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James Curd
Review: Following a surprise outing with Osunlade on Get Physical Music and a couple of killer self-released singles, Chicago veteran James Curd pops up on Valiant for a three-track collaboration with Winkar. The headline attraction is 'Sexty Lady', an organ-rich slab of loopy, disco-tinged peak-time deep house rich in echoing vocal samples, insanely funky bass guitar and the kind of fizzing synth stabs once a feature of Basement Jaxx's earliest records. It comes in two takes: the EP-leading main mix, which includes an elongated electric piano solo, and a more stripped-backed 'No Solo' version. To complete the package, we're treated to the slightly harder and more energetic disco-house rush of 'My Life Is Oops'.
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VALR058X
22 Mar 24
Funky/Club House
22 Mar 24
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: There's been quite a run of singles from James Curd lately - could there be an album in the offing? Who knows, but for now there's 'Walk With Me', a moody, contemplative cut topped with a couple of sparingly-applied vocal snips, including what sounds like a micro-bite from DSK's classic 'What Would We Do?'. On the remix front, fellow veteran Rick Wade beefs it up slightly for 3am floors, Cee Elassaad adds a hefty, live-sounding bassline, while the Tree Threes Jazz Rework strips things back and adds cascading drums and squawking sax. Wade's rub just nudges it for this writer but it's all good, to coin a phrase.
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PRONTO 010
23 Feb 24
Deep House
23 Feb 24
Deep House
Review: Second time round for James Curd and Osunlade's surprise 2023 collaboration, 'Chocolate Puddin', which here returns in remixed form. First to tackle the pair's gospel-tinged, spiritually enriching Afro-house gem is Kai Alce, who delivers superb vocal and instrumental takes built around crispy, bouncy, Afro-deep drums, smooth bass, echoing organ stabs and the most warming and toasty of electric piano chords. Just as potent is Osunlade's own Yoruba Soul mix, a heavily electronic, tech-tinged deep house excursion rich in righteous keyboard stabs, bubbly TB-303 motifs and eyes-closed vocal snippets. The pair's joyous, uplifting and undeniably hypnotic instrumental mix completes a fine package.
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GPM 744
16 Feb 24
Deep House
16 Feb 24
Deep House
Review: Perhaps best known to the world at large as Greenskeepers, under which alias he released a string of EPs on the mighty Classic in the noughties, James Curd made his debut on the Chi-town house scene at the tender age of 15 and he's never looked back. This latest outing on his own Pronto label has a similarly jazzy, funked-up feel to those early Greenskeepers releases and the Original mix would fit into deep house or funk sets equally well, while the Vocal Mix adds a party-hearty rap vocal and two further rubs from Art Of Tones and Boston Bun push the track into straight-up house territory.
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PRONTO 009
12 Jan 24
Deep House
12 Jan 24
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House, Juno Recommends Funky House, CheapEdits, BRENDON P, Gledd, Offshore and Coen
Review: There are peaktime-orientated tracks that get all up in your face, grab you by the unmentionables and shout "listen to me!" - and then there are the kind of tracks that are carefully crafted to be set-builders, that won't scream for attention on the radio but will sound just perfect when served to a 4am floor that's already deep in the zone. This team-up between scene stalwarts Osunlade and James 'Greenskeepers' Curd is firmly in the latter camp, a dense, shuffling affair with a bubbling, burbling backdrop topped with a blues-y female vocal that comes with an even more eyes-down refix from FNX Omar.
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GPM 733A
10 Nov 23
Funky/Club House
10 Nov 23
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: Following the first volume of Bits N Bobs in 2021 comes this follow-up edition. Focusing on house music in the broadest sense, Volume 2 is a diverse release. It starts with the hypnotic loops and filtered groove of James Curd's "Born Twice", which sounds not unlike vintage Pepe Bradock. Jesusdapnk's "Anomaly" is also inspired by sounds from the same era - rooted in classic 90s deep house, it's an atmospheric but effective dance floor roller. Keeping its club focus, the release concludes with Jason Merle's "I Gotta Change". Powered by tough kicks and rasping percussion, it's an effective, stripped back DJ track.
