Ontario Beats - Live at Club West

Theo Parrish & Ron Trent

Sound Signature/Prescription, USA

Two masters of souful dance music share the decks in this Toronto special, weaving a tapestry of deep, spiritual, and futuristic grooves. Theo Parrish's musical expression fuses the rhythmic, disco-based pulse of Chicago house with the modernist motorik soul of Detroit techno; at the same time pointing to a lineage in black music that runs directly from Sun Ra to Sound Signature. “Jazz spawned house music, jazz spawned hip hop, jazz spawned funk and they all reflect back into that," says Theo. Ron Trent is one of the most influential house music producers ever to emerge from the Windy City or beyond, infusing simmering, warm kicks 'n' hats with the legacy of what he calls "conscience jazz-fusion." The stepping stones laid down by pioneers like Gary Bartz, Ahmad Jamal and John Coltrane are joined by the words of leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and brought forward into a musical form that's filled with the strength of knowing whence it came. This one's for conscious cosmonauts everywhere.