Fresh Meat Danceteria

Greg Dowling and Shane Johnson have been playing records in public since the late 1980s. Their residency at Ireland's longest running and best known house night, Sweat at Sir Henry's in Cork, spanned more than a decade and influenced a generation of Irish clubbers and DJs. Since finishing Sweat in 2001, Fish Go Deep's travels have taken them to clubs across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and throughout the US and Canada. During that time, they have been busy creating original House music in an emotive and signature style. Fish Go Deep releases have appeared on labels like Brique Rouge, Chez Music, Defected, NRK, Innervisions, Strictly Rhythm and Gourmet Recordings. Fish Go Deep released two EPs on Gourmet. As neither project is available any longer we thought this was the ideal time to put together our favorite tracks from those EPs. We reached out to Greg and Shane and successfully licensed four tracks from the Gourmet EPs for an outing on Fresh Meat. The newly remastered versions of "Music's Got Me", "Music's Dubbed Me", "Follow", and "2 Dings" have been compiled and released as the "Meat and Two Fish" EP. All four tracks are prime examples of Fish Go Deep's timeless production style. In contrast to so many overwrought and quickly outdated tracks, these have remained as alive and vital as the day they were penned. To celebrate this release we present a one hour long DJ mix by Shane and Greg where the gents go through a host of their favorite cuts from the near past. Enjoy.

Brodanse is the musical partnership of brothers Austen and Scott Smart. This DJ mix is to celebrate their upcoming "Become Someone" EP forthcoming on Fresh Meat Records. Their first EP for Fresh Meat comes on the heels of their mood heavy "Fire Night" track which appeared on "When Bad People Cook Good Food Volume 3" out in January of this year. The two originals on "Become Someone" were deemed dance floor gold by FMR staff on first listen. The groove oriented soundscapes of "Become Someone" and "Around Us" sound modern yet informed by a house tapestry that runs decades deep. For two young gentlemen just getting started, Scott and Austen know their house music idioms. There is an assured cadence to the music of Brodanse, conveyed in part by a burly barrage of kicks, compressed snares and insistent basslines. Fresh Meat recruited a hard working young DJ in the Chicago scene, Max Jacobson, to remix "Become Someone" and after weeks of diligent work Max turned in what we feel is some of his best work. His thick, punchy version is built on a foundation of intricately swinging percussion, layered angular basslines, sprightly effects and swathes of subtle atmosphere. Enjoy this mix and look out for "Become Someone".

This episode of FMD presents the entirety of one our favorite house mix tapes. At some point in the mid 90s (maybe 1995) one of our closest friends Mark Almaria put this meticulous set of blends together. This mix is live, all vinyl and with no edits. Mark's method at the time was such that if he made the slightest mistake he would stop the recording and start again from the top. We're not sure how many takes this mix took or if it was captured in one shot but we do know it has only gotten better with age. In fact, currently trending deep house is trying like hell to capture the vibe of many of the songs on this tape. Savor the real thing right here. Temperatures rising!

Presented here is a live recording of Savile djing live at Chicago's Smart Bar on January 20, 2012. I was in the audience that night and just had to share the mix with the Danceteria. The floor vibe was deep and thick and the rich sounds coming out of the system had us in a trance dance. Savile is a Chicago dj and producer with sincerity and a deep devotion to house music. His productions are dense aural affairs, appearing on labels like, Southern Fried, Ninja Tune, and Wazi Wazi music. Look out for Savile's forthcoming release on Hypertone.

