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Local Label Highlight — The Playground Keeps House Music Subtle and Light
When people talk about house music, most minds leap to cities like Chicago and New York. Few consider…
October 4, 2019
Local Listen – Alex D Makes Waves with “Future Shock”
This is an entry in an ongoing series for 303 Magazine, which will provide a range of local…
August 16, 2019
Deep Cuts – Deep Club’s Ryan Scannura Digs Deep House
This is the fourth story of the ongoing series Deep Cuts, which highlights a local DJ here in…
April 16, 2019
Movin’ Units: Velcro City Records
Jason Schlosky has long had a thing for hooks and loops. Velcro City Records, the dance music label he founded with DJ Hero (no relation to the video game of the same name), benefits from nostalgia value associated with the patented “zipperless zipper†system invented by Swiss engineer George de Mestral. Hooks and loops, an idea de Mestral ganked from Mother Nature (burdock burrs, specifically), are the functional foundation for the popular textile technology. They play a similarly essential role in the creation of electronic music. Where would techno and its related electronica genres be without hooks and loops?
February 7, 2010