- Twisted, timeless jack tracks from the Chicago resident.
- A few years ago, I had the lifetime honor of interviewing Larry Heard at his home in Memphis. During downtime between several botched recording sessions, Mr. Fingers started playing some tracks he recorded in the mid-'80s. After casually playing one of the best acid tracks I've ever heard, he said, "We thought this one was too weird to put out at the time." There's a long lineage of producers who have burrowed into the freakier side of Chicago house. Jordan Zawideh is one of them. Originally from Detroit, Zawideh worked under Mike Huckaby in Detroit before relocating to Windy City, where he worked the counter at the rarities-laden KSTARKE Records.
That means he's heard every Midwestern house and techno record that exists, and some that barely do, like the apocryphal acid mix of James "Jack Rabbit" Martin's "Only Wanted To Be." "Work Delay" feels like a modern interpretation of Martin's wild hair, full of filtered hi-hats and fucked-up effects. This is nasty, minimal, syncopated dance music, laboring within the oral tradition passed down from pioneers like Adonis to modern acolytes like Hieroglyphic Being. On tracks like "House Me" and "In A Dream," rapid-fire vocal samples alternatively chirp and growl "house me, house me, house me," spectral voices echoing off the walls of warehouses past.
TracklistA1 House Me
A2 House Me (Acappella)
B1 Music Music
B2 Work Delay
C1 I'm Busy
C2 In A Dream
D1 612 Madness
D2 Oscillator (Acapella)