1. Mood 2 Swing - State Of Trance
2. Cuthead - Vibratin'
3. Dirtytwo - Moody Butt Jackin
4. Ethyl & Fiori - THD001
5. David Bovenkerk - Jermain
6. Carl Craig - Sandstorms (C2 2011 Version)
7. Chris Nakuza - Somewhere Between Distance & The Impossible
8. 3 Channels - I Can Understand
9. Clovis - The Jean Seberg Special
10. Langenberg - Times (Manuel Tur's Ground Glass Reflex)
11. Pepe Braddock - 4
12. Prommer & Barck - Journey (KiNK Dub)
13. Soundstream - Tease Me
14. Olin - Tomorrow's News
15. Manuel Tur - About To Fall
16. Dario Zenker - Give 6

Next up, a vinyl mix by Shred One recorded live at CHANGES on June 1, 2012. Since arriving from L.A., Shred has been playing her mix of funk, soul, and boogie all over Chicago; from her residency at the Whistler to fine parties like ours. She part of the highly respected Sweater Funk Crew and is one of our favorite DJs.

CHANGES is held the first Friday of each month at Beauty Bar in Chicago. www.changesparty.blogspot.com

Episode 44 of Fresh Meat Danceteria features an earthy deep house mix by Italian musician Giovanni Damico. Giovanni is in love with music. His raw sound is a combination of influences accumulated during his 24 year existence. A child raised on a steady diet of art, Giovanni started DJing very early on, almost immediately with a desire to create his own compositions. At the age of 15 he wrote his first track and has since continually written and produced new music. His DJ career has steadily grown in parallel to his production prowess. Giovanni has released music on Fresh Meat Records, on his own White Rabbit Recordings, on Movida Recordings from Frankfurt and a few other quality imprints, receiving critical acclaim and support from a wide array of international DJs.

For his FM Danceteria debut Giovanni has blended together a set of melodically rich, immersive sounds that tug at the heart, mind and ass in equal parts. Get dancing!

Track List:
1. Ivano Tetelepta - Mothers Love
2. Andrés - Jazz Dance
3. Genious Of Time - Houston We Have A Problem
4. Deep88 - Summer
5. Giovanni Damico - Dirty Disc
6. Desos - Ghetto_Love (Detroit Swindles KFC Rework)
7. Small People - Move With Your Vision
8. Wbeeza - Candle Groove
9. Oskar Offermann - U Can You To Me Say
10. Brooks Mosher - Refraction
11. Edward - Take Me Out
12. Tevo Howard - Intersection
13. Leader & Yuriano - Blue Moon
14. Matt Star & Wigbert - Cube
15. Delano Smith-Change Is Coming
16. Achterbahn Damour - Trance Me Up (Skudge Remix)

This episode of Loves is a mix by Specter live from the inaugural “Changes” party in Chicago on March 2, 2012. Changes is a new monthly dance music event created and hosted by Samone Roberts of Loves Records. The party is about dance music of the past and present with a focus on the art of mixing, Chicago’s unique heritage of eclectic DJ programming and uniting the many amazing artists spread throughout Chicago’s diasporic dance music scene. Specter is a Chicagoan known for his deeply-rooted vinyl sets and earthy machine music. He has released music on labels such as Tetrode (which he runs with Damon Lamar) and Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature. Specter’s talent for merging the old and new while playing across styles is just our thing! We hope that you enjoy this set as much as we did the first time around.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/specter

The next Changes party is Friday, April 6th at Beauty Bar Chicago.
http://changesparty.blogspot.com/

Track List:
Gaucho - Dance Forever
Kat Mandu - I Wanna Dance
Sam Jam - Dance and Chant
Cosmic Force - Trinidad Bump
Executive Suite - Why in The World Do They Keep On (Al Kent edit)
African Suite - In the Pocket
Noia - The Rule to Survive
Mach - On and On
Mutant Beat Dance - Another world
Craig Loftis - Yes I'm Right
Francisco - Hero
Jo bisso - Love Somebody
Wish - Nice and Soft
Ish - Dont Stop
Gloria Gaynor - Casanova Brown (underdog edit)
Bohannon - Goin for Another One
Mike T - Do it Any Way You Wanna
IRT - Watch the Closing Doors
SJNRL - Destination
I:cube - Mingus in my Pocket

