Feel my Bicep

Let’s stoke the ole’ fire a little with another great remix from MAW,….here they’ve totally flipped Trey Lorenz’s slow and emotional ‘Photographs of Mary’ into an upbeat soulful house bomb, all to easily…. Rolling beats & shuffling snares, classic 90’s kipper!

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Finally our plastic homage to Detroit has hit the shelves. BUY BUY BUY. Have a listen, we hope you like it. Instead of describe the track for you we thought it may be better to give you an insight into the production.

Bicep – 313

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‘313’ was basically a melody I recorded of my laptop, my neighbour was getting his Jazz on, so I stuck the mic up to the wall and clicked record. **Note: he will have no credits on the sleeve- His dog shits all over my steps**. We knew the claps were a fundamental part of the track so to add some realism, we set off to Dalston market- inspired by stories of Marshall Jefferson hiring 15 people for the claps on his tunes when he played live. Instead of forming an alliance with the common people we stocked up on meat and what a fine selection there was on offer. On returning to the studio we took turns recording and slapping each other with various types of beef and fish- finally we layered these sounds to give this ‘Real‘ meat thing in action. The chatting you can hear around the start was recorded of my phone while in the waiting room of a very lively brothel, all I can say is that the recording got a little messy towards the end.

Bicep – Winter

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‘Winter’ was just a demo song on our DAW, cant believe people didn’t pick up on this one ;)

Hope this gave you a brief insight into the lengths we take in the strive for perfection! And perfection it is.

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Those gentle synth washes, the cowbell and the smooth vocals, all in the right place to create a amazing piece of house music. Music for your soul!

Frankie Knuckles helped define what house is, this tune is often cited by house enthusiasts as his finest work. “The piano riff alone is worth the price, but when combined with the bassline, overall production values and that vocal, it’s a credible candidate for best house record ever. And it was made in 1987.”

Backbeats have just release 10 compilations of tunes from probably the finest Independent Labels in house, disco, soul and funk… Labels like Trax, Philly Groove, Jewel, Paula, Ronn, Ace, Tribe, Invictus, Hot Wax and Music Merchant. No-one can look the other way to ‘Garage Classics‘ or ‘The House that Jackin’ built“….These are gold!

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Been digging up lots of early 90’s house, got a real nice collection going on, here’s the first of many! It’s a cheeky little hypnotic house remake from Little Louie and Big T! Harddrive, himself is also known as Luis Fernando Vager and was one of the early house hoods droppin’ his slugs on legendary Strictly Rhythm! Back in around 93′ was a golden age for house, people like MAW were throwing out 4/5 versions of every remix, and remixing everything,  and the snares just rolled around that time.

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To this day I think ‘Silent introduction’ is up definitely one of my most cherished albums. Much like Omar-s’ Fabric CD,  it contained music previously released on underground labels- then introduced to the masses years later on an albeit slightly less underground label. Mostly this is a KDJ, the early years collection. Add the blunted rants, musings and wisdom of Mr Dixon as in between banter and you’re left with a beautiful collection of deepest house that you wish you could play at work but are really scared to, because of these syrupy voiced proclamations. M-Traxx is a modern day masterpiece, the vinyl is so deep, dig it out if you can- pure bliss.

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Any kids born in the eighties will have remembered this Sega Mega Drive classic as a seriously tough guy beat em up. Streets of Rage, or as its known in Japan, “Bare Knuckle: Furious Iron Fist” was released in 1991. Recently I was playing this and realised that long ago I used to love the rolling street beats, without even knowing they were techno, electro disco and freak funk chuggers. The music is so driving while playing it, super urban. Produced by game music hero, Yuzo Koshiro.

Below are a few (there will be more to come and I feel an few edits may be coming out of some of this material). They sound like when speeded up oldschool deep house crashes into synth disco. ‘Boss’ sounds like 90s rave then breaks into some pretty crazy tech synth pump. Interesting.

City Street

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Beachfront

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Boss

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A little valentine (albeit late… as was my lady’s present) treat, in the form of an all time Chicago classic from Larry Heard. This has an almost Balearic feel to it in a funny oldschool kinda way, though it is still a full on Chicago house bomb complete with a climbing bass and long pads, seriously hypnotic in an after hours kinda way.

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Amazing Chicago house records by Ragtyme produced by Marshall Jefferson… Ragtyme was actually Ten City before they became Ten City with the great vocals of Byron e. This is the other allstar dream team of house music in 1987 (Beside Larry Heard, Robert Owens and the rest of Fingers Inc). You couldn’t find a better production team then this. Marshall Jefferson, Byron Stingley & Ron Hardy doing the main mix! Comes with the Ron Hardy club mix and the Powerhouse version. Very expressive powerfull house music with intense vocals by Byron Stingley.

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For those feeling lonely on Valentines Day have no fear Horse Meat Disco is here!In a form of a mix, the guys over at The New York City (NYC) Downlow Radio hit us up with this meat filled treat.

For those seeking an uninterrupted online streaming musical paradise, The Downlow Radio is serving up a special selection of love-themed shows by an array of best DJs from the global homo-soul-funk underground to ge…ge…get your juices flowing in time for Valentine’s Day. They also have an amazing selection of House, Funk, Soul and Disco for your aural pleasure.

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This deep house classic was released on Trax records in 1986, if you want a history lesson on early house music, look at the Trax release list which began around ‘85.  The record is written by Robert Owens and Larry Heard, who helped shape the sound of dance. These two collaborated under Fingers Inc, responsible for classics like Mystery of Love. But this original release went under Robert Owens name.

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Fuck that House pretense shit- this tool is one of the best kept secrets to this day, Ive seen some of the best House DJs in the world drop this Spice Girls ‘BOMB’  at peak time! This is still rockin about on white labels, the MAW dub on the flip is pretty great too!

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Some old school jack courtesy of Ian Pooley, cuttin and sampling done the old way. Fans of Daft Punk will be into this disco heavy, house groove. Even tho this was out in 97′ it still gets turned by the likes of DJ Sneak to get a party started.

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This classic detroit cut reminds us that utter simplicity can often be just as effective as the tightest production! Omar has sampled the 1980’s track of the same name – Midway’s ‘Set it Out’ over rich warm ethereal keys and a very simple drum machine pattern – It works. The E.P ”002” has just received a repress before Christmas and with Set it out being the closing, (and for me the stand out track after Flying Gorgars) I thought it deserved a spot on here. Enjoy (But you’ll have to buy the E.P)

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Chez Damier has devoted his life to electronic music as a vocalist, DJ, producer, label manager and graphic artist. Splitting his time between Detroit, Chicago and occasionally New York, Chez set up the Music Institute with Derrick May and Alton Miller looked after the business affairs and studio output of Kevin Saunderson’s KMS label, and helped countless producers get a start in production. On top of that, he has a kick ass discography of his ow

Proper old school Chicago house here with addition work on the New York Dub  from Derrick May and MK, you can definitely see the Strings of Life vibe coming throuh.

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One of the standout tunes of his fabric CD, which is quite the statement! Released in 2004 it has become an underground anthem in Detroit.

“A simple house beat and bassline rolls on and on while a short looped sample of the Supremes’ “Come See About Me” rises and falls hipnotically in the mix. Super simple sample based Detroit house in the vein of Agent X’s “In The Morning”, this will blow up dancefloors for sure.” – from Discogs

Omar-S – Day

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The Supremes – Come See About me

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