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Guidance Recordings

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Electronic label based in Chicago, Illinois.
Founded by Spencer Kincy, Ivan Pavlovich, and Rob Kouchoukos in 1996.
Listed on some releases as Guidance Records.

Parent Label:

Guidance Recordings, Inc.

Sublabels:

Chord 44 Records, Crucial Sounds, Subtitled Records

Contact Info:

Guidance Recordings, Inc.
160 N. Halsted 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60661

Tel: +1 312 226 8387
Fax: +1 312 226 1343

Ivan - [email protected] - licensing requests.
Rob - [email protected] - submission of any demo material, distribution questions.
Gary - [email protected] - retail promotions.
Tobias - [email protected] - where and how to buy records.
Sid - [email protected] - other questions.

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  • antkay44's avatar
    antkay44
    Edited 16 days ago
    So many great tunes came out from this quality label. I especially love the work by the likes of Larry Heard and Glenn Underground.
    • heatherheart's avatar
      heatherheart
      What a fantastic label. I will never sell my Guidance collection. Driving hard house and techno house ala Chi town. Special label. I am sad to read about Spencer. I hope things are looking up.
      • DJEZLOU's avatar
        DJEZLOU
        Edited 3 years ago
        favorite House Music Label. Glenn Underground was ground breaking in genre infusions.
        • Bourbonman's avatar
          Bourbonman
          Edited 5 years ago
          Don´t know who sits on the rights, but there is never any represses of Guidance releases. Spencer is living somewhere in the streets and the other two i don´t know. (Not sure if Spencer was part of setting up this label??)
          • jancito303's avatar
            jancito303
            Edited 6 years ago
            This is just an incredible Chicago label that I will forever associate with top-notch late 90's house.
            It's also interesting that considering the sheer quality of the releases it has been somewhat immune to the sometimes excessive hype and subsequent high prices that plague other labels.
            Maybe this is because not too many ueber-hip-boiler-room-big-shot Djs play this stuff.
            Too many fantastic releases to mention.
            • Edited 17 years ago
              Inspired by a new wave of producers who were successfully expanding
              upon the Chicago house music blueprint by adding state of the art
              production techniques and a cosmopolitan edge to art form, Guidance
              embraced the emerging globalization of electronic music culture by
              assembling a diverse and talented roster of artists from across
              Europe, the UK, and North America. The label released its first two
              singles, Free Energy "Happiness" and Projekt: PM's vocoded house
              classic "When the Voices Come" in May 1996, and haven't looked back
              since. It followed with a string of timeless twelve inches that
              helped launched the careers of house music legends such as: Austin
              "Abacus" Bascom, Deep Sensation, Blueboy, Fresh and Low, Kevin
              Yost, and Chicago's very own Glenn Underground, prompting Muzik
              Magazine to proclaim Guidance "the best new house label in the
              world" in its 1997 year end issue.
              • s_caron's avatar
                s_caron
                Excellent Chicago area deep house label that has been around forever and is still in business releasing quality material. The quality is generally high, and quite consistent. Many noted house artists have at least one release on Guidance.

                If you like it deep and see a Guidance release at the record store, give it a listen... you won't regret it!