Alton Miller – Love Don’t Pass Me By EP [SS089]

October 20, 2022October 19, 2022 hipodromealton miller, deep house, sound signatureLeave a comment

Sound Signature welcome the return of Detroit hero Alton Miller for a classy single graced with the vocals of KB, with the thoughtful addition of an instrumental on the flip for those so minded. The result is some extremely classy, luxurious sounding deep house music with a touch of the lounge about it. A track that certainly plays its cards cautiously rather than banging them down on the table all at the same time, but one that will build the atmosphere of your early evening set up subtly but surely.

Theo Parrish feat. Marcellus Pittman – Ooh Bass [SS088]

July 12, 2022July 12, 2022 hipodromedeep house, detroit house, marcellus pittman, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

Theo Parrish and Marcellus Pittman’s collaborations run deep, from those seminal Essential Selections 12″s some 20 years ago through to the T.O.M Project with Omar S, the 3 Chairs super group and on and on. In the usual Sound Signature style, a new link-up between the two Detroit legends arrives with a minimum on fanfare, just a killer jam with all the grit and soul you’d hope for from this pair. The drum levels push and pull in the mix from red line pressure to back seat driving, while a mellow blur of soul sampling comes calling through the mist until the titular low end glues everything together. It’s understated and casual brilliance, everything a Sound Signature club drop should be.

Theo Parrish – It’s Out Of Your Control EP [SS087]

June 22, 2022June 21, 2022 hipodromedetroit, detroit house, house, maurissa rose, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

New Theo Parrish single appears on vinyl in the form of two mixes differing in vibe but consistent in quality and suitability for DJ use. The original rides along on a shuffling, almost Afrobeat version of house, with Maurissa Rose’s gorgeous vocal floating above the gloopy, hypnotic bassline which gets the full filter treatment. The instrumental dub places that b-line very much at the centre of the mix, starting from a single kickdrum before building up to a more techno-edged, vocal free climax. all throbbing bass, solid bears and minimal, glitchy keyboard interjections.

Leron Carson – Red Lightbulb Theory [SS036]

January 19, 2022January 18, 2022 hipodromechicago house, leron carson, re-release, reissue, sound signatureLeave a comment

CARSON, Leron - Red Lightbulb Theory '87-'88 (reissue)

A few Highlights from the sessions Leron recorded in 1987-88 when he was fifteen or so. China Trax, featured on SS012, came from these sessions. These were hand made, meaning no sequencing was used for the keys on any of the songs featured, using cassette tape overdubs, a lost science. Omar-S touched up the material from those cassettes for this release on vinyl.

LeRon Carson – Under The Conditions [SS083/84]

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 hipodromealbum, chicago house, leron carson, sound signatureLeave a comment

CARSON, Leron - Under The Conditions

Brilliant album from the legend LeRon Carson on Sound Signature. Raw dusty early Chicago flavored house. LeRon Carson is one of the many unheralded but still legendary producers out of the American Midwest. His next move takes him to Theo Parrish’s mighty Sound Signature for a new album of his textbook dusty drums and lived-in house grooves. Of course, they are all linked in some way, left of centre of experimental in how they are assembled. That’s the case right from the off with the scruffy drums and twanging synth lead of ‘Under The Conditions.’ What sounds like a speech from Martin Luther King is sampled on ’72nd & Oglesby’ over a sweet of raw, tense beats and elsewhere the bittersweet synths of ‘Bismarck Nite’ strike a different but equally powerful note.

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Theo Parrish – Wuddaji [SS079/80/81]

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 hipodromealbum, detroit, detroit house, maurissa rose, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

PARRISH, Theo - Wuddaji

New Theo Parrish album on his own imprint Sound Signature.

Marcellus Pittman / Theo Parrish – Essential Selections Vol. 2 [SSES2]

March 1, 2019February 28, 2019 hipodromedeep house, detroit house, marcellus pittman, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

Sound Signature presents the return of the Essential Selections series. This second studio hook-up between Detroit veterans Theo Parrish and Marcellus Pittman first appeared way back in 2002, some three years after they made their collaborative debut on Sound Signature. Listening again all these years on, we can confirm that the three-tracker hasn’t aged a bit.

