It's Been Done Before EP - coming soon on 12" Vinyl and Digital platforms via Steve Bug's Dessous Label.

Vinyl available on the 2nd of June 2014, Digital shortly after.

Pre-order Vinyl: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/alex-blaxx-its-been-done-before/534671-01/

Label Blurb:
Alex Blaxx drops four original tracks for Dessous Recordings following a couple of very well received releases on Buzzin' Fly and Sccucci Manucci. Blaxx now resides in Manchester by way of Cape Town - both cities with strong house music credentials. Blaxx himself excels in lush house productions with plenty of soul and a lot of dance floor knowledge.
The EP's title track 'It’s Been Done Before' gives a healthy nod to the hugely fertile period of New York house in the 1990s, but retains a freshness and spark that sets it apart from many of his contemporaries. It's highly musical and organic, with hugely effective hooks, builds and pads that will bring smiles to the faces of dancers worldwide.
'Gilmore Heureux' is a darker affair, with a raw evolving groove with a Detroit flavor. It's got plenty of grit, and a few innovative twists and turns along the way.
'All the Difference' slows the pace slightly, unwinding a killer groove driven by a piano and punchy drums. About midway through a sublime synth bass joins the fray, and the track lifts off into the ether.
Beatport customers will also get 'Heartburn' - a driving house burner with piano stabs, 90’s vocal hooks, and a relentless and intoxicating groove.

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B1: Alex Blaxx - Gilmore Heureux

One of New York City's Most Versatile and Eclectic DJs. 
Vol10 Entertainment's man of a thousand styles. 

"PAPA, TURN IT UP" beat tape: http://reallynicerecordings.com/album/papa-turn-it-up

"Electronic beats, the darker influences of jazz and abstract hip-hop lyricism ... sounds like a meeting between George Clinton and Madlib somewhere in the outer stratosphere. Definitely a good thing.’ - DMC World

"Musically, ‘Life Well Lived’ is damn solid. The beats are original, as is Hogans' increasingly melodic vocal delivery." - Resident Advisor

"This is the future of post-drum & bass breakbeat culture ... totally millenium's edge and running, mate." - Dego of 4Hero

Jason Hogans is a producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who first impacted through Detroit’s electronic music scene, impressively debuting on Carl Craig's Planet E in ’98 with an EP called ‘Peter And The Rooster.’ ‘Peter And The Rooster’ combined drum & bass, techno, jazz, and hip hop elements in a brilliant display of creativity and experimentalism, helping to pave a new direction for Planet E. It was through a fellow producer and friend, Matt Chicoine that Hogans was introduced to the Planet E camp. Fans of one another's work, Chicoine (Recloose) introduced Hogans to Planet E director Carl Craig once he was signed as an artist to the Detroit based label.

Hogans has consistently paved his own unique trajectory, creating diverse and forward-thinking sounds which transcend the confines of many mainstream musical genres. Rather than following the obvious creative path after his debut, new musical blends came after Hogans' experimentations with multiple styles such as folk, minimal, punk, glitch, soul, reggae/dub, jazz and more. This convergence of flavors could be heard on his 2005 release under his newly created :brownstudy moniker, ‘Tell Me More About Bubbles’ on the Third Ear label. ‘Tell Me More About Bubbles’ was Jason's first professional release featuring his own vocals and solidified his reputation as a lyricist as well as a producer. Hogans' relentlessly experimental eclecticism continued to intensify and mutate with stylistically diverse releases on Mahogani Music, Faces Records/MCDE, his own Really Nice Recordings label and more all the way through to :brownstudy's ‘Life Well Lived’ in 2014, also released on Third Ear.

Following 2014’s well-received LP under his :brownstudy alias, 'Life Well Lived,’ Jason Hogans stepped away from the mic to focus on an LP of flawless instrumentals. Returning to production under his own name for the first time in nearly two decades, 2016’s ‘The Age of Scrap’ belies its title to instead deliver a forward thinking record rooted in classic Detroit, fused with futurist sonics that refuse to look back. Hogans organized his own European tour to support the LP, with stops in Strasbourg, Paris, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, Brussels & London.

Jason has been staying busy with heartfelt vocal features, self-released beat tapes, innovative remixes and engaging live performances throughout Europe and the United States. Not content with a single performance style, you will find him in front of turntables playing house and techno records, blending live electronic beats on his hardware, rocking the microphone or any combination of the above. Jason has been fortunate to share both stage (Faruq Z. Bey, Sinistarr, James Blood Ulmer, Tadd Mullinix) and studio (Jimmy Edgar, Kevin Saunderson, Paul Randolph, Anthony Shakir) with many talented & respected artists from all over the world and is currently developing releases for multiple labels across the globe.

Enjoying the Berlin clubs around the late 90's and under the influence of techno, house and electro I started dj'ing in 1999. 
I was impressed by Pokerflat Records, Müller Records, Fumakilla Records and of course Low Spirit Records and their main acts during the early millenium: Steve Bug, Dj Rok, Woody & Clé. 
Electroclash as a new sub genre had a huge impact at this time in Berlin and so it does also for my record collection back then. 
I do love the warm, organic sound of synthesizers and for my track selection of a set it does not really matter for wich kind of genre it is used for. You will see the at the begin mentioned genres mixed in nearly all of my sets. 


artist residency:
                              Techno Sonntag
                              Wir sind Spezial
                              Open Sky
                              Hausgemacht
                              Hopala
                              Märchenwald
                              Luxusprobleme
                              Superlimonada

Booking: book.tarin@gmx.at

So far played clubs:

Pratersauna
Fluc
Flex
Grelle Forelle
SASS
Arena
Auslage
Badeschiff
TüWi
Camera
Kulturschmelze
Kantine
Queens Club
Werk
The Loft
Die Kantine Linz
Summerstation
Bunker Rostock

Buzzin' Fly, Dessous, Sccucci Manucci.

alexblaxx@gmail.com