++++++PLUS [287c mix]

Like this mix of jazzy jungle, footwork, and dubstep, love is highs and lows, beautiful and crushing, and best served chilled. Track list is below. Enjoy!

00:00 This kind of mark cannot be seen
00:18 Suburban Architecture - Final Call (Suburban Architecture, 2020)
03:23 Essence of Aura - So This Is Love (Moving Shadow, 1995)
06:45 DJ Sofa - Junglist Respect (Straight Up Breakbeat, 2022)
08:52 Alex Reece - I Need Your Love (Metalheadz, 1994)
10:31 Alex Reece - Basic Principles (Metalheadz, 1994)
12:34 Heavee - Cb2m (Ten Toes Turbo, 2013)
15:03 Mala - Noches Sueños (Mala & Simbad Super Dub Mix) (Brownswood, 2014)
18:09 OSSX - Hi QUALITY NAPKIN (Juke Bounce Werk, 2022)
19:48 DJ Fulltono - Apaches (Exit, 2019)
21:27 DJ Rashad - Brighter Dayz (ft. Spinn) (Hyperdub, 2016)
24:21 DJ Rashad - Leavin (ft. Manny) (Hyperdub, 2016)
26:37 DJ Manny - Love Dancin RMX (Moveltraxx, 2018)
28:40 Coco Bryce - Want U (ec2a, 2022)
29:55 DJ Earl - Open Up (Moveltraxx, 2018)
32:12 DJ Manny - Wants My Body (ft. DJ Chap) (Planet Mu, 2021)
34:40 Sporting Life - LA Sportiva (ft. Taso) (R&S, 2019 )
36:44 The Vanguard Project - Want U Back (Coco Bryce Alternative Remix) (Spearhead, 2022)
38:47 Coco Bryce - Want U (Breaka Remix) (ec2a, 2022)
42:31 Roni Size & DJ Die - Music Box (Full Cycle, 1994)
44:47 Traxman - Da Sun (Self-released, 2018)
47:04 Sighting - Irukandji (Together with Ukraine, 2022)
48:43 Marcus Visionary - Stay (Inner City Dance, 2022)
53:12 Doc Scott - It's Yours (Metalheadz, 1995)
54:30 Dwarde & Tim Reaper - Holding On (Deep Jungle, 2022)
58:38 Doc Scott - Blue Skies (Metalheadz, 1995)

Intro quote by Dumbledore

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End Times Love | Soulful jazzy jungle dnb mix 6 (155 BPM)

Anyone with a passing interest in footwork and juke will know of Traxman. Corky Strong has a long history in the world of Chicago dance music, first releasing on the legendary Dance Mania label—which is now celebrating 40 years—in the mid-'90s. He's since split his productions between ghetto house, juke and footwork, releasing alongside titans of Black American music like the late DJ Deeon and DJ Rashad. Strong went on to become a member of DJ Rashad's renowned Teklife crew, and he was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes that became a prototype for juke and footwork's evolution. 

In this Exchange, Strong speaks with RA's Kiana Mickles in New York about how he first became introduced to this world through his cousins, with whom he'd listen to funk and slow jams, Parliament Funkadelic, Farley Jackmaster Funk, James Brown and a variety of hip-hop throughout the '80s. The pieces eventually fell into place, he recounts, when he met the "mysterious kid" DJ Rashad in 1997. Together, they helped shape the music scene in Chicago, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Over the last few years, Strong has been celebrating footwork's past by putting out a series of albums called Da Mind of Traxman on Planet Mu. He's just released his third volume, and his first since 2014, which was crafted with the help of fellow Planet Mu artist Sinjin Hawke. Strong took on A&R duties to collate the best from hundreds of tracks dating back to 2005. The series is notable in part because it's a catalogue of footwork and its Chicago lineage—juke and house—as well as these genres' soul, funk and rock roots.  

Strong talks to Mickles about what Chicago's music scene was like in the '80s and '90s, why footwork was so rooted in dancing and where the genre is heading in the future. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula

EX.753 Traxman

"We made something we could dance to." The Chicago juke and footwork pioneer reflects on 40 years of Dance Mania and his longtime collaboration with the late DJ Rashad.

Anyone with a passing interest in footwork and juke will know of Traxman. Corky Strong has a long history in the world of Chicago dance music, first releasing on the legendary Dance Mania label—which is now celebrating 40 years—in the mid-'90s. He's since split his productions between ghetto house, juke and footwork, releasing alongside titans of Black American music like the late DJ Deeon and DJ Rashad. Strong went on to become a member of DJ Rashad's renowned Teklife crew, and he was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes that became a prototype for juke and footwork's evolution. 

In this Exchange, Strong speaks with RA's Kiana Mickles in New York about how he first became introduced to this world through his cousins, with whom he'd listen to funk and slow jams, Parliament Funkadelic, Farley Jackmaster Funk, James Brown and a variety of hip-hop throughout the '80s. The pieces eventually fell into place, he recounts, when he met the "mysterious kid" DJ Rashad in 1997. Together, they helped shape the music scene in Chicago, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Over the last few years, Strong has been celebrating footwork's past by putting out a series of albums called Da Mind of Traxman on Planet Mu. He's just released his third volume, and his first since 2014, which was crafted with the help of fellow Planet Mu artist Sinjin Hawke. Strong took on A&R duties to collate the best from hundreds of tracks dating back to 2005. The series is notable in part because it's a catalogue of footwork and its Chicago lineage—juke and house—as well as these genres' soul, funk and rock roots.  

Strong talks to Mickles about what Chicago's music scene was like in the '80s and '90s, why footwork was so rooted in dancing and where the genre is heading in the future. Listen to the episode in full. -Chloe Lula

Bad and Boujee [Footwork Mix]

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For the first time in history, Tropical Waste bossman Seb and Kieran Dotwav go back 2 back ahead of Tropical Waste's 160 Unity back in February!

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DJ DAGWOOD-THE RETURN OF GHETTO DAG

shoutout chicago footwork and the OGs . luv 

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DJ Dagwood the Chicago born and raised, fell in love with and discovered "House Music" at the age of 13 years old @ The "Playground" dance club on 13th & Michigan Ave. "My life changed the day I saw Jessie Saunders & Farley "Funkin" Keith dj'ing there" and From that day all I wanted to be was a dj and play house music. So I joined the league of my peers, DJ Fast Eddie, Tyree Cooper, Larry "Mr. Fingers" Heard, Robert Owens & K Alexi Shelby. I started to hang around these guys and learn to spin and produce house music. You can listen to my music and you can hear the influence dj Fast Eddie had on me as an aspiring Hip House artist. We’re both friends from the westside of Chicago and during those days back when we were all looking at DJ INTERNATIONAL RECORDS as the Motown of Chicago house music, we were on a mission to get our dance music out to the world cause it seems like they couldn’t get enough of Chicago house and Eddie was the man back then. So we all followed him and Tyree Cooper in this Hip House movement, where we would rap over our house music tracks. My passion for house music drove me deep into the house music scene and since then its been a great experience that lead to making records, dj'ing all over the world and "HOUSE" gave me a pathway for success. Since that time, I've produced: Deep House, GhettoHouse, Hard House, G-House and Future House music. Working with, DJ Kevin Halstead (RIP), Jammin Gerald, Dajae, Cajmere, CZR, Glenn Underground, and dj Paul Johnson. My latest collaborations with GettoBlaster, DJ Paul Anthony, Bad Boy Bill, DJ James Ingram, DJ Gant Man and DJ Deeon are a testimate that my artistry and music has evolved and I've finally found a good place to be in dance music. 

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