Julion De’ Angelo / Thomas Xu – Roots That Talk [SS069]

July 26, 2017November 15, 2021 hipodromedetroit house, julion de' angelo, sound signature, thomas xuLeave a comment

DE'ANGELO, Julion/THOMAS XU - Roots That Talk

A strong debut on Sound Signature by young Detroit-based artists, Julion De’Angelo and Thomas Xu.

Theo Parrish – Gentrified Love Part 3 [SS066]

April 10, 2017November 15, 2021 hipodromeamp fiddler, deep house, detroit house, ideeyah, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

PARRISH, Theo/AMP FIDDLER/IDEEYAH - Gentrified Love Part 3

The third release in Theo’s Gentrified Love series on Sound Signature. Side A, ‘Trust’, features Amp Fiddler and Ideeyah. Flip the disc over for another excellent collaboration between Theo and Amp on ‘My Soul’!

Theo Parrish, Duminie Deporres & Waajeed – Gentrified Love Part 2 [SS064]

November 24, 2016November 15, 2021 hipodromedeep house, detroit house, duminie deporres, sound signature, theo parrish, waajeedLeave a comment

PARRISH, Theo/DUMINIE DEPORRES/WAAJEED - Gentrified Love Part 2

Theo Parrish has teamed up with Rotating Assembly member Duminie DePorres and Dirt Tech Reck head Waajeed. The EP, Gentrified Love Part 2, is the first new work Parrish has released since his 2014 album American Intelligence.

Leron Carson – Lemonlime / Sofnthik [SS059]

March 22, 2016November 15, 2021 hipodromechicago house, deep house, leron carson, sound signatureLeave a comment

CARSON, Leron - Lemonlime

New 12″ from Leron Carson for Theo’s label. “Lemonline” is a deliciously breezy concoction, with Carson’s jazzy piano riffs working in perfect unison with bouncy, Latin-influenced drum rhythms. Flipside “Sofnthik”, on the other hand, sounds like a previously unheard 1980s Chicago deep house concoction, with warm, loved-up chords swirling around a clattering drum machine groove.

Byron the Aquarius – Highlife EP [SS060]

February 6, 2016November 15, 2021 hipodromebyron the aquarius, deep house, detroit house, dmitri walker, jazz, sound signatureLeave a comment

BYRON THE AQUARIUS - High Life EP

Sound Signature’s latest missive comes from Byron The Aquarius, a former Onra collaborator best known for his dusty trips into MPC beat-making territory. Here, the Atlanta-based producer successfully turns his hand to dusty, soul-flecked deep house, peppering the bumpin’ groove of “Aquarian Voyage” with a toasty bassline and twinkling Rhodes motifs. It’s the kind of hazy, jazz-flecked deep house that Sound Signature has always done better than almost anyone else. Flipside “Run Sa”, featuring the fluid and intoxicating playing of drummer Dmitri Walker, is even better, with warm chords draping themselves over snappy snares, hissing cymbals and killer fills.

GE-OLOGY feat. Mark De Clive-Lowe ‎– Moon Circuitry [SS058]

November 4, 2015November 15, 2021 hipodromedetroit, ge-ology, gerard young, house, jazz, mark de clive-lowe, sound signatureLeave a comment

GE OLOGY feat MARK DE CLIVE LOWE - Moon Circuitry

The latest Sound Signature release comes from one-time conscious hip-hop producer GE-OLOGY and one-time go-to jazz keys-man Mark De Clive-Lowe. The latter’s brilliant synthesizer and piano work is arguably the highlight of both tracks here. On the spacey, P-funk influenced space-house swing of “Moon Circuitry” he does his best impression of Herbie Hancock, while “Escape On The Lodge Freeway” boasts intricate jazz solos atop a slightly tougher, chunkier deep house groove.

