Audio Soul Project – Call of Grace

The new VINYL ONLY EP by Audio Soul Project

Available at Juno Records, Prime Direct, and soon at all better music shops.

Call of Grace
Artist: Audio Soul Project

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VINYL ONLY

Audio Soul Project’s “Call of Grace” marks a new beginning for Fresh Meat. This single is the start of our ongoing ‘Vinyl Only’ series. Those of us laboring at FMR HQ love the weekly ritual of buying music at local record shops. It just feels right that our little imprint fully support this love affair with wax. Continue reading…

Hans Thalau – Me and I

The new EP by Hans Thalau

Available on Beatport, and soon at all better music shops.

Me
Artist: Hans Thalau

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Much like his music, the talented Hans Thalau came to Fresh Meat’s attention organically through praise from our friend Matthias Vogt. The two originals offered here, “And I” and “Me”, are subtle groovers utilizing a stylish economy. They are quintessentially Fresh Meat in that they make temporal pigeon holes useless. Hans’ music is of the kind experienced House DJs will return to time and time again. His previous work for labels like Ferox, Moonpool and Trenton have found their way into the record bags of major players like Jimpster, Josh Wink, DJ Deep, Ewan Pearson and Anja Schneider. Continue reading…

WCY Videos LIVE at Smart Bar

Mazi Mix1

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Fresh Meat @ Smart Bar

Fresh Meat Records is excited to announce that Chicago favorite Phillip Stone will be joining Soul Clap, Mazi, and Nathan on the decks as a surprise guest for the opening night of FRESH MEAT this Friday, June 18th at Smart Bar! Bring your child self and get ready to dance, dance, dance! Continue reading…

Wasted Chicago Youth

The new EP by Wasted Chicago Youth

Available on Beatport, and soon at all better music shops.

Dustbin Boogie Woogie
Artist: Wasted Chicago Youth

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Coming just after their mix album “Live at Smart Bar” Mazi and Justin Long return as Wasted Chicago Youth to Fresh Meat Records with three tracks of modern American house music. “Dustbin Boogie Woogie” follows-up on the jackin’ sound these turntable extremists set forth on labels like Tuning Spork, Cynosure, and .Dotbleep, but this time the duo push the Chicago edge even further. You don’t hear much talk of chemistry between producers, but there is that indefinable quality between Mazi and Justin, animated by alchemical tensions and dialogs between the raw and refined, produced and free-form, modern and classic, and melody and atonality. Put simply, Wasted Chicago Youth is something special that Mazi and Justin only create together. Continue reading…

Wasted Chicago Youth

The new mix album by Wasted Chicago Youth

Mazi unmixed, Justin Long unmixed, and The Mixes available now on Beatport, and soon at all better music shops.

Live At Smart Bar – Mazi’s Mix
Artist: Wasted Chicago Youth

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Live At Smart Bar – Justin’s Mix
Artist: Wasted Chicago Youth

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Fresh Meat is proud to announce the success of its first live experiment! On November 21st 2009 our agents Mazi Namvar and Justin Long A.K.A. Wasted Chicago Youth deployed to the Smart Bar on an assignment of audio mass destruction. The mission was to return to grass roots and apply guerrilla techniques in recording two DJ mixes that would exclude any artificial intelligence. This recording would not compromise Human for the Machine. Continue reading…

House Music Circles on Beatportal

House Music Circles: March 2010
Written by: Mazi Namvar

Some people get things done their own way. Regarding house music and the producers who make it, this can imply radical stylistic efforts towards change, a subtle evolution over what has come before, or lately it could be the marker of an intensely personal point of view. Continue reading…

New Video for Wiretappeur’s Colours

Art of Tones – Square Looqs

The new E.P. by Art of Tones

Available on Juno Records and Beatport, and other better music shops.

The Looq
Artist: Art of Tones

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Chicago’s Fresh Meat is pleased to welcome long time friend Ludovic Llorca to our tight knit family. Written under his critically acclaimed Art Of Tones pseudonym, the “Square Looqs” EP expands on the soul drenched, futuristic signatures of past releases on 2020 Vision, Room With A View and F Communications. Llorca’s productions are winding, dramatic and full-on, which had us thinking a stripped back rendition by one of our favorite Londoners, Shenoda, would round out this collection perfectly. Continue reading…

M A N I K – Drink Your Juice

The new E.P. by M A N I K

Available now on Juno Records, Prime Direct Distribution, and Beatport.

Yeah
Artist: M A N I K

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Burgeoning American talent Chris M A N I K came to Fresh Meat’s attention in late 2009. Mazi ‘friended’ Chris after a short IM chat on Facebook. A demo soon followed. Quite rapidly the label became enamored with the New Yorker’s raw and uncompromising house music. A self described post-genre artist, he has stayed busy since 2007 creating techno under his proper name and as Chatterbox. Now he’s unveiled an alchemical brew of hybrid nu-house as M A N I K. His debut release on Josh Wink’s Ovum Recordings this January received a standing ovation from all quarters including the likes of Steve Bug, Jimpster, Milton Jackson, Deetron, Lauhaus, Tiefschwarz, Martin Landsky and others. Continue reading…