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IS 020X
03 Nov 23
Minimal/Tech House
03 Nov 23
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Chicago veteran James Curd continues to use his Pronto label as a vehicle for his own productions, which are uniformly floor-friendly and more often than not pleasingly quirky. That's certainly the case with 'Sublime Mind', a bouncy slab of peak-time house funkiness in which jazzy electric piano motifs, crunchy Clavinet riffs and sampled spoken word vocals rise above a restless disco-funk bassline and sweat-soaked drums. The five-strong remix package is full of treats, too, from the thumping, organ-fuelled sweatiness of Friend Within's peak-time ready take and the gorgeous deep house warmth of Byron The Aquarius's superb version, to the tech-tinged dub house hypnotism of Manuel Sahagun's version and the 'French Touch'-esque loop-house heaviness of Jonasclean's interpretation.
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PRONTO 007
29 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
29 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
Review: House music label Pronto continues its swift ascent with a dynamic sixth release that is guaranteed to ignite the dance floor. This collaborative effort comes from the talented duo James Curd & Jonasclean, who waste no time in unleashing their commanding and weighty track, "Mullen It Over". This stomper boasts captivating, sinuous leads and an exhilarating rush that will leave you spellbound. Fred P offers his reinterpretation, taking the track to profound depths with a heady and spiritual touch. Marcel Vogel also joins the remix lineup, injecting a more upbeat vibe into the mix with lush, sun-soaked chords. "Tried For Love" featuring Robert Owens takes us back to the roots of vocal Chicago house, delivering a timeless gem that showcases Curd's prowess in crafting classic house music.
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PRONTO 006
14 Jul 23
Deep House
14 Jul 23
Deep House
Played by: FINGERMAN, ROMANTO (YSR / DISCO MACHINE), Juno Recommends Funky House, James Curd, J&M BROTHERS, Todd Terry, Leo Leonardi aka Master Funk, BRENDON P, Matt Brown (SanchoPanza), VIGI, Paper Recordings
Review: Following two collaborative releases (with Marcellus Pittman and Marius Vries respectively), Chicago veteran and sometime Greenskeepers member James Curd goes solo for the third missive on his freshly minted label, Pronto. In its original form (track one), 'I Am One, I Am Many' is an insatiably funky, Chicago boompty-influenced roller that makes great use of booming bass, crunchy Clavinet riffs, excitable disco samples and atmospheric female spoken word vocals. London twosome Make a Dance provide a trio of reworks: a rolling, organ-flecked, '90s US garage-influenced 'Remix', a hazy and effects-laden 'Deep Mix' and an organ bassline-propelled, extra-percussive 'Dub'. Elsewhere across the EP you'll find further reworks from T.U.R.F (big room, warehouse-ready hedonism), Nenor (synth-sporting, dub disco-influenced house stomp) and Adelphi Music Factory (colossal, hands-in-the-air disco-house bounce).
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PRONTO 003
10 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
10 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Long-serving Chicagoan James Curd established the Pronto label earlier this year as a vehicle for his entertaining, party-starting house productions. He's already served up collaborations with Marcellus Pittman and Marius de Vries, and here drops a killer solo workout. 'Psychedelic Freak' draws influence from a mixture of classic NYC nu-disco and star-gazing deep house, with Curd layering cut-up vocal samples and spacey synth sounds atop unfussy beats and a bassline reminiscent of Metro Area classic 'Muira'. The accompanying remix package is predictably strong, with Tour-Maurbourg's jazzy boompty-goes-breakbeat house, Drop Out Orchestra's Morgan Geist style revision and Ten Fingerz' deep disco-house flip being our picks of a very strong bunch.
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PRONTO 002
16 Dec 22
Deep House
16 Dec 22
Deep House
Review: The second release on the freshly minted Pronto label sees experienced Chicagoan house producer (and label founder) James Curd join forces with an unlikely collaborator: GRAMMY-winning British composer, keyboardist and audio engineer Marius De Vries. The pair's original, club-length mix is especially impressive, with Curd's drowsy spoken word vocals, spacey synth flourishes, warming chords and cascading vibraphone melodies riding a rubbery, action-packed disco-house groove. Jacques Renault opts for an extra percussive, filter-sporting, French Touch-style disco-house approach on his weighty remix, while Oliver Dollar makes the track bigger, snappier, heavier and bolder. Throw in a swathe of instrumental reworks and the more fluid and sun-splashed 'demo' version and you have an excellent package.
