The Progrezo Records Team is pleased to present its twenty second installment on Limited Edition Series, coming from British rising DJ/producers Scott Harrington & Greg Mak, who are debuting by an original track of stomping House, entitled ’6 Million’.
Scott Harrington is the man behind Endemic Digital, a relevant UK House Music imprint. Scott has been involved within the house music scene since the early nineties, as DJ, Promoter, Label Consultant and more recently a producer.
In the other hand, Greg Mak, a Jazz/Funk Bass guitarist who’s biggest passion has been the Electronic music. After many years of experimenting with different styles, he has developed a unique sound of Deep/Tech/Minimal. However he still enjoys producing & remixing other types of electronic music.
As we enter the first eighteen months as an independent label, we turn the corner with celebrating the 30th release for the Endemic Digital imprint and welcome Junior Gee to the fold with his infectious track deep house track ‘Waxing Lyrical’.
At 30 his career has really sprung back to life with 2009 seeing a series of releases on Jon Gurd’s Killawatt Recordings, as well as taking up residency for the label across the globe and hosting the podcast show.
After much debate and consideration, we have decided to develop our very own online store as part of the Endemic Digital website. This is partly down to the much annoyance and frustration we face as an independent label trying to stand out from the big guns that get features and recommendations on the main consumer sites out there, ie Beatport, Traxsource, Juno etc.
Of course this holds some weight as essentially they are a business and need to survive in an already over saturated market, meaning it makes sense to promote and push the big guns but at the other end of the scale, its difficult for the smaller independent labels to rise above and also get some recognition, with what we feel is equally as good musically, which is the main point of us deciding to trade directly from our website, which these bigger labels also do too.
I’m sure you all have been to the infamous Ministry of Sound at some stage in your life, or been as fortunate as us to have hosted a room there (for the anniversary of our first year as an independent label). With that in mind, we were horrified to have today stumbled across a post that the infamous South London club, probably one of the most famous establishments in the world, is under threat!
Below is an extract taken from the official Ministry of Sound website, meaning its highly unlikely that its a hoax – there is also an active online petition too which again reinforces the claim. It’s important to remember that this would undoubtedly have a knock on effect within the industry overall, bearing in mind that not only is it a nightclub, its a world renowned brand.
Endemic Digital welcome Ministry of Sound’s Scott Langley with his debut release for the imprint, “We Go Deep”, a nod towards the early house sounds with a pitched down subtle bass heavy groove, raw and chopped up saxophone sample, spoken vocal and deep house chords leading throughout which compiles in to an early sounding house track, perfect for those underground moments.
To complete the package, Endemic draft in the likes of Tom Lennox, a regular on the Endemic imprint whom is continuing to impress and consistently delivering his trademark deep, techno influenced sounds. With ‘We Go Deep’ Tom strips back the track to its raw elements and adds his own stamp to the track, with jacking beats, a growling bassline and plenty of reverb surrounding the leading chords.ideal for early starts or early mornings!
Prepping up for this years WMC in Miami, March is going to be big month for us here and hot on the heels of Junior Gee, with his debut ‘Waxing Lyrical’ we welcome back Bedrock’s Moonface who hits us square on with his percussive tech house belter, ‘Power People’.
As well as numerous releases on the Endemic Imprint, Moonface has an impressive discography including releases on numerous compilation CDs such as the ‘Balance Series 006’ on EQ Recordings and the legendary Global Underground and Nubreed series, including ‘GU is 10’; a must-have compilation celebrating 10 years of the Global Underground sound. Bedrock released ‘Layered Sounds’ mixed by John Digweed and Phil Thompson and the now classic sounds of ‘Between Worlds’. A six track album of Moonface tracks, was also released on the same label and in 2001 was voted album of the month by several industry magazines.
Endemic Digital head honcho Scott Harrington celebrates his debut release (his first ever solo composition) being released on quality UK label Stripped Digital. The track, entitled ‘Jungle Hot (Fever)’ is a deep house track complete with bongos, stabbing chords a dubby bassline and ragga vocals leading the way!
Out now as a Beatport Exclusive, the track comes complete with a bumper selection of remixes, including cuts from the mysterious ‘Supermunn’, ‘Tom Lennox’, ‘Joelle Atkins’, ‘Ryan Luciano’ and ‘Pretty Criminals’ all of whom offer their own interpretation in their own unique and creative ways!
Endemic Digital continue with raising the bar with next months releases coming in the form of Junior Gee, Soulight and Abyss with a great array of remixers joining the fold too.
First up we have Junior Gee with his deep house track entitled ‘Waxing Lyrical’ with remixes coming from man of the moment, Tom Budden (ALiVE Recordings), Justin Steel, Nik Frattaroli and Elliot Wright. Currently doing the rounds on advanced promo, feedback and support has been flying in from the likes of DJ Madskillz, Sebastian Davidson, Kruse & Nuernberg, Jesse Voorn, Raymundo Rodriguez, Mastiksoul, Jon Gurd, Flash Brothers and more.
Carl Cox releases his debut Global Underground mix album, ‘Black Rock Desert,’ on January 25th, 2010, taken from a storming 2 hour set at The Opulent Temple in the Black Rock Desert this summer.
Both CDs are bursting with exclusives. CD1 includes the whacked out groove of Tiefschwarz’s ‘Trust’ and Onionz’s ‘Spacebass’ (Original Mix), with its rocket jet booms and spiralling percussion. Guy J’s ‘Lamur’ (Henry Saiz remix) drops a tribal robot stomp, before the shuffling beats of Alan Fitzpatrick’s ‘Green Light’ take over. Fitzpatrick also supplies a panting re-rub of ‘Slice’ from New York techno legend Joey Beltram.
We were very fortunate to have grabbed the very busy Greg Mak and asked him to share with us (or you) his top five tips using Logic Pro to produce his beats…and below you can see exactly what they are, good to you aren’t we?
For more information about Greg Mak, or to listen to his up and coming work, why not visit his website which can be found here http://www.gregmak.net
