The new EP by Shenoda

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

Departed
Artist: Shenoda

Up next on Fresh Meat is UK artist Shenoda with his aptly titled “Feelings EP”. Shenoda’s “Feelings” are deep and emotional while his tracks are percussive, chugging and mind bending without doubt. Like his prior releases on Fresh Meat, Hairy Claw, and Hypercolour the tunes featured here are cerebral dance floor heaters.

The opening track “Departed” is fathomless like the ocean but maintains a thumping trackiness. Upfront percussion and subliminal sounds unite to form a compelling relentless groove. For the remix, Mazi and Justin Long reunite as Wasted Chicago Youth to deliver a left of center, disco psychotic workout. The boys play with field recordings of children and various atmospheric sounds from the original, manipulating these elements into their own special organ-centric romp. An otherworldly Jupiter 8 solo sharpens the otherwise sub-bass heavy sauntering rework.

Shenoda’s second original, Groggy Head, dives even deeper swinging wide with righteous funk. This is real modern House Music with roots. Expect to see hands in the air if you play “Groggy Head,” with its tuneful groove and vocal commands – “Show me how you!” For the remix we enlisted Fresh Meat artist Densmore for a discerning remix clocking in at a sexy 113 beats per minute. Densmore’s mix builds slowly and gracefully with elements from the original and new percussion building the track into a mid-tempo dance floor grinder. Reminiscent of his “Washington Park” project with Cort, this new remix oozes with the hi-fi bump and grind that heads everywhere will soon recognize as Albany New York’s signature sound.

Feelings
Shenoda



TITLE		Feelings
ARTIST		Shenoda
CAT. NO.	        FMR38
RELEASE DATE	Beatport 8-September-2010 /
                Worldwide 8-October-2010
HIGH-REZ ART	FMR38-Cover-JPG
PRESS SHEET	FMR38-Press-Sheet
PRESS PIC	Shenoda-Press-Pic
FORMAT		Digital
TRACK LIST	1. Departed
		2. Departed (Wasted Chicago Youth Remix)
                3. Groggy Head
                4. Groggy Head (Densmore Remix)

Departed
Artist: Shenoda

Departed (Wasted Chicago Youth Remix)
Artist: Shenoda

Groggy Head
Artist: Shenoda

Groggy Head (Densmore Remix)
Artist: Shenoda

The new EP by Densmore & Cort

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

Let’s Please This Sun
Artist: Densmore & Cort

Densmore & Cort’s “Washington Park” EP is easily the most gorgeously deep and atmospheric music Fresh Meat has released this year. The Troy, New York duo’s slow thick house productions seep lush pleasures, poetics and seduction.

In the spirit of Jackie’s “Sun, Sun, Sun” the project opens with “Let’s Please This Sun”, a beautiful tribute to the central body of our solar system. Pads, evocative strings, resonate drones, and other synths exalt the light and heat which emanate from this soft elegant track.

“(re)”, a speculative slow groove, is propelled by emotional outbursts, lovely keys, and Densmore & Cort’s provocative drum programming. The drums and key stabs heat up through the last half of the track transforming the music’s abstract structure into a subtle dance floor grinder.

“Cream” with its vibraphones and ultra sweet vibe was the original Densmore & Cort track picked up by Fresh Meat and was released on the mix album and compilation When Bad People Cook Good Food Volume 2 earlier this year. As a Beatport exclusive, we present Densmore’s (George Washburn’s) slightly thickened-up retouch. With new voices and programming, the remix is more percussive and dance floor but retains all the music and atmosphere of the original.

The sun is pleased.

Washington Park
Densmore & Cort



TITLE		Washington Park
ARTIST		Densmore & Cort
CAT. NO.	        FMR37
RELEASE DATE	Beatport 11-August-2010 /
                Worldwide 17-September-2010
HIGH-REZ ART	FMR37-Cover-JPG
PRESS SHEET	FMR37-Press-Sheet
PRESS PIC	Densmore & Cort-Press-Pic
FORMAT		Digital
TRACK LIST	1. Let’s Please This Sun
		2. (re)
                3. Cream (Remastered)
                4. Cream (Densmore Remix)

Let’s Please This Sun
Artist: Densmore & Cort

(re)
Artist: Densmore & Cort

Cream (Remastered)
Artist: Densmore & Cort

Cream (Densmore Remix)
Artist: Densmore & Cort

The new VINYL ONLY EP by Audio Soul Project

Available at Gramaphone Records, Juno Records, Prime Direct, Decks.de, Baserecords, News Distribution, BM Soho Music, and all better music shops.

Call of Grace
Artist: Audio Soul Project

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.

