After a hiatus of 3 yrs : THE MASTER is BACK !!! Vinyl Only

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NeListening back, ‘Interlude’ will feel like the perfect opening to ‘Skylax’. A jazzy encore crawls in, morphing into a skippy hip-hop instrumental with Jason’s signature flourishes all over it. Aptly named as it is, this is the breathing space between whatever came before in your day, and the eleven deep house gems that are to follow. Speaking of, ‘The Love’ will have you gripped from the first bar. It glides the listener in, then subtly drops that signature, tightly-tuned bassline of Jason’s and continues onto soulful vocals from there. ‘Old Dayz’ touches on a bit of a nostalgic note. The spoken vox cuts harken back to 90s hip-hop joints, playing over a looped Latin sample-led beat. From there, ‘Rawkicks 2’ shows Jason’s rough and ready sampling style in action. A seemingly simple track, but one which has that special something which guarantees to keep people on the floor moving for its duration. ‘Cut B’ contrasts this nicely, being a much cleaner production with tight drum programming and synth work. That said, it still has the classic JG atmosphere we love. Closing out the first half of the album, ‘Definition’ slows the pace ever so slightly, with its eternal pad structure that builds up the track’s momentum into something very mellow and deep.Bringing in the second half of ‘Skylax’, ‘John Blue’ takes things back a notch further. A deeper tune, yet one that shows off an uncharacteristically punchy bass hit from Jason. ‘Last Night’ is a track more reminiscent of Jason’s first 'Lost Cuts' EP on Wax Classic, sounding as if it had been freshly taken off an old tape with its sample-led beat and background hiss. The last four tracks of the album see a return to the ‘Mastercuts’ and ‘Lovedits’ series which fans will recognize from the ‘Lost Cuts’ records, with ‘Lovedits 7’ and ‘Mastercut 5’ respectively. The former is a laid back female vocal edit with the entire suite of signature JG touches while the latter is a garage house hit more crafted for the club. ‘BB’ brings the album to a close, twisting a disco/funksample over a pallet of drums and effects for the near six-minute duration of the track.All in all, this is the perfect follow up to Jason’s debut album ‘313.4.Ever’, with tracks for both the club and home listening. If you happened to miss the first album back in 2012, don’t forget that now you have the chance to grab it in a special double pack with ‘Skylax’ on CD!So, needless to say, this timeless record is a must purchase for all collectors and DJs out there

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SKYLAX RECORDS, THE company focused on realeasing original obscure dance classic and everything’s that sounds fine to their ears ! For our 32nd release, we ‘re back with the fantastic JASON GROVE for his brand new tracks, we won’t explain his sound & his very long story as we already did, it is simply the best music we’ve heard in ages.. VYNIL ONLY. More

For this 5th release, we give you the opportunity to grab 4 fantastic trax done by HOUSEMASTER : JASON GROVE. Born in Detroit, he started his career in the late 80’s, dj-ing in underground parties when the techno house movement was just at the beginning. He was invited few times on detroit local stations such as WDRQ & WJLB to play. Some said he was at that time very close to the “Wizard”, helping producing their first tracks with anthony srock as Final Cut. He had many opportunities during the 90’s to release some of his work on various prestigious labels, however, as the guy is really hardcore & straight edge, he prefered to continue producing only with analog gears (don’t ever speak to him about a computer or he’ll get mad !) & record his work on cassette only, selling it to indie stores & giving it to friends for some special events (birthday, graduation ect ... !). After the incredible releases we had on WAX CLASSIC 1 & 3 (for Lost Cuts I & II), you can grab finally the 3rd part of those legendary tapes.

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SKYLAX RECORDS, THE company focused on realeasing original obscure dance classic and everything’s that sounds fine to their ears ! For our 27th release, we ‘re back with the fantastic JASON GROVE for his First album, we won’t explain his sound & his very long story as we already had 2 releases on WAX CLASSIC (our sub-label) that gets some massive feedback from the best djs around the world. All his fans were waiting for it for years, now it’s here, finally, available. We honestly think that this is one of the best house album we’ve ever heard. CLASSIC. Those tracks will be available on ** VYNIL ONLY **A must to have in every djs collection.

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For this first release, we give you the opportunity to grab 4 fantastic trax done by legendary detroit producer : JASON GROVE. Born in Detroit, he started his career in the late 80’s, dj-ing in underground parties when the techno house movement was just at the beginning. He was invited few times on detroit local stations such as WDRQ & WJLB to play. Some said he was at that time very close to the “Wizard”, helping producing their first tracks with anthony srock as Final Cut. He had many opportunities during the 90’s to release some of his work on various prestigious labels, however, as the guy is really hardcore & straight edge, he prefered to continue producing only with analog gears (don’t ever speak to him about a computer or he’ll get mad !) & record his work on cassette only, selling it to indie stores & giving it to friends for some special events (birthday, graduation ect ... !). We heard this story long times ago & it was only when we were in L.A. last year at pooh-bah record shop that we finally managed to get our hands on one of those tapes (one from june 1991 & the other one done in october 1992) with some of the best & incredible music we’ve heard in years, it sounded like kerri chandler BEFORE kerri chandler did even start to release any tracks ! Those first tapes are finally available after a hiatus of more than 15 years on VYNIL ONLY (!).

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