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PRONTO 001
04 Nov 22
Deep House
04 Nov 22
Deep House
Review: Something of an all-star affair here, as long-serving Chicago exile James Curd (Greenskeepers, Tone Brigade) joins forces with Detroit legend (and sometime 3 Chairs and Rotating Assembly member) Marcellus Pittman for a collaborative two-track outing. Predictably, the vastly experienced duo hit the ground running with lead cut 'Shafty Riptide', where a killer TB-303 acid style bassline, quirky noises and spaced-out organ sounds ride a smooth, rolling house groove. On 'Corners', the pair explore the jazzier side of their sounds, alternating between sax and TB-303 sounds over a sparse, electro-influenced house beat and simply stunning chords. As good as we expected it to be... and then some!
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PRONTO 000
26 Aug 22
Deep House
26 Aug 22
Deep House
James Curd feat Likasto
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: With suggestions of a cheeky Moodymann cadence in the voice of Likatso - this new single "I'm Hungry" sees the one and only James Curd reignite the Mr Kims label after an almost seven years of hiatus! Having released music from legend of the scene Paul Johnson (Let Me See You Butterfly), thisi I'm Hungry single brings a slight Dirtybird tip to the label's reemergence via its trippy vocals, 808 sentiment and techy-house disposition. Straight up house party jammers.
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MKR 008
06 Nov 21
Minimal/Tech House
06 Nov 21
Minimal/Tech House
James Curd feat Bear Who?
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
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GKM 071
20 Nov 20
Funky/Club House
20 Nov 20
Funky/Club House
Various
Played by: Smashed Atoms, Dicky Trisco, Kraak & Smaak, PBR Streetgang, Kisk, Marcel Vogel, Juno Recommends Disco, Tonbe, Neil Diablo, SUNNER SOUL, G-Blaster (Memorie Cluster), JUAN SOTO, LEGO EDIT, 80's Child, Andy Buchan, Ste E, Juno Download
Review: Lumberjacks In Hell draft in a sublime cast of sympathetic operators for a second volume of From Hell With Love, providing you with eight perfectly formed tracks that straddle the divide between cosy, home-friendly house and dancefloor delectation. Laville's moody vocal turn kicks the record off in style on Austin Ato's 'Control', while Waajeed works his broken beat magic on 'What You Know'. Elsewhere Detroit Swindle bring a tougher slant on soul-rooted house music to the table, while PBR Streetgang aim straight for your pleasure centre with the soaring 'Madame Z'. And that's just the half of it...
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LIH 039
09 Oct 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Oct 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: If you're after a near faultless selection of peak-time ready house and disco jams, this special Amsterdam Dance Event compilation from Yam Who's Black Riot could just be the ticket. There's a good mixture of fresh floor-fillers - see the sample-heavy, boompty style Chicago house pulse of The Phantom Revenge's "Workout Music", Phonik D's piano-laden disco-house romp "Talking Vintage" and the smooth, life-affirming deep house warmth of Thatmanmonkz's hazy revision of Amp Fiddler's "Your Love Is All I Need" - and recent revisions of classic cuts. In this category you've find a superb Hi-Fi Sean revision of Psychotropic's rave-era anthem "Hypnotic", a sparkling Kiko Navarro re-make of Kenny "Jammin" Jason's "Can U Dance 2015" and a wonderful, filter-sporting disco-house take on CN Williams "Mr Bump Man" by Yam Who and Jaegerossa.
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BLACKRIOTD 040
14 Oct 19
Funky/Club House
14 Oct 19
Funky/Club House
Review: Perhaps best known as the founding (and since 2008 only) member of Classic faves Greenskeepers, James Curd knows a thing or two about crafting a quality house groove after 20 years in the game, and this latest EP for Yam Who?'s Midnight Riot label is no exception! The bouncy 'You Give Me Pleasure' opens the EP with crisp beats, a lolloping b-line, spoken male vox with a female chorus and a touch of acid. 'Love Motion' itself follows, a heads-down, 131bpm roller with a sparkling two-note piano riff and head-fried synths galore, before a Radio Edit of 'You Give Me Pleasure' completes the package.
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MIDRIOTD 185
29 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Apr 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
James Curd feat Likasto
Review: A move Down Under to his new home of Adelaide, Australia hasn't at all cramped the style of Windy City deep house legend James Curd - who many of you old-schoolers may remember as half of renowned duo Greenskeepers. In recent times, his quirky lo-slung grooves have appeared on the likes of King Street, Play It Down and Classic but his new one is for Berlin's Exploited - and it features some equally awesome remixes. Featuring the cheeky vocals of Likasto, "Get Low" follows that same MPC based back-to basics approach as heard on last year's "I Wanna Freak" that allowed him to get back to his Chicago roots. Aussie superstar DJ Sonny Fodera provides a suitably stadium sized tech house rendition (that sure packs some bounce!) while Italy's Black Loops go for that classic '90s NYC style vibe.
