Month: February 2023

As Matthew E he fashions club-based, dancefloor slayers. Under that aegis he’s updated the classic Chi-town, jackin’ sound beloved of house aficionados and layered it with fractured funk, belligerent, oddball beats and mechanical soul. If Matthew E is all about the Saturday Night Fever, then, by contrast, Rekid is the slower, more deliberate, rhythmical funk of the mid-week mayhem. Its well-intentioned muscular intensity making it perfect soulful sustenance. Quiet Village […]

Jan Blomqvist, born in the 80s (not in Sweden) is a Berlin-based solo-artist and bandleader. It was him who invented concert techno: dreamy vocals and simple beats. With his band BLOMQVIST he’s into dancy electro-pop, as a solo-artist, he plays clubsoul. As a kid Jan never cried, just sang. His hippie parents approved and bought him his first guitar. Just as he had learned to play like Keith Richards, he […]

Award winning and chart topping music visionary DJ/producer Jerome Sydenham is deeply rooted in the music industry. As one of the youngest record executives in New York City, Sydenham launched his career in the A&R department for Atlantic Records moving onto East West Records. He worked with the likes of DAS EFX, Snow and En Vogue (to mention a few). During the the 90s, he embedded himself in the immensely […]