicago Underground that were produced more slower in style entitled: The CaLL {oN tHe EdgE}
DirtybLends edition 10 is a Chicago slab of ruff business. The A-side comes from new member of The Klan of The Beatheadz, Grizzly Knuckles with ‘Caviar’ an influential continuation concept from the early days of trax records for 1 of the nastiest productions to come from The Sensuous Man & Woman Goes Disco laying on top of a drum machine rhythm that gets to the heart of the cut and the message. The B-side comes from the leader of The Klan of The Beatheadz: The Jak himself re-creating the drum rhythm of Jesse Saunders with his Kpr machine from scratch, then applying influential sounds from his keyboard to sound like DJ Rush from his proto release on relief records by creating a new blueprint for Jakbeat CHICAGO style of slam dance and mosh pit chaos that happened at The Reactor or Medusa’s (for those who remember)
Members Only – The Worst Edits Vol. 10, is material edited and deranged sonically in 2001, pulled from the vaults of baked cassette tapes and VHS.
Members Only – The Worst Edits Vol. 9, pulled from the archives of baked cassette & VHS tapes, sonically abused for demented intake.
Members Only is back with the 8th volume of The Worst Edits. Four edits chopped in & turned out for the mechanically insame minds. from the vaults of the baked tapes scenario 2000 era.
DirtybLends edition 9 is a Deep Concentration release…if you’ve been really paying close attention Deep Concentration just dropped on LA Club Resource for their 6 track homage ep even though the text reads for the artists as The Kid n Cliff, put 1 & 1 together.
the A-side of ‘Don’t B Alarmed’ is truly definitive!! the musical journey speaks volumes..the B-side is an instant BEATDOWN with ‘Heavy Thump {beat dat shyt}’ that is focused entirely on a CHICAGO style of GUTS, pianos and damage!!
dirtybLends edition 8 is a 3 track INFERNO-SMACKDOWN combining 3 different ideas of new age/oLd scHooL Jakbeat inspired from a significant hero in the Chicago Underground scene of the early nineties dropping crucial releases on record labels: Saber, Dancemania and Relief.
The Falcon kicks the A-side into madness with ‘Sound The Alarm’ made 2 Jak 4 Crazies that’s completely bezerk n twisted!!
B1 introduces this nU cOhort to the label on this release comes from Grizzly Knuckles (a thuggish menace) bringing his weapon of choice musically in a hypnotic spell of mental riddims wit ‘Mad Bell’
this is chicago pit-tripping for those who are aware!
B2 brings The Jak as the final nail in the coffin to complete this 12 inch with ‘Aftermath’ that is for those who have any idea of SLaM dance body blows..this is that level of crazy!
‘The Moon Dance’ Mark’s the come back of one of Chi Towns most innovative and iconic figures to Apnea Records. Jamal Moss (Hieroglyphic Being) sound’s were first released on Apnea in 2007. Now, in 2023, he’s back with this double 12” album flooded with synth jazz and cosmic acid explorations in his signature and irreverent style.
London-based label Release Sustain announces the release of a brand new EP by Chicago’s Jamal Moss, Mathematics Recordings label head, one of the most uncompromising artists in the game. Famed for his raw, lo-fi approach to house, he messes with the rules and makes unpredictable, unforgettable sounds like few others. Here he arrives on London’s Release Sustain with four cuts of relentless drum programming and acid melodies that traverse the line between house and techno. From the slow and wonky opener to the coruscated ‘The Dark Hold of the Bold’ via the distorted and deprived ‘The Nu Glance Sound’ this is a fine EP.
Tyree might not get the headlines that many of his Chicago peers do but it’s hard to see why. One reason might be that he was big on hip-house, a fusion of, well, hip-hop and house that never quite fully took off and got the respect it should. Here he offers something more raw and aligned with the first wave of Chicago jack. ‘Video Crash’ is a scintillating analogue fusion with pushing synths and caustic perc. It gets even more acidic on the remix and then the Traxman Funkbomb rework ups the vocal event for pure destruction.
Hieroglyphic Being with a collection of 10 tracks on volume four of ‘The Black Box’.
Hieroglyphic Being with a collection of 8 tracks on volume three of ‘The Black Box’.
“For the 3rd chapter from the definitive days of house music, as the previous 2 chapters is education that a lot of alleged “House” DJs and Producers are obviously lacking.
Traxx plays again from the early 80s, 90s and today from vintage and out of print record labels: Polar, Trojan, Dirtyblends, Westwood, Smack Trax, Slip n Slide, Trax Records, to productions from: Boyd Jarvis, Urban Soul, Blaze, Virgo, Prince, Romanthony, Colonel Abrams, Leron Carson, Tyree, MBD, Marcus Mixx, Ron Morelli, Nature Boy, Delroy Edwards, Turtle Bugg, Cliff Solomon and also a new joint from Deep Concentration bridging and building blocks of the early dance music scene culture with selections of today and yesterday incorporating musical blueprints of Chicago and New York’s timeless heroes we admire, honor and inspired by their education.
We hope this will give people the chance to listen to music many may have never heard on this side of sound that provides a provocative and thoughtful musical workout in your mind..
This musical timeline is literally all over the rhythm scales ⚖️with vinyl turntables, a vintage mix console…effects box and cd players.”
The Hipodrome Of Music 