Gunjack

I had the BEST time playing juke and footwork music in Minneapolis for 612Juke at 160Heaters night! The intimate crowd of friendly dancers battled and juked with each classic as if they knew the parts by heart. The love for the late DJ Rashad was palpable when LAST WINTER dropped and I personally can't wait to put this mix on my phone for some nostalgia. I am so thankful for such an uplifting evening with new and old friends here in my city. More Juke/Footwork in MPLS please and thank you!

RECORDED LIVE AT CITY OF ACID IN MINNEAPOLIS 2024

FULL SET HERE: https://gunjack.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-great-beyond-2023 Recorded LIVE at TGB 2023 in Minnesota USA.

Landing near Minneapolis, after returning to the USA from years abroad, the good folks at Intellephunk invited me to celebrate my birthday with a 90min at local Sunday session: COMMUNION. I wanted to showcase 90s French house and modern tunes in that same vibe. Deep/Filter house has been a passion of mine since my first vinyl release with Echo Park on PCH in the 90s and it lent itself quite well to the feeling in the room! With some Detroit classics and modern hard minimal for good measure, the vibe was full on as we closed out the club with some proper techno! Thanks to everyone involved for a lovely experience! See you at The Great Beyond for some experimental techno madness! GJ

Out now as part of the album BODY MEMORY LP https://gunjack.bandcamp.com/album/body-memory

Out now! https://gunjack.bandcamp.com/album/scorpio

Out now as part of THE EDITS v3 https://gunjack.bandcamp.com/album/the-edits-3

OUT NOW! As part of: https://gunjack.bandcamp.com/album/the-edits-2

Available as part of "The Edits" exclusively via https://gunjack.bandcamp.com/album/the-edits!!!

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2. GUNJACK - RECKONER by

1. GUNJACK - REVERSAL OF FORTUNE by

As performed on Friday, December 16th in the PURPLE ROOM MINEAPOLIS on techno-club.net Tracklist: 1. Gunjack - Return of the Jack 2. Oliver Way - Shuffle Rush 3. Gunjack - Bonusjack 4. Gunjack - Work That Jack 5. Gunjack - Work. 6. Ackermann, CS13 - Revelation 9 7. Applsecal - Wave15 8. Vil, CRAVO - Segundo 9. Alarico - Cigarettes After Sex 10. Kenji Hina - Stuck Off the Realness 11. Kashpitzky - False Tales 12. Gaetano Parisio - 19-99 (A2) 13. Drumcell, Chris Liebing, Truncate - SGV 14. Kashpitzky - Roads 15. Rebecca Delle Piane - That Cost Me Sleep 16. Axel Karakasis - Blemish 17. Alarico - Boya 18. Gunjack - Still Ballin' 19. Gunjack - Reversal of Fortune 20. Joey Beltram - Floaters 21. Gunjack - Mfunk2 22. Solcyc (Baby Ford & Mark Broom) - Off the Man 23. Gunjack - Rounders 24. Gunjack - Driftpunk 25. Gaetano Parisio - 19-99 (B1) 26. Gunjack - Ritual48 27. Alarico - I'm Into You 28. Kenji Hina - Laced up 29. Gunjack - Theme From Dubwars 30. Gunjack - In My Sleep 31. Gunjack - Gatekeeper's Ball 32. Gaetano Parisio - 19-99 (A1) 33. Gaetano Parisio - 19-99 (B2) 34. Gunjack - Jak is Dead 35. Alarico - Killa Cut 36. Gary Burrows - Chunkfunk (Original Mix) 37. Basement Jaxx - Flylife (extreme edit)

It always seems to come back to the year 1995 for me for some reason. What a year in music it was! That was the year a fella named Gert-Jan Bijl made a HUGE tune called "Arkest's Blaze" under his GERD pseudonym. This tune echoed all the way from the Netherlands, to Detroit and eventually to my native California via our PLANET TEN event series featuring 1st and 2nd wave talent from the OG techno scene. I will never forget how the reversed bits of this tune echoed back through the Shrine auditorium at us, as we were slack jawed in awe.

In 2000/2001 I was bang into the Japanese techno scene. I lived about a half an hour outside the city and worked in Shinjuku/Ikebukuro. A magical little nightclub called MANIAC LOVE was my getaway. I often studied the mixes of the residents and guests from the back of the room on my perch. One artist: DJ Shufflemaster played a track that sent the room into a frenzy and I was struck dumb by it's loose and lumbering groove. GEYLANG is a tune I later found on 12" on the wall at Disk Union in Shibuya and have played the hell out of since! Loop techno was in full effect in the early 00's and this one was so much fun to work out!

I believe Carl Craig wrote this in '96 or late '95... What a golden era for music! It's super hard to do justice to a classic like this so I wanted to forgo any sort of intention to better the original, and just make an edit I can actually use in my sets for a funky and soulful addition to the crate!

Another edit from '95, this time Thomas Bangalter on his seminal ROULE' imprint! This one is my version of "VENTURA" a DJ fave from Roulé 301!!!

1995: Joey Beltram drops PLACES double pack on Tresor label. The main single of which is playful tune called GAMEFORM. This is a tune I often played doubles on wax and wanted to rearrange a bit to get even more nastiness out of the cut! Enjoy this cheeky edit of a classic tune created by a North American electronic music icon! JB is a fucking legend!!!

Back in 1999, when Drumcode was still TECHNO, the maestro Gaetano Parisio made a 12" with a bunch of untitled tracks. The last tune in the B2 slot always got mad play in my sets and I doubt I will ever find a clean copy again. Here is my cheeky edit of "Untitled B2" from Drumcode19 by Gaetano!!!

1997: Mister Luke Slater made a tune that was basically just a loop, but showed us how modular, off beat techno could jaunt its angular, little booty right up front and center. Another edit for my DJ sets, this is "SIGNAL" from the PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS album "THE ELECTRIC FUNK MACHINE" a record that CHANGED MY LIFE! Thank you PAS/LUKE for showing us the way so early on!!!