Shenoda – Feelings

The new EP by Shenoda

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

Departed
Artist: Shenoda

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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. 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…

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…

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…

Wiretappeur – Colours & Motions

The new E.P. by Wiretappeur

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

Colours
Artist: Wiretappeur

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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…

Nathan Drew Larsen – One Time Out of Nine

The new E.P. by Nathan Drew Larsen

Available now on Beatport.

Left There
Artist: Nathan Drew Larsen

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“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…

When Bad People Cook Good Food Vol 2

The second Fresh meat introspective

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…

Kris Wadsworth – Hear Me Now

The new E.P. by Kris Wadsworth

Available now on Beatport.

Prayer for Detroit
Artist: Kris Wadsworth

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Kris Wadsworth is the young passionate Detroit producer some love to hate. Wadsworth is an unapologetic original; taking his time with slow burning arrangements that build from drips of rhythm into thick timeless sonic soundscapes. His brand of four on the floor is rough around the edges and burning hot in the center – just like Kris. With future work planned for UK mainstay NRK, he has been writing emotionally deep but psychically frantic house tracks for labels like Morris Audio, Dark Energy, Hypercolour, Adult Only, Poker Flat and our own Fresh Meat Records. Continue reading…