Sassmouth is a good friend of ours and a phenomenal DJ. We asked her many moons ago for a mix for Fresh Meat Danceteria and she has delivered a beautiful exclusive for our podcast. Her set here is representative of how she plays live, moving effortlessly through time, genre and temperament. This is a talent we feel you should know more about so we’ve quoted a line here from her biography that exemplifies her approach and perspective, ”...using her musical training and diverse experience performing live as both a member of string quartets and punk bands, she has aggressively attacked the techno question throughout the first decade of the millennium. Sam’s DJ sets reflect her love of dialectics - a tribute to her early explorations into musical yin and yang. Stripped down sounds mutate into jacking funky house, punchy techno, and beautiful sub bass lines and melodies.” Amen!

Track List:
1. Deee-lite - Build The Bridge (Elektra)
2. Dr. Dunks - The Rhythm Odyssey Zoo-ma-city (Endless Flight)
3. Departure Lounge feat. Sor Dep - Lounge 2 (Vocal Mix) (Yoshitoshi Recordings)
4. Nebraska - Arrondissement (Rush Hour Recordings)
5. Moodymann - Mahogany Brown (Peacefrog Records)
6. 6th Borough Project - Iznae (Delusions of Grandeur)
7. Sonogama - Wink Bias (Sounderground Records)
8. David K - Somewhere in my Head (Deetron's Dub Mix)  (Rue de Plaisance)
9. Freaks - Dance and Re-ordered (Doc Martin remix) (Music For Freaks)
10. JT Donaldson& CPEN - Take You Back (Utensil Recordings)
11. Maurice Joshua - I Got a Big Dick (Trax Records)
12. Philip Bader  - For You (Sam's Acid Dub edit) (High Grade Records)
13. Wollion, Dualton - Undisputed (Peppermint Jam)
14. Home & Garden - Domesticated feat. Derrick Carter- Pezzner mix (OM Records)
15. Paul Johnson - Hear The Music (Peacefrog Records)
16. AFX - Cuckoo (Rephlex)

Josh Zeitler aka Blue J is a Chicago House compadre of ours. Blue J works at the best dance vinyl shop in the city, Gramaphone Records, and is resident of the Acid Test monthly at Smart Bar. According to the Acid Test credo, “...absolutely no CD's or laptops are permitted in our mixes. We are vinyl addicts bringing it back to the basics playing what we love most.” Blue J exemplifies this ethos spending hours digging through the shop to find vinyl gems for his collection. His mix for this Loves edition of Fresh Meat Danceteria is no exception. Here he puts together over one hour of deep psychedelic House grooves and disco influenced cut ups. This is modern music with an old soul filtered through the discerning mind of a Chicago audio gourmet.

Track List:
1. John Talabot - Matilda's Dream - Permanent Vacation
2. Woolfy vs Projections - Absynth (Marcus Worgull Remix) - Permanent Vacation
3. Space Ranger - Shave Me I'm Famous (Ajello Remix) - Lovemonk
4. Boom Clap Bachelors - L-O-V-E (Tuff City Kids Remix) - Innervisions
5. Francis Inferno Orchestra - Meet Me In Sould Lake City (Soul Clap Remix) - Under The Shade
6. Space Ranger - Superstring (Rayko Remix) - Lovemonk
7. Das Moth - Wrong - Cutters Records
8. Lauer - Delta NRG (Mock N Toof Remix) - Permanent Vacation
9. The Love Supreme - Sugar (Social Disco Club Remix)- Tirk
10. Childhood '87 - Caught Up - Airdrop
11. Bottin & Rodion - Piazza Venezia - Eskimo
12. Trujillo - Baby You're Still The Same (Social Disco Club Remix) - Apersonal
13. Corinne - Dream A Little Dream (Midnight Magic Remix) - Scion
14. Jori Hulkkonen - I Am Dead (Hercules And The Love Affair Remix) - Sugarcane Recordings
15. Cesar - Who - W + L Black
16. Soul Clap - Baker Man - Airdrop

