Artist: DJ Flex
Title: Executive Mix Volume 1
Label: Excess Music
Format: CD
Release Date: 01/01/2005
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Flex freaks you with a French, filtered house festival that’s absolutely determined to keep you dancing much more than your sweaty bodies can handle. For those peaktime lovers of tracks by Antoine Clamaran, Hatiras, David Kent, Alex Neri, Tom Neville and DJ Flex himself, dig your claws right into this puppy because it’s a long, dripping-wet ride of chunky pumping EQ-tweaked ecstacy. It’s about time that Flex start getting U.S. recognition because he will very well leave the floors steaming with perspiration of burned up clubber calories.

Artist: Charles Feelgood
Title: I Feel Good
Label: solmatic
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: January 2004
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Give it to Solmatic heads David and Jay to select another talented artist to drop another surge of dynamite, floorscorching house music. Baltimore’s finest nightclub firefighternsaves the day in a Charm City way with this ecstatic release of Shaft-like melodies, movement motivating samples that include live crowds cheering, and a percussion parade you can sink your jaws in. The boys enlist ignition expert Dave Armstrong to handle the remix duties and he tackles the task with a horde of debonair and endless adrenaline. Dave boosts the tempo, redesigns the samples with sincere EQ etiquette, and reworks the bassline to a heavier cycle that will surely please the Bad Boy Bill’s, DJ Dan’s and Humpty Vission’s of todays competitive music galaxy. Get ready to feel good!n

Artist: Pair Of Jacks
Title: Internasstional
Label: A-Squared
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 09/17/2004
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The California crew of Jacks is back on A-Squared and better than ever! Angel and Rees storm the sound systems with confident comfort as they carve this ostrich-sized statement into a full-fledged dancefloor roast, loading a brainwashing guitar riff over a funky basslined beat and filtering a motivating sample in and out of the mix. Joshua Collins reworks the cut into an outstanding woofer-trembling monster with layers of deep and rolling bass kicks and wide-grinning edits that is guaranteed to entice anyone in the room, having them in a sick dancing frenzy in no time.n

Artist: Mantese
Title: The Text (Remixes)
Label: Texture
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 04/01/2004
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Chicago’s great funk knight CZR adds his Midas touch to Mantese’s (aka Rob Chetcuti/Tuesday’s Child) already amazing track. The Re-Edit takes the original cut, which a jazzy, choppy edit summer breeze of a song, and subtly spices it up with his own audio herbs. The most noticeable difference on this release is the CZR Remix, which transforms the beat from Mantese’s 4/4 kick to a Plump DJ’s-like breakbeat stomp, ensuring the highest energy levels from your crowd.

Artist: steve Smooth & JJ Flores
Title: Freak You
Label: Motus
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 08/04/2004
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Lethal superstar associates of the Bad Boy Bill gang, Steve and JJ finger your club clitoris with another shaking house anthem, sliding you towards decked-out bliss. The title track features an irresistible bassline and crescendo techniques that garnered such crowd approval from Release and Get Naked. Also provided on this licorice pizza is an instrumental for your disc pilot pleasure. You can confidently expect top-rung Mix Connection quality that’s sure to be appearing in numerous and well-respected house DJ sets.

Artist: High Caliber
Title: Illegally Download This Album
Label: Olive
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 04/30/2004
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Electro-disco bullfighters of Chicago Bryan Jones and Mike Gillenwater bring you their latest cutting edge entertainment in the form of a double-pack LP. Every track has explosive attention potential and deserves to be exposed to the frantic human cattle on the dancefloor. From the sexy saxes on Big Worm and the groovy retro seducer All Yours, to the bleepy synth syncopation on Shakedown and the peak hour workouts of Party Rocker and The Jam, High Caliber provide fuming hot fidelity for your funky ass. With a total of eight ergonomic exercises over two plates of wax, you’re positive to populate your party with npizzazz.

Artist: CZR
Title: subterranean Odyssey
Label: Nocturnal
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 05/11/2004
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Jonathan “The Fox” Waller continues to skyrocket his Nocturnal Recordings missile base through the roof. In 2004, he gives us a magnificent tropical endeavor by Chicago’s latin disco-house don, CZR, who baptizes the speakers with luscious rhythms and subtle Spanish voices. His original mix appeals to many atmospheres and hours of the night, sure to bring many smiles and rumps wiggling. High Caliber hit harder with their thumping, filtered dub version that’s intense audio inebriation. Last but not least, Danny S comes at you from left field, completely reworking the track from the grungy ground up, sending the song through a haunting amalgamation of analog patterns.

Artist: shutterflooders VS Mike Balance
Title: Funky Chunky
Label: Focused Music
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 07/16/2004
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Christoph Banning and Nelson Perez are back with a big-time bang as they split this slab of licorice pizza with Idaho’s music magician Mike Balance. Filtered house reigns supreme on this new Shutterflooders release that will smoke one too many warehouses with sweat and steam. Funky Chunky tweaks a cool loop to thick edible bites endlessly, while Mike’s B-side claims the trophy for back-bending bionic grooviness that’s continuing to prove effective on lab monkeys and grungy mallrats, long after the clubs have closed.