Warehouse Trax is more than a reissue of supposedly lost tracks: each of its six pieces serves as a reminder of how much playfulness, genre freedom and soul were embedded in the origins of house music. That is precisely what makes this EP special. Dark Entries, out of San Francisco, sends the listener on a journey back to early-1990s Chicago – to a moment when K. Alexi was working with Frankie Knuckles in clubs and with the Pet Shop Boys in the studio on the kind of experimental sound that continues to shape house to this day.
»Black Mystery«, the EP’s fourth track, exemplifies that freedom. K. Alexi keeps the groove open, allowing sounds and ideas to interlock while making equally clear what this music is for: the dancefloor. »Klub Dred« underlines the point differently. Where producers today simulate organic attack through randomised velocity, this record shows that working with machines was never about imitating the non-machine. House music has a soul that cannot be faked – and that is exactly what Dark Entries recalls with this release.
Warehouse Trax
