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Nico Babylon / The Jak

Drum Major / This Nasty Possession

It's the return of the nations favourite Muzic Box-inspired label - Dirty Blends, who come correct with not one but three slices of primordial jak beat and sherm-sticked warehouse trax this week.

"Drum Major" is a conceptual production from new klan member Nico Babylon who creates a hypnotic electronic blueprint focused on vintage synths and syncopated movement of rhythmic dimensions and craftsmanship. Plainly said - this is the next level of jakbeat moving forward!

On "This Nasty Possession" The Jak collaborates with Nico on this uber old school formula from the days of Chicago underground in the mid 80s along the timeline of Gherkin / Gene Hunt era. Everything you hear on this tune was created by hand, no samples were taken!

For those who like it much darker and feral. 

TRACK LISTING

Nico Babylon - Drum Major
The Jak & Nico Babylon - This Nasty Possession

Nico Babylon / The Jak

An Announcement Of A Miracle / Roman Romance 4 The Drum Kidz

Dirty Blends continue presenting the music from new signing: Nico Babylon, alongside label stalwart The Jak.

Two contrasting tracks of Muzic Box flavoured mayhem. "An Announcement..." utilizes a riotous gospel sermon in that typically Chicagoan style but adds a spitting and gurgling backdrop of acid synthesis and stripped back beats.

"Roman Romance 4 The Drum Kidz" is a homage to Fred Brown from Rocking House Records (Chicago). Dark, but with some melodious undertones, it's heavy on the hand claps and other digital, primitive percussion taken from Roland's famous drum machines.

sTriCtLy 4 tHa fReAkz...! 


TRACK LISTING

The Jak Meets Niko Babylon - An Announcement Of A Miracle
The Jak Vs Niko Babylon - Roman Romance 4 The Drum Kidz

Sanford Zydeco / The Jak N Kincaid

Buckwheat Beat 4 The Primordial Cult / Psyko Pipez

Three from Dirty Blends this week! Purveyors of the finest jak beat and warehouse trax have snapped up a couple of new signings, with Sanford Zydeco joining Nico Babylon amongst the ranks of this Chicago stable.

Zydeco adds "Buckwheat Beat 4 The Primordial Cult" to the storied label's catalogue. This spacey and atmospheric track pays tribute to the fallen heroes of the Muzik Box which tested and pushed dance music ideas for those who chose to understand the heritage and respect the history these individuals created from their hearts..Jakbeat is not to be trivialized!

Label regulars The Jak and Kincaid also make an appearance with "Psycho PipeZ". The two producers come together showing massive respect to Marcus Mixx from the days of Saber Records in Chicago, with an homage of "Psychousic"; more twisted and mental for the dedicated freaks of oLd schoOL tracks! Fierce, uncompromising trax strictly for the strong! 


TRACK LISTING

Sanford Zydeco - Buckwheat Beat 4 The Primordial Cult
The Jak N Kincaid - Psyko Noize Vs Gentile Pipez

Zodiac

Thanksgiven Beat / Itz In Ur Head

Ohh those Chicago cats do make me blush! Seemingly ignorant of the UK's fridget and conservative view on all things *ahem* sex related; our Chicago house brethen have always turned heads in the club with their many evolutions on ghetto house. From DJ Funk to Jackmaster Dick - English nightclubbers sometimes have nowhere to hide from these expilicit murmerings!

Demonstrated perfectly here by the ever-present and hot-to-trot Dirty Blends crew which on this latest mission enlist Zodiac for the downright filthy: "Thanksgvin Beat". Adult content aside, it's that chuggy, low-tom & woodblock combo that's won me over here - irrestible dancefloor hypnosis from a profecient technician. 

Label leader The Jak gets busy with Ron Hardy & Robert Owen's Jackmaster Hater track - "Your Mind" - accentuating the dark throb and ghostly drum patterns that populate this anthemic slice of Chi-town voodoo. 

