Efdemin did it in Chicago

Sounds of the Universe, the West London Record shop owned by Soul Jazz Records, is starting its own offshoot label of the same name with a gritty underground house workout. ‘Shikaakwa’ comes courtesy of none other that Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being. Moss, who is the mystical figure behind Chicago based record label Mathematics Recordings, – more

God fearin’, booty shakin’ house duo Octave One will be releasing an album of remixes later this month called Revisited (Here, There and Beyond) on their own 430 West Records label. Featuring reworks by Vince Watson, Luke Slater and Sandwell District, the source material was over 20 years of Octave One’s productions. Don’t know who – more

If anyone can claim to be at the birth and growth of the juke & ghetto house scene, it has to be Traxman. The Chicago native witnessed the bloom of the house scene in his city in the 1980s and later went on to release records for the eminent label Dance Mania. With the increasing – more