This week's second update is online now at Primalrecords.com, with over 50 more records added to our House, Tech-house, Progressive, Techno, Breaks, and Leftfield/Dub catalogs.

Before we get into it, however, I did want to point out that we've got a new Official Policies and Procedures page that you will definitely want to look at. Effective immediately, we've got new policies concerning declined credit cards, international shipping, and a few other random things, so please read it, because from now on, you're bound to it. The entire document can be found here:

www.primalrecords.com/customerservices/index.html

Now that you know what's up with that, new promo action from the fine folks at Big Chief leads off this week's hitlist:

KUT GOLDCARD "R.I.C.H." (Original, Maetrik, and Giovanni & Mosler Mxs) / "Cheeba Trader" Big Chief (Promo) [House, Tech-house, Techno] It's good to see established labels like Big Chief spreading their wings and signing material like this. Japan's Kut Goldcard makes his Big Chief debut with "R.I.C.H.," a dancefloor-ready tech-houser with a percussive edge and distinct analog-to-digital b-line, while "Cheeba Trader" is a warmer, deeper rub that holds its ground with bounce and bottomy bass. On the remix, Dallas producer Maetrik gets ethereally techy for the Substatic and Perlon sets,
while Giovanni & Mosler (Alexi Delano and Casey Hogan) wrap this package up with a stripped-down punchy re-rub that is pure tech-house grit. Delightfully diverse house music that maintains Big Chief's reputation as a dancefloor trailblazer.

www.syntaxrecordings.com/bigchief

UNKNOWN (THE FIXX, HUMAN LEAGUE, COLDPLAY, and THE ROMANTICS) "Fascination" EP (Kaskade Rmxs) White Label [House, Tech-house] From the folks who brought you the Throwback EP comes a brand new 4-tracker of illicit goodness. Human League's "Fascination" gets things going with a fat production value that's true to the original, with tougher beats and a pronounced b-line for the modern clubber. The Fixx classic "One Thing Leads To Another" and The Romantics' "Talking In Your Sleep" also get faithful mixes, making the only major rework going to Coldplay's "In My Place," which gets a warmer, deeper early night makeover. Need one of those sure-thing reactions in a hurry? Move this to the front of your box.

OMNI AM "Get Get" (Original & Grant Dell Mxs) Cove [House, Tribal, Tech-house] Omni AM are perhaps the most underrated Chicago producers around (even though they are currently located in New York and St. Louis), but recent releases for Big Chief, Swag, and Leaf, as well as their latest for Grant Dell's Cove label, are sure to put Adam Collins and Marky Star on the map. (And congratulation Adam! You've got an upcoming Primal release as well!) "Get Get" harks back to the cut-up sounds of the acid house warehouse parties in Wicker Park, finding its groove somewhere between Derrick Carter and Derrick May. Fantastic. Grant Dell offers two mixes, my favorite being the Listen Dub for its relentless b-line stabbing and (I'm not lying here!) Justin Timberlake samples. Do I need to mention that I'm on JT's team again or what?

www.euphoriachicago.com

JON DELERIOUS "No Warning" (Original & Dub Mxs) / "Seen" (Dub) Nordic Trax [House, Tribal, Tech-house] Canadian producer Jon Delerious drops his latest single (and precursor to his full-length album) for Nordic Trax, and it's a winner. "No Warning" is a deep and techy track that invokes fellow Canadian Fred Everything under the influence of a Brett Johnson bass line, while the dub mix finds itself a bit more jackin' and a hell of a lot filthier, drowned in proper 303 acid freaking. "Seen" (Dub) is not on the album, and--oooh--when the bass line comes in it's all over. Organic drum funk with a slight breakbeat feel and a compelling analog b-line that just owns it. Between Tripwire, Ali, Everything, and Delerious, Canada just might be the new Chicago. This is jawdropping stuff here.

www.nordictrax.com

DK7 "The Difference" Pt. 1 (Original & Jori Hulkonnen Mxs) / Pt. 2 (Martin Landsky & Out Hud Rmxs) Output [House, Tech-house, Techno] If any one track ushered in the 21st Century Acid House movement, it's Dahlback & Krome's "The Difference," which came out earlier this year on the nondescript DK label. Here, it gets licensed for a cast of quality mixes: Jori Hulkonnen gives the cut a techy French makeover that will no doubt be going down with Duriez and Garnier, while Martin Landsky brings it closer to his work for Poker Flat--twisted, robotic frequency modulations over crisp, techy beats. And out of left field comes Out Hud's brilliant take: a solid electro-organic punk houser in the vein of Chicken Lips and classic Disco-Not-Disco.

www.outputrecordings.com

Also in this week is new remix and production flavor from Eddie Richards, Mazi & Lori, Kaskade, Julius Papp, Kemetic Just (remixed by Pepe Bradock, Charles Webster, and Alexkid), Next Evidence, Matthias "Matty" Heilbronn, Tiefschwarz, Justin Long & Dan X, and Slater Hogan & John Larner, among many others.

New label output from Gallery, G-Swing, Visitor, Silver Network, Wave Music, Gourmet, Large Music, Spacecraft, Golden Gate Recordings, and Hairy Claw, among others, is also in.

And don't forget restocks from Lance Desardi's Land Shark project, the All Good Funk Alliance on Aroma, and my personal favorite, The Plastic Head Band's latest on Odori. That record is amazing.

Thanks again for all your support and be good!

(Norman Arenas)