Featured DJ: Ming (NYC) 2 February 2010

Ming (Hood Famous Records, NYC)
With a musical and business insight that transcends everyday definitions of trend and genre, Aaron Albano, a.k.a Ming, is an inspired, talented, and hard-hitting producer, songwriter, and performer known from London to Los Angeles. Thirteen years of touring and production experience has given Ming uncontested credibility as an enduring source for [...]

Ming and Chad North go Gaga (free 320k mp3)

On the heels of a very successful remix for 30 Seconds to Mars, Chad North teamed up with SF/NYC legend Ming (of Ming + FS) to to remix Lady Gaga’s latest single “Telephone”  feat. Beyonce.
Determined not to let pop dictate his take on the Vh1 superstar, Chad turned in a decidedly dark and twisted, electro-house [...]

Featured DJ: Chad North (NYC) 10 November 2009

CHAD NORTH (Erase Records, Jungo Road, NYC)
Rising New York producer/DJ and Jungo Road co-founder Chad North delivers an characteristically impeccable mix of throbbing tech-funk, techno, and breaks this week. He can possibly lay claim to the youngest age for a first remix. “I remixed MC Hammer when I was 11 years old using two tape [...]

Track Review: Waveplant & Ernesto “(I Need A) Bassline (Chad North and Aaron Pope Remix)”

Chad North and Aaron Pope have remixed Waveplant & Ernesto’s (I Need A) Bassline and it was just released this Monday on Exceptional Records. Waveplant, aka Joel Corelitz, is the track’s producer from Chicago. Jonatan Bäckelie, aka Ernesto, is a 27-year old Swedish soul singer from Gothenburg. Bassline is the first track to be released from [...]

Featured DJ: Chad North (NYC) 18 June 2009

CHAD NORTH (Erase Records, Jungo Road, NYC)
This second Jungo Road mix by Chad comes on the heels of an very exciting month of releases on Erase and Exceptional.
June 1st saw the release of The Grind which climbed the Beatport breaks chart immediately; peaking at #20 and then staying steady in the top 25. The Grind, [...]

The Grind now available on Beatport

“The Grind” started as a Lee Coombs vs Elite Force remix I was working on in summer of 2007 – I had a tough beat and some great samples but, as many producers can relate to, the track became overburdened with other elements and was shelved for a year and a half.
By that time, Aaron [...]