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EXPDIGITAL 162
19 Mar 18
Deep House
19 Mar 18
Deep House
Various
Various - "Defected Presents The Closing Party Ibiza 2017 Mix 1" (continuous DJ mix 1) - (1:06:12) 123 BPM
Various - "Defected Presents The Closing Party Ibiza 2017 Mix 2" (continuous DJ mix 2) - (1:10:49) 123 BPM
Played by: Oliver Heldens
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826194 377748
08 Sep 17
Deep House
08 Sep 17
Deep House
James Curd feat Shaun J Wright
Review: Fresh from a rock solid outing on Midnight Riot, Australia-based American James Curd returns to longtime home Classic. This time round, he has Shaun J Wright in tow, whose effortlessly soulful vocals - frequently chopped up and manipulated by boompty survivor Curd - rise above stretched-out pads, bubbly synthesizer melodies and energetic-but-unfussy drums on the duo's brilliant original version. Curd's loved-up synthesizer motifs and the bouncy groove are naturally given greater prominence on the accompanying Dubstramental version, which also includes even more cut-up snippets of Wright's brilliant vocal. While Curd rarely disappoints, "Now I Believe" is undoubtedly his strongest single for some time.
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826194 366094
11 Aug 17
Deep House
11 Aug 17
Deep House
Review: Confirmed party-starter James Curd (he of Greenskeepers fame) has released music on all manner of hyped labels - DFA, Classic, Exploited and Drop Music included - since making his debut at the dawn of the millennium. Here he pitches up on Midnight Riot with a trio of fun-time jams that should delight disco freaks and house heads alike. Certainly, both should enjoy the disco/nu-disco/house fusion of closer "Free Yourself", a tooled-up re-edit that that will have all but the most miserable dancers strutting their stuff. We're also big fans of bumpin' opener "A Lazy Boy Get Down", a Greenskeepers-esque frolic through quirky disco-house pastures blessed with some killer sax lines and rousing horns. Dub disco/punk funk bubbler "Lava Rocks" completes another fine EP from the Adelaide-based Chicagoan.
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MIDRIOTD 0107
17 Jul 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
17 Jul 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Throughout his 16-year production career, former Greens Keepers member James Curd has gleefully stuck two fingers up at po-faced dance music purists, delivering a string of singles that put dancefloor fun above chin-stroking moodiness. He's at it again here, cutting up the woozy vocals of Likasto on the glassy-eyed electrofunk/deep house fusion of "I Get Up". It would be fair to say his tongue remains firmly in cheek on the celebratory shuffle of "Disco Fool", where Chic style guitars, rubbery live bass and jammed-out keys ride a dubwise deep house groove. Man of the moment Red Rack'em delivers his first remix in a while, offering a deeper, heavier, tech-tinged interpretation of "I Get Up" that's suitably wonky.
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EXPDIGITAL 143
06 Mar 17
Deep House
06 Mar 17
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: James Curd is a deep house nomad, jumping from label to label and from bomb to bomb. The thing about his own personal strain of house is, however, that he likes to add a little Chicago flair and wizardry to his tunes. Although "Checking Out NYC" refers to the other big US house town, the track is very much rooted in the sort of fire that peeps like Ron Trent used to make - sexy piano keys, subtle waves of acid and swampy vocal samples all wrapped up in a tight groove. "Vertigo" is darker and heavier on the 303 licks, while "Dance&Dash" is a super nice tropical touch to end this sublime EP that comes very heavily recommended and tipped from us.
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EXPDIGITAL 132
08 Aug 16
Deep House
08 Aug 16
Deep House
Review: Shir Kahn's electro-house label proves that they're still kicking ass with another dancefloor-blistering (actually, is that even possible?) release, and this time it's courtesy of Chicago's James Curd. First up, we get a collaboration between Curd and Luke Million of The Swiss. "Yellow Magic" a slick, heavily compressed electro-disco-boogie monster, but let's mention the elephant in the room here, its more than a vague relation to Daft Punk's Voyager, "Don't Know How" is hypnotic looped and filtered house, while the poppy title track, featuring new wave vocals from Annabel Weston, has more in common with punk funk and reggae.
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EXP-DIGITAL-24
12 Nov 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
12 Nov 12
Disco/Nu-Disco
