Glenn Underground, CVO, BIDI aka GU with the rare selection of some of the most wanted & rare Chicago House joints ever. 606, Parties, All Night Slam & The Wheel were originally released on Cajual, Relief, & others. On Chicago’s Strictly Jaz Unit label.
Astonishingly, 23 years have passed since Glenn Underground and Boo Williams established the Strictly Jaz Unit project, a fluid collective of underground Chicago deep house producers. These days, SJU mainly operates as a duo, and it was this stripped-back line-up that produced “The Tempest”, a rare album-length outing bristling with quality cuts. Every track is naturally dynamic with sonic rich musicality & keyboard melodies. As a whole, the album is far more intergalactic, electronic and sci-fi sounding than either man’s solo productions, with just a few hints of the luscious instrumentation and swinging grooves associated with their previous work. There’s no dip in quality, though, with the dubbed-out deep house hypnotism of “Heard Syndrome”, the Patrick Cowley/Giorgio Moroder influenced “The Struggle”, the Chicago-goes-Yorkshire bleep flex of “Time of Speed, Not Day” and acid-fired gorgeousness of “The Flat (London Projects)” standing out.
A timeless classic created and arranged by Glenn Underground originally released in the mid-90s on a Boo Williams’ EP. The track took Europe by storm and now on a special 1-sided 12” from Strictly Jazz Unit Muzic it’s available again.
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