Recorded 03/31/11 - Live unedited vinyl mix

This is Tyrel Williams’ second DJ mix for FM Danceteria. Tyrel has been a mainstay of Chicago’s underground House scene for years. He began mixing records in 1999. Soon after he landed a job at Gramaphone Records where he spent the last decade building a mighty collection of 12” dance records. He spent 2010 and 2011 building his Acid Test residency at Smart Bar, which is an ongoing all vinyl House / Techno weekly dedicated to the true art form of DJing. Guests included Miles Maeda, Joshua (IZ), Derrick Carter and Tevo Howard. Tyrel has recently moved to San Francisco.

This episode of Out of Print highlights over 1 hour of Tyrel’s last set at the legendary and didactic dotbleep monthly at Smart Bar. Justin Long, the purveyor of dotbleep, has been a big supporter of Tyrel through the years. We here in Chicago are upset that SF has lured away yet another of our talented DJ luminaries. We already miss the man...but at least we have his music.

This is Tyrel Williams. This is acid. This is House.

I mixed these thirteen songs together in my living room. That’s where the turntables, mixer, Yamaha amp and Technics ghetto blaster speakers are set up. I started with one of my favorite MK dub’s - the one for Bizarre Inc’s “Love In Motion”. The loosely glued together rough arrangement of MK’s Dub, peppered with outtakes from vocalist Yvonne Yanney, always surprises me with it’s contours even though I’ve heard it dozens of times. The first blend was into the Two Armadillos Remix of Jovonn’s “A Definition Of A Track”. I couldn’t envision a better way to get the blood flowing. Smith and Dawson have struck such an intense and emotional groove with Two Armadillos that I am nearly a dogmatic follower of their music at this point. From track 3 to 13 my cerebral cortex, more or less, switched off. Things just naturally happened. New tracks played nice with older ones; songs about luv called to the dance floor, exhalations echoed and bit by bit came chirps, twangs, bumps, breezes, strings, pianos, bass, drums and studio magic. The atmosphere got colder outside and I sweat in the living room, headphones on, dancing as beats melted together.



1. Bizarre Inc - Love In Motion (MK Dub) - Columbia
2. Jovonn - A Definition Of A Track (Two Armadillos Remix) - Late Night Audio
3. Skipson - K’s Editspot Pt 1 - Quintessentials
4. Dairmount & Berardi - Bass-Ment Tale (Audio Soul Project Dub Mix) - Room With A View
5. Mateo & Matos - Got A Message (DJ Sneak’s Biggie Size Dub) - Glasgow Underground
6. Paramartha - Samsara (Alex Agore Sweet Lovin Remix) - Mora Music
7. Kerri Chandler - My Moody Life - Mad House
8. Brawther - Gsm’s Life (MLIU Dub) - Balance
9. Kerri Chandler - Hallelujah (Kaoz “6:23” Gospel Mix) - King Street Sounds
10. Michael Watford - Luv 4-2 (Mentalinstrum Dub) - East West Records
11. Rob Mello - Motivation (No Ears Mix) - Quintessentials
12. Mise En Place - All Terrain - 2020 Vision
13. Alexander East - Jest 4 Me (BHQ Vocal Dub) - Afterhours

This episode of Loves is all music from 1984. It is a special live vinyl mix by Chicago's Nathan Drew Larsen that he recorded as a promotion for the A.D. (After Disco) party at SubT in Chicago on Friday, August 12. For details about the party, visit www.afterdisco.com. Here's what Nathan has to say about the mix:

1984 is an amazing year in music. At the time, "house" was still a colloquialism for the music played by Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse. House was not yet a music form in its own right. "Fresh," on Vince Vince Lawrence’s fledgling label Precision, is the only house qua house track on the mix. The other tunes are properly considered proto-house -- the music which formed the milieu of dance music which we now describe as:

*Electro (e.g., Solo – “Girls, Girls” produced by John Robbie; JellyBean – “The Mexican”);
*Garage (e.g., Circuit - "Release the Tension" a Timmy Regisford production; Colonel Abrams – “Music Is The Answer”);
*Italo (e.g., Stop – “Wake Up”; Pancho Ballet – “Dancing Shoes”);
*Synth pop and industrial dance (e.g., 52nd Street – “Can’t Afford” produced by New Order’s Stephen Morris; Palais Schaumburg – “The Beat Of Two” produced by Gareth Jones who also produced Depeche/Nitzer Ebb); and
*Post-disco (e.g., Stephanie Mills – “Medicine Song”).

