JGM 62 - No Looking Back

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 | Podcast | No Comments

Tags: Acid House, Chicago, Deep House

Interview - Larry Heard (Alleviated Records)

Monday, July 19th, 2010 | Sounds | 7 Comments

Last month Larry Heard came to San Francisco. Initially, we had planned on doing an interview for the KUSF radio show, The Friday Night Session but, summer in SF means fog which in turn means delayed flights. Because Larry couldn’t make it to the show in time, he was kind enough to reach out and agreed to do an interview via email. Larry Heard’s legacy is undeniable, helping to shape the house music genre as well as influencing many producers with a wealth of soulful, forward thinking music that sounds as relevant today as it did 25 years ago.

Q. You’ve been producing for over 25 years and yourself and along with a handful of other producers in Chicago were pretty much responsible for shaping the acid and deep house genres. In those early years did you get a sense from how people in Chicago reacted, that your music was going to go on to be so globally recognized and important?

A. I don’t recall even thinking very far ahead at that time. I don’t think any of the people who were around making music and doing releases did. Read More and listen…

Tags: Acid House, Chicago, Deep House, Interview, Larry Heard

Interview - Stephen Hitchell (Echospace)

Friday, June 26th, 2009 | Sounds | 4 Comments

Chicago based Stephen Hitchell dons many guises, producing as Soultek, Phase90 and Variant, as well as collaborating with Rod Modell as echospace and cv313. Hitchell (along with Modell) also runs the echospace [detroit] label, which earlier this year released his first solo album ‘The Seduction Of Silence’ under the Intrusion moniker. In this interview, Stephen tells us about the finer details of running a label, as well as what’s coming up for him and echospace [detroit].

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Tags: Ambient, Chicago, Detroit, Dub, Echospace, Interview, Intrusion, Stephen Hitchell, Techno