The original “Call of Grace” is a soul stirring tune that features vocals by Chicago mainstay Ron Carroll; a man with decades of experience. Starting with subtle improvisations, Carroll’s chant “Raise your hands” evolves in layers, invoking believers to the dance floor. Mazi’s latest production is the antithesis of derivative music choking digi-shops. Live percussion, 909 cymbals and kick, stacked claps and rhythm effects all chug feverishly under layers of organ, piano and synthesis. Orchestral string stabs escalate the vibe completing a statement emblematic of the Windy City.

It took some time to find remixers for this package. Our debut tribute to the phonograph needed exactly the right feel; timelessness. Inspired by his impeccable “Drink Your Juice” EP, we thought MANIK would fit the bill. We weren’t wrong. MANIK’s version is low slung and beautifully down tempo NYC deep house. Clocking in at a smooth 116 beats per minute, this elegant remix utilizes skippy electric pianos, staccato bass notes and signature vintage drum machine cadences.

Freerange wunderkind Milton Jackson brings this package home with a shining example of why his skills have been in demand year after year. Loose fluttering beats accompany three levels of bass echoing Glenn Underground’s classic “Detroitism”. Warbling tight pads juxtapose against synth stabs completing the foundation for Carroll’s uplifting vamps.

Call of Grace
Audio Soul Project



TITLE		Call of Grace
ARTIST		Audio Soul Project
CAT. NO.	        FMR36
RELEASE DATE	2-August-2010
HIGH-REZ ART	FMR36-Cover-JPG
PRESS SHEET	FMR36-Press-Sheet
PRESS PIC	Mazi-Press-Pic
FORMAT		VINYL ONLY
TRACK LIST	A. Call of Grace
		B1. Call of Grace (MANIK Remix)
                B2. Call of Grace (Milton Jackson Remix)

Call of Grace
Artist: Audio Soul Project

Call of Grace (MANIK Remix)
Artist: Audio Soul Project

Call of Grace (Milton Jackson Remix)
Artist: Audio Soul Project

The new EP by Hans Thalau

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

Me
Artist: Hans Thalau

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.

The original version of “Me” is a tasteful builder. Shiny drum machine percussion is wedged against a single oscillator bouncing bass line and coated with electric piano, a filtered saw pad and ghostly male vocal chants. On remix duties we enlist the considerable talents of matchmaker Matthias Vogt (of Motorcitysoul fame). Matthias keeps the bass line and vocal chants of the original intact adding layers of new hypnotically insistent synths lines. Vogt’s delicate touch moves the track almost into psychedelic territory teasing and twisting each element to its most outward reaching cosmic limit. We love House music like this that shakes the hips while reaching into the imagination.

“And I” original version has more snap and crackle to it. Female vocal snippets play with shakers, a tidy discoesque bass line, tripping keys, a whirling mono pad and reverberated space tom-tom knock. There’s just a bit more jak in “And I”, which is why our Nathan Drew Larsen took the helm for a heady reworking. While Hans’ productions are unapologetically square, Nathan shoots from the hip with a loose improvised approach. He begins by layering live rhythm parts and sampled objects followed by unquantized analog drums. Nathan keeps the vocal stabs running them less regularly, and plays innocently with the original’s main stabs bending them to the will of his Chicago-centric chugging party machine. He keeps the jaunt together with three layers of bass; one echoing the percussion, the second talking back to the toms and the last bellowing from his beloved Moog Voyager into subsonic space.

Me and I
Hans Thalau



TITLE		Me and I
ARTIST		Hans Thalau
CAT. NO.	        FMR35
RELEASE DATE	Beatport 14-July-2010 /
                Worldwide 13-August-2010
HIGH-REZ ART	FMR35-Cover-JPG
PRESS SHEET	FMR35-Press-Sheet
PRESS PIC	Hans-Thalau-Press-Pic
FORMAT		Digital
TRACK LIST	1. Me
		2. And I (Nathan Drew Larsen Remix)
                3. Me (Matthias Vogt Remix)
                3. And I

Me
Artist: Hans Thalau

And I (Nathan Drew Larsen Remix)
Artist: Hans Thalau

Me (Matthias Vogt Remix)
Artist: Hans Thalau

And I
Artist: Hans Thalau

Justin Mix2

As the Soul Clap boys say, “free your mind and your ass will follow.” Dancers, party kids and other situationists bring your child self to Smart Bar on June 18 for Fresh Meat. Chicago’s house label that could, Fresh Meat Records presents the first night of the hottest dance party to come lately, featuring mixing by Boston’s Soul Clap in their first Smart Bar appearance alongside label residents Mazi (Audio Soul Project) and Nathan Drew Larsen.

