A seminal masterpiece that marked “both the beginning and the end of the first era of house music and signaling the advent of the second phase of Heard’s […]
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By 1994, the great Chicago house producer and DJ Larry Heard had been helping define the music for more than ten years. Part of the influential trio Fingers […]
Featured on Osaka-based DJ Mori-Ra’s popular Japanese Breeze mix series, Ultra Hyper Cosmic Voice by Nami Hotatsu is a hidden gem of Japanese ambient house that was once […]
Armed with a Roland 303 and an 808, in 1982 the Indian film composer Charanjit Singh entered a studio for a couple days to see what these new […]
Years before shifting her focus to the more laid-back electronic pop of her trio 5AM, Momoko Goto aka Powder was deeply immersed in club sounds as one of […]
Reissue of early Japanese house outing by Junichi Soma, Shuji Wada and Katsuya Sano. Comes with insert with liner notes. Originally released in 1989; Widely considered to be […]
Oakland’s rising star Spaceghost presents a collection of tropical boogie meets mellow house on Danish label Tartlet Records. Shades of Italian deep house meets classic ’90s deep house […]
Recorded in Manchester in early 1988, 808 State’s Newbuild is the Big Bang of British acid house, a mesmerizingly squiggly and revelrous advertisement for the power of the […]
An underrated house compilation, Black Havana was released in 1989 on Capitol Records with executive production from Kenny Ortiz (who co-produced that amazing La Rue record). The compilation […]
Originally built to generate joy and dancefloor bliss, by the late 1990s house music had begun to broaden its emotional range. Alongside expressions of love, devotion, glee, and […]
Just in time for summer, we have a beautiful new full-length from the holy father of deep house via his own Alleviated imprint. Larry Heard’s fifth release under […]
Norwegian DJ, producer, and Sex Tags Mania label boss DJ Sotofett delivers his first full length album Drippin’ For A Tripp (Tripp-A-Dubb-Mix) through the legendary Honest Jon’s Records. […]
Wamdue Kids is the short-lived house music project by three guys named Chris – Brann, Clarke, and Udoh. The Atlanta based trio was first discovered in 1995 by […]
A classic from Italian duo The Countach, Aqua Marina is a downtempo house re-working of Santana’s “Aqua Marine” off of his 1979 Marathon album. Seductive, whispered vocals, light […]
Chicago house music pioneer Larry Heard steps away from the dance floor to circle back on the downtempo and ambient themes previously explored on his 1996 album Alien. […]
Essential UK street soul recently reissued by Toronto’s Invisible City, “Street Soul” compiles the most beloved tracks by Soul Connection, a late 80’s duo made up of producer/pioneer […]
