On Bang The Box! The (Lost) story of AKA Dance Music Chicago 1987-1988, Jerome Derradji will hone in even further on Chicago’s underground House scene. This will be the second installment from Derradji’s amazing archival series, with his first compilation, Kill Yourself Dancing: The Story of Sunset Record Inc. Chicago 1985-89, due to come out on Still Music September 17th. While Kill Yourself Dancing will focus on the trio of young producers Matt Warren, Miguel Garcia and Ralphi Rosario, and their work with Sunset Records Inc. in the mid to late 80’s, Bang The Box! follows Matt Warren’s defection from Sunset to form AKA Dance Music, in 1987. As this collection will demonstrate, the label was often a showcase for Warren’s own cutting-edge productions, as well as friend and fellow producer Miguel Garcia, who often worked under the name Michaelangelo. On the track “Pleasuredome“, Warren teams up with friends as the crew Modern Mechanical Music, and as you can hear, this was truly a creative time when House music was still in flux, absorbing currents in electronic music from genres like disco, new wave, techno, and industrial, while taking advantage of cheap and easily accessible equipment like the now legendary Roland TR- 808.
