Closed Paradise
Say Hello To My Mother

Many Worlds Interpretation by Jon Iverson

In 1985 a wondrous album titled Hemp Is Here was created by the obscure English duo Leven Signs, composed of Pete Karkut and Maggie Turner. Since then, Hemp Is Here has proven to be a visionary recording that holds a special place in the ongoing expansion of experimental music. Through the method of tape collage, an unclassifiable recording was created that consisted of post-punk and avant-pop sounds, tribal rhythms and dub and folklore elements. The result was an unpretentious yet sonically sophisticated endeavour that subconsciously evoked the twentieth-century avant-gardist and minimalist music traditions. While maintaining a distinctly original sound, their output still contributed to local explorations and remained somewhat in line with other genre-dissolving bands from eighties England like Rimarimba, This Heat, Woo, 23 Skidoo or Eric Random and The Bedlamites.

COS508-12 - US - 2019

The Jak has returned with 2 new Dirty bLends in extremely limited quantity.Introducing nU cOhort to the label:The Falcon (a silent assassin)this new artist alias to the label has contributed to the further effort of maintaining the sound from the early inception of Chicago tracks like the days of old that still lives and breathes in us today that honours and treasuresenriched essential dance music history.DirtyBlends Edition 7 both sides IZ straight HEAT!The Jak kicks the A-Side into madness with a Jakbeat blueprint of energetic electronics and various bass lines on this obscure creation honouring Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles and Farley that resonates a confrontationalquestion repeatedly saying “Who said i can’t beat U for the title track ‘An Offbeat Formation of Control’The Falcon Flys fiLthY iLL on the B-Side wit a whiPLash idea influenced from Chicago’s south-side of rhythm styles Paul Johnson and Chip E!!!made 2 Jak 4 Crazies that is truly Definitive Jakbeat.