Get down on a Friday night! Elyte and Cnyce of Soul Clap and Mazi and Nathan all love mixing House in its many forms so come prepared for a night of special music hand picked with care. From their tasteful set at last WMC’s Sunday School for Degenerates to spirit rousing romps at Arena Club in Berlin or T-Bar in London, Soul Clap are pushing the boundaries of club music, burning up the scene with DJ sets and production that harness the past while looking forward. With their blistering tour schedule, releases on Wolf + Lamb Black and the Adventures of Soul Clap podcast, Elyte and Cnyce show their sincere devotion to the beat.

Soul Clap’s descent on Chicago comes just in time. Mazi and Nathan’s homespun Fresh Meat Records has been making noise with a heady take on the ‘other side’ of the Chicago sound. Theirs being the deeper, soulful, dubby and emotional dance records that are inspired by the heart of their hometown. Nathan and Mazi have been working with artists from around the house & disco multiverse, including MANIK (New York), Kris Wadsworth (Detroit), Matthias Vogt (Motor City Soul / Germany), Art of Tones (Llorca / France), Shenoda (UK), Florian Kruse, Stel and Nils Nuernburg (Germany & Greece).

Come check out the e-funk and hear why Beatport calls Fresh Meat the new sound of Chicago house.

The new EP by Wasted Chicago Youth

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

Dustbin Boogie Woogie
Artist: Wasted Chicago Youth

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.

Words do no justice to the effect of “Dustbin Boogie Woogie” on a dance floor. The title track is beautifully produced and full of hooks, whoops, hollers and horns, yet it maintains a perfect tracky epistemology throughout. This is the (unfortunately) rare track that is for both mixer and dancer. “Van Gogh’s Ear” is similarly hook laden and dancey, yet this time the vibe is more hypnotic. For Van Gogh’s Ear, the Jazz of Dustbin is traded for pad keys and Blues laden vocal stabs, masking another characteristically delicate and complex WCY production. The third tune, “One Eye Open” is a heady psychedelic track that winds and grooves with synthesized live modulated horns. Mazi’s voice is stacked over Justin’s bass line in unison to create a husky primitive vibe for the club. Check out what everyone’s dancing to in Chicago.

Dustbin Boogie Woogie
Wasted Chicago Youth



TITLE		Dustbin Boogie Woogie
ARTIST		Wasted Chicago Youth
CAT. NO.	        FMR34
RELEASE DATE	Beatport 26-May-2010 /
                Worldwide 11-June-2010
HIGH-REZ ART	FMR34-Cover-JPG
PRESS SHEET	FMR34-Press-Sheet
PRESS PIC	Wasted-Chicago-Youth-Press-Pic
FORMAT		Digital
TRACK LIST	1. Dustbin Boogie Woogie
		2. Van Gogh's Ear
                3. One Eye Open

Dustbin Boogie Woogie
Artist: Wasted Chicago Youth

Van Gogh’s Ear
Artist: Wasted Chicago Youth

One Eye Open
Artist: 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

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

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.

The manifesto was to capture the synergy between music selector and music enthusiast while lost in the vortex of ‘Party’. Due to the growing infestation of computer programs that are too often abused in the DJ booth, many ears have been robbed of sonic colors that come from the hands of bona fide audio painters – technicians mixing in phase and accessing primitive sub-processes in the brain to connect subconsciously with the House Mother Beat.. Justin and Mazi’s blueprint was to use two turntables, a Funktion One sound system and a mixer while armed with an arsenal of music from the likes of Traxx, Nathan Drew Larsen, Spencer Parker, DJ Sneak, M.in, Bearweasel, Marc Romboy, Kink, Kris Wadsworth, Michal Ho, Brett Johnson, Dyed Soundorom, Shonky and other phonic soldiers. Microphones were judiciously placed around the venue to seize the rapture of the crowd.

On the night all elements fell into place. While biological life forms fused together in dance; emotion and audio were captured successfully. The mission was accomplished!

Now Fresh Meat presents the results of that experiment in four iterations. First, all separate tracks used in the mix are made available in full DJ friendly glory in two volumes. Next we present “The Mixes” complete with room ambiance and crowd jubilation. Finally we have the iTunes exclusive Bonus Edition which includes twenty nine selections from the mix and both sets in their entirety. Wasted Chicago Youth fighting audio crime one gig at a time!

