Kush Jones

Kushs first time on wax (his Strictly 4 My CDJs series on his Bandcamp site is essential) is four tracks that just relentlessly provide for the DJ in you. Representing the new era of NYC dance music along with artists like AceMoMa and DJ Swisha, mixing footwork and other influences with classic house and techno forms to get busy.

The whole 12 is lethal stuff that recalls Dance Mania at its most melodic and spaced out, or prime-time Boo Williams. Earth Note pulls bright synths thru swinging Chi foundations, Ari Dub rocks the bells and the bass in Bronx fashion, Worldly Rhythm piles UR melodies and techno grandeur on a vicious bassline, and Reso closes things out with a devastating mixer full of blue-hot string work. Relentless and essential.