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Gene Farris Interview
April 2008 cover story with DJ, Producer and Farris Wheel Recordings head Gene Farris.
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Rich Medina Interview
From Jump N Funk to Afro Disco + Beyond...
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Free for All?
Online downloads are becoming cheaper every day. Yet one artist made millions by giving it away for free.
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5 Magazine DJ Series Presents: Stacy Kidd
Stacy Kidd mix and profile from the April 2008 issue.
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Cz's Night Out Column: April 2008
Photos from the NYC and Chicago House Music scenes.
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DJ Charts: Grant Nelson
House Music playlist from London, UK based Grant Nelson.
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DJ Charts: DJ Deeon
House Music playlist from Chicago based DJ Deeon.
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DJ Charts: Mike Dearborn
House Music playlist from Chicago based Mike Dearborn.
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DJ Charts: Gene Farris
House Music playlist from Chicago based Gene Farris.
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In the Mix: ION Tape 2 PC Cassette Transfer
The word "mixtape" is quickly becoming obsolete. I haven't so much as seen a cassette tape for sale in at least three years, and it's been about that long since I put my cassette deck away for good...
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Marc Romboy vs. Tyree Cooper: Lost EP
Ovum. "So much stuff that advertises itself as "minimal" really means "incomplete". Leave it to Tyree and Marc to do it right. They bring the sound home to the early Chicago jack track days or some of the darker moods of Detroit..."
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Scott Wozniak ft. Ambrosia: "Now I Know"
Jellybean Soul. "The Scott Wozniak Club Mix is a nice bit of mid-tempo House. While the drums won't blow your ears out, don't underestimate this one: it has an irresistible beat..."
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Gene Farris - "Visions of the Future"
Farris Wheel. "If I'm hearing the word on the street correctly, I'm going to buck conventional wisdom and say that the original mix of this release is the must-have track of the three outstanding mixes..."
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Organic Groove Continuum - "Bello's Bell"
Unreleased/CDR. "This is a song of many moods, starting out with a harsh and gritty industrial loop that immediately made me think of Spencer Kinsey, sweaty walls and the perilous fire escape up to the 500 W. Cermak lofts circa 1995..."
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Digital Delay - "My Love" (Starlet DJ Remix)
Mondo. "Have you ever seen videos of European megaclubs with men with sharp hair and women with sharp breasts dancing like decapitated birds between laser beams and glo-sticks? This track is pretty much an epitome of the kind..."
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Ralf Gum - Uniting Music LP
GOGO Music. "Ralf GUM surpasses the norm in House Music with this non-electric, non-digital, eleven track album release. Uniting Music is probably one of the best smooth House albums I've heard in awhile. Only one track on the album made me really want to dance - "All This Love For You" - but the music theory and creativity are great..."
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Janet Jackson - "Rock With U" (David Storm Ruffin Remix)
Unreleased/CDR. "The last bit of Janet that I liked began with the words "Like a moth to a flame..." and her music's been like a cross to a vampire for me since then. That might be sacrilegious..."
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Roy Davis ft. XL - "Reach"
Large Music. "Chicago House producers and DJs Roy Davis Jr. and XL team up for this track on Jeff Craven's Large Music. Roy lays down a really steady beat with a simple but addictive little strum while XL riffs on the spoken word tip..."
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Ashford + Simpson - The Warner Years
Warner Bros./Rhino. "You can't go wrong with this double disc set. On Disc One you'll find most of their dance music classics, including hard to find original 12" mixes of "Don't Cost You Nothing," "Found A Cure" "Love Don't Make It Right" and "It Seems to Hang On" to name a few..."
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Vick Lavender - "The Chase" (Tribute to Fred Hampton)
April 2008: Unified. "Vick's The Chase features what sound like live instruments - a little bit of a Latin swing, but with an inspired piano solo..."
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DJ Motion - "Extranatural Notions"
"This three song release by DJ Motion features a pretty wide range of sounds. "Born in Summer" is a classic jack track - perfect for the lull between two crowd slayers..."
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J-Groove - "Disco 9000"
"This interesting electro single from J-Groove of Toronto features a funkier beat than you'd expect from most electro releases..."
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Ibiza Rhapsody MP3 Player
"It's amazing: how many years ago was the iPod released? And how long did it take to clone it? And how sad is it that competitors are still making products that look just like the standard-issue iPod, throwing a bunch of features in the box while still not getting at the device's soul?..."
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Sony mylo2 Personal Communicator
"As shown in the legendary film This is Spinal Tap, bands and artists on their last legs usually like to say they're "big in Japan". This is Sony's mylo2 (it's lower-case, which market research shows is more quirky and fun!), and the only good thing that can be said about it is that, yes, it's big in Japan..."
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Love, Sex, Etc: The Insanely Jealous Boyfriend/Girlfriend
We've all had them. We still have them. We are them. I'm not talking about the occasional bouts of jealousy. I'm talking about that irritating, stressful...
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