Welcome to The North Quarter, the home of Lenzman, Fox, Satl, Redeyes, Echo Brown,  FD, Steo, Note, Zero T, Channell, Abnormal Sleepz, Tokyo Prose.

For all label nights (excl. N.A.) contact:
Earth Agency
https://earth-agency.com
E-mail: danny@earth-agency.com 

For North American label nights contact:
Respect Artist Agency
http://www.respectartistagency.com
E-mail: rob@respectartistagency.com

CounterStrain (CounterStrain.Music) 🌴🎶 — UK Garage / Speed Garage DJ + Producer
📍 San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 • Rotterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Latin + Afro-Caribbean rhythms 🥁🌍 x 2-Step swing / Bassline 🔊 x Garage & House grooves 🏠🎛️

With 20+ years in the US underground rave scene, CounterStrain delivers high-energy UKG, speed garage, bassline, and garage-house sets—syncopated drums, hooky vocals, and heavy low-end.

Also a Rotterdam/Amsterdam event promoter (2–4 events annually).
Bookings / collabs: DM or thcsyndicate@hotmail.com

Performance history highlights
• Indianapolis (1999–2007): festivals + parties (warehouse to outdoor venues)
• Radio (2005–2007): WMHD “The Monkey” — underground house/garage + guest mixes
• Netherlands (2000/2001): Resident — Club De Rage, Rotterdam
• 2025: Guest DJ — Mix 93FM / Global Groove Radio / Underground Collective (Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸)
• 2025: Guest DJ — WBNY 93.1 FM — Popped Radio presents “The Frequency” (Buffalo, NY 🇺🇸)
• 2025: AfroJack ADE, Amsterdam Dance Event, NL
• Cities played: San Juan • Rotterdam • Amsterdam • Vail • Detroit • Indianapolis • Chicago • Tampa • St. Louis • Columbus • Baton Rouge • Fayetteville • Lexington • more

If it hits: ❤️ repost + comment your city.

Toronto’s own and Chicago transplant, Demuir, is a rare breed in the world of electronic music. With a passion for music that runs deep in his veins, Demuir has risen to the top of the underground house scene with his soulful, funky, and unapologetically authentic sound.
Following the sold-out success of his 2023 album Visions, Demuir has only continued to push boundaries. In 2024 and 2025, he’s released standout projects on his Purveyor Underground and Purveyor Underground Limited imprints, curated exclusive vinyl-only EPs, and dropped highly regarded sample packs like YYZ Underground on Beatport Sounds / Loopmasters. His output remains in demand across respected labels including Hot Creations, Rawthentic, Desolat, Kaoz Theory, Heist, and Nervous. All this has amounted to unwavering support from top DJs including: Jamie Jones, Kerri Chandler, Honey Dijon, Derrick Carter, Seth Troxler, DJ Minx, Jimpster, and others.
On stage, Demuir’s DJ sets are a feast for the senses—eclectic, funky, and deeply soulful, radiating the kind of sexiness that keeps dancefloors moving until sunrise. Whether headlining Jamie Jones’ Paradise parties, making repeated Boiler Room appearances, or rocking venues like Elrow in Barcelona, Space Miami, Halcyon in San Francisco, House of Yes in New York, or Chicago’s Spybar, he continues to cement his reputation as a must-see performer.
Beyond the decks, Demuir runs his acclaimed Purveyor Underground label, a platform that champions underground artistry with both digital and vinyl releases. Artists like DJ Sneak, Carlo Lio, Mark Farina, Phil Weeks, Kenny Dope, and rising talents such as Farouki and Pinto (NYC) have all found a home on the label. In 2025, Demuir is expanding this vision further with projects like the Purveyor Underground All-Stars vinyl series and educational initiatives through his Patreon, now boasting over 200 episodes of his weekly production stream.
Demuir’s drive goes beyond the music—he’s creating ecosystems for producers and DJs to thrive, from remix contests to mastermind sessions, while continuing to evolve his Patreon community, a forward-thinking summit blending music, mentorship, and community.
A true innovator with global reach and local roots, Demuir shows no signs of slowing down. With new projects, label events, and music lined up, he continues to inspire both fans and fellow artists around the world.