One of the best from this champion label! Kipping unrecommended. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Hard not to blush for the x-rated booty track "Thanksgvin Beat"; but I'm really here for the Ron Hardy sampling "Itz In Ur Head" which receives a tasty update in keeping with the TCP-soaked, Music Box aesthetic.

TRACK LISTING

Zodiac - Thanksgvin Beat
The Jak- Itz In Ur Head

The Kid & Cliff / The Jak Vs. Cliff Solomon

Don't B Alarmed / Heavy Thump (Bang Dat Shyt)

More from the iconic Dirty Blends crew - taking the original Trax / acid ethos a la Adonis, Steve Poindextor, Lil Louis etc - and adding their own character and twists to the tale. Fierce, uncompromising, raw shit for the warehouse freaks and machine goblins. No quantize was used in the making of these tracks!

Number nine in the series and its a double header featuring main crew members Cliff Solomon, The Jak and The Kid & Cliff. "Don't Be Alamed" is like a stripped back and instrumental version of "Donnie" or "Love Can't Turn Around" - but with the emphasis firmly placed on the floor toms and wavy pads. "Heavy Thump" contains possibly the nicest kick drum recorded onto wax for some time, assaulted with machine gun snares, wrecking ball toms and this occasional vox ordering us to 'bang that shit'. It's a primitive and aggressive jack track that should encourage slam dance body moves and a general feelings of wild, feral behavior that might have you average young person looking at us older lot with a look of frightened bewilderment. Yes - it was better in our day!!! 


TRACK LISTING

Dont B Alarmed
Heavy Thump Bangdatshyt

Cliff Solomon / The Jak & Lex Lathan / William Kincaid

Battle Cry / The Call (On The Edge) / Circuit Collapse

Another amazing Dirty Blends edition with three tracks of heavy jak beat and OG Chicago warehouse flavours.

The A side kicks off with Kincaid presenting a dark and menacing composition played and created with blood and sweat behind the vintage music boxes to come with this 12 minute cranium splitter - "Circuit Collapse".

Cliff Solomon honors the timeless work of originators Boyd Jarvis & Timmy Regisford with an '85 flavoured exercise of proto-house entitled "Battle Cry". With drum machines you'd associate more with the boogie genre, plus expert keyboard sections and sound effects, this retrograded house track will definitely devastate today's dancefloor leaving people scratching their heads as to its origin.

The Jak and Lex Lathan collaborate on "The Call (On The Edge)". recorded at Nation HQ and perhaps the most twisted and discordant offering out of the three. Warped vox, detuned synths and deranged licks smothering a straight up jak beat rhythm. Seriously wild stuff for the more adventurous DJ and dancer - TIP! 


STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Dirty Blends can do no wrong in my book at the moment. There's no one out there daring to take on the dark passion of jak beat with such authority. With each release they seem to get closer to the spirit of Ron Hardy... if you don't know - get to know.

TRACK LISTING

A1. William Kincaid - Circuit Collapse
B1. Cliff Solomon- Battle Cry
B2. The Jak & Lex Lathan - The Call (On The Edge)

The Falcon / Grizzly Knuckles / The Jak

Sounds The Alarm / Mad Bell / Aftermath

More jak beat from the on-fire Dirty Blends crew. This one's mad as a box of frogs, recalling the crazed genius of Steve Poindextor and early Lil Louis madness. All three tracks revolve around slam dance repetition, primordial jack patterns and pure Chicago spirit. Not for the fainthearted - strictly for the freaks! Recommended and limited. 



STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: There's simply nothing like the Dirty Blends cartel out there at the moment. Revisiting the embryonic spirit of Chicago house music, when it was literally just a drum machine and a sampler, they manage to capture a primitive energy that's more intoxicating than half the other shit out there made with tons more equipment! Essential stuff for fans of Ron Hardy, Jamal Moss, Trax Records, Steve Poindextor, Adonis, Lil Louis etc etc.

TRACK LISTING

A. The Falcon - Sound The Alarm
B1. Grizzly Knuckles - Mad Bell
B2. The Jak - Aftermath


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