
In The Studio with Deep House Legend Jimpster.
Taste-maker, label boss, producer, DJ, remixer. Jamie Odell wears many hats and wears them well. Under his Jimpster alias, he has become one the most revered deep house producer/DJs operating on the scene today. His esteemed labels Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur continue to help break incredible new music and equally impressive acts such as Detroit Swindle, Tornado Wallace and Session Victim. From his UK base, Jimpster has inadvertently become a standard-bearer and custodian of the authentic house sound, and carries this flag to the four corners of the world.
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HOW NEW YORK’S PRELUDE RECORDS QUIETLY MADE DISCO HISTORY
Of all the definitive moments in electronic music history, none has been more avidly documented than New York from 1975 to 1985. That decade, spanning the disco boom and the birth of house, has assumed an almost mythical allure.
The dance music fans who weren’t there to experience the real thing—which is to say, most of us—have to make do with photos of a young Larry Levan smiling over a rotary mixer in the Paradise Garage DJ booth, a jubilant dancefloor at David Mancuso’s The Loft, or beautiful people milling around on W 54th Street outside Studio 54. While New York at the time was a gritty, tough place to call home, its clubs brought people together to get down, regardless of ethnicity or sexual preference.