Reared among the three cultures of Brazil, Mexico and the Southwest United States, Poranguí was steeped in various traditional forms of music, healing and ceremony since birth. Weaving ancestral songs & indigenous rhythms from around the world as a one-man orchestra, Poranguí bridges the healing properties of sound and movement to foster our individual and collective well being.

Cue the bass…Deep in the heart of the ghetto, on the mean streets of Chicago’s infamous Southside, a music pioneer was born…
From the beginning, Thomas “DJ Slugo” Kendricks was influenced by his cousin, DJ Geno, a member of a local Chicago hot mix group, and other local icons such as the Hot Mix 5 (of Chicago radio). Slugo, with 20+ years in the game, over 20 albums in his pocket and over 50 CDs on the street, began a journey that lead him to become one of the original creators of a style of music commonly known as Ghetto House, more recently regarded as Juke.
Ghetto House, an urban dance sound created by inner-city producers from raw walks of life and derived from Old School House, is steeped with nuances from ghetto-life traditions and descriptions of the hood through rhythm. It moves beyond the just being and dives right into the metaphysical, with its rhythmic, infectious energy exciting the inner spirit and making folk return to their Motherland dance roots.
The magic struck Slugo at a high school dance where he asked the DJ if he could spin a couple of tracks. Although his set only lasted a brief 15 minutes, it ignited a flame that burns brighter than ever today.
From 1984-1987, Slugo honed his skills by observing the skills of his local heroes. Participating in heated DJ battles won him acclaim as a technical expert on the wheels of steel. He released his first truly professional mix tape Ghetto Mix Part III (1992). This tape landed in the hands of Ray Barney, CEO of the Chicago-based Dance Mania, one of the largest dance music labels in the world. Barney and Slugo formalized an agreement resulting in a long stream of releases on the Dance Mania label and affording Slugo the freedom to form his own label, Subterranean Playhouse.
During this same period, friend and fellow producer Paul Johnson introduced Slugo to a southern promoter, which culminated his professional merge into the rave scene. His unheard of Ghetto style of mixing quickly made him a favorite to tens of thousands of partygoers and promoters alike.
The release of the popular Cardboard Booty mix CD, called “the most influential ghetto house CD ever made” by London’s Underbeat Magazine, who also went on to call DJ Slugo, “the Ghetto-father of the American dance floor.” As his fame spread, releases with other national labels, such as Underground Construction, Dance Mania, GTI Records, Serotonin Records, Data Bass, CWAL Mob Recordings, Wide Records and Crosstalk International, Inc., as well as his follow up album, The Ghetto Don, flew off the shelves.
Taking his career to the next level, Slugo signed with the 1 electronic music booking agency in the United States, Teknomafia. With Teknomafia’s 10-year strong foothold on the nationwide rave, club & concert market as well as national distribution for his future releases, the only question that remained was where to begin. Slugo later said that this proved to be one of the best decisions made for his career. After Teknomafia shut their doors and in order to progress into mainstream music, DJ Slugo was the only electronic artist kept on the roster.
2002 saw Slugo returning to his roots with new projects, Where the Rats and Godzilla. Slugo calls these releases without a doubt, some of his best work. They have also without a doubt, exceeded the sales of nearly every other release he has done to this date and which lead to his wildly successful “Godzilla” track becoming a worldwide phenomenon.
After a yearlong respite to rethink his career path, Slugo is back in the game and taking the world by storm. Recent affiliations with England’s Wide Adventure and Crosstalk International, Inc. promise many great things to come.
“Imma keep making Ghetto House music because I love it!”
The saga continues…

For Bookings:

Email: bookdjslugo@gmail.com

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@snatchrecords 

Bookings: andy.raeside@entityma.com

Management: info@plus5mgmt.com

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DEMOs for SNATCH! 
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management@snatchrecords.com

THX!

Simplistic Music Company began in 2017 under the careful guidance of Dallas’ own J. Caprice, a globally recognized producer, and DJ; features tech to deep to jackin’ house productions as well as downtempo and trip-hop artists. Simplistic Music Co has rapidly established its position in the underground music community. 

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A Chicago based label with a little FUNK, a touch of JACK and a bit of SOUL

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Ninja Tune has established itself as one of the world’s leading independent record labels. Now a bonafide global music institution, synonymous with diverse, uncompromising releases and equally visionary artists—from breaking-through to GRAMMY-winning, internationally acclaimed acts—committed to pushing the boundaries of music.

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