September 19, 2011
Booty Call Records
Born in Chicago, juke comes from House and Hip-hop. Real institution of the 'Windy City', it smashes every block party up, every battle of 'footwork' (ultra-fast rampageous dance essentially based on legs movements), where we can appreciate the local youth executing the dislocated dance steps characteristics of the genre. Juke and Footwork pioneer in France, Leatherface has been recognized by the genuine (and local) scene, he creates in 2007 (with the support of DJs Slugo and Deeon) the French subsidiary of the collective Violator Juke Squad DJs, gathering the first French-speaking Juke producers. Three EPs later, on the Detroit-based record label ' Juke Trax ' (DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, DJ Clent), including the already classics 'Beetlejuke' or 'Ghetto Boy', he produces in 2008 the track ' Ultimate Feeling ' with Candyman, released on the Finnish label Top Billin', featured on the vinyl Sexytime EP. Co-founder of Nightmare Juke Squad, he releases end of 2010 the ' Nightmare Juke Squad - Rated R 'compilation. Remixer for The Escapists, Goldielocks, Regulators or Streets Of Rage, Leatherface delivers us this month a long format, consisting in ten Juke and Footwork original, highly diverse and efficient tracks. Named by the biggest, the leather faced French still pushes away further and further the art of sampling and going to the edge, never choosing the easyway, he gets his inspiration from Gothic Dark Ambient, southern Hip-hop, horror movies soundtracks or Psychedelic Rock. Working in deep groove and syncopation, constantly uncertain, he attacks ghetto music with a chain saw by its 'Tales of the Jukesaw'