Rush Hour Direct Current series continue with Lando Kal. Freaked out juggernauts of electronic music, primarily experimenting with various mutations of house. Dense instrumentation, analog synth and drum machine work, complex melodies, and creeping basslines are pooled from his musical obsessions with 90’s RnB, classic house, freestyle, garage, Detroit Techno, early synthesizer music.
Next up on Tom Trago’s Voyage Direct series is Maxi Mill, a young producer from Amsterdam. ‘To The Next’ / ‘Sun Rays’ is his debut release and showcases his love for raw, dirty and syncopated house music.
Nebraska drops a new album on Rush Hour. The album features 8 excellent house tracks completely unreleased before, combining fun loving, party starting disco jams with cinematic, luscious work outs.
Recloose is back on Rush Hour with a 3 track EP. Two refreshing house tracks on the A side, and a banging heavy one on the B that’s leaning towards electro.
‘It’s A Crime’ is taken from Virgo Four’s recently released ‘Resurrection’ album, which is now available as a single with remixes from none other than Caribou and Hunee.
Hour House Is Your Rush presents a new track from Jon Dasilva “Love Is All We Need” with vocals from Donald Waugh. The EP includes 2 version of this tracks and remix from Braille.
Tom Trago and Awanto3 aka Steven de Peven team up again for their Alfabet project. Two heavy and funky Chicago loving house tracks that will put a ‘spell’ on you!
Ranging from melodic to a bit heavier work this Tevo album is an ideal little update to your house collection. Lots of Chicago and a well sized portion of acid in it.
Part 2! Gene Hunt shares his ancient treasures with us… up to now this stuff resided only on reels! Featuring a truly all-star line-up. Rush Hour continues to unearth never released Chicago house classics from the eighties, also known as the golden era of house music.
Part 1 of 2! Gene Hunt shares his ancient treasures with us… up to now this stuff resided only on reels! Featuring a truly all-star line-up. Rush Hour continues to unearth never released Chicago house classics from the eighties, also known as the golden era of house music.
Hour House is Your Rush is releasing an EP from Chicagoian Ricardo Miranda. ‘Floorwax’ urges us to do the damn thing, assuming that he leaves us no choice but to slam dance to this hypnotic acid work out. ‘Redline’ starts out with just drums and a pulsating acid line, but halfway through a utopian string line eases in and shows us the way to the promised land.
Extremely heavy off-label reworking of Steve Reich’s 2X5 (Movement 3, fast) by Ukraine’s Vakula. Comes with a bonus track on the flip. Raw, analogue and organic.
The Oliverwho Factory returns on Rush Hour with their new single ‘Galactic Transit’, a hot slice of raw and sexy Detroit house music.
“Resurrection” is the follow up to the reissue of Virgo (Four)’s S/T album, which was released by Rush Hour in 2010. This album is a collection of unreleased tracks that were produced over a 6 year period between 1984 and 1990 in various home studios around Chicago. These tracks were selected from 100’s of 4-track tapes that had been untouched and unreleased all these years due to local record business politics and disinterest. These demo recordings have been restored and mastered for release. The CD release holds 15 tracks, while the limited edition vinyl box set contains another 15 tracks, totaling a cool 30 tracks.
“Resurrection” really shows the rich, diverse and unique quality of Virgo Four, which leaves you wondering what impact they would have made on the (Chicago) house scene if they would have gotten released back in the day.
Tom Trago will drop his second album this spring, called “Iris”. “Shutters” is thought as a teaser track to whet your appetite and get you in the mood for the long player. “Shutters” is a simmering, soul-drenched and summerish funk tune.
Tevo Howard joins up with his father again to deliver another classic Chicago house record. It’s another must-have from the Howard camp.
Tom Trago and Awanto3 team up for a new project they call Alfabet. This series is all about warm and dusty house music.
This re-release of Aardvarcks genre-defining Nosestep comes with a Cosmin TRG remix, bringing the classic right back 2011 style. Also, a Nubian Mindz rework of Spoken is included: one that wasn’t released back in 2001, but proved to be far ahead of its time..
The Hipodrome Of Music 