VARIOUS — Fall Collection

Fall Collection pulls from the vaults. Four tracks, some long out of print, one never before pressed, all of them worth the dig. The A-side opens with Ty Tek’s Dirty Fusion, originally released on Gourmet Recordings in 2005 alongside the Audio Soul Project remix two years later. Both have been fetching serious money on the secondary market for a reason. This is tech house from when that phrase still meant something, the walloping cadence, the sci-fi pads, the seismic synths rolling underneath. You hear it once and it stays with you. Departed by Wasted Chicago Youth follows. Justin Aulis Long and Mazi Namvar started from a remix brief and promptly ignored it, building something new from scratch in a single session. Organs, wailing lead, disco break, 808 subs, a plastic bass line threading through all of it. Somewhere between an angry Metro Area and a more psychedelic Jitwam, but really it’s just WCY doing what they do. Love Thy Enemy by Wasted Chicago Youth appeared on the Chase The Devil EP back in 2009. The bubbles, shuffles, and wobbling chords hold up, and the vocal samples hit differently now than they did then. ASP’s Cloud Dub closes the record. It appeared on Dubs Vol. 2 as a digital release in 2022 and has never been on vinyl, and that’s where the subsonic acid bass line and the layered string, piano, pad, and organ groove finally get room to breathe. Deep house the way Chicago made it in the early nineties. Bare, musical, and raw. Track A1 written by Ty Tek. Remixed by Audio Soul Project Track A2 written by Justin Aulis Long and Maziar Namvar Track B1 written by Justin Aulis Long and Mazi Namvar Track B2 written by Audio Soul Project. Copyright Control Fresh Meat Records 2026