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Poker Flat Recordings - surely one of the most essential and influential labels of the past couple of decades, treat us to something a little different - and very, very special. 

Classic Jams reaches back to the roots, pulling out long lost, forgotten gems – the music that first inspired and invigorated a generation of electronic producers and dancers including Steve Bug.

Take a trip into the deep, jacking, acidic house and raw Techno expressions that had a profound impact on the current Poker Flat roster - from the late 80s up until the present.  

Most of these tracks are long since out of print on vinyl, and fetch considerable amounts on the 2nd hand market. Likewise, some have never been available digitally. Selected and complied by label boss Steve Bug, these are secret weapons for open-minded DJs, and a valuable document of house music’s enduring legacy for the home listeners. 

Aquarius’ warehouse anthem, Jam To It Again, originally out on City Limits in 1990, still sounds like a jolt of adrenaline to the system. Likewise the obscure but stunning Transcendence by Magique Noir will do doubt ignite dance-floors in exactly the same way it did the first time around. Going even further back, Classic Jams also shines a light on Larry Heard’s sublime Never No More Lonely under his Fingers Inc moniker, as well as the 1988 deep house bomb Musiq by Myoshi-Morris which appears in a brand new exclusive Steve Bug edit. 	

Other highlights include Swing City from 1992 with the pure NY house groove of Make You Mine. Hundreds of contemporary producers are desperately trying to emulate this effortlessly pure house moment - none come close. 

Yet it’s not all from our US cousins - tracks that helped kick start a movement in Europe also feature – see VDT’s It’s Just a Dream featuring MC Valium – essential Techno from 1991 out of the soon-to-be-rave-homeland of Germany. 

Throw in other out-and-out lost classics from the likes of Big Baby, Springboard, and Vice, and you have a compilation that stands both as a testament to the enduring genius of house, and as a essential tool for rocking any party. 

Digital customers will also benefit from three bonus tracks - Nick Holder’s 2001 smash Erotic Illusions, Foremost Poets’ Reasons to be Dismal, and DHS’s epic deep jam House of God ($50 mix) which are also available on Poker Flat 12"es. 

Never No More Lonely

"Music should be more than a job. It should be a passion. It should be something that you don't even see as work." T.Parrish

Theo Parrish - Heal Yourself And Move

One for the people, since you showed some interest in our classics series (#01 sold out in no time) and there seems to be a pretty big demand for this one. It's been out of print for nearly a decade - fetching out of the ordinary prices on Discogs - so we thought it would make a nice early x-mas gesture (oh man did we really just say that??) to make it easy for all you cats born after 1987 to lay your hands on this gem.
So this is the moment we comment on the music I suppose... We'll let's not. This is a classic in the truest sense of the word, not just because its old, but yeah boy, because it's fakkin great, that's what!

Available in all good stores around mid december.

Creme Classics 02 - Nami Shimada & Soichi Terrada - Sunshower EP (Ltd Reissue March 2014)

Frankie Knuckles - Your Love (Original)

Taken from Matrixxman's Amulet EP out June 9, 2014 on Spectral Sound.

Matrixxman - Venetian Mask

This is a little J&D reinterpretation of a stone cold classic by one of house music's founding fathers Larry Heard (aka Mr Fingers). In J&D's own words: "The original is sublime and cannot be improved, this rework is only a tribute to one of our heroes." 

More about J&D at: https://www.facebook.com/jakobin.domino

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