For those who think that this year’s Decibel Festival lineup is too cerebral or too minimal, there exists a simple rebuttal: Green Velvet. An electronic alter ego of Chicago producer Curtis Alan Jones ...

“Percolator” went through a lot of changes over different 12-inches. Were you a perfectionist? No. I was persistent. [laughs When the song first came out, it didn’t get that much attention. I was like ...

Fans of Chicago house, rejoice (and, perhaps, put on a pot of coffee in celebration). On October 30, Strut Records are releasing Only 4 U – The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual Records 1992 -2012. As its ...

Cajmere's "Percolator" is seen as a precursor/grandfather to Bmore club (the genre), which means basically it's the great granddaddy of every dance music the youth dem lusts for these days. Clearly it ...

If house and techno are the roots of EDM, then few artists have been more enduring exponents than Chicago DJ-producer Curtis Jones, AKA Cajmere, AKA Green Velvet. That’s because Curtis has preserved ...

Looking back over his career in house music, Curtis Alan Jones laughs "Regrets? No, not really!" In the 90s, Jones’ label Cajual (the first three letters used his initials) and its sublabels – in ...

So Cajmere released a volume of “Percolator” remixes at the end of August, and somehow no one really started flipping out about it until yesterday, when the video to Major Lazer’s “Percumajor” remix ...

Nobody will deny that Cajmere's classic "Percolator" continues to influence the direction of all stripes of electronic/dance music—its twerky burps sound new as a baby's behind and the beat lives on.

Album review: Only 4 U’s The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual Records is a dreamy, twitchy celebration of Chicago house music. Only 4 U’s double-CD retrospective shows their strong influence on electro ...