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. Continue reading…
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. Continue reading…
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…
Available on Juno Records and Beatport, and other better music shops.
The Looq
Artist: Art of Tones
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…
Available now on Juno Records, Prime Direct Distribution, and Beatport.
Yeah
Artist: M A N I K
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…
Available now on Juno Records, Prime Direct Distribution and on Beatport.
Colours
Artist: Wiretappeur
Fresh Meat’s 30th release “Colours & Motions” marks the label’s welcome return to vinyl and includes a wicked deep house remix by Audio Soul Project. Following-up on “I Want You” and their remix of Shenoda’s “Hussle,” the talented Stel Vassiloudis, Nils Nuernberg and Florian Kruse return to Fresh Meat as Wiretappeur. Labels like NRK, Knee Deep, Hypnotone, Mood Music, Noir Music, Dessous and Slip N Slide have all enjoyed their fine touch under various pseudonyms and configurations, but the original Wiretappeur material is exclusively on Fresh Meat. Continue reading…
As privileged as it is to be part of something so authentically house, there’s also a burden of responsibility that comes with being a Chicago based house music label. Started by Mazi Namvar (Audio Soul Project) and Nathan Drew Larsen, the influence for their deliciously named ‘Fresh Meat Records’ label has been the ‘other side’ of the famous Chicago house sound, that is the deeper, soulful, dubby and throbbing emotional and experimental records that are at the heart of the Chicago inspiration. Continue reading…
Available now on Beatport.
Left There
Artist: Nathan Drew Larsen
“One Time Out of Nine” features two new songs by Chicago musician Nathan Drew Larsen. Both deep tunes are written in Nathan’s distinctive house style, which is ecstatic, fuzzy and low. Continue reading…
THE MIX available now on Beatport.
Unmixed available now on Beatport.
DJ Mix by Nathan Drew Larsen
Nathan Drew Larsen spent several months working with other Fresh Meat artists to prepare this compilation album and episodic house mix, which focuses on the expressive and deep sound of this little label of big shoulders. Chuck Bukowski wrote, “If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.” Continue reading…
Remixed and edited by Bearweasel and Wasted Chicago Youth
Available now on Beatport.
Gotahavejor Love (Bearweasel Lazy Dub)
Artist: Nathan Drew Larsen
“Gotahavejor Love” is a raw house track by Chicago’s Nathan Drew Larsen. It was originally released on vinyl in 2005 under his House of Black Dress pseudonym as the b-side to Fresh Meat’s first release “No One to Care For”. The original was a wild patchwork of memorable organ, recorded objects, noise and vinyl samples including the righteous and infectious vocal round, “Got to have your touch babe ’cause dreamin’ ain’t enough babe….” Continue reading…
Remixed and edited by Phonogenic
Available now on Beatport.
The Deepest
Artist: Adryan & Sandrino
Fresh Meat’s 25th release makes good on the promise of family by returning to the burgeoning talent of our German compadres Adryan and Sandrino. For “Behind The Fields,” the young producers create two slick deep house tracks that are a continuation of their cosmically influenced musical journey. For grit, we invite Tuomas ‘Phonogenic’ Salmela, fresh off his recent hit on Turbo Recordings, to serve up one of his signature reinterpretations. Continue reading…
Remixed and edited by Wiretappeur
Available now on Beatport.
Front of Mind
Artist: Shenoda
In Summer’s twilight Fresh Meat bring you as fine a slab as we’ve had the opportunity to offer; Shenoda’s “Front Of Mind EP”. Laurie Shenoda, a relative newcomer from Brighton and friend of the Bearweasel kidz, has recently released some lovely music on Hairy Claw, Hypercolour, and Sonido. His fresh humanistic approach is epitomized by the three bangin’ yet deep tunes featured here. Shenoda’s music is driving, made for the club and rooted in soulful house yet these new tracks are freely expressive and refreshingly creative. This contrast perhaps best defines Laurie’s infectious sound, and, of course, makes him a perfect addition to the Fresh Meat crew. Continue reading…
Remixed and edited by Audio Soul Project and Nathan Drew Larsen
Available now on Beatport.
Roofs
Artist: Matthias Vogt
Who is Matthias Vogt? He is the founding member of deep house super group Motorcitysoul and an important artist in his own right. As Motorcitysoul, Matthias and partner C-Rock have completed three full length albums, the latest entitled “Technique” for Simple Records, they have collaborated with house music legend Chez Damier, and they have remixed countless artists, with many underground hits among them. For Matthias, and fortunately for all of us, his work as part of MCS is just the beginning. He is a trained pianist having written four full length albums in the group re:jazz and two albums with his new band the Matthias Vogt Trio. He has been DJing since 1990 and currently holds a weekly residency at Frankfurt’s Cocoon Club. Recently, he has been making waves as a solo artist and producer writing house and techno tracks for labels like Saw Recordings, Urbantorque, Prog City Deep and Polytone. Continue reading…
Remixes and re-edits by Sandrino, Adryan and Nathan Drew Larsen
Available now on Beatport.
I Want You
Artist: Wiretappeur
For the latest Fresh Meat, we bring you Wiretappeur, a new group formed by Florian Kruse, Nils Nurnberg and Stelios Vassiloudis (aka Stel). Individually, these artists have been busy releasing memorable music on imprints like 8bit, Dessous, Slip N Slide, Diynamic, Liebe Detail, OM, Dieb Audio, Urbantorque, Mood Music and Knee Deep Recordings. Their Wiretappeur collaboration is a Fresh Meat exclusive bringing their considerable talents together to create two original blissful, warm and timeless house cuts. Continue reading…
Available now on Beatport.
Iambic
Artist: Audio Soul Project
With “Bit More Grit” Audio Soul Project, a modern bedrock of Chicago’s underground house movement, delivers his latest EP of inspired deep trax. Following-up his “High Off The People” EP for Fresh Meat, Mazi Namvar’s ASP concept keeps the vibe thick and heavy on these brilliant and daring productions. Inspired by a self made recording of CNN from the unforgettable day James Brown died, the spiritual title track features vocals by Mazi and other rhythmic declamations set against a CS-80 organ, phasing vintage strings, and modulating pads. Continue reading…
Remixed by Peace Division, Phonogenic and Wasted Chicago Youth
Available now on Beatport.
Chicago, A Wake Up Call
(Wasted Chicago Youth Flashback)
Artist: Mazi & Duriez
For their 20th release, “Chicago Paris Connection” Fresh Meat present one new edit and several re-issued and out-of-print remixes of two classic Mazi and (David) Duriez tracks. They started Fresh Meat, so this is the best way to commemorate the occasion. Continue reading…
Remixed by Nathan Drew Larsen
Available now on Beatport.
The Drive
Artist: Florian Kruse
Hamburg’s Florian Kruse is a bright new light in house music. Following collaborations with Nils Nürnberg and releases on Urbantorque, Om Records, and Dieb Audio, his debut for Chicago’s Fresh Meat, “The Drive EP”, conjures up the early 1990’s warehouse era in all their melodic soul-stirring glory. There is great separation, however, between poaching from the past and reinventing it. Florian’s E.P. is wildly creative and unique – his mining from our shared house experience culminates in the three stunningly original tracks featured here.
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