
jakbeat
Traxx – Headroom Condensed – Creme Podcast #17
Traxx – Slowboat To Corellia – PHNCST122
Traxx @ Plastic People (London) 19.09.2013

Traxx @ Boiler Room, Dekmantel Festival (Amsterdam) 23.08.2013
Beau Wanzer / Svengalisghost – CCCP 02 [CCCP002]

After totally missing the incredible CCCP 01, we are happy to have finally tracked down some of this illusive heat.. get it quick. blistering tracks from Chicago’s Beau Wanzer and Svengalisghost.
Traxx @ Input, Output (NYC) 13.06.2013
Mutant Beat Dance – Mutated Moods [LSD011]

Four Tracks on this new Mutant Beat Dance EP Protagonists, Capitulo Finale, Low Life and The Fight. Obscure wave and Chicago in the blender.
Traxx – Sonotown Podcast 068
Traxx – Stereo Delay (1997): Sesiones Modulares #14
Traxx @ Acidcity & Audiolab, Bazaar (Brussels) 12.04.2013
Traxx @ Night Flight | Planet 301, OT301 (Amsterdam) 29.03.2013

D’Marc Cantu – Sequencias Embrace Chapter 4

Recorded live using: Samples (808,505), ER-1, Poly 800, FX, MicroKorg, and several Horror movies playing through fx pedal running through a mixer to the ER-1 as additional samples.
D’Marc Cantu – Juno Plus Podcast 42
Traxx @ Moog Club (Barcelona) *Independence Day 2012*
Mick Wills @ Alchemy, Vicius Club (Rome) 05.05.2012
ViLLan X feat Kold / DCantu – Disparate Implementation [SEQ003]

Killer release on New York’s Sequencias label. Powerful and hypnotic Chicago acid inspired cut on the A and a cool slow building chord driven track layered over raw drum rhythms on the b-side. A pair of artists from two different points along Interstate 94, who have a reputation for the very same. The main body laid down by VILLan X is tight metallic percussion underpinned by solid kicks and a stream of robotic filtered bass, containing unexpected shifts within the frequency register. Foreboding tones and feelings drift towards us across which the disembodied voice of Kold is able to find a platform from which to shudder into our consciousness and pose questions from across the galaxies about the nature of our very being. dcantu carries on the feelings of space, with protracted white noise shots and stabby modulated organ chords, but doesn’t leave it long before setting the pace with solid drums and shifting keyboard funk aimed squarely your body and the dance floor as octave changes force you up and then down again to a backdrop thick with texture. This provides for the body and the mind.
Mutant Beat Dance – Let Me Go [HHYR019]

Fully Koded Chicagoians Traxx and Beau Wanzer team up for another Mutant Beat Dance release. Together they have produced arguably ‘the best 80s Chicago house record NOT made in the 80s. The Mutants call it Jakbeat, inspired by the early days of house music. ‘Let Me Go’ is as intense and rhythmically inclined as they come. Naughty Wood’s sparse vocals cry desperation, almost nearing insanity, which makes up for a pressure cooker like warehouse anthem. ‘Rottonfunk’ is another intense work out which has a killer groove and makes us wander off to the Promised Land (wherever that is).
Mick Wills @ Golden Pudel (Hamburg, DE) 21.01.2012
D’Marc Cantu live @ Moog (Barcelona) 18.01.2012