This music from 1984 is ‘proto’ in the sense that it was establishing the necessary elements of house – e.g., instruments (drum machines, synths, samplers) – but was also different from house. For example, the songs are still songs. Only the dubs incorporate starker more house-like arrangements.

Although much of the music was released on small independents and remained quite underground, there were major successes for dance music at the time and investment in dance music by major labels. There was A&R structure at all record labels and some radio play. "Trapped" (1985) by Colonel Abrams sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Earon’s “Land of Hunger” hit the top 40 on the soul singles chart. John “JellyBean” Benitez placed nine songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The democratizing force that would be house music had not been fully realized. It was still expensive to make dance music. For example, most of the tracks on the mix feature vocalists, session players or a full band. Although the epic ensembles of the disco era had long passed in fashion and economic viability, dance records were still recorded in professional studios and engineered by individuals like Bob Blank and Herb Powers. The E-max Sampler hit the market in 1984, but the studio standard were samplers like the Fairlight and Synclavier (more than $100,000), each of which were prohibitively expensive for use by most musician/producers.

By 1984 the relatively inexpensive Roland gear was just finding its way into the hands of Chicago, Detroit and New York’s new roots musicians. A year before, Larry Sherman acquired Musical Product’s pressing plant, the only one in Chicago. Ron Hardy was playing "Penthouse and Pavement" by Heaven 17 and "DumDum" at the Music Box. Dance music was about to fall off the edge, for better and for worse.

Please check out the other A.D. mixes on their Soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/afterdiscochicago/after-disco-005-nathan-drew), including 1982 by Danceteria regular Samone Roberts(http://soundcloud.com/afterdiscochicago/after-disco-003-samone-roberts).

1984 Track List:

1. Citispeak Featuring Jeanne Harris – I Don't Need Your Handouts (Inst.) – Partytime Records
2. Pancho Ballet – Dancing Shoes (Instrumental) – Best Record
3. Jellybean – The Mexican (Funhouse Mix) – EMI America
4. Samson & Delilah – I Can Feel Your Love Slippin' Away (Long Mix & Inst) – Saturn Records
5. Hugh Masekela – Don't Go Lose It, Baby (Stretch Mix) – Jive Afrika
6. Colonel Abrams – Music Is The Answer (Dub Version) – Streetwise
7. The Earons – Land Of Hunger (Extended Version) – Island Records
8. Wet – That's The Game (Instrumental) – Bellaphon
9. Circuit – Release The Tension (Dub) – 4th & Broadway
10. Stephanie Mills – The Medicine Song (Dub Version) – Casablanca Records
11. Anne Clark – Our Darkness (Remix) – Ink Records
12. Solo – Girls, Girls (Ah-Ah-Hi) - Next Plateau Records Inc.
13. 52nd Street – Can't Afford – Profile (on license from Factory)
14. The Bridge – Love Dance (Industrial Mix) - Second Vision
15. Stop – Wake Up – Damabi International
16. Fresh – Dum Dum – Precision
17. Palais Schaumburg – The Beat Of Two (Extended Version) – Mercury

Notes:
All vinyl live DJ mix recorded on July 19, 2011 in Logan Square

September of 2010 Marc Cotterell booked me to play at Touch Supper Club in Cleveland. While having dinner, before the gig, we talked quite a bit about music. We talked about the 90s House music we love. The good meal and nostalgic conversation caused me to play quite a few of my favorite classics while playing that night; accompanied by tracks from now that echo the raw energy of those older songs. Here is a little less than one hour of the set.

