jancito303

Started DJing in '86, went nuts for house after hearing Pump Up The Volume by MARRS in 1987. There, I said it :- )

I co-own a record store in Madrid called "Radial Store" (check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/RadialStore/ ). Not related to my discogs store though, which is flexing a dozen or so big Expedit shelves (you know the 4x4 and 5x5 monsters) accounting for like 200 cubes sprinkling my basement in the US East Coast, of which 60% or so are catalogued in my discogs collection.

Lots of Chicago and Detroit sounds in my crates. Got a bunch of soulful stuff, ambient, new and deep techno, jazz, hip hop and anything in between. Got a pretty nice disco collection and I also love Nu disco and lo-fi sounds. One of my Ikea expedit cubes has a breakbeat and drum n bass section that one day I'll turn into a nice mix.

Who's the GOAT? Larry Heard? Marshall Jefferson? James Stinson? Juan Atkins? Jean Francois Cochois? Moritz Von Oswald? Jeff Mills?
No
The one and only: Kenny Dixon Jr!

The two records I would take to an island: Moodymann's Taken Away, and my second copy of Moodymann Taken Away.

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Let me bore you death with my obsession with labels. Ready?

I have "completist" tendencies for probably a good 200+ labels, especially the early house and techno. You'll find complete catalogs of Nu Groove, the first 100 Strictly Rhythms, almost every Trax record, a lot of the early Chicago and Detroit outfits (think Transmat, House records, HouseJam, KMS, Metroplex, Dance Mania, DJI, Express, Hot Mix 5, Housetime, etc)... but yeah, it mostly revolves around labels and that's how I also sort my records in my basement.

Not sure which ones are my favorite labels, but if I had to name a few great ones off the top of my head, it's all over the place: Guidance, 430 West, Moods & Grooves, Plus 8, KDJ, Tresor, Peacefrog, Astral Industries, Underground Resistance and many more. I also love to collect more obscure labels, such as these rare New York/New Jersey garage house and techno imprints a-la -N-Sync Inc, Quark, Rey-D, Atmosphere, Bottom Line, EXperimental where you can find some really weird awesome tracks, or small early 2000's west coast labels like Worldship, Imperial Dub, PCH, etc. I also have a thing for the "good" UCMG sister labels (Driftwood, Fiji, LapDance, Plastic City, Tonika).
Also enjoy the newer Detroit House (FXHE, Michigander, Upstairs Asylum, etc.)
Got a thing for Canadian labels like Bigshot, Strobe, Probe, early Hi-Bias, Definitive,
As soon as I think I got the list of wanted labels covered, 10 new ones pop up. I use YT, bandcamp, of course discogs, and any background sounds to get inspired and find new music.
Oh, did I tell you that I like to collect labels?

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I have a son and two daughters, work in software, lived in Argentina, Germany and now in the US. I am (re) learning Finnish to make my mom happy, love to travel and watch stupid series on Netflix with my Chinese-American wife who doesn't eat rice.
Grilling twice a week is a must on my half destroyed charcoal grill. Anything that used to walk, run, swim or fly.
I don't like to talk about myself that much, except on discogs profile forms. In my whole life I had about half a dozen ideas that were good or original. 3 were good, but not original, the other 3 were original, but not very good.
My nose is pretty big. I studied electrical and mechanical engineering and am an irredeemable and insufferable Tesla fanboy. So don't bring up cars with me, otherwise I will bombard you with nerdy facts about batteries and production lines, and beat yo slow ass lambo turd to a pulp with my Model S Plaid while my wife is rolling her eyes. I like to fix stuff around the house and could probably pursue a career in plumbing. I like to wake up at 3AM, open the freezer and gulp down a pint of ice cream.
I don't have much use for political parties, crowded parks, boilerplate over-complicated lawyer talk, postmodernist psychobabble and also have very little patience for high-end audio snake-oil pseudoscientific bullshit.

I was born in Finland and have a German passport, and yet, my dear Eurocentrist friend, whether we like it or not, we are only here thanks to house being invented in Chicago and Techno in Detroit. Ah, I see, perhaps you are into Rock 'N Roll, Jazz, Disco, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop... Yeah, that was also invented across the pond.
But hey, Finland has Darude. Yay.
I love to curse.

Click here to see if I sell anything from your wantlist!

I am quite active on my house YT channel here, posting new releases, house classics and mixes here!.

Please don't ask me to rip off stuff on mp3.