Train Wreck Mix - An RBMA Session from another Point of View

Traxx

Nation Records, Chicago

Traxx is a lover of music - one with a passion so intense that it overcomes genre divides to weave an altogether original, exciting, and multi-textured musical fabric, which envelops the avid clubber and the home listener, as well as everyone in between. Not content to be labeled as merely a DJ, a producer, or even a DJ/Producer, Traxx is a self-described "artist of sound." - a sound that is distinctive and highly emotional, which defies classification and invites analysis and discussion, a sound that some call jakbeat. From eclectic and avant-garde tunes to old school jack tracks and far beyond, Traxx hears and makes it all without discrimination, pretension or elitism. Having released music on numerous underground labels in the US and Europe including Gigolo, Relief, Muzique, M/O/S, and Creme, his music has come to the world under a bucket load of aliases including Dirty Criminals, XX Art, Mysterio, ViLLan X, Saturn V, X2, and more. He's also collaborated with the cream of the underground including acts like James T. Cotton (aka Tadd Mullinix), DJ Hell, Green Velvet, Legowelt and many more to shape his unique definition of jakbeat. Like many in Chicago, Traxx was drawn into house music through the legendary WBMX radio shows and two trips to see Ron Hardy at the legendary Music Box. Describing his first experience with house, Traxx recalls: "nothing could compare, things were being discovered. This period stays with me because of the intense energy that was applied - it's a feeling, an emotion, a mental state of transcendental connection -a spiritual force with the higher being through the physical vessel of the body." In an age of digital perfection Traxx is analog, when he DJs he plays vinyl and when he's in the studio he uses hardware. His sound recalls the past but pushes for the future with an overtly emotional and experimental approach. In addition to releasing music for other imprints Traxx also started his own label Nation that has allowed him to develop and re-contextualize the various aspects of his sound. Time to jakbeat.