1. Abe Duque - What Happened? - Abe Duque Records
2. Paul Johnson - Get On My Camel (Mazi’s Audio Soul Dub) - Essence
3. G-Man - Quo Vadis - i220
4. Chris Wood & Meat - Back Down (Dub) - Murmur
+ Risse - House Train (Acapella) - Silk Entertainment
5. Timid Boy - Il Compleanno Di Gaia - Time Has Changed
6. Metro Area - Miura - Environ
7. Moody - It’s 2 Late 4 U And Me - KDJ
8. Nick Holder - Scenic Route - !K7 Records
9. Nick Holder - Get Up - !K7 Records
10. Tracey Thorn - Why Does The Wind (Andre Lodemann Remix) - Buzzin’ Fly
11. Tevo Howard - Data (Long Version) - HHYR Records
12. Ron Trent - Altered States - Djax Up Beats
13. Tricky Disco - Flyspray - Warp Records
14. DJ Sneak - Message Of Love - Cajual Records

The latest Danceteria is a new all-vinyl mix by Chicago's Nathan Drew
Larsen (Fresh Meat Records, Loves, House of Black Dress, Restless
Natives). Here is what Nathan has to say about his "Climate" mix:

"I recorded this all vinyl mix one night on the fly a few weeks ago
before a trip to Detroit. There are new and old tunes on this mix,
which is how I do it at the club. I mix unstuck in time. I have no
interest in playing classics sets or in reducing the "climate" to only
recent productions. These songs speak to one another and I think a
broad temporal reach results in a rich palette. My Chicago cohorts
share this view. The mix features tunes by house/jak luminaries Rheji
Burrell, Spencer Kincey, Traxx and Tevo Howard, favorite early club
productions by artists Danny Tenaglia and Murk, and recent emotive
output by keyboardist Eric Kupper and producers Roberto Rodriguez,
Audio Werner, and Soulphiction."

1. Metro – Brownstone Express (New Groove Records) 1990
2. Traxx - An Insane Experiment (Lumberjacks in Hell) 2011
3. 6th Borough Project - BURT (Inside) Ft. Paul Joseph (Delusions Of
Grandeur) 2011
4. Liberty City - That What I Got (Dirty Dub) (TRIBAL America) 1995
5. Tevo Howard - The Age Of Compassion (House Mix) 2011
6. Roman Rauch - Can't Get Enough (SoulPhiction RMX) (Philpot) 2011
7. King Amazin – The Shot (House Jam Records) 1994
8. Jam Factory - "One Night Stand" (feat Mattie Safer - piano-pella)
(Jam Factory) 2011
9. Gemini - Klonopinless (Cajual) 1994
10. Roberto Rodriguez – Thinking of You (Fina) 2011
11. Audio Werner – Feel About (Story) 2010
12. Eric Kupper – Bloom (Wave) 2011
13. The Daou - Give Myself To You (Give My Dub To You) (TRIBAL America) 1993

Starting with this episode of FMD we’ve swapped our Dance Music show for a new series called Loves. This new venture celebrates our vinyl only label of same name. For the inaugural Loves outing we’re excited to welcome on board Lono Brazil of Cottage Groove fame. Lono is curator of the tasteful Disco Unusual Social Club events and clothing line. What exactly is DUSC? It is a rare state of mind; it is a way of life. And Mr. Brazil, the maestro behind DUSC, is truly a man of musical mystery and intrigue. For this “UNLIMITEDITions” set Lono lets loose with a series of his signature Disco edits dripping with the glam and timeless aesthetic of the late 70s and early 80s. Coincidentally, the second slab of vinyl on our Loves imprint just happens to feature three edits by Mr. Brazil - get it now at your favorite record shop. This is dance music we love, full of emotion and joy that brings people the world over back to the disco.

Chicago - 2011

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