Archive for April, 2016

Zig-Zag ‎– Zig-Zag 12″ – Zig Zag

Reissue from 1993, it’s rough and ready for the rave. Adam “DJ Chunk-A-Bud” Maljan recently passed, his music lives on here along with some of the earliest works from Johnny Fiasco / Juan Lopez under his DJ Fiasco alias. Zig-Zag was released in conjunction with Trax records, and its proto-house sounds show the ideas that were [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Kim Brown – Wisdom Is A Dancer 2xLP – Just Another Beat

With their biggest tunes threading the needle between Lawrence’s hypnotism and Diynamic Music’s signature drive, Kim Brown release their second full-length for Berlin’s Just Another Beat and it fits right in. On melancholic tracks like Rehearsed Engineering, Unperfected Circles, Datasette, shades of City Centre Offices shine through with layers of melody and understated percussion. But [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Gari Romalis – Boomerang 12” – Savor Music

Gari Romalis and Argentina’s Savor Music present four straightforward tracks. This record will probably resonate with those looking for a classic or familiar house palette. The music is pretty stripped down, so perhaps a bonus if you’re looking for music that is mix-friendly. Vocal snippets can be found throughout the EP, peeking out from behind [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Broken English Club – Suburban Hunting 2xLP – Cititrax

Oliver Ho has been bouncing from one alter ego to the next over the past 20 years – starting out recording under his government name and then moving through a variety of projects and titles over the years. While he established himself early on as an explorer of super heady tribal techno, his Broken English [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Atypical Dopeness Sampler Vol. 2 compilation 12″ – Atypical Dopeness

Sacred Rhythm Music’s offshoot label Atypical Dopeness presents its second sampler EP. With the exception of a broken beat, dub-leaning perspective from Neotnas, the first compilation included mainly deep house tracks with an organic palette. It offered varying degrees of color and was quite dense in terms of atmosphere and instrumentation. This collection of material [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

In Rotation: m50 Spring 2016

Miruga – Be Free 12″ – Altered Moods . . . . . . . . Healing Force Project – Gravitational Lensing 12″ – Firecracker . . . . . . . . Gosub – Sunday At Battleship Key 12″ – Barba . . . . . . . . Keita Sano – High 12″ [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Record Store Day in-store Saturday, April 16th 2016

Gramaphone Records teams up with Smart Bar resident deejays and Gramaphone staffers will be in the DJ booth all day among other local djs and a possible surprise guest. Everyday is record store day here on Clark Street, which is why we are choosing to spend it with our friends vs. using our modest budget [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Keita Sano – High 12″ – Unfulfillment

Trippy drum workouts across the slippery snake 12″ on the young Unfulfillment imprint. Okayama’s Keita Sano has been pretty busy these last couple years, cranking out 2 albums and 10 singles in that time, building a catalog often characterized by raw, sometimes abrasive rhythm work across a variety of styles and tempos. He’s been referred to as [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Seegweed – Seegweed Edits 12″ – Gamm

Here are some disco edits, part four in the series G.A.M.M. Enterprises Inc by Seegweed (although it seems they lost count after the first two.) The three edits here are sophisticated and seamless, wrapping the R&B, soul, and gospel originals around ornately orchestrated disco productions. The tunes come together as if they were originally intended that [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Be You @ TBA, Saturday April 16th, 2016

Gramaphone is offering in-store direct ticket sales for this event, featuring travelling performances by Theo Parrish and Dego along with local stars Solson and Specter. For fans of deep Chicago & Detroit beatdown house styles, this is a pretty essential lineup of some of the artists shaping the current and future sounds, beyond genre and [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

The Church Of Black Gold @ Elastic Arts, Saturday April 9th, 2016

Jerome Derradji’s Still Music imprint has been a dependable, adventurous outlet for rootsy Detroit sounds for over a decade, and his sublabel forays into acid techno, industrial, lost disco reissues, and beyond have shown a broad love for electronic music, dance music, and its progression. This weekend, he is involved in the launch of a [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Marcellus Pittman – Sneak Attack 12″ – Unirhythm

Marcellus Pittman has finally released two banging tracks off his debut album “Pieces” MP dives deep into the abyss with these experimental tracks… The long awaited “Sneak Attack” properly titled as the beats ‘sneak’ up on you. It starts as a broken beat track but as you’re waiting for the four four kick to come [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

In Rotation: Michael Serafini Spring 2016

Ed Nine – Timeless 12″ – Groove Access . . . . . . . . Rocky Jones – The Choice Of A New Generation 12″ – DJ International . . . . . . . Yuri Shulgin – Polyphonic Mind 12″ – Escapade . . . . . . . . G&D – G&D [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Gosub – Sunday At Battle Ship Key 12″ – Barba

Gosub is Shad T Scott!  This is a name that’ll be familiar to some as the co-founder of Isophlux records, a home for abstract electronics since the mid 1990s. The Gosub guise has been known for its fusion of Miami bass and Detroit electro sounds, surfacing sporadically since about 2000. Here, his sparse style and [&hellip[ READ MORE ]