new music out on bandcamp and nina protocol, one track featuring the elusive @equatorclub of all people (its his song) and one taking tinashe's vocals for my own use 😶🌫️😤
Lost Leaders swirls in your ears like an iridescent blizzard coating the slopes on a poly vector mountain. The tracks go by in a flurry, but listening to them is like looking at a snowflake under a microscope: ornate and crystalline, each with a captivating structure all its own. Album opener "my city..." makes the EP's statement, jetting between distinct movements of soundscapes and jungle breaks with melodic panache. "who do you think you are I am" and "love exploring your slopes (゜ー゜)(。_。)" run with the intricacy—laced with ornate digital synth lines and early 2010s cloud rap atmospherics—while "jazz... the improvisational standard" and "you want me?" put in the hard day's work banging jungle.
Composuresquad's Jermaine Collins offers Lost Leaders as "paying tribute to my people" as he puts it, a loving in memoriam to dear friends he lost this year: Chuck Trash: who founded blog Total Trash LTD and was instrumental in shaping Beloved Radio and Daniel Brookman: a key player in the 2014–2017 Chicago club scene who released music as DANNN. Jermaine bears his heart on this tribute by infusing the EP with sounds and atmospheres that have felt profound to him since childhood. Jungle was his first love in electronic music, after he discovered it on Windows Media Player around age 11 or 12. Video game jungle is the strain that most inspired these tracks, like Soichi Terada's score for Ape Escape 3, Machinegirl's Neon White OSTs, the Sega game Space Channel 5, and the Final Fantasy series. He channels those vibes with the help of software emulations of the synths and Amiga sampler that were used in the Y2K era. Ready raver one?
-@slug_zone
Composuresquad "Lost Leaders"
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1. my city...
2. who do you think you are I am
3. jazz...the improvisational standard
4. you want me?
5. love exploring your slopes (゜ー゜)(。_。)
All tracks produced and mixed by Jermaine Collins
mastered by Jason Letkiewicz
Up for preorder tonight on #lizardlabel bandcamp for Dec 6 release, limited run of 25 hoodies soon as well
playing music @swigchicago for The Goods tomorrow night w @dookle & @ryan_searchl1te , stoked to appear at a wicker park staple of 13 years (!!!)
thanks to Duke for booking me, pop out for ya boy 🫡😤
*made video on phone + song is a new one by me*
my set at @podlasieclub from a couple weeks back is up on soundcloud (w 64 song tracklist 😭)...i had a really great time playing for 2hrs to start the year, i love music!!!
THIS SATURDAY 1/17 - EQUISS, COMPOSURESQUAD, COBRA B
EQUISS is a New Jersey based DJ and core member of the OSSX collective, known for his high-energy, forward thinking approach to club music. A regular presence in the East Coast underground, he’s played Brooklyn staples from Elsewhere to Bossa Nova Civic Club and everything in between. Blending Jersey club, breakbeat, jungle, UK garage, and house, EQUISS delivers fast, percussive sets built for late nights. His sound extends beyond the dancefloor through appearances on Rinse FM and Newtown Radio, continuing to push club focused music across live and broadcast spaces.
Chicago producer, DJ, and promoter Jermaine Collins, aka Composuresquad, has been part of the city’s dance scene for the past decade. He hooked up with local dance collective and record label Them Flavors in 2013, and the following year he joined the crew. In 2021 he issued his debut album, Auto D., through the Issa Party label.
Cobra B is a Chicago-born, St. Louis-raised open-format DJ who mixes music rooted in the Black diaspora. She primarily plays in the Midwest but travels on occasion, recently making her international debut at Bella Afrikana Beach Club in Accra, Ghana.
various jerm's here to let you know we're CLOSING @smartbarchicago this saturday post @djnigga.fox and @bonitaappleblunt_ and i am probably gonna bring my NEWLY ACQUIRED @weareelektron octatrack DPS along with my USB.
despite being such an influential figure DJ Nigga Fox has NEVER PLAYED A CHICAGO DATE so don't miss it 🤪
couldn't tag all the dj's i saw across toronto nyc and philly the past few months haha thank you god for my life
i'm playing w @dazegxd tonight at the hideout, on at 11
playing my songs LIVE straight from @ableton saturday with a sick lineup of other producers and DJs 🫡
currently at like 8 or so unreleased trax in my set so idk...if you're a fan i'd slide 😩😍
swipe for a vid i made that has nothing to do w me playing at @publicworksgallery Sunday with the rest of the @lizard_label roster.
It's an early affair (4-10pm)...come to hear a chill closing set with some jerm trax & pop tracks nothing too insane + everyone else is gonna be sick 🫡😁
tix on RA ofc