Theo Parrish – American Intelligence [SSCD007]

December 3, 2014November 15, 2021 hipodromealbum, detroit house, duminie deporres, funk, ideeyah, marcellus pittman, ruby, sass, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

PARRISH, Theo - American Intelligence

Given that this is the first album from the great Theo Parrish since 2007, it’s unsurprising interest in American Intelligence has rocketed over the course of the year as Sound Signature left a trail of hints. American Intelligence is a fine album; deep and woozy in parts, undeniably soulful, shot through with jazz influences and full to bursting with killer cuts. By now, everyone should know the brilliant “Footwork” single; soon, clubs will swing to the off-kilter dancefloor jazz of “Make No War”, the 21st century broken house of the epic “Fallen Funk” and the decidedly odd – but brilliant – “Helmut Lampshade”.

Theo Parrish – Footwork [SS053]

May 26, 2014November 15, 2021 hipodromedetroit house, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

PARRISH, Theo - Footwork

Two tantric dancefloor jams marks the return of Theo Parrish to his spiritual home and life’s work Sound Signature. Building on the same rhythmical territory as the recent 12” for The Trilogy Tapes/Palace/SS.

D. Wilson & L. Carson – Tracks From Tapes [SS042]

April 30, 2014November 15, 2021 hipodromechicago house, d. wilson, leron carson, sound signatureLeave a comment

WILSON, D/L CARSON - Tracks From The Tapes

Sound Signature completists will be rubbing their hands with a sense of relish at the label’s 42nd release as it sees more material drawn from the late 80s archives of Leron Carson. Back in 2001, Theo Parrish introduced Leron Carson’s work with “China Trax” which sounded like the uncovered cassette recordings of a deviant Robert Hood. Carson’s busted lo fi productions from the same era were later given a more extensive airing on the double plated Sound Signature issue Red Lightbulb Theory ’87-’88 and this third appearance on the label draws from some recordings made in collaboration with the unheralded D Wilson. All Sound Signature will offer by way of description is “This was Southside Chitown ’89. If you weren’t there you weren’t there…. lots of underground unreleased music circulated on the Southside on maxell and tonemaster tapes from Walgreens – 2 dollars for a pack of eight” For our money both “Siren” and “Other Science” can be compared to the twisted, grainy freeform acid Jamal Moss makes.

Theo Parrish – 71st And Exchange Used To Be [SSTTTPLC001]

January 24, 2014February 28, 2019 hipodromedetroit, house, jazz, palace skateboards, sound signature, the trilogy tapes, theo parrishLeave a comment

Theo Parrish presents a split release with Sound Signature and Palace Skateboards on the legendary TTT.

Specter – The Gooch EP [SS052]

January 16, 2014November 15, 2021 hipodromeacid, andres ordonez, house, sound signature, specter, technoLeave a comment

SPECTER - The Gooch EP

3 tracks of serious basement bizz from Chicago’s Specter – following on his Pipe Bomb Sound release.

Theo Parrish – Long Walk In The Sun / Strawberry Dragon [SS050]

November 16, 2013November 15, 2021 hipodromedeep house, detroit, jazz, sound signature, theo parrishLeave a comment

PARRISH, Theo - Long Walk In Your Sun

New 2 track EP from Theo Parrish on his own Sound Signature. Slow-burning funk and rapid Jazz-tinged numbers on this monumental two-tracker.

Jay Daniel – Scorpio Rising [SS051]

September 27, 2013November 15, 2021 hipodromedetroit house, jay daniel, sound signatureLeave a comment

DANIEL, Jay - Scorpio Rising

The last time a newcomer graced Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature, it resulted in widespread praise for the Flowers EP from London based producer, DJ and singer Andrew Ashong, somehow we get the feeling this latest release on the label will prove to be as memorable. The Scorpio Rising EP sees Parrish look much closer to home and grant the DC-born, Detroit-bred producer Jay Daniel his debut release and the four track 12″ more than lives up to his billing as one of Boiler Room’s most exciting new discoveries at DEMF. Wild Oats obsessives will probably know Daniel from the Fundamentals residency shared with Kyle Hall and he’s clearly spent some time honing his Detroit influenced craft, with cuts like “No Love Lost” expertly balanced between melody and rugged drum grit. “Brainz” is the kind of no-nonsense DJ tool you might have heard on a FXHE B Side circa 2008 whilst “I Have No Name” demonstrates Daniel is eminently capable of the sort of hope inducing Utopian house from the D that the much missed Aaron Carl was renowned for.

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