Live At Smart Bar
Wasted Chicago Youth



TITLE		Live At Smart Bar
ARTIST		Wasted Chicago Youth
CAT. NO.	        FMR33
RELEASE DATE	Beatport 12-May-2010 /
                Worldwide 11-June-2010
HIGH-REZ ART	FMR33-Cover-JPG
PRESS SHEET	FMR33-Press-Sheet
PRESS PIC	Wasted-Chicago-Youth-Press-Pic
FORMAT		Digital
TRACK LIST

Mazi's unmixed
1. Shonky - Mama Queen - Contexterrior
2. Anthony Collins - Prism - Freak N' Chic
3. ASP - What You've Been Missing (Devastation Dub) - Kolour
4. Kasper - Chicago Take - Bloop Recordings
5. Sawtooth Sucka - Crazy (Wasted Chicago Youth Remix) - Dotbleep
6. Arram Mantana, Tripmastaz - Ararat (ASP Mix) - Robotronic
7. Wasted Chicago Youth - Love Thy Enemy (Vinyl Version) - Tuning Spork
8. Spencer Parker - You Got Me - NRK
9. Kris Wadsworth - Town House - Fresh Meat
10. Bloody Mary - Sed Non Satiata (Shonky's Mix) - Contexterrior
11. Dyed Soundorom - I Care - Freak N' Chic
12. Shenoda - Hussle (Wiretappeur Remix) - Fresh Meat
13  DIY - Suck My Caulk - Tuning Spork
14. Bunkers - Lost in the Red Room - Tuning Spork
15. Romboy, Smokin Jo - What Is This? (Lee Jones Remix) - Dirt Crew 

Mazi's mix
1. Shonky - Mama Queen - Contexterrior
2. Anthony Collins - Prism - Freak N' Chic
3. ASP - What You've Been Missing (Devastation Dub) - Kolour
4. Kasper - Chicago Take - Bloop Recordings
+ Mazi - Origin Acapella - Fresh Meat
5. Sawtooth Sucka - Crazy (Wasted Chicago Youth Remix) - Dotbleep
6. Arram Mantana, Tripmastaz - Ararat (ASP Mix) - Robotronic
7. Wasted Chicago Youth - Love Thy Enemy (Vinyl Version) - Tuning Spork
8. Spencer Parker - You Got Me - NRK
9. Kris Wadsworth - Town House - Fresh Meat
10. Bloody Mary - Sed Non Satiata (Shonky's Mix) - Contexterrior
11. Dyed Soundorom - I Care - Freak N' Chic
12. Shenoda - Hussle (Wiretappeur Remix) - Fresh Meat
13. DIY - Suck My Caulk - Tuning Spork
14. Bunkers - Lost in the Red Room - Tuning Spork
15. Romboy, Smokin Jo - What Is This? (Lee Jones Remix) - Dirt Crew

Justin Long's unmixed
1. Shenoda - Do What You Wanna - Fresh Meat
2. Horacio - Long Way To Baja Sur - Raum...Musik
3. M.in and Patrick Kunkel - Late At Night feat. Eddy Pirax - Micro.Fon
4. Nathan Larsen - Gotahavejor Love (Bearweasel Lazy Dub) - Fresh Meat
5. Michal Ho - House of the Funky One - Tuning Spork *
6. Kris Wadsworth - Prayer For Detroit - Fresh Meat
7. Kink - Shockwaves - .Dotbleep
8. Traxx - Down To House - Nation
9. Wasted Chicago Youth - Mars or Bust - Tuning Spork
10. Kink - Don't Hold Back - .Dotbleep
11. Brett Johnson - Temptation & Lies (Ohh And Ahhs Mix) - Cynosure
12. Spencer Parker - Do You Do You - NRK
13. M.in - Frauen und Blumen (Sneak Remix) - International Freakshow
14. Justin Long - Strange featuring J-Dub - .Dotbleep

Justin Long's mix
1. Shenoda - Do What You Wanna - Fresh Meat
+ Justin Long - Strange featuring J-Dub Acappella - .Dotbleep
2. Horacio - Long Way To Baja Sur - Raum...Musik
3. M.in and Patrick Kunkel - Late At Night feat. Eddy Pirax - Micro.Fon
4. Brett Johnson - El Pegajoso Dub - .Dotbleep
5. Nathan Larsen - Gotahavejor Love (Bearweasel Lazy Dub) - Fresh Meat
6. Michal Ho - House of The Funky One - Tuning Spork *
7. Kris Wadsworth - Prayer For Detroit - Fresh Meat
8. Kink - Shockwaves - .Dotbleep
9. Jody Finch - Jack Your Big Booty (Bonus Beats) - Let's Pet Puppies
+ Justin Long - Strange featuring J-Dub Acappella - .Dotbleep
10. Traxx - Down To House - Nation
11. Wasted Chicago Youth - Mars or Bust - Tuning Spork
12. Kink - Don't Hold Back - .Dotbleep
13. Brett Johnson - Temptation & Lies (Ohh And Ahhs Mix) - Cynosure
14. Spencer Parker - Do You Do You - NRK
15. M.in - Frauen und Blumen (Sneak Remix) - International Freakshow
16. Jeff Samuel - Water - .Dotbleep
+ Wasted Chicago Youth - Jive Conspiracy Acapella - Tuning Spork

* Exclusive to this release.

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

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

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.

Read the full article at Beatportal