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open free, rolling highway up and down where the sky meets the horizon. if only.

Rooting around in the dusty corners of your local record shop in search of overlooked audial sprockets and cogs is Dean Raymond, the master mechanic behind Chicago's esteemed 'Spare Parts' party series and a disc jock of the highest caliber. This week on Spin Cycle he graces us with an hour of his trademark sound - in his words, "machine funk, dirty disco, and emotionally bent house music with a post-punk edge." A lively mix of hot tracks to get you sweating as the days turn cooler.

practice makes perfect

Shelf Selects is 99% unreleased tracks. My hope is that a listener will enjoy these works as much as I have over the years. As I get further away from the creation of these tracks, the processes that spawned them become more mysterious to me, which gives me the opportunity to be somewhere in between the audience and the DAW.

Following her usual news segment, Brumaire this week revisits an adolescent favorite of hers, Billy Bragg. In exploring his music, does it hold up?

Special guest mix from the one and only Sheatie! A true student of music and a top notch selector, thank you for contributing a mix to the show! Enjoy some of the dope UKG, jungle, and club music from Chicago's very own!!

This is my second ever collaborative episode, this time with my very close friend and roommate, Mick Rutowski. Mick plays guitar in everyone's favorite midwest powerviolence band, Felon Class. We have a shared love of the speedier subgenres of punk and we linked up to deliver 60 chaotic minutes of powerviolence, hardcore, crasher crust, grindcore, and some in-between stuff. I'm stoked to have fit so many sick bands into this mix and huge shout out to Mick for bringing their wealth of knowledge to the table to help me make this xx

i went too deep into the empty underground labrynth of corridors in the